Position: Head of PR / Events / Partnerships / Conference producer / Brand Manager / Consulting / Business Development (Bizdev)
Category: Marketing
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 11

I've organized a vaccination campaign among the country's religious leaders, as well as vaccination of community members in the face of the dominance of propaganda and anti-vaccination sentiments.

Has planted the Garden of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust in Babi Yar together with the UN and the European Union mission in Ukraine. I was fully engaged in the organization of the Ceremony. And also for the first time in the history of Independent Ukraine - we paid tribute to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust in the Parliament building. I were hosting this event live.
And has planted the Garden of Friendship "Ukraine-Israel".

Together with the UAE Embassy for Ukraine organized support of the Kyiv Jewish Community to the doctors of the Kyiv City hospitals: we gave them masks, express-tests, protection clothing when it were deficit of them in Ukraine. It were right after signed peace treat Israel-UAE, and we showed that Jews and Arabs can cooperate.

Established a partnership with Meest delivery group to share more than 30 tons of gifts and humanitarian aid for people in need - across over all the country. And that was not only jews.

Has organized a live broadcast concert in support of Israel with the participation of People's Artists of Ukraine Victor Pavlik, Alexandr Ponomarev, and live-legends - Andrey Makarevich and Borys Grebenshchikov (I called them all myself, found their direct contacts, found contractors, held a live concert).

Prior to that, I used to work for more than 12 years as a journalist, diplomatic observer and correspondent, TV presenter and host city street festivals.

Also has worked as a brand manager in the FMCG and food segments - in particular, made halal and kashrut and helped export the products to Israel and UAE (mayonnaises and ketchups), worked with distributors and helped to the commercial director.

Did events for Kazakhstan, Israel, was in Protocol Team for Israeli top-politicians. 

Planning to pass the IELTS exam during next year.
By the way, current proofed level of English is B2.
Used to work as a brand manager in FMCG, working with branding, promotion, increasing awareness of the Target Audience about the brand.
Develop relationships and serve as the primary contact for media outlets and other organizations.
Represented the Kyiv Jewish Community at various social events and served as the first point of contact between the media and the community. 
Assisted in the production of original content for multiple social media platforms, prepared press releases, and worked on the improvement of cultural awareness.
Worked closely with the Government, Ministries, city hall, embassies and different NGOs, pro-actively solving social issues in the country. 
Guided, implement and review all PR strategies. 
Appear in organizational news and promo videos as spokesperson and expert. 
Maintain website and social media; gather and distribute media clips. Doing the speechwriting.
Build, expand, and manage media contacts; raise visibility of the community.
Coordinated press releases and communication with local media outlets.
Obtain photographs to accompany articles.
Written content for social media, stakeholders, newspapers, website, blogs of the Rabbi.
Doubled new active Community members acquisition from 1000-1500 jews to 2000-2500 through the implementation of new marketing strategies focused on online advertising and improving the company's web presence, social media, and search engine optimization.
Assisted with marketing strategies, material and advertising within budget. 
Gathering story ideas and writing more than 100 news stories. 
Fighting the fake news.
Planned and arranged meetings with the government, external organizations and individuals, enabling all parties to meet and discuss project progress.
Organized an outdoor advertising for the Rabbi and the Community, also with sharing information about Jewish Holidays. It was like a social ads, so without any spends, only using the personal connections. On the malls and public transport - everywhere.
Did events as a startup battles, workshops, panel discussions, conferences, exhibition, tastings and blind tastings, master-classes for Ukrainian, Israeli, Kazakhstan companies (IT, Medtech, FMCG/CPG)
Yes - to global, big and international project, that will be at the same time interesting, useful for the world and will give me a possibility to work freely in every part of the World. Maybe some event-organization or development of the Employer's Brand.

No - to offices, to boring routine tasks, I definitely don't want to be all the time in the office and don't want to make the cold calls, or copywriting. No to content management, no to lead generation and sells! But I can lead and manage team that will do it. 

Neither of sitting and wasting my time in the office! Without boring routine tasks, time trackers, internal bureaucracy or unnecessary reports. 

Maximum amount of time in the office is two-three hours per day, two times per week.

Ideal compensation and benefits system is a salary + partial covering of housing expenses/accommodations.