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Jenni Morris

Wellington

Summary

I am an experienced Copywriter with over 6 years experience writing real estate copy and other ad hoc marketing work in a remote home-based role.

I am keen to find a new part-time home-based role, where I can utilise my skills, while maintaining that endlessly sought after work-life balance!

Overview

2026
2026
years of professional experience

Work History

Copywriter

Arizto
Wellington, Wellington
06.2019 - 08.2025
  • Trained and managed a small team of Copywriters
  • Created engaging property listings
  • Composed copy for social media, promotions, newsletters, email, print materials, radio etc
  • Edited and proofread copy for grammar, punctuation and spelling, rewriting for clarity and accuracy.
  • Maintained brand consistency across all written materials.

Director

Vintage Me
Wellington, Wellington
2020 - 2025
  • Created a small home-based craft business selling upcycled vintage wool blanket crafts, NZ wool baby slippers, hats, etc.
  • Managed all aspects of this small business, including sewing, photos, website updates, marketing, wholesale, fulfilling orders, and reconciling payments.

Office Administrator

Karori Arts and Craft Centre
Wellington, New Zealand
01.2018 - 07.2019
  • Helped manage daily office operations for a vibrant arts and craft center.
  • Processed payments using Xero
  • Marketing, social media etc
  • Coordinated schedules and events for workshops and community activities.
  • Customer enquiries etc

Reliever teacher

Campbell Kindergarten
Wellington, New Zealand
01.2017 - 01.2018
  • Part time, on-call role at Campbell Kindergarten
  • Hands-on role in the Kindy, supervising children, or leading arts and craft activities

Marketing and Promotions Executive

Wesleyhaven Village
Lower Hutt, New Zealand
01.2015 - 01.2017
  • Lead all of the Marketing activity for Weseyhaven Village, including website updates, promotions, marketing collateral etc.

Business Analyst

Contact Energy
Lower Hutt / Wellington, New Zealand
03.2007 - 01.2013

The key aspects of my role were:

  • Clarifying business requirements: This involved leading workshops, documenting, mapping, and facilitating agreement and approvals.
  • Problem Identification and Solving: Identifying the root cause of a problem and working with key stakeholders to determine options and costings for solving the problem.
  • Excellent written and spoken communication.
  • Documentation: Creating formal documentation such as project scope, statements of work, business requirements, impacts, options analysis, cost benefits, through to training documentation.
  • Change management. Managing changes from initiation through to delivery, including working through impacts, training and communication.
  • Leading other Business Analysts: I worked as a Lead BA on changes where I managed other Business Analysts, and often took on a mentoring role with newer members to the team.
  • Process Documentation and Process Improvement: Most changes have an element of process documentation and process improvement, and is an area I have a lot of experience in.

Asset Management

Contact Energy
Lower Hutt, New Zealand
04.2006 - 02.2007

The key parts of the job were:

  • Meter leasing and Asset Management
  • Invoice and data reconciliation
  • Process documentation and process improvement

Data Analyst

Genesis Energy
Hamilton, New Zealand
08.2005 - 02.2006
  • Reconciling consumption data
  • Trend analysis to identify and correct anomalies.
  • This was a short term contract role.

Customer Services Manager/Project Manager

Betta Foods
Hamilton, New Zealand
02.2004 - 07.2005
  • I had the opportunity to work in several roles at Betta Foods including Customer Services Manager, Project Manager and Accounts Manager
  • Managed customer purchase orders, complaints, and stock reconciliation
  • Managed accounts receivable and accounts payable.
  • Identified and solved issues
  • Helped put cost saving initiatives into place.
  • This was a varied role as part of a small team.

Shop Manager

Rebound Clothing
Lower Hutt, New Zealand
10.2003 - 11.2003
  • My main role at rebound clothing was to help set up a new retail store
  • Oversaw daily store operations
  • Trained new employees on store policies and customer service standards.

English Language Instructor

Nova Group
Tokyo, Japan
03.2002 - 07.2003
  • As an English Language Instructor I created lesson plans and taught English lessons to classes of up to 4 students.
  • I also co-ordinated the branch business program and taught business classes of up to 8 students, and facilitated discussion groups with up to 20 students.

Education

Masters Degree - Master of Arts (second class, first division honours)

University of Auckland
Auckland, NZ
01.2002

Bachelors Degree - Bachelor of Management Studies (Double Major in Economics and History)

University of Waikato
Hamilton, NZ
01.2000

Skills

  • Copywriting, editing, reviewing
  • Marketing, emails, newsletter, website updates
  • Advertising copy
  • Communication
  • Social media management
  • General office skills
  • All aspects of managing a small business
  • Fast, accurate, very effective at getting the work done!

References

  • Gina Hong, Head Teacher at Campbell Kindergarten, 022 601 0616
  • Nicki Futcher, Project Manager at Contact Energy, Nicki.futcher@kiwibank.co.nz

Personal Profile

Master of Arts (MA), University of Auckland, 01/2001 - 12/2002, Bachelor of Management Studies (BMS), University of Waikato, 01/1997 - 12/2000, Confident in managing end to end business and ICT changes, Strong decision making and problem solving skills, Experience in Marketing, Excellent communicator, Experienced in process improvement, process mapping and process engineering, Analytical, able to present complex information and concepts in a clear and concise manner, Background in Retail and Energy Sector as well as not for profit

Previous Experience

  • Office Administrator, Karori Arts and Craft Centre, Wellington, Wellington, 01/2018 - Current, I have been working for the Karori Arts and Crafts centre recently doing their finances in Xero – this is mostly processing payments for classes and invoices. Currently this is just 3 hours a week (generally Thursday morning). I also do some marketing/advertising work as well, which I really enjoy. Our Facebook likes have skyrocketed and we are getting new families enrolling in the centre.
  • Reliever Teacher, Campbell Kindergarten, Wellington, Wellington, 01/2017 - 12/2018, I have worked part time on call at Campbell Kindergarten over the past couple of terms. This role is very hands on in the kindy generally supervising the children in their play, or leading arts and craft activities e.g. paper mache. I have really enjoyed relieving at kindy, it’s such a fun environment and great to see the children developing their skills through play based activities.
  • Marketing and Promotions Executive, Wesleyhaven Village, Lower Hutt, Wellington, 01/2015 - 12/2017, In this part time contract role I was responsible for all of the Marketing activity for Wesleyhaven Village, this included managing the website, website updates, promotions, marketing collateral etc.
  • Business Analyst, Contact Energy, Lower Hutt / Wellington, Wellington, 03/2007 - 12/2013, In this role I worked closely with members of the Customer Business Unit (under various names), ICT and Marketing on all aspects of business and ICT changes. The key aspects of my role were: Clarifying business requirements, Problem Identification and Solving, Communication, Documentation, Change management, Leading other Business Analysts, Process Documentation and Process Improvement.
  • Asset Management, Contact Energy, Lower Hutt, Wellington, 04/2006 - 02/2007, In this role I was responsible for managing meter leasing and reconciliation. The key parts of the job were: Asset Management, Invoice and data reconciliation, Process documentation and process improvement.
  • Data Analyst, Genesis Energy, Hamilton, Waikato, 08/2005 - 02/2006, In this role I was responsible for reconciling consumption data and doing trend analysis to identify and correct anomalies. This was a short term contract role.
  • Customer Services Manager/Project Manager, Betta Foods, Hamilton, Waikato, 02/2004 - 07/2005, At Betta Foods I had the opportunity to work in several roles including Customer Services Manager where I dealt with customers, purchase orders, complaints, and stock reconciliation, to managing accounts receivable and accounts payable. I also worked in a new role as Project Manager where my job was to identify and solve issues and help put cost saving initiatives into place.
  • Shop Manager, Rebound Clothing, Lower Hutt, Wellington, 10/2003 - 11/2003, My main role at rebound clothing was to help set up a new retail store which involved setting pricing and staff training.
  • English Language Instructor, Nova Group, Tokyo, Tokyo, 03/2002 - 07/2003, As an English Language Instructor I created lesson plans and taught English lessons to classes of up to 4 students. I also co-ordinated the branch business program and taught business classes of up to 8 students, and facilitated discussion groups with up to 20 students.

Timeline

Copywriter

Arizto
06.2019 - 08.2025

Office Administrator

Karori Arts and Craft Centre
01.2018 - 07.2019

Reliever teacher

Campbell Kindergarten
01.2017 - 01.2018

Marketing and Promotions Executive

Wesleyhaven Village
01.2015 - 01.2017

Business Analyst

Contact Energy
03.2007 - 01.2013

Asset Management

Contact Energy
04.2006 - 02.2007

Data Analyst

Genesis Energy
08.2005 - 02.2006

Customer Services Manager/Project Manager

Betta Foods
02.2004 - 07.2005

Shop Manager

Rebound Clothing
10.2003 - 11.2003

English Language Instructor

Nova Group
03.2002 - 07.2003

Director

Vintage Me
2020 - 2025

Masters Degree - Master of Arts (second class, first division honours)

University of Auckland

Bachelors Degree - Bachelor of Management Studies (Double Major in Economics and History)

University of Waikato
Jenni Morris