Meet the team
Albury Northside Chamber is the leading, most progressive Chamber in regional NSW. We have a passionate and enthusiastic team of 4.5, dedicated to providing you with opportunities for you to grow your business. Here they are!
Kathie Heyman - General Manager
I work with the chamber team, board and members to grow their business through connections, information, support and representation. Driving economic development for the betterment of the Albury region.
Business Manager responsibilities include:
- Manage, oversee and performance manage staff
- Oversee and manage major Chamber projects and key milestones
- Coordinate projects and events to ensure results
- Liaise with media
- Manage marketing, implementation and delivery
- Maintain existing membership, grow new business
- Implement public relation strategies
- Quality customer service on an equal basis to all its members
- Monitor local, state and federal government affairs
- Manage budgets, new income streams, maintain existing and prepare financial reports
- Liaise with members to ensure current needs are being met
- Manage systems, updates, implementation and integration
Carrick Gill-Vallance - Business Development Manager
As Business Development Manager my role is to work with other members of the team to continuously improve the level of service offered to existing and potential members & stakeholders. I support the membership through:
- Managing sponsorships
- Member retention
- Membership invoicing and payments
- Member satisfaction & education of Chamber products and opportunities
- Membership database management
- Relationship development with alliance/partnering organisations
- Facilitate Chamber sub-committees (Young Business Edge, Health Wellness Network, Talking Tech)
- Online marketing & communications
- Event coordination
- Manage office technology
- Manage online technology
Vera Vaskovic - Membership Engagement
My role is to ensure members are engaged with and communicated with in a timely manner so that Chamber can support their business needs. Responsibilities include:
- building the membership;
- building the membership and Chamber presence in the geographical areas of North Albury, Lavington, Thurgoona, and East Albury;
- relationship development with all members;
- promotion of Chamber products and opportunities;
- ensuring membership payments are on time;
- ensuring the membership database is up to date and 100% accurate at all times;
- actioning member information requests in a timely manner;
- encouraging member involvement in Combined Chamber Awards and NSW Business Awards;
- working with the chamber team to manage partnerships effectively to ensure outcomes are beneficial to all parties;
- support Women in Chamber committee meetings;
- event manage, Chamber events from inception to wrap up reporting;
- reporting of membership outcomes, online engagement strategies and event outcomes for board reports and other activities as required;
Tracey Basham - AW Business Awards Coordinator
I'm lucky enough to be employed by both Albury Northside Chamber and Business Wodonga to coordinate the Business Awards here in Albury Wodonga. I work two days a week (Thursday & Friday) and I'm here to help - whether it's a phone call enquiry, through to managing the entries, sponsorship, and the Business Award events, I'm your person. Here's exactly what I do:
- Event management of the ‘Finalist Announcement’ and ‘Black Tie Dinner’
- Recruit new, and keeping existing sponsorships
- All marketing and promotion for the Business Awards
- Financial Management
- Develop and manage the award entry/judging processes
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