Pamela Rontziokos
W O R K
- General Producer, ABC TV News Channel, November 2024 - Current)
- Writing headlines, cutting videos and editing footage in a timely manner for Australia's national 24-hour television news show.
- Working in a high pressure and fast-paced environment, aiming to deliver breaking news for Australian audiences.
- Fulfilling tasks from Supervising Producer and working in a dynamic team of presenters, reporters, producers and directors.
- Keeping up-to-date with current news-cycles.
- One-on-one English tuition, (January 2021 - Current)
- For over five years, I have tutored students from primary to year 12 in English and Modern History.
- Supporting students to achieve high marks in NAPLAN and HSC.
- ANU Research Assistant, 'Sydney Speaks' Project (November 2023 - Current)
- Sourcing, liaising and conducting 2 hour long interviews with over 50 community members to assist a research study analysing the linguistic change in Australian-English.
- Administrative tasks to upload and manage audio files.
- Producer, ABC Now Producer (October 2022- August 2024)
- Editiorial skills: I discerned up-to-date newsworthy content which was suitable for commercial distribution.
- Editing video and script to suit online platforms such as Daily Motion.
- Part-time journalist, The Greek Herald (November 2022 - June 2023)
- Researched, pitched, and curated my own stories for an online newspaper, and physical newspaper.
- Managed and wrote headlines for TGH social media platform
- Attended events as a reporter, where I then wrote news stories and created video clips for community readers.
- Criminal Law Paralegal, Sydney City Crime Defence Lawyers Internship (August 2022- October 2022)
- Assessed hundreds of pages of evidence.
- Handled my own work phone, where I liaised with clients that were inmates.
- Completed administrative tasks such as preparing briefs, opening and managing client files.
- Journalist, Sydney Observer Internship (July 2022 - September 2022)
- Writing three stories a week for a local magazine - sourced, interview and wrote my own stories.
- Paralegal, V.S George Lawyers (November 2021 - July 2022)
- Working on Leap, opening and managing client matters.
- Writing contract of sale reviews.
- Supporting solictors by completing adminstrative tasks such as answering phones, locating files, sending emails and curating timelines for dispute litigation.
- 2IC, Roselands Santa Set (29 November 2021 - 24 December 2021)
- As second in charge, I supported my Set Manager in leading the team, liaising with customers and managing the till.
- Managed long lines in a busy Christmas season by working efficiently through each customer whilst also making sure they obtained their desired Christmas photo.
- Managed the opening and closing of the santa set on a daily basis.
- Work experience - 2GB News Radion Station - 2nd May 2023
SKILLS
- Proficient in Leap.
- Proficient in Microsoft suite.
- Proficient in Wordpress, Canva, Hootsuite, and Later.
- Proficient in Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Audition, Audacity, Edius, AP ENPS, STRATUS.
- I can read, write and speak Greek.
V O L U N T E E R I N G & C O M M U N I T Y
- 2024 - 2week Teaching Placement: International Volunteering HQ - TANZANIA
- In 2024, I went to Tanzania, Africa and volunteered at Patmos Primary school for two weeks. There I taught year 6 English.
- I prepared lesson plans where I taught the students basic grammar rules and supported students in their spelling, reading and writing.
- 2021 - 2023: UTS Central News
- I volunteered my time to write articles for the student publication UTS Central News.
- 2021: UTS Law Student Society → Student Wellbeing Committee
- As part of the Student Wellbeing Committee, I was responsible to attend meetings where in a group setting, we brainstormed, organised and hosted events that were targeted at maintaining and supporting the wellbeing of law students at UTS.
- As part of the Student Wellbeing Committee, I was responsible to attend meetings where in a group setting, we brainstormed, organised and hosted events that were targeted at maintaining and supporting the wellbeing of law students at UTS.
- 2021: UTS Law Gauntlet Competition
- In March 2021, I competed in a 2 day back to back competition where I participated in witness examination, negotiations and client interviews against other UTS law students.
- 2019: SBS Work Experience
- Followed and observed a journalist and cameraman at the 2019 Climate Change protest.
- Visited news rooms, news sets and spoke to various SBS figures including Janice Pearson , Jan Fran and Danny Teece-Johnson.
- 2018 - 2019: Remembrance Day/VP Day & ANZAC Day Memorial Services as an Australian Army Cadet
- Participated in various memorial services, for example the ANZAC Day Dawn Service at South Hurstville RSL, followed by the ANZAC DayMarch in Sydney City where I proudly held the ’18 Light Anti Aircraft Regiment Association – Royal Australian Artillery’ Flag in 2019.
- 2018: 2RDJ 88.1FM The Rontzi Show
- Created three one hour-long shows playing popular music, discussing interesting topics which included vox poxes from interviews I collected.
- 2016: 2NBC 90.1FM - Radio Station Support Person/Segment Producer & Presenter
- Read out advertisements on air.
- Sourcing CDs and organising files, and helping out with the pre-recording of segments.
- Produced and presented a 30 minute radio special on the 70s group ABBA.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
- 2021 - Current: University of Technology Sydney
- WAM 71.27
- Attained a Bachelor of Communication (Journalism) in 2023.
- At current, I am completing a Bachelor of Laws. I will finish at the end of 2025.
- 2024: Australian Graduate School of Management UNSW Business School short course
- The Authentic Communicator: Activating Presence (2 day short course)
- Learning leadership impact and influence through powerful communication, presentation and presence.
- The Authentic Communicator: Activating Presence (2 day short course)
- 2019 - 2020: Secondary Education Year 11 - 12, Newtown High School of The Performing Arts
- Selective drama student.
- I graduated from NHPSA with an ATAR of 92.04.
- 2015 - 2018: Secondary Education Year 7 - 10, All Saints Grammar Greek Orthodox School
- 2017 – 2019: Australian Army Cadets – 233 St George ACU
- Attained the rank of sergeant; managed a platoon of 30 cadets.
- I dress inspected, lesson planned & called drill. Fridays from 6-9:30pm.
- Facebook manager of 233 St George ACU in 2019.
- 2017 - 2020: The Duke of Edinburgh International Award
- Completion of: Bronze, Silver and Gold of The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award.
- On a weekly basis, 1hour of physical recreation, 1hr of a volunteering service and 1hr of practicing a new skill.
- Mandatory outdoor hike ranging from 2-5days out in the bush practicing navigation skills and appreciation to the natural environment.
- 2014 - 2018: NIDA (National Institute of Dramatic Art) – Young People
- From the age of 10 I completed Singing and Acting; Drama; and Acting on Screen courses.
- Completed audition only courses: The Next Stage and Performance Lab.
REFEREES
Please contact:
- Fanou Filial - Executive Producer, Backgrond Briefing, ABC's investigative podcast
- Filali.Fanou@abc.net.au
- Filali.Fanou@abc.net.au
- Nicholas Christian, Costs Consultant at Blackstone Legal Costing
- nicholas.christian@bstone.legal
- 0458 779 940
- Andriana Simos, Digital Editor of The Greek Herald
- See below wirtten references from past organisations I have collaborated with: