Ruth Mary Mciver

Read and ranked thirty submissions for adult horror story competition, ordering winners and selecting stories for an anthology.

• Taught basic crime fiction and story telling skills
• Facilitated group discussions and provided workshop guidance
• Marked story submissions through varying rounds
• Liaised with staff at WV regarding student submissions, troubleshooting any submission issues and approved extensions.

• Conducted Zoom meetings with clients to discuss writing goals and services required
• Reading synopses and manuscripts
• Suggesting structural changes, and outlining issues with structure, pace, characterisation, and POV suggestions.
• Assisting writers with improving voice and core writing with direct coaching and mentoring
• Returning works to authors for review with a detailed five-page report.
• Working on career goals, including agent selection, cover letters, competitions, and cultivating other works for writing profile
• Conducting structural edits on occasion
• Advising authors about social media.

• Delivering genre fiction content twice weekly, creating dynamic presentations, and encouraging in-depth class discussions.
• Creating and facilitating tutorial groups where students write and workshop fiction
• Broadened student knowledge of genre fiction with in-depth discussions about readings, supplying students with additional readings
• Explaining core concepts and promoting both critical and creative thinking to assist students with assessments
• Determining student marks based on fair evaluations of class contributions, assessments, and their integration and understanding of group and tutor feedback
• Marking papers to strict deadlines; liaising with supervisor regarding late submissions and/or CAP plans
• Communicating with students via email and Blackboard
• Liaising with the Unit Coordinator and assisting students with extensions, mental health concerns, and disabilities.

• Promoting critical and creative thinking and commitment to long form writing with customised lectures and assignments, including industry examples.
• Developed and revised existing teaching materials to improve student satisfaction outcomes.
• Delivered lectures and conducted class discussions via remote instruction.
• Met with supervisors to discuss student progress, discuss students facing difficulty, and discuss marking.
• Designed and proposed curriculum changes and program modifications to supervisors to accommodate changing industry needs.
• Mentored students completing assessments and encouraged external submissions.
• Assisted struggling students with extra support and targeted assistance.
• Assessed students' progress both in class and by email, and marking assignments.

• Copywriting for print publications using on-brand key messages
• Proofreading and copyediting course guides, both online and hardcopy
• Liaising with the editorial team and graphic designers
• Researching, writing, and editing articles, web content, press releases, and opinion pieces for broad distribution and ad hoc communications duties
• Proofreading and copyediting undergraduate and postgraduate guides to the satisfaction of the editor
• Writing well-received articles and press releases.

• Rewriting website based on extensive experience with Monash branding
• Conducting an audit of the website using Google Analytics
• Engaging with internal stakeholders to create an on-brand design that met the new Director's design, but didn't compromise SEO functionality
• Rewriting web copy for the site under new wireframes
• Selecting photographs from the image library that reflected brand/sub-brand
• Creating a new web design that fits with the Monash brand, but reflects MIGR's goals and purposes
• Working with the MIGR director and central marketing team on design and layout, creating a compromise between the institution's goals and Monash's guidelines
• Completing website overhaul, redesign, and rewrite within a short time frame, without compromising quality.

• Developing a communications plan consistent with the School's strategic plan
• Writing profiles for key researchers and centre websites
• Researching, writing, and editing articles, web content, press releases, and opinion pieces for broad distribution
• Rebranding, rewriting web content, and creating brochures for centres within the school
• Maintaining the website with CMS. Sourcing and approving photography; resizing and inserting images
• Writing e-newsletters and emails from Head of School (HOS update), rewriting Psych News e-newsletter.
• Generating media attention; encouraging academics to engage with media outlets and creating opportunities for expert opinions
• Working extensively on the School's Annual Report.

• Selecting content, interviewing academic staff, writing and editing pieces for flagship faculty publication, M3 magazine
• Producing content including website copy, speech drafts, and the Dean's key message
• Constructing press releases targeting external press publications to publicise faculty news and achievements
• Developing and unfolding a new internal communications strategy
• Sourcing and approving photographic and video assets
• Providing advice on communicating research results, advances, and accomplishments
• Working on the Harvest Alliance School for Indigenous Health. Creating a press release for The Koori Mail, assisting with event management
• Instituting a regular meeting schedule for communication staff from faculty, schools, and institutes to create a more cohesive and centralised communications team
• Creating a student profile database for internal and external communications purposes.