Jillian Botting

Background

About Jillian Botting

As the current communications coordinator at Infrastructure Ontario, I have experience in digital engagement, stakeholder engagement and internal communications for a variety of clients and projects. This experience includes drafting internal announcements, creating Event Note Briefings for the Senior Management Team, and using Meltwater to create quarterly fiscal reports on the successes of the wider communications team. I also worked as a Public Relations Intern at the National Payroll Institute, where I got to work on the 2024 National Payroll Week campaign, including assisting in its strategy research, development and logistics planning. I also drafted member email and social media copy for NPI's LinkedIn and Facebook for multiple campaigns, using Sprout Social to edit and schedule posts. I have previous educational experience at Queen's University, where I graduated from an Honours Bachelor of Arts program, with a major in psychology and a minor in English literature and language. I worked as the Events Executive for the Queen's Pre-Health Shadowing Society in 2022, helping create networking events for STEM students interested in the medical field. This gave me various experiences setting up events, including pitching, proposing, and following through an event set-up, and working and collaborating with other clubs. I have experience in a Youth Advisory Council, making decisions towards the future of the Agnes Etherington Art Centre. We discussed the concepts and practices of decolonization of museums, and what the future of museums should look like in a modern world. This provided me the experience to research a company while working to change an industry standard in museums, including group work and pitching towards a client. During my time at Centennial College, I gained experience in event logistics and management as I helped run Centennial College’s Story Arts Centre’s Open House in November of 2023. I also acted as the client liaison for a semester-long school project called “Storyworks”, where I and four fellow students created and followed through on a communications campaign. This campaign involved social media, media relations and thought leadership strategies.