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Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Publications
Affiliations
Interests
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Kerrie Lacey

Journalist And Creative Writer
Daylesford,VIC

Summary

I am a creative writer and journalist who appreciates the power of 'story' in our everyday lives: to shape who we are and how we see ourselves and others in the world around us. As a storyteller, avid reader and all-round book lover, I am looking for work in the publishing industry. My academic and professional experience have equipped me with a skill set highly applicable to a publishing house, enabling me to work effectively across multiple aspects of the business, including writing, editing, marketing, publicity, customer service, and administration.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience

Work History

University of South Australia

PEER ASSISTED STUDY SUPPORT (PASS) LEADER
03.2020 - 12.2025

Key Responsibilities:

  • Planning and facilitating weekly study sessions for first-year creative industry students
  • Actively promoting the PASS program.

Key Achievements:

  • Received positive feedback from students and mentors
  • Delivered seven professional development sessions for staff.

Finn Consulting Services

CONTENT WRITER
10.2022 - 02.2023

Key Responsibilities:

  • Writing profiles of businesses for sale by following the creative brief; conveying the business's story; and summarising its strengths, weaknesses and potential opportunities
  • Editing the profile to a publishable standard

Key Achievements:

  • Wrote and edited eight individual business profiles from diverse industries, one of which sold for seven figures.

OPSM

CUSTOMER SERVICE ASSISTANT
12.2017 - 11.2018

Key Responsibilities:

  • Providing quality customer service and eye care by identifying customers' needs, educating about eye health and assisting with product selection

Key Achievements:

  • Worked individually and as part of a team to achieve monthly sales targets.

Taylored Psychology

ADMINISTRATION SUPERVISOR
07.2014 - 10.2017

Key Responsibilities:

  • Overseeing the daily operations of the practice
  • Providing customer service
  • Performing general administration duties

Key Achievements:

  • Trained and managed four Administration Assistants.

Neami National

PARTNERS IN RECOVERY SUPPORT FACILITATOR
11.2013 - 06.2014

Key Responsibilities:

  • Improving system responses and outcomes for people with severe and persistent mental illness by facilitating better coordination of services
  • Being a point of contact for clients and their support network

Key Achievements:

  • Helped a young homeless woman with an intellectual disability and mental health issues access housing and support to live independently.

Neami National

COMMUNITY REHABILITATION SUPPORT WORKER
06.2012 - 11.2013

Key Responsibilities:

  • Providing psychosocial rehabilitation support services to people with mental illness
  • Collaborating with clients and their support networks to create and review Individual Service Plans
  • Developing client independent living skills and community connections.

Key Achievements:

  • Helped a woman with intellectual disability and schizophrenia achieve her goal of shopping independently.

Sussan

SALES ASSISTANT
06.2004 - 12.2010

Key Responsibilities:

  • Providing quality customer service by applying the principles of relationship selling
  • Working individually and as part of a team to achieve sales targets
  • Performing administrative tasks (processing sales, banking, and inventory).

Key Achievements:

  • Received 10 sales awards for exceptional customer service
  • Managed the store during late-night trading, weekends and Store Manager absences.

Education

Bachelor of Journalism & Professional Writing And Bachelor of Arts - Creative Writing & Literature

University of South Australia
Adelaide, SA
11.2025

Bachelor of Social Work Honours - Social Work

Flinders University
Adelaide, SA
10.2011

Bachelor of Social Work and Bachelor of Social Planning - Social Work

Flinders University
Adelaide, SA
02.2010

Skills

Ability to write and edit diverse content to a publishable standard gained from educational qualifications, own publications & content writer work

Experience aligning content with style guidelines & target audience from education, pitching own work and working to a creative brief as a content writer

Strong communication and interpersonal skills from over 20 years experience working in people-oriented positions

History of working effectively in self-directed and team-focused roles

Publications

  • Creative non-fiction story, Fear and Loss in Strange Times, Verse Magazine, 2022, Edition 45, pp. 52–54, https://shorturl.at/PXQAV
  • Short story, The Game of Illusions, Verse Magazine, 2022, Edition 46, pp. 12–13, https://shorturl.at/sCEmu
  • Poetry collection, Verse Magazine, 20021, Edition 42, p. 11, https://shorturl.at/JzGfH

Affiliations

  • Books+Publishing, Writers SA, Kill Your Darlings, Australian Book Review

Interests

Writing creative non-fiction feature stories, short stories and novels; Reading a wide range of genres; Travelling (been to NY, Guatemala, Cuba, Mexico, France, Greece, NZ, Bali, Melbourne, Queensland and Tasmania), Hiking (done the Milford 5-day hike in NZ and the Annapurna 11-day hike in Nepal)

Timeline

Finn Consulting Services

CONTENT WRITER
10.2022 - 02.2023

University of South Australia

PEER ASSISTED STUDY SUPPORT (PASS) LEADER
03.2020 - 12.2025

OPSM

CUSTOMER SERVICE ASSISTANT
12.2017 - 11.2018

Taylored Psychology

ADMINISTRATION SUPERVISOR
07.2014 - 10.2017

Neami National

PARTNERS IN RECOVERY SUPPORT FACILITATOR
11.2013 - 06.2014

Neami National

COMMUNITY REHABILITATION SUPPORT WORKER
06.2012 - 11.2013

Sussan

SALES ASSISTANT
06.2004 - 12.2010

Bachelor of Journalism & Professional Writing And Bachelor of Arts - Creative Writing & Literature

University of South Australia

Bachelor of Social Work Honours - Social Work

Flinders University

Bachelor of Social Work and Bachelor of Social Planning - Social Work

Flinders University
Kerrie LaceyJournalist And Creative Writer