Sioux Campbell awarded PRINZ Fellowship
PRINZ President Elect Pauline Rose with Sioux
Sioux Campbell - Cert Journalism ATI, Cert IAP2, APR PRINZ
Sioux Campbell was awarded the PRINZ Fellowship at an event recently held for her in Whangarei. PRINZ team comprising chief executive Tim Marshall, president elect Pauline Rose and former president Lisa Finucane were among the attendees.
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Sioux began her journey in public relations with a move from radio, magazine and newspaper journalism to a senior position with the Department of Conservation (DOC) in 1989. She progressed through DOC to become a regional-level manager, supervising staff engaged in a range of statutory and non-statutory roles and bringing their efforts together to create a true community relations unit.
Sioux’s focus on the body of knowledge and persistence in co-ordinating its un-recognised practices among her team earned her a positive reputation throughout DOC for “managing things differently”. This continues today.
After being made redundant in 1995, Sioux launched Chameleon PR, one of the few public relations companies in New Zealand to have a solely environmental focus. Her national relationship management and networking skills lead to most of her contracts. Evaluation of her work shows the value that clients have placed on clear use of PR standards and practices, particularly relating to campaign plan development and execution. Sioux has placed particular emphasis on integrating another two other disciplines which she believes are essential to effective environmental PR – education for sustainability and public participation. Two years ago she facilitated a new partnership between PRINZ and IAP2 (International Association for Public Participation). Sioux also began teaching a new introductory course for PRINZ in community engagement.
More recent work with DOC in Northland has involved mentoring and support for less experienced community relations practitioners. This has included persuading DOC that PRINZ membership would be beneficial for them and a number have undertaken institute training courses. All have reported on the extremely high level of professional development she has afforded and the difference this has made to their capability. Other clients have consistently reported on the outstanding level of professional delivery across a wide range of PR work including crisis management, research, media liaison, campaign development, evaluation, facilitation, relationship management and event planning. Her work ranges from very localised to Australasian projects, including pro bono effort.
Sioux gained APR several years ago. She was one of a handful of practitioners in the Bay of Plenty to start the Bay’s PRINZ group, which still exists successfully today. When she moved to Northland, Sioux gave starting one there her best shot too but it was not to be.
She has always taken an active interest in the work of PRINZ and maintains several related professional memberships. Sioux has been the recipient of three PRINZ awards in separate categories.
I have known Sioux Campbell for approximately 12 years and thoroughly recommend her as a suitable candidate to be a Fellow of PRINZ.
- Annette Burgess FPRINZ APR
Sioux Campbell was awarded the PRINZ Fellowship at an event recently held for her in Whangarei. PRINZ team comprising chief executive Tim Marshall, president elect Pauline Rose and former president Lisa Finucane were among the attendees.
CLICK HERE for photos from the event.
Sioux began her journey in public relations with a move from radio, magazine and newspaper journalism to a senior position with the Department of Conservation (DOC) in 1989. She progressed through DOC to become a regional-level manager, supervising staff engaged in a range of statutory and non-statutory roles and bringing their efforts together to create a true community relations unit.
Sioux’s focus on the body of knowledge and persistence in co-ordinating its un-recognised practices among her team earned her a positive reputation throughout DOC for “managing things differently”. This continues today.
After being made redundant in 1995, Sioux launched Chameleon PR, one of the few public relations companies in New Zealand to have a solely environmental focus. Her national relationship management and networking skills lead to most of her contracts. Evaluation of her work shows the value that clients have placed on clear use of PR standards and practices, particularly relating to campaign plan development and execution. Sioux has placed particular emphasis on integrating another two other disciplines which she believes are essential to effective environmental PR – education for sustainability and public participation. Two years ago she facilitated a new partnership between PRINZ and IAP2 (International Association for Public Participation). Sioux also began teaching a new introductory course for PRINZ in community engagement.
More recent work with DOC in Northland has involved mentoring and support for less experienced community relations practitioners. This has included persuading DOC that PRINZ membership would be beneficial for them and a number have undertaken institute training courses. All have reported on the extremely high level of professional development she has afforded and the difference this has made to their capability. Other clients have consistently reported on the outstanding level of professional delivery across a wide range of PR work including crisis management, research, media liaison, campaign development, evaluation, facilitation, relationship management and event planning. Her work ranges from very localised to Australasian projects, including pro bono effort.
Sioux gained APR several years ago. She was one of a handful of practitioners in the Bay of Plenty to start the Bay’s PRINZ group, which still exists successfully today. When she moved to Northland, Sioux gave starting one there her best shot too but it was not to be.
She has always taken an active interest in the work of PRINZ and maintains several related professional memberships. Sioux has been the recipient of three PRINZ awards in separate categories.
I have known Sioux Campbell for approximately 12 years and thoroughly recommend her as a suitable candidate to be a Fellow of PRINZ.
- Annette Burgess FPRINZ APR