Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Publications
Affiliations
Interests
Timeline
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Kerrie Lacey

Journalist And Creative Writer
Magill

Summary

I am a creative writer and journalist who appreciates the power of 'story' in our everyday lives: to shape who we are and how we see ourselves and others in the world around us. As a storyteller, avid reader and all-round book lover, I am looking for work in the publishing industry. My academic and professional experience have equipped me with a skill set highly applicable to a publishing house, enabling me to work effectively across multiple aspects of the business, including writing, editing, marketing, publicity, customer service, and administration.



Overview

21
21
years of professional experience

Work History

University of South Australia

PEER ASSISTED STUDY SUPPORT (PASS) LEADER
03.2020 - Current

Key Responsibilities:

  • Planning and facilitating weekly study sessions for students undertaking courses in News Reporting; Creative Writing; Intercultural Communication; and Ideas, Innovation and Communication
  • Actively promoting the PASS program.

Key Achievements:

  • Receiving positive feedback from students attending and mentors observing my sessions
  • Delivering seven professional development sessions for staff.

Finn Consulting Services

CONTENT WRITER
10.2022 - 02.2023

Key Responsibilities:

  • Writing profiles of businesses for sale by following the creative brief, conveying the story of the business, and summarising essential information required to make a purchasing decision (strengths, weaknesses and potential opportunities).
  • Editing the profile to a publishable standard.

Key Achievements:

  • Writing and editing eight individual business profiles from diverse industries, one of which sold for seven figures.

OPSM

CUSTOMER SERVICE ASSISTANT
12.2017 - 11.2018

Key Responsibilities:

  • Providing quality customer service and eye care by getting to know customers' needs, educating them about eye health and helping with product selection.

Key Achievements:

  • Working individually and as part of a team to achieve monthly sales targets.

Taylored Psychology

ADMINISTRATION SUPERVISOR
07.2014 - 10.2017

Key Responsibilities:

  • Overseeing daily operations of the practice and practice management systems to promote smooth service delivery and a positive work environment
  • Providing front-facing customer service (welcoming and setting up new patients, scheduling appointments, taking payments, etc.)
  • Performing general administration duties (invoicing, ensuring valid patient referrals, etc.).

Key Achievements:

  • Training and managing four Administration Assistants in conjunction with the Director.

Neami National

PARTNERS IN RECOVERY SUPPORT FACILITATOR
11.2013 - 06.2014

Key Responsibilities:

  • Improving system responses and outcomes for people with severe and persistent mental illness by facilitating better coordination of services
  • Being a point of contact for clients and thier families, carers and service providers

Key Achievements:

  • Helping a young homeless woman with an intellectual disability and mental health issues to access housing and support to live independently in her own home.

Neami National

COMMUNITY REHABILITATION SUPPORT WORKER
06.2012 - 11.2013

Key Responsibilities:

  • Providing psychosocial rehabilitation support services to people with mental illness by using the Collaborative Recovery Model to identify their strengths and values and live a meaningful life
  • Working with clients and their support networks to create and review Individual Service Plans
  • Providing practical support to develop independent living skills and build community connections.

Key Achievements:

  • Helping a woman with intellectual disability and schizophrenia achieve her goal of being able to do her grocery shopping independently.

Sussan

SALES ASSISTANT
06.2004 - 12.2010

Key Responsibilities:

  • Providing quality customer service by applying the principles of relationship selling
  • Working individually and as part of a team towards the achievement of sales targets
  • Performing administrative tasks (processing sales, banking, and inventory).

Key Achievements:

  • Receiving 10 sales awards for exceptional customer service
  • Managing the store during late-night trading, weekends and Store Manager absences.

Education

Bachelor of Journalism & Professional Writing And Bachelor of Arts - Creative Writing & Literature

University of South Australia
Adelaide, SA
11.2025

Bachelor of Social Work Honours - Social Work

Flinders University
Adelaide, SA
10.2011

Bachelor of Social Work and Bachelor of Social Planning - Social Work

Flinders University
Adelaide, SA
02.2010

Skills

Publications

  • Creative non-fiction story, Fear and Loss in Strange Times, Verse Magazine, 2022, Edition 45, pp. 52–54, https://shorturl.at/PXQAV
  • Short story, The Game of Illusions, Verse Magazine, 2022, Edition 46, pp. 12–13, https://shorturl.at/sCEmu
  • Poetry collection, Verse Magazine, 20021, Edition 42, p. 11, https://shorturl.at/JzGfH

Affiliations

  • Books+Publishing, Writers SA, Kill Your Darlings

Interests

Writing creative non-fiction feature stories, short stories and novels; Reading a wide range of genres; Travelling (been to NY, Guatemala, Cuba, Mexico, France, Greece, NZ, Bali, Melbourne, Queensland and Tasmania), Hiking (done the Milford 5-day hike in NZ and the Annapurna 11-day hike in Nepal)

Timeline

Finn Consulting Services

CONTENT WRITER
10.2022 - 02.2023

University of South Australia

PEER ASSISTED STUDY SUPPORT (PASS) LEADER
03.2020 - Current

OPSM

CUSTOMER SERVICE ASSISTANT
12.2017 - 11.2018

Taylored Psychology

ADMINISTRATION SUPERVISOR
07.2014 - 10.2017

Neami National

PARTNERS IN RECOVERY SUPPORT FACILITATOR
11.2013 - 06.2014

Neami National

COMMUNITY REHABILITATION SUPPORT WORKER
06.2012 - 11.2013

Sussan

SALES ASSISTANT
06.2004 - 12.2010

Bachelor of Journalism & Professional Writing And Bachelor of Arts - Creative Writing & Literature

University of South Australia

Bachelor of Social Work Honours - Social Work

Flinders University

Bachelor of Social Work and Bachelor of Social Planning - Social Work

Flinders University
Kerrie LaceyJournalist And Creative Writer