Experience

Nature Canada

• Canada
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• NatureHood Program Manager

  • Dec 2016 - Present

  Manage national program to engage families to explore nearby nature. Manage yearly budget, execute contracts, provide strategic support to regional partners. Ensure consistent communication and brand alignment in both official languages. Maintain relationship with funders and partners: responsible for writing funding proposals, yearly program outcome reports and quarterly reports to Board of Trustees. Develop public communications: blogs, media stories, social media, newsletter content and event promotion. Show less



CPAWS

• Ottawa

• National Conservation Coordinator

  • Jan 2005 - Present

  Developed and implemented national and regional public communication and outreach initiatives; Developed annual nation-wide implementation plan in collaboration with regional staff across the country; Project lead on nationwide public communications and outreach events: included securing paid and earned media, coordinating internal and external communications with to ensure message consistency; Recruited, interviewed, trained and supervised staff, interns and volunteers; Organized annual federal Lobby Day on Parliament Hill: coordinated meetings with MPs and Senators with staff and volunteers, developed communications materials, social media strategy and written summary report. Engaged in a number of high profile and successful conservation campaigns over the years including: - protecting boreal forest habitat for the threatened woodland caribou - working with prominent Canadians to stop the proposed fracking adjacent to Gros Morne National Park, NFLD and create a protective buffer zone around the park; - working collaboratively with the Dehcho First Nations to expand Nahanni National Park Reserve, NWT to over 30,000 sq km. Show less



Living Green Expo

• Ottawa, Ontario

• Coordinator

  • Nov 2008 - Apr 2013

  Coordinator of Ottawa's largest environmental event, Living Green Expo, April 27-28, 2013 at the Ottawa Convention Centre, that will feature green living ideas through local companies and environmental organisations promoting healthy and sustainable living. Living Green Expo is a new initiative created through a collaboration of former community-organised events, the Ottawa EcoFair and ECO EXPO, now partnered with Ottawa Convention Centre. http://www.livinggreenexpo.ca Coordinator, Ottawa EcoFair 2008-2012 Coordinator, Living Green Expo, 2013 Show less