Experience

Fraser Coast Regional Council

• Australia
• Government Administration
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Event Development and Partnerships Coordinator

  • Jul 2021 - Present



Edward River Council

• Deniliquin, New South Wales, Australia

• Assistant to the Director Infrastructure and Manager Engineering and Assets

  • Aug 2020 - Jul 2021

  This position requires me to assist a director and a manager with their daily activities, coordinating their diaries, keeping track of customer service requests and residents' phones calls, coordinate and minute meetings, prepare correspondance, write memos, coordinate conference bookings, travel and accommmodation, research background information, and perform other business tasks as needed. I also raise payments for the Engineering and Assets team and digitise documents using the Technology 1 data and financial management system. I have enjoyed learning about Project Management from an infrastructure perspective (as distinct from an arts and event perspective) and how roads, kerbs, bridges, cemeteries and buildings are constructed and maintained. I am challenged and invigorated by these new learnings. Show less



Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS)

• Australia
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research Administrator

  • Nov 2019 - Jan 2020

  I was employed under a short-term contract to work across the research department of AIATSIS managing governance and grant funding requirements, budgets, and internal comms. As well as monthly financial reporting, updating contact lists, devising group and team structure diagrams, I drafted an online induction kit for new and returning employees, and set up a comprehensive online hub of essential information for all research staff. I was employed under a short-term contract to work across the research department of AIATSIS managing governance and grant funding requirements, budgets, and internal comms. As well as monthly financial reporting, updating contact lists, devising group and team structure diagrams, I drafted an online induction kit for new and returning employees, and set up a comprehensive online hub of essential information for all research staff.



Self-employed

• Snowy Valleys, NSW

• Community Cultural Development Worker

  • Nov 2017 - Nov 2019

  For the last two years I have been active in rural NSW primarily upgrading the operations of a community festival with 5-6,000 attendees. I set up and ran the social media campaign increasing the number of followers and hits by one-third over 6 months. I reconfigured and re-wrote the festival website to target cultural tourism and subsequently organised a complete redesign to add sales ability and modernise its look. I prepared its event manual, workplace health and safety for volunteers’ manual, and updated the emergency procedures plan, risk assessment guidelines, volunteer registration and media permission forms; wrote MC notes for two entertainment stages, and various other event documents that were not yet written. As part of ensuring the festival's sustainability I was successful in gaining a state tourism grant which funded a three-year strategic marketing campaign. Another grant I wrote on behalf of the community purchased new stage lighting, audio equipment and exhibition walls for the community hall ($50K). Separate from the festival, I have also organised two professional concerts in the newly refurbished Literary Insititute, begun a Home Harvest swap event and facebook page, and set up Batlow Events facebook page. Show less



Brisbane City Council

• Australia
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Creative Events Coordinator

  • May 2012 - Jun 2016

  I began at Brisbane City Council as Acting Creative Investment Coordinator, managing the Festival Sponsorships, Brisbane Heritage Grants and Helen Taylor History (Research) Award in Creative Communities. In 2013 I took up my substantive position as Creative Events Cordinator with a core portfolio that included Art Bites - a regular series of free multicultural and craft workshops; the bi-monthly Brisbane Twilight Markets which in 2013 was voted nationally the most innovative artisan markets; the weekly Clem Jones City Hall Concert series, one of the longest running, free public concert series in Australia, with audiences of between 700 and 1200; the 100 year old Bands in Parks program which presents open air performances every weekend across Brisbane; and the Lord Mayor's Seniors Christmas Parties, a high tea and gala concert for up to 10,000 seniors over five days. One-off projects I managed included the inaugural Lord Mayor's Seniors Cabaret Showcase, Diddums Laneway event; World Fiesta 2015 and CBraille – a public display of Braille using raised LED lights. I was also responsible for the concept design of the Cosmic Closing Event for BrisAsia Festival 2016. in 2013 I re-conceptualised Neon Pop an Asian J- and K-Pop dance party combining cosplay, lights, technology, and food, and in that same year ran the ultimate Brisbane extravaganza of street music, Fete de la Musique, which takes place around the world on 21 June each year and presents concerts in interesting and unusual places. Show less



Volunteering North Queensland

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

• Project Officer

  • Sep 2010 - Mar 2012

  Volunteering North Queensland is the central agency for volunteers offering not only opportunities but also accredited training for volunteers and volunteer managers. For just shy of one year I was the office manager and undertook some project work including working with the Townsville Army base to encourage recently settled army wives to participate in community activities through volunteering. Volunteering North Queensland is the central agency for volunteers offering not only opportunities but also accredited training for volunteers and volunteer managers. For just shy of one year I was the office manager and undertook some project work including working with the Townsville Army base to encourage recently settled army wives to participate in community activities through volunteering.



Creative Arts Consultant

• Townsville QLD

• CCD / Arts Worker

  • Jan 2010 - Jan 2012

  Between 2010-11 I continued working with small and medium arts organisations and arts workers in Townsville and across the North in the areas of grant writing, strategic planning, research, policy and business planning. I was an active member of the lobby group Professional Arts North Queensland (PANQ) to bring a retail cultural precinct to fruition in the Townsville CBD, researching and writing a business case which was approved by Council. Between 2010-11 I continued working with small and medium arts organisations and arts workers in Townsville and across the North in the areas of grant writing, strategic planning, research, policy and business planning. I was an active member of the lobby group Professional Arts North Queensland (PANQ) to bring a retail cultural precinct to fruition in the Townsville CBD, researching and writing a business case which was approved by Council.



Townsville City Council

• Australia
• Government Administration
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Cultural Development Officer

  • Apr 2000 - Jan 2010

  For many years I had a wonderful time in this position collaborating with the arts and culture community of Townsville and supported by my team of five creative people. I was responsible for cultural sponsorships, quick turn-around grants for creatives, the festivals support program, and the Regional Arts Development Fund. I wrote and delivered regular capacity building workshops for community organisations and produced numerous festivals. These included an annual environment festival, Eco Fiesta; the Shakespeare Festival and Elizabethan Fair historic re-enactment day, including 4-5 day’s of education programs based on historic themes; a children's art festival, Hopscotch, which was also preceded by a 4-5 day’s school's program and which produced a booklet of the range of cultural and arts experiences available to children in Townsville; two annual Heritage Day events; the concept development for Write Up North writers' festival, Words on Water and Riverscape - two community cultural development projects; two series of Art Bytes audience development programs for young people; and the Strand Presents program of public performances; plus many, many other community events and activities. Show less



Various

• Self Employed

  • 1991 - 1997

  in 1994 I was appointed the Rehearsal Manager and relief Conductor of the Australian Youth Choir, Penrith, a position I held for three years.Prior to that I managed a fledgling tourism company, Southern Highland Tours, based in TumutNSW for one year, taking bus tours around the scenic area in the foothills of the Snowy Mountains. Concurrently I was the Melbourne Symphony’s Newsletter Editor and prepared Program Notes for Melbourne Symphony New Music Ensemble concerts. I also wrote freelance programs for ABC radio and scripts for the Melbourne Symphony New Music Ensemble Pre-Concerts talks.In 1991 I was fortunate enough to be employed by the Australian Opera preparing the score and instrumental parts for the premiere of the opera, Mer de Glace, by Richard Meale. This meant I lived in Sydney for three months working closely with the composer, performers and staff of the Australian Opera. Show less

• Self Employed

  • 1989 - 1991

  In 1989 I was given the opportunity to live and work in Seoul, South Korea for 3 months. During the period I researched and wrote a radio feature on Korean culture and lifestyle and taught English in a language school.I continued my work for Australian composers and the ABC, and was commissioned to write a 5,000 word essay on the renowned Darmstadt International New Music Course by the English New Music Journal Contact.I moved to Europe to further my music publishing experience and was employed by many European music houses as a copyist and sometimes editor. I also provided regular arts news items to Radio National and ABC FM. Prior to this I had edited and contributed to three editions of the Australian Fellowship of Composers musicological journals Ossia, and various articles for ABC FM Magazine.I became part of a wide network of expatriate Australian artists and musicians and this led to thedevelopment of the Antipodes Festival in Berlin in 1991 of which I was Co-Director and ArtisticAdministrator. It was a 3-day Festival of 'Australian Music, Film and Good Wine', produced inpartnership with the Australian Music Centre, Austrade, the British Council and the GoetheInstitute, Berlin. This was my first, and very ambition foray into event management! Show less



Self Employed Music Publisher and Copyist

• Self Employed

  • 1981 - 1997

  Prior to joining local government my primary and long-term occupation was as a music publisher, responsible for the editing and preparation of ‘contemporary classical’ musical scores and instrumental parts for performance. As a Music Publisher some of the contractors who regularly employed my services included music publishers Ricordi (Italy), Bote u Bock (Frankfurt), Universal (London), Allens (Sydney), Chester (England), Salibert (France), Faber (London), and Breitkopf u Haertel (Germany). Performance organisations which have used my skills include the ABC state orchestras, the Australia Ensemble, Australian Chamber Orchestra, and the Song Company. Australian composers and festivals I have prepared music for include Peter Sculthorpe, Andrew Ford, Larry Sitsky, and Elena Kats-Chernin, and the Australian Bicentennial Celebrations, Warsaw Autumn, Sydney Spring, Melbourne New Wave and Perth and Adelaide Festivals. Show less