Funke Omole

I am a skillful corporate communications expert with 12 years’ experience in building and maintaining clients, media and community relations in both practice and teaching. I am a productive relationship builder; excellent at listening to clients needs and creating solutions that provide value to the clients and other stakeholders of the organization. Highly professional, reliable and able to perform duties with minimal supervision. As a corporate communications specialist, I possess excellent interpersonal communication skills, which enable to create, build and maintaining mutual relationships between organizations and their stakeholders. I do community and media relations activities. I am also skillful at speech and citation writing; Project planning and implementation; academic writing and editing services.         

In my experience as Corporate Affairs Officer at a university, I established and maintained harmonious relationships between the University and its internal as well as external publics. I ensured a cordial relationship with the news media in order to give the university positive publicity in the media at all times. I was responsible for news writing and editing of stories of events in the university, for the media, university website and other corporate publications. I promoted the university’s brand through press adverts, radio jingles, television commercials and other below-the-line media. I also produced monthly newsletter and information bulletins. I served as secretary, taking minutes of the first meeting of the Board of Regents of the university and prepared the report accordingly.

As a lecturer and researcher, I teach and regularly assess students in assigned courses in Mass Communication and Corporate Communication. Mentor students in academic and practical life endeavors. Supervise undergraduate students’ dissertations. Serve as rapporteur at university conferences; write citations and communique; write academic papers for conference and journal publications. In my experience as a programme officer in a non-governmental organization, I provided support in research, programme planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. I facilitated training programmes and workshops. I produced of newsletters on projects handled by the centre and prepared  communiqué at the end of major conferences organized by the centre. As a financial planner in an insurance company, I enlightened clients on the company’s insurance policies and assisting them to plan their finances in order to accommodate short and long term investments for them and their families for future benefits. As a book editor, I proofread and content edited the books: Dreaming Your Way Up, Making Champions of Challenges and Battles of Life are Real.