Deakin University

Emmanuel College, Warrnambool

Senior Consultant at Elton Consulting

Elton Consulting

Senior Consultant

Contracted with Laing O'Rourke from Elton Consulting.

Laing O'Rourke

Community Engagement Officer (secondment) NSW bushfire clean-up

Consultant

Graduate Consultant

After graduating from university, I commenced with SenateSHJ in a Client Executive position which supports Account Directors to service SenateSHJ’s client base.My role has incorporated a breadth of responsibilities supporting clients across the spectrum of communications management and also a variety of industry sectors, including;•	Brand and corporate reputation management•	Stakeholder engagement communications•	Stakeholder management planning•	Business strategy communications •	Client business strategy •	Crisis response managementIn addition to supporting key account managers at SenateSHJ I have also played a key role in supporting the Missing Persons Advocacy Network (MPAN), the only not-for-profit in Australia that creates awareness for missing people, and provides practical support to their families and friends. My work with them involved creating media releases for anniversaries and key milestones, following up with journalists and maintaining relationships with key journalists who have supported MPAN previously. With SenateSHJ’s recent release of their Reputation Reality report, this involved me assisting a senior colleague in creating op-eds, maintaining media attention and the overall distribution of the report. Other work I regularly partake in is journalism research and liaison for Efic, export credit agency, Intuit, cloud based financial management solution and HESTA, industry super fund with weekly proofing of op-eds for Efic before distribution.

SenateSHJ

Client Executive

I undertook my internship for Deakin University at o2Media. o2Media is a boutique marketing and design agency providing a number of services including public relations, marketing and graphic design. After I finished my 150 hours required to complete an internship, I was asked back to assist on projects until I started my final year of university.

o2 Media Warrnambool

Intern

Malaysiakini is an online news media company that holds the Malaysia government accountable through citizen action, participation and voting decisions. I worked with this company for one day as part of my study tour with Deakin University to Malaysia. This was an amazing experience that really opened my eyes into the communication world.

Malaysiakini

Swiss Gardens International is where I stayed on my study tour to Malaysia.  I also worked here for a day, my role involved understanding the communication within the organisation and furthermore the communication from the organisation to close business partners.

Swiss-Garden Hotel & Residences Kuala Lumpur

Below are the events I have worked at with Event Workforce:World Cup of Golf (Nov 2016)Working in operations of the event, being in control of delivers and arrival of structure equipment for the event. This role also included organising delivery times to ensure that the golf course has as little disturbance as possible. ROC Run (Jan 2016)ROC run is 5K fun run with obstacles, my role involved overseeing the running of the event and also the communication between management and staff.Powercor Tour De Depot (Oct 2015)Worked as a team to encourage participants to become involved with all activities on the day.Deakin University Open Days (Aug 2015)Worked as a tour guide to direct visitors to appropriate areas, while also answering questions about the campus and the opportunities that Deakin provide.