Graham BOTTOMLEY
Robina,QLD
Summary
Seventeen years' experience across a broad project spectrum producing community consultation strategies, advice, website content, stakeholder collateral and engagement within State, Local Government, and the private sector.
Overview
36
36
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Executive Director
Script2Screen
08.2023 - Current
- Manage Script 2 Screen, a creative and producing team with decades of experience
- We are a one-stop shop in Australia that helps screenwriters succeed
- Services: Concept videos, Trailers, Teaser trailers, Feature film production, Mood boards, Posters, Pitch decks, Script analysis, Line budgets, Funding applications
Screenwriter
07.2019 - Current
- Enthusiastic and driven Screenwriter with six years of screenwriting experience
- Adept in all aspects of script and story development, screenplay structure, character creation, and the intricacies of story structure
- Initiative-taking and committed to striving for innovation, originality, and awe-inspiring stories
- Key achievements: Wrote Time on the Harbour, The Mayan Star, Blast and Aurora treatments and feature movie screenplays
- Produced screenplay pitch deck, poster, concept video, mood board and line budgets
- Pitched marketing material to potential producers, steaming services, broadcasters, and networks.
Senior Communications Advisor
Transport and Main Roads
03.2019 - 06.2019
- Provide support and strategic advice! Develop and implement communication strategies
- Manage external and internal stakeholder relationships and expectations
- Research, write and contribute to communication material
- Risk assessment management in project planning
Community Relations and Engagement Specialist
City of Parramatta
05.2017 - 09.2017
- Managed and devised a comprehensive 30-page Communications and Engagement Plan
- Produced well-received Have Your Say brochures
- Developed website and on-line material including social media
- Established a 25-member Parramatta Light Rail Community & Business Advisory Committee
- Responded promptly to phone and email community enquiries.
Experienced Communication Consultant
Jacobs Engineering
01.2017 - 04.2017
- Clients: Sydney Water & Roads and Maritime Services
- Communication and stakeholder engagement material for Sydney Water Stormwater projects
- Stakeholder liaison and communication material for Windsor Bridge project
- RMS and Sydney Water Stormwater projects tenders
Stakeholder Collateral Consultant
Critical Communication Enhancement Program
02.2016 - 12.2016
- Client: NSW Telco Authority
- Produced and uploaded website content for the Critical Communication Enhancement Program and Telco Authority websites
- Drafted video scripts for Telco Authority Programs
- Developed stakeholder collateral for the Critical Communication Enhancement Program.
Consultant - Community and engagement
Downer Mouchel
11.2014 - 02.2016
- Client: Downer Mouchel
- Prepared RTA community consultation reports, community updates and letters
- Resolved enquiries and complaints from stakeholders
- Progressed stakeholder material and correspondence through the approvals process
- Developed and implement engagement strategies
Communication Consultant
Jacobs
07.2011 - 10.2014
- Client: Queensland Gas Company (QGC)
- Liaison with more than three thousand affected stakeholders
- Scheduled bore baseline assessments and monitoring
- Resolved enquiries and complaints from landholders
- Prepared and delivered landholder messaging, scripts, and communication material
- Packaged results for landholders
- Completed Phase One Bore Baseline Program six months ahead of schedule.
Senior Communication Consultant
ID Planning
10.2009 - 05.2011
- Client: Banora Point upgrade of Pacific Highway
- Managed and resolved stakeholder complaints and enquiries
- Hosted external stakeholders and community groups visiting the project site
- Organized, managed, and attended community open days, business focus groups and workshops
- Generated community updates and traffic alerts
- Answered the 24-hour hotline during construction and after hours' work
- Managed Community Consultation database
- Achieved an excellent appraisal from RMS for managing and resolving stakeholder complaints
- Implemented and managed the weekly traffic alert
- Instigated resident updates alerting stakeholders to earthworks adjacent to their streets.
The Motor Report
04.2009 - 10.2009
- Work Scope: Researching, authoring articles and sourcing images about new and concept vehicles.
Publicity Officer
Leichhardt Council
06.1991 - 01.1997
- Work Scope: Corporate Communication Strategy
- Produced a Corporate Identity resulting in a new logo and corporate slogan
- Developed a Communication Strategy to enhance Council's image
- Developed a marketing strategy to improve the usage of facilities
- Media Relations
- Provided media advice to the Mayor, General Manager, and senior staff
- Wrote media releases, speeches, and speeches notes
- Provided the media with information on Council initiatives and resolutions
- Lobbied media to present positive news stories
- Event Organisation
- Successfully organised more than thirty events including: A protest on Balmain's foreshore involving Sydney Harbour Ferries
- An anti-third runway blockade by Council trucks of Kingsford Smith Airport
- Large scale re-openings of Dawn Fraser Baths, Leichhardt Aquatic Centre, Yurulbin Park, Balmain, Bicentennial Park, Glebe
- Citizenship ceremonies and sister city functions
- Key achievements: Founding Executive Member of NSW Local Government Public Relations Association and editor of its newsletter
- Produced a corporate identity resulting in a new logo and corporate slogan
- Produced three NSW Department of Local Government acclaimed annual reports and thirty newsletters, improving public perception by 30%
- Wrote two hundred media releases and lobbied the media – providing eighty-two per cent positive media coverage.
Mayor's Executive Assistant
Leichhardt Council
02.1988 - 04.1991
- Work Scope: Mayoral enquiries and complaints, correspondence, media releases, weekly newspaper column, reports, organized events, and ceremonies.
Education
Advanced Advertising Certificate -
UTS Sydney
01.1978
Skills
- Providing tailored communications and engagement advice
- Building and managing relationships
- Producing content for channels
- Producing communication plans
- Representing projects in discussions with key stakeholders
- Progressing stakeholder material and correspondence
- Event management and facilitation
References
- Michael O’Dwyer, Sydney Light Rail Communications & Stakeholder Engagement Manager, 0400 207 076, mctodwyer@me.com
- Cindy McCarthy, Principal Communications Advisor – Transport and Main Roads, 07 3066 4120, Cindy.Y.McCarthy@tmr.qld.gov.au
Certification
- IAP2 Australasia Certificate in Engagement 2015
- 2009 Real Estate Certificate
- 2022 Real Estate Certificate
Timeline
Executive Director
Script2Screen
08.2023 - Current
Screenwriter
07.2019 - Current
Senior Communications Advisor
Transport and Main Roads
03.2019 - 06.2019
Community Relations and Engagement Specialist
City of Parramatta
05.2017 - 09.2017
Experienced Communication Consultant
Jacobs Engineering
01.2017 - 04.2017
Stakeholder Collateral Consultant
Critical Communication Enhancement Program
02.2016 - 12.2016
Consultant - Community and engagement
Downer Mouchel
11.2014 - 02.2016
Communication Consultant
Jacobs
07.2011 - 10.2014
Senior Communication Consultant
ID Planning
10.2009 - 05.2011
The Motor Report
04.2009 - 10.2009
Publicity Officer
Leichhardt Council
06.1991 - 01.1997
Mayor's Executive Assistant
Leichhardt Council
02.1988 - 04.1991
Advanced Advertising Certificate -
UTS Sydney
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