My role as a Media Team Coordinator involves a combination of leadership, strategic planning, and effective communication skills to drive the organization's media efforts and enhance its overall visibility and impact.

Team Leadership and Management: Lead and manage the media team, providing guidance, support, and direction to team members.

Foster a positive and collaborative team culture, encouraging creativity and innovation.

Project Planning and Coordination: Develop and implement a strategic plan for the media team, aligning with the organization's goals and objectives.

Coordinate media projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, within scope, and meet quality standards.

Content Strategy: Ensure consistency in messaging and branding across all media channels.

Media Production Oversight: Coordinate the production of multimedia content, including videos, graphics, and other visual elements.

Work with the creative team to ensure high-quality and impactful media assets that align with the organization's mission.

Collaboration with Other Departments: Collaborate with other departments, such as marketing, communications, and fundraising, to integrate media efforts into overall organizational strategies.

Ensure effective communication and coordination between the media team and other relevant teams.

Performance Monitoring and Reporting: Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) for media activities and regularly monitor and report on the team's performance.

Training and Development: Identify training needs for team members and provide opportunities for professional development.

Stay updated on industry trends and best practices and share knowledge with the team.

Graphic Design for Marketing Collateral: Design various promotional materials such as brochures, flyers, posters, banners, and digital assets to support the organization's fundraising, events, and awareness campaigns.

Event Materials: Design materials for events, including invitations, programs, signage, and any other necessary collateral to enhance the overall attendee experience.

Annual Reports and Infographics: Create visually compelling annual reports and infographics to communicate the organization's impact, achievements, and financial information in an easily understandable format.

This role encompasses my previous role as a Communications & Digital Media Lead/Administrator at the ISIJ of Toronto and the added responsibility of supervising a small team to efficiently execute their designated duties and deliver on their tasks with responsibility on a daily basis.

The role requires organization skills, a keen eye for detail, an understanding of confidentiality and trust in the work place and strong communication internally with staff as well as externally with members and visitors of the community.

I also work with project assignments that allow me to maximize use of my knowledge and skills in graphic and web design and my keen understanding of processes and protocols within an organization.

Project areas include:
- Designing a Membership Payment Interface to integrate into the existing Digital Portal and working with a Web Developer to see the concept come to fruition.
- Overview of organization policies and protocols and best practices to improve and implement these effectively.
- Analysis and Review of the existing Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software in place at the organization and potential alternative solutions.
- Preparing COVID-19 Protocols for our Secretariat Office and actively participating on the Community COVID-19 Task Force, writing frequent communiques for the community.
- Processing Membership forms and payments for new and existing members.

Overseeing the best way to communicate with the members of our community, providing solutions for efficient updates and branding a presence of the Secretariat Office. In addition, maintaining the creation of digital media elements and also assisting with administrative duties.

Specific responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Creating advertising and marketing content for the Weekly Newswire.
• Updating/redesigning forms for internal and external use.
• Using tools to make forms and communications interactive.
• Preparing monthly snapshots for the community.
• Designing yearly calendar.
• Updating upcoming programs and events by committees.
• Prepare advertisements for moonsighting, secretariat message, and/or any other ad hoc messages.
• Peak season theme assets such as banner stands, posters, screen advertisements, donation posters, and consistent design for all elements during the season.

Administrative duties include but are not limited to:

• Answering phone calls and managing administrative emails
• Assisting in bookings of facilities and requests from committees such as printing/photocopying
• Management of physical and digital files

The role comes with a large scope of where design and communication skills can be applied and neither are confined to a specific time or project.

• Working with Content Management Solutions for clients.
• Designing event ads, stationary assets, digital & print media and document layout
• Branding concepts and designs.
• Managing online e-commerce store, updating product inventory and executing sales.

• Weeding/pre-masking of graphics, layout and cutting vinyl lettering using a cut machine.
• Preparing labels on an edge print machine and preparing large media files for print.
• Packaging of components for ease of installation

• Administrative duties such as responding to emails, printing and copying, ordering supplies,
  finance management and Executive Assistant to the Principal.
• Design & maintenance of organisation website and student management system.
• Design ads, stationary assets, digital & print media and framework for student/teacher curriculum.
• Collating reports and presentations and creating resources, writing formal letters, pre-planning for events/
  and weekly classes and communicating with parents/teachers daily.

• Content Management Solutions and web presence for organisations with integrated payment solutions.
• Designing ads, stationary assets, digital & print media, document layout, and branding concepts/designs.