Vanessa Nancekivell

• Working for a Global Engineering & Design Consultancy, we have extra challenges, coordinating our team across many continents & timezones.
• Provided secretarial and office management support while building cooperative working relationships.
• Coordinated appointments, meetings and conferences.
• Lease apartments/accommodation/book flights for our international staff
• Developed administrative processes to improve office efficiency.
• Managed office supplies inventory and placed orders when necessary.
• Performed data entry tasks into computer databases from paper documents.
• Answered phone calls and emails to provide information, resulting in effective business correspondence.
• Scheduled appointments, meetings and events for management staff.

• On moving to New Zealand my husband and I together built a successful award winning boutique Interior Architecture and Design studio, www.and.co.nz. Focused on Retail & Hospitality Design, working on local projects include the Auckland International Airport
• Using my previous admin & IT skills again would enter back into the office environment.
• Composed and edited complex and sensitive correspondence, reports and documents.
• Upkeep of the design library
• Client liaison
• Maintaining and updating of company website
• Payroll, data entry and all manner of tasks pertaining to running a small creative business
• Organized travel arrangements flights, hotels and car rentals for business trips, conferences and other events when requested by the Office Manager.
• Greet visitors and provided assistance as needed.

With a young family came with other challenges I was fortunate enough to take extended leave from the business.

• My core duties were writing up copy and distribute to the creative team, write up reports for our clients required for moving forward with advertising format, copy, print, TVC and campaigns
• General Administration included update and organize diaries, reply to emails, letters and correspondence, book studio space, set up meetings and events, prepare presentations, spreadsheets, communicating with various in house departments ie, graphic design, accounts team and reception.
• using Excel, Word and Powerpoint to create proposals, letters and memos.
• Print and distributed daily scripts and call sheets.
• Reply to e-mails, letters and correspondence on behalf of executives.
• Scheduled and arranged travel and hotel reservations for meetings, conferences and seminars.