Internship seeker Monash University Victoria on australie.enligne-au.com

School: Monash University Victoria

Education level: 3rd year

Highest educational level completed: number of years studied and completed with a diploma after highschool : +5
Last diploma : Currently completeing final year of a Bachelor of Arts- Journalism Major, 8 years professional experience in communications
Current educational level : +5
Prepared job(s): : My professional background includes roles as event coordinator, state coordinator, communications manager, operations coordinator and project facilitator. Roles have included high level communications skills and excellent organisational skills.

Duration of the internship: flexible
Beginning of the internship: flexible
2016-08-01 2016-12-01
Full-time Yes
Study-work program Yes
Geographical mobility from your place of residence : 1 >> 10Km

Known Tools / Software/ Methods : All Windows Operating systems, Adobe Creative Suite 5 Photo Shop,InDesign, Muse, Premier Pro and Illustrator, Data collection & management systems: Survey Monkey, IMIS,Dexter, Raisers Edge

HGV, LGV, special vehicles licences : Certificate IV Workplace Training and Assessment

Languages :
English : Native
French : Advanced

Employment
Summary

The Law Society of
Western AustraliaJanuary 2014 – February 2015

Events Coordinator, Professional
Development

The Law Society of Western Australia is the peak
professional association for WA lawyers and is widely acknowledged as the
“Voice” of the legal profession in this state.



·
Delivery of the annual Continuous Professional
Development (CPD) seminar programme as well as conferences and training
programs

·
Implementation of procedures for the timely
creation of the twice yearly seminar programme booklet circulated in hard copy
to more than 5000 legal practitioners

·
Convenor of the Young Lawyers Committee and
the Education and Advocacy Working Group

·
Writing copy for seminar, event and
conference marketing material

·
Creation and distribution of Friday facts and
CPD e-news sent to a database of more than 5000 legal practitioners fortnightly

·
Ongoing communication with members of the
legal profession including members of the judiciary and bar



Creative
Partnerships Australia March 2013 – January
2014

Coordinator, WA



AbaF and Artsupport Australia were merged by the Federal
Government in 2013 to create a new entity to grow private sector support and
secure the sustainability of the arts in Australia.



·
Coordination of WA functions, events,
professional development workshops and seminars

·
Liaison with marketing staff, corporate
hosts, speakers and entertainers regarding event requirements

·
Support the WA Director in maintain relationships
with WA Chapter Councillor Companies including Woodside Australia, Rio Tinto,
Alcoa of Australia, Worley Parsons and Wesfarmers

·
Preparation and distribution of all communications
and selected reports

·
Provision of information, advice, and
assistance to WA clients in forming strategic business partnerships,
philanthropic grants and increasing support from business volunteers

·
Management of the Woodside Better Business
program including the adviceBank and boardBank services.
I raised the productivity of this program by 100% through a review of the
matching process and implementation of changes

·
Management of Australian Cultural Fund
applications from Western Australia





Save the Children
Australia
July 2010 to March 2013

Events and Community Fundraising
Coordinator



Save
the Children is an international child rights organisation working in over 120
countries worldwide including 16 programs in Western Australia.



·
Coordination and implementation of high
quality community and fundraising events including the Annual Ball, Book Sales,
Annual Members Meeting and Christmas Gift Wrapping

·
Continuous engagement of potential event sponsors
through extensive networking

·
Management of volunteer teams that are vital
to the success of Save the Children fundraising events and campaigns

·
Supervision of 11 Save the Children fundraising
branches (consisting of 230 branch members)

·
Highly successful development and
implementation of a branch membership strategy to engage new branch members and
retain existing members

·
Monitoring and support for third party
fundraising initiatives

·
Presentations to improve engagement with
corporate and community groups

·
Creation and distribution of a quarterly
newsletter sent to volunteers, members and sponsors

·
Design of event and campaign artwork for the
Perth, Kununurra and Broome offices





Artrinsic Inc. (Black
Swan Prize for Portraiture) 2009 to 2011 [contract
positions]

Events & Marketing Manager



Artrinsic
Inc. is the founder and organiser of the prestigious Black Swan Prize for
Portraiture, Australia’s third richest Art Prize.



Event
Management



·
Coordination of all aspects of key events
including ticket sales

·
Development of a Salon des Refuses
exhibition in the form of an art walk through Perth city

·
Development and
management of the events and marketing budgets

·
Creation of effective
event theming and entertainment, balancing the creativity expected of an arts
event while ensuring the approval of conservative corporate sponsors

·
Organisation of
volunteer training content and facilitation of training sessions

·
Creation and presentation of business case
to prospective corporate partners and managers of trusts and foundations

·
Recruitment and management
of a team of volunteers

·
Scheduling and
promotion of art workshops and floor talks

·
Coordination of event marketing including a
pre-exhibition media stunt in 2010 and 2011



Starlight Children’s Foundation of Australia 2008 to 2010

National Hospital Programs Operations
Coordinator



The
Starlight Children’s Foundation is a charity with a presence Australia wide. Starlight’s
mission is to brighten the lives of children and young people with serious
illness or disability.



·
Supervision of the use of correct policies
& procedures across eleven hospital programs

·
Creation and maintenance of a National
Hospital Programs database including collation and provision of programs data
and information to internal stakeholders

·
Maintenance of a National Hospital Programs administration
document database

·
Assistance in the implementation of new
policies and procedures

·
Processing and recording of invoices,
account applications and credit card reconciliations





Committees
and Voluntary Work



Artrinsic Inc. (Black Swan Prize for
Portraiture) 2011 to present

Marketing Committee Member



Diabetes Association of Western
Australia 2006 to 2007

Speak out Program Presenter



Amnesty International WA Branch 2007 to 2011

2007-2011 Speakers Network and the
Refugee Rights Committee




Professional
Referees



Available upon request

Dear Sir/Madam,


It
is with pleasure that I write to you today to offer my candidacy for a
journalism internship .
I am an Australian Journalism student based in Paris since May 2015 and
currently completeing my final year of a Bachelor of Journalism by
correspondance at Monash University Melbourne, Australia.





As my CV indicates, I bring to
the role of intern 8 years’ professional experience working in communications
and event management roles in Australian Non-Profit and Government Agencies in
the areas of community development, law and the arts.

My
well-honed communication skills (copy-writing, editing, design, people
management) have proven highly transferable to the demands of journalism best
practice (research, interviewing, writing, editing, time-management).

An
internship at a progressive, and accountable news media organisation would
provide an invaluable opportunity for me to apply and refine my professional
skill set.

A
selection of my student articles and features can be viewed on my student blog.

My
English language skills are impeccable, my written and spoken French is at an
intermediate level and I have excellent working knowledge of all Microsoft
Office Applications, Wordpress, Adobe CS5 Photo Shop, InDesign, Final Cut Pro,
Illustrator and Muse (Mac & PC).

I
would welcome the opportunity to elaborate on my suitability for an internship
at an interview.

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