Indigenous Affairs - Week 3 Bentley

Hi Again Everyone, This week I have been working with Woodsides Indigenous Affairs team in the Perth office. I have to say this has been my favourite experience so far! I have absolutely loved it and am now searching for roles to work in Indigenous Affairs when I finish uni. As most of you would know, Woodside sponsors the Fremantle Dockers. This means that we get our own "round" where we can organise a pre-game event and nominate a speaker to present in the 3 dinig rooms at half time. We also get a corporate box and 100 general admin seats. I was asked to work on this which is very exciting and I will be helping on a voluntary capacity when my normal workload allows. This year our pre-game event will be a scratch match between nominated boys in the Clontarf Foundation (a Woodside sponsored initiative - here is a link if you would like to know more about the foundation http://www.clontarffootball.com/). We have arranged for a Dockers Player to send the boys weekly emails encouraging nutrition and education etc. There will be a Woodside training Day the Thursday before the big game where the Clontarf players will have a tour of Fremantle Oval & Club Rooms - they will also be presented with their Guernseys by Fremantle player Stephen Hill. And this is just the beginning of it! I won't bore you with the whole plan. My first official piece of work for Indigenous Affairs was to write a communications plan for this event. This included writing a summary of our social investment strategy & Noongar strategy and how the objectives of these strategies links in with this event. It also includes running schedules, event checklist, target audience, key invitees etc. It is a very in-depth piece of work and I can see why Woodside events run so smoothly. I have definitely taken it on board and will be broadening the event plans I currently use. I also attended a lot of meetings with the Indigenous Affairs manager and was impressed by his obvious passion on every topic he talked about. I think the main reason I enjoyed Indigenous affairs over the other teams was the people in the team. They were so welcoming and encouraging and passionate that it made me feel as if I were already a part of their team. Thats all I have time for right now but I worked on so many other things in indigenous affairs and will hopefully update you on them soon. I encourage you all to take up any opportunity to gain some work experience in an Indigenous Affairs capacity, you will not regret it.