BSBWOR501 Manage personal work priorities and professional development

This document is Communications Manager Tasks.

It is part of the supporting assessment resources for Assessment Task 3 of BSBWOR501.

Communications Manager

The Communications Manager’s working hours are from 9 am to 5 pm with a 30-minute lunch
break.

Their travel time to work each day is 30 minutes by train.

Include at least 2 x 2-hour slots during your week to catch up on jobs not completed.

Priorities for the following tasks are: U – Urgent

M – Medium priority
R – Regular activity
L – Lower priority

Typical tasks for a week could include:

● Respond to a media enquiry from a local paper about support of a community project (U)
● Analyse media data to determine effectiveness of a recent TV campaign and write a
report for senior managers (M)
● Conduct weekly staff meeting and write up outcomes to send to team members in an
email (R)
● Conduct communications officer performance review (R)
● Meet with events coordinator to discuss upcoming event (M)
● Provide content for regular tweets (R)
● Prepare media release for local community project (U)
● Review financial news for news of interest (R)
● Prepare monthly staff newsletter (L)
● Analyse social media accounts to see what the community is saying about us (R)
● Review communications budget to see if we are on track (L)
● Respond to emails (R)
● Interview internal staff member interested in transferring to communications department
(L)
● Branch presentation about branding (U)
● Meeting with marketing manager to plan events for the year (M)
● Prepare schedule of events based on meeting (M)

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Week date Time frame for each Task for the day Task priority
task (U/M/R/L)

Monday ● 8.00am- ● Wake up

8.15am ● Having
● 8.15-8.30 am breakfast
● 8.30-8.50 am ● Travelling to
● 9-11 am work
● 11am-12.30 ● Branch ● Branch
pm presentation presentation
● 12.30-1 pm about next about next
● 1-1.30 pm task for task for
● 1.30-3.30pm branding branding(U)
● 3.30- 5pm ● Meeting with ● Meeting with
● 5-6 pm event event
coordinator to coordinator to
discuss about discuss about
the next event the next
● Lunch break event(M)
● Listening to ● Review
podcast previous
● Review report(R)
previous
report
● Left for home

Tuesday ● 8.00am- ● Wake up Prepare media release

8.15am ● Having for local community
● 8.15-8.30 am breakfast project(U)
● 8.30-8.50 am ● Travelling to
● 9-11 am work Prepare schedule of
● 11am-12.30 ● Prepare media events (M)
pm release for
● 12.30-1 pm local Meeting with
● 1-1.30 pm community marketing
● 1.30-3.30pm project manager(R)
● 3.30- 5pm ● Prepare
● 5-6 pm schedule of Response to the
events emergency emails(L)
● Lunch break
● Meeting with
marketing
manager
● Response to
the
emergency
emails
● Left for home

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Wednessday ● 8.00am- ● Wake up ● Respond to a

8.15am ● Having media enquiry
● 8.15-8.30 am breakfast about support
● 8.30-8.50 am ● Travelling to of a
● 9-11 am work community
● 11am-12.30 ● Respond to a project(U)
pm media enquiry ● Review
● 12.30-1 pm about support communicatio
● 1-1.30 pm of a ns budget ®
● 1.30-3.30pm community ● Prepare
● 3.30- 5pm project monthly staff
● 5-6 pm ● Prepare newsletter (L)
content for
branding
● Lunch break
● Review
communicatio
ns budget
● Prepare
monthly staff
newsletter
● Left for home

Thursday ● 8.00am- ● Wake up ● Analyse

8.15am ● Having media data to
● 8.15-8.30 am breakfast determine
● 8.30-8.50 am ● Travelling to effectiveness
● 9-11 am work of a recent TV
● 11am-12.30 ● Analyse campaign and
pm media data to prepare a
● 12.30-1 pm determine report
● 1-1.30 pm effectiveness regarding the
● 1.30-3.30pm of a recent TV highlights (U)
● 3.30- 5pm campaign and ● Analaysis of
● 5-6 pm prepare a social media
report subscribers
regarding the (R)
highlights ● Conduct
● Analaysis of communicatio
social media ns officer
subscribers performance
● Lunch break review(M)
● Conduct ● Conduct
weekly staff weekly staff
meeting meeting
● Conduct ● Conduct (L)
communicatio
ns officer

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performance
review
● Left for home

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