Maria Thring

National Project leader and coordinator for the visit of the UN Special Rapporteur on chemical waste and human rights in Australia:

- Demonstrated great stakeholder engagement and leadership skills.
- Liaised with over 50 government agencies across the country to prepare a comprehensive National Pack that outlined the legal, policy, and best practice frameworks for chemical management in Australia.
- Organized the visit itinerary across all jurisdictions in Australia, ensuring smooth and timely coordination of logistics and protocol arrangements.
- Facilitated round tables in Canberra with high-level executives from Commonwealth agencies to address key issues and challenges of chemical waste and human rights.

Proposal Amendment for the Rotterdam Convention:
- Prepared presentations in English, Spanish, and French that were delivered to all the Parties around the world.
- Assisted with script, brochures, and videos translations in all three languages.

Preparations for international fora participation:
- Contributed to preparations for participation in international conferences and meetings in Paris, Nairobi, and Bonn.
- Supported delegation from Canberra in the Chemicals and Biotechnology Committee of the OECD and the Global Framework on Chemicals.

- Coordinated input from multiple agencies to develop whole-of-government policy positions, briefs, and delegation instructions.

- Supported Australia's participation in global environment protection treaties.

- Developed International Engagement Strategy for the Circular Economy Division.

- Researched impact of chemicals of concern in electronic products and delivered presentation to executives.

- Drafted opening speech delivered by Australian delegation at OECD Workshop on chemical substitution.

- Participated in multi-stakeholder and industry-led development of a voluntary phase-out Action Plan for PFAs in fibre-based packaging.

As a student event coordinator, I improved my leadership and communication skills by facilitating training sessions for new volunteers, moderating live interviews with a wide range of panellists, producing and co-presenting the weekly University TV show “The Couch”, planning and facilitating events on campus and online, and supporting the building of a strong UQ community.

- Worked on a Zero Emission Vehicle policy evaluation and development, to promote the uptake of zero emission vehicles in Queensland

- My role included data evaluation, research of policy triggers over time, stakeholder engagement activities, policy development, and delivering a paper highlighting governmental programs and initiatives related to Zero Emissions Vehicles' adoption.

- As the team leader for my project, I was responsible for the planning, development, and completion of a project for The Brisbane Dialogues, a start-up organization aiming at fostering better discourse in society through the organization of different events throughout the year.

- Provided 360-degree recruitment services across a number of industries and professional levels, focusing predominantly in Finance & Accounting, Business Support, and Customer Service for both interim and permanent recruitment options.

Working closely with the Project Manager and Project Director to coordinate the day-to-day functions of a large infrastructure project.

- Setting up part of the project control tools to monitor the flow of documentation.

- Assisting with progress claim, invoices and tracking of payments

- Weekly and monthly reports to the client and weekly internal reports

- Weekly budgeting of the project

- Document Control and overseeing a junior Document Controller

- Hostess, Interpreter, and Facilitator at some of the largest Trade Shows & Events in Europe.