Portfolio

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Communications Manager
Nov 2015 - present

• ​​2017 Smart Communities Conference
• ​ 2016 Smart Communities Summit 
• Media releases
• Website content management
• ASCA infographic

Communications Officer
Aug 2015 - present

• 2014-15 Annual Report
• Monthly staff/volunteer e-newsletter
• Monthly stakeholder e-newsletter
• Media releases
• Editing / proofreading

Media and communications
July 2011 - April 2016

• I wrote media releases and news updates for the organisation’s three websites and Facebook pages
• I collated and distributed a monthly e-newsletter
• I edited organisational documents, including annual Business Plan and Outcomes Report.

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Website management

• Stradbroke Island Buses
• Sunshine Coast Coaches
• Coolum Coaches
• Cool Harmonies​
• Community Development Qld

Freelance writer / editor

• Locum journalist: Coolum & North Shore Advertiser 

• Novel The Poisoned Chalice by the late Barry Corcoran (83,000 words)   Published by Zeus Publications 2012

​Publicity Officer

• Writer/editor for 2015 tour magazine, distributed to 5000 people across 21 concerts and 18 workshops
• I wrote national media releases
• Massed choir concert infographic
• Sunshine Coast media/PR

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​Newsletter editor

• District newsletter (2011-2013): Distributed bi-monthly to approx 3000 members across Queensland, Northern Territory, northern NSW and Papua New Guinea
• Mercury's Motivators club newsletter (2010-2012)

Volunteer (media)

• Wrote a weekly column for the Sunshine Coast Daily newspaper
• Wrote media releases
• Community Rescue newsletter: April 2011 and July 2011

News Service Reporter

Melbourne Commonwealth Games 
14-26 March 2006

• I wrote media editorial for the weightlifting events