lyle skipsey

senior political analyst

About

Media Officer with experience working across local and national government in two countries.

Country

united kingdom

City

london

Industry

public relations and communications

Skill

research, creative writing, international relations, government, political communication, magazines, foreign policy, leadership, political science, qualitative research, report writing, press releases, speech writing, media relations, public relations, editing, communication, strategic communications, internal communications

Experience

senior political analyst

british high commission pretoria

2019-10 - Present · 6 yrs 11 mos

media officer

westco communications

2017-8 - Present · 9 yrs 1 mo

research and communications assistant

new zealand parliament

2014-11 - 2015-1 · 3 mos

I was responsible for Hon Kaye’s communication within her electorate. A key aspect of my role was managing the correspondence received from constituents. I was also responsible for organising and distributing Hon Kaye's Christmas messages to key stakeholders and media and worked on the written content for the her new website.

private secretary

new zealand parliament

2014-5 - 2014-10 · 6 mos

I was responsible for monitoring media and delivering communication from the Minister of Health's office under direction from the press secretary.

research and communications advisor

new zealand parliament

2015-1 - 2016-9 · 1 yr 9 mos

I provided communications support to Government MPs on portfolios including Health, Canterbury Earthquake Recovery, Immigration, Trade, Senior Citizens, Sport & Recreation and Veterans Affairs. I also account managed MPs from the top of the South Island. As part of this role I spent a month on exchange with the Policy Research Unit in the United Kingdom.

communications advisor

ministry of justice - new zealand

2016-9 - 2017-7 · 11 mos

I provided multi-channel communications support to the Sector Group and Property Services team, as well as providing print, digital communications and event management support and planning to the Multi-Agency Team on Family Violence.