Susan Whistler, Communications and Marketing Director

Susan Whistler

Communications and Marketing Director

Scholars International Group

Location
United Arab Emirates
Education
Higher diploma, Bachelor of Arts
Experience
30 years, 10 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :30 years, 10 Months

Communications and Marketing Director at Scholars International Group
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since August 2015

• Devising and implementing communications strategy
• Develop branding strategy to support mission and vision
• Web content development and graphic identity
• Social media content and strategy
• Daily writing for press releases, web, social content, published articles in GCC news outlets
• Manage external branding, marketing and public relations agencies to strength position in the media market
• Ensure regular positive news coverage with consistent messaging
• Work with project teams to create or advise on messaging
• Connect with internal department heads and external community leaders
• Event management related to PR and branding messaging

Marketing And Communications Manager at Taaleem
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • March 2011 to July 2015

Responsible for a unique property and special corporate projects.
• Branding
• Social media content
• Web content
• Photography
• EDM and GDM content and photography
• Events that carried out the mission and vision and carried the branding forward

Director of Communications, Emergency Medicine Dept at Harvard University
  • United States - Massachusetts - Boston
  • May 2002 to February 2009

Content development for all channels to increase awareness to targeted audiences which the department sought to reach.
• web content, photography and design oversight
• writing web content
• social media content
• internal communications to the highest levels at Harvard University with the department
• external communications to stakeholders outside of the department
• content for communications to outreach audiences

Director of Special Sections at The New York Times
  • United States - New York - New York
  • July 1991 to September 2003

Creative direction for all non-main news sections appearing in the daily newspaper and the celebrated New York Times magazine
• direction for all sections under my responsibility to uphold the standards of the newspaper
• meet tight and demanding deadlines
• direct writers and art directors for sections
• collaborate with most senior editors on cross-department sections
• oversee migration of sections to web and online versions

Education

Higher diploma, Bachelor of Arts
  • at Meredith College
  • May 1989

Meredith College is a full 4-year University offering higher education degrees in Liberal Arts education (Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Art degrees), located in Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.A. It is a part of the university colloquium of Duke University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University.

Specialties & Skills

Web Content
Social Media
Public Relations
Web Strategy
Media Relations