Jeremy Kirkwood

• Led a team of delegates, organisers & members during multifaceted campaigns at DFAT, Environment, Industry
• National campaigns that engaged numerous stakeholders such as: APS Staffing Cap, Paid Parental leave – leading to significant changes in the Maternity Leave Act
• Recruited, engaged, grew collectivism in the workplace through worksite visits, member and non-member meetings, speech by speech, signature by signature and workplace consultative forum organising. Usual KPI was making 20 organising calls a day.
• The position required a unique set of skills to build rapport quickly - recruiting protential leaders to the next step as a delegates and our registered training.
• Transperant & honest in what was achievable even through difficult conversations and personal emotion of those being represented.
• Developed legal memoranda and dynamic communications, including drip feed marketing, text messaging, robo-calls, telethons, pamphlets, posters, flyers, videos, podcasts - an email to a thousand people per day, hundreds of calls per week - scaling with the assistance of volunteers.

Achievements: air quality improvements at overseas stations such as Nairobi when organising DFAT.

• First NO vote on an EBA under a hostile government bargaining position and the Clean Energy Regulator.
• Secured and negotiated first nations indigenous issues at Wreck Bay in Jervis Bay.
• Won a dispute with DPS regarding health and safety union entry, numerous stakeholders; government lawyers, SES, Secretaries & Comcare regulators.
• Led DPS Security Guards through the Higgins case.
• Won meal and travel allowance for members stuck in Tasmania due to COVID.
• Won re-location and parking payment for hundreds of graduate employees during secondment in COVID.
• Topped the recruitment statistics and KPI's minimum average 5 new members a week (250 per year, $1000 per annum for the union).
• Significant underpayments win at DoEE regarding administrative oversight regarding TOIL (tens of thousands of dollars each worker).
• Demonstrated exceptional time management skills while working on multiple projects simultaneously without compromising quality or deadlines.
• Maintained clear communication channels between all parties involved in the event planning process, ensuring timely updates and issue resolution.

• Provided Government consulting services on key renewable energy initiatives from clients, drafted legal memoranda, and facilitated communication with government agencies and clientele whilst enhancing the company's reputation in the renewable energy marketplace and the within the hierarchy and legal convention of government
• Achievements: produced high quality, well researched, strategically planned memoranda and reports that far exceeded the status quo of the existing clientele
• Secured mining rights & fly ash deposits in Queensland
• Engaged with native title holders to negotiate business operations

• Assisted the business, navigating legislative changes and critical decision-making
• POS, front of house customer relations, maintenance, rostering, administration, accounting, strategic budgetary decision making
• Working with a range of diverse stakeholders to keep the business running, including numerous stock and delivery companies, head office strategies, Pharma-relations, political interests
• Navigating COVID through significant and unstable business & regulatory requirements

• Led the ACT election campaign in 2016
• Produced TV & radio commercials, robo-calls, automated texting, and drip feed email marketing
• On a shoestring budget enabled the high quality marketing & communication viable, utlising functionality of online communication
• Which is advancing even more rapidly and becoming more interconnected daily
• Collaborated on election campaign strategy and restructured data management practices
• Raised funds through unique fundraising events and marketing strategies
• Ran an electorate office out of Queanbeyan by myself and led the ACTU campaign in Eden Monaro
• Led a group of volunteers to staff the office daily and perform campaign roles such as data entry, phone banking, street stalls
• Achievements: bucking the bellwether (Mike Kelly elected defeating Peter Hendy), performing numerous stunts and media alerts to promote and raise awareness of issues affecting the lives of workers in our community
• Organising rallies of hundreds and sometimes thousands to protest
• Gained international media attention through an IKEA stunt – the media reach was well over 700,000 clicks on our post alone and over 2.1 million clicks internationally
• Organised hundreds of Bhutanese cleaners to join the union and negotiate for fairer conditions and proper PPE and won
• Developed leaders by improving people’s confidence and interpersonal skills, it is never easy to be on a street stall and stand up for what you believe in, when door knocking, cold calling or on the street corner – this built lifelong friendships

• Created and maintained stakeholder engagement lists, research in key stakeholder positions for the portfolio of Shadow Minister of Industry and Transport

• Company Overview: Podium Sports was an affiliate of Converse Australia
• Worked from full time store employee to Store manager within 12 months
• Hit KPI’s, trained and developed new workers, oversaw the operation of the store
• Podium Sports was an affiliate of Converse Australia