Melody Horrill
Committee Member at Jane Goodall Institute Global- Claim this Profile
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Sarah Reimann
Melody is a humble and down to earth woman. Her ability to engage an audience with her life story of tragedy to triumph is exceptional. Her positive attitude to life is inspiring, despite going through some very traumatic experiences early in life. She is a very relatable person and this shines through in her speaking, being able to hold the audience’s attention with a message of hope and resilience. Melody comes highly recommended as a fellow professional speaker and media personality who is sure to not only draw a crowd to an event but keep them raving for a long time afterwards.
Andrew Tupper
I've been fortunate to work with many great workmates. Having worked closely with Melody for the last four years, I think that she's a real star. She's adapted smoothly from an on-camera role to more of a 'behind-the-scenes', making things happen, getting the communications angles right, and always working to keep the highest possible media relationships in place. She is also a very genuine, nuturing person in addition to being passionate about her role and great to be around. During her time in the role she has added strong training skills to her arsenal, and has worked hard with staff around the country to lift our standard of presentation. Her personal story is also inspiring and shows great strength of character.
Sarah Reimann
Melody is a humble and down to earth woman. Her ability to engage an audience with her life story of tragedy to triumph is exceptional. Her positive attitude to life is inspiring, despite going through some very traumatic experiences early in life. She is a very relatable person and this shines through in her speaking, being able to hold the audience’s attention with a message of hope and resilience. Melody comes highly recommended as a fellow professional speaker and media personality who is sure to not only draw a crowd to an event but keep them raving for a long time afterwards.
Andrew Tupper
I've been fortunate to work with many great workmates. Having worked closely with Melody for the last four years, I think that she's a real star. She's adapted smoothly from an on-camera role to more of a 'behind-the-scenes', making things happen, getting the communications angles right, and always working to keep the highest possible media relationships in place. She is also a very genuine, nuturing person in addition to being passionate about her role and great to be around. During her time in the role she has added strong training skills to her arsenal, and has worked hard with staff around the country to lift our standard of presentation. Her personal story is also inspiring and shows great strength of character.
Sarah Reimann
Melody is a humble and down to earth woman. Her ability to engage an audience with her life story of tragedy to triumph is exceptional. Her positive attitude to life is inspiring, despite going through some very traumatic experiences early in life. She is a very relatable person and this shines through in her speaking, being able to hold the audience’s attention with a message of hope and resilience. Melody comes highly recommended as a fellow professional speaker and media personality who is sure to not only draw a crowd to an event but keep them raving for a long time afterwards.
Andrew Tupper
I've been fortunate to work with many great workmates. Having worked closely with Melody for the last four years, I think that she's a real star. She's adapted smoothly from an on-camera role to more of a 'behind-the-scenes', making things happen, getting the communications angles right, and always working to keep the highest possible media relationships in place. She is also a very genuine, nuturing person in addition to being passionate about her role and great to be around. During her time in the role she has added strong training skills to her arsenal, and has worked hard with staff around the country to lift our standard of presentation. Her personal story is also inspiring and shows great strength of character.
Sarah Reimann
Melody is a humble and down to earth woman. Her ability to engage an audience with her life story of tragedy to triumph is exceptional. Her positive attitude to life is inspiring, despite going through some very traumatic experiences early in life. She is a very relatable person and this shines through in her speaking, being able to hold the audience’s attention with a message of hope and resilience. Melody comes highly recommended as a fellow professional speaker and media personality who is sure to not only draw a crowd to an event but keep them raving for a long time afterwards.
Andrew Tupper
I've been fortunate to work with many great workmates. Having worked closely with Melody for the last four years, I think that she's a real star. She's adapted smoothly from an on-camera role to more of a 'behind-the-scenes', making things happen, getting the communications angles right, and always working to keep the highest possible media relationships in place. She is also a very genuine, nuturing person in addition to being passionate about her role and great to be around. During her time in the role she has added strong training skills to her arsenal, and has worked hard with staff around the country to lift our standard of presentation. Her personal story is also inspiring and shows great strength of character.
Experience
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Jane Goodall Institute Global
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United Kingdom
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Non-profit Organizations
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1 - 100 Employee
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Committee Member
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Jan 2023 - Present
Member of the Jane Goodall Institutes International Cetacea Committee Member of the Jane Goodall Institutes International Cetacea Committee
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Freelance (Self employed)
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Writing and Editing
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700 & Above Employee
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Author/ Freelance Media Trainer/ Writer/Content Creator/Media and Communication Manager/Journalist
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Aug 2021 - Present
Author of A dolphin called Jock, published in Australia and New Zealand by Allen and Unwin in June 2022 Author of A dolphin called Jock, published in Australia and New Zealand by Allen and Unwin in June 2022
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Bureau of Meteorology
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Australia
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Environmental Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Media and Communication Manager/Acting Victorian State Manager
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Jan 2016 - Aug 2021
Manager, media and communication in Victoria for Australia’s premier Federal Government science agency. I specialise in turning ‘science speak’ into engaging, informative and easily understandable content and distributing that to internal and external stakeholders through innovative communication tools. I have developed a suite of new tools to communicate with our media stakeholders, which are now being used enterprise wide. I write and execute communication plans for major projects such as radar upgrades and work closely with emergency services in the leap to and during severe weather events. I train space weather scientists, meteorologists, climatologists and other scientists across Australia in how to present to media, having created and presented media training and assessments for BoM personnel across multiple programs. I have also acted as State Manager, Victoria - creating budgets for the State, engaging in high level external/interal planning and strategy, management of more than a dozen BoM staff, senior issues management. Show less
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Fairfax Media
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Australia
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Online Media
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700 & Above Employee
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Journalist
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Nov 2014 - Jan 2016
Reporting for Melbourne's number one news radio station - 3AW. Reporting for Melbourne's number one news radio station - 3AW.
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Charles Darwin University
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Australia
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Consultant - media and research
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Feb 2014 - Oct 2014
Media relations, media release writing, event organisation, research assurance, Media Production, Presentation and Media Training. Media relations, media release writing, event organisation, research assurance, Media Production, Presentation and Media Training.
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Seven Network
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Australia
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Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Science/Environment Journalist and Presenter
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Mar 2004 - Jan 2014
Sourcing, researching, writing and presenting feature length stories for both the local bulletin and national bulletin - mostly with a science/environment/health theme. Researching, writing, collating, managing and presenting the week day weather report live to air every evening, working with multiple departments within the news area and numerous external stakeholders including CFS, SARDI and BOM. Working with graphics, producers and editors to very tight deadlines, reporting breaking news, regular live crosses from location. Fill in radio presenting for Mix 102.3 and regular guest on ABC 891. Producing social media content for the 7 News website, Facebook, blog and twitter. Keeping South Australians informed of breaking weather and climate news and warnings often on location. Show less
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CNN
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United States
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Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
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700 & Above Employee
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South Australian Correspondent
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May 2000 - Apr 2004
Sourcing, writing and producing regular feature stories for the CNN World Report, aired globally. Sourcing, writing and producing regular feature stories for the CNN World Report, aired globally.
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Network 10
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Australia
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Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Environment Journalist/Documentary Producer
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Mar 1999 - Mar 2004
Sourcing, writing, producing and presenting feature length news stories for Ten News locally and nationally, Fill in week day weather presenter. Sourcing, writing, producing and presenting feature length news stories for Ten News locally and nationally, Fill in week day weather presenter.
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Nine
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Australia
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Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
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700 & Above Employee
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Journalist
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Feb 1996 - Dec 1998
Sourcing, writing and presenting stories for National 9 News. Sourcing, writing and presenting stories for National 9 News.
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Education
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1990 - 1993
University of South Australia
BA, Communications -
2018 - 2018
CBD College
Certificate IV, Training and Assessment -
TAFE SA
Certificate in Media and Public Relations, Public Relations/Image Management -
Brighton High School
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