Natalie Baker - Project Co-ordinator 

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Project Coordination and Management

• Coordinated projects involving multidisciplinary teams for punctual project completion
• Ability to allocate and review priorities within tight project deadlines
• Demonstrated initiative and pro-active response to problem solving
• Excellent organisational and time management skills
• Experienced in project design, monitoring and evaluation with demonstrated capacity for analytical work and attention to detail

Multi-disciplinary Scientific Research

• Expertise in freshwater ecosystems including evolutionary biology and genetic diversity aspects
• Combined social, economic and environmental components for riverine ecosystems rehabilitation
• Comprehensive knowledge links between human communities and environmental services

Community Development

Community based riverine rehabilitation

• Aimed for sustained outcomes by ensuring projects for rehabilitating freshwater ecosystems had community input and participation in Australia
• Designed project to monitor riverine ecosystems, sanitation and household waste  services in an urban peoples settlement (Kenya)

Capacity Building

• Trained Colobus Trust staff (primate conservation, Kenya) in scientific methodology, note taking and analysis.

Communication Skills

Excellent and professional oral communication skills.

• Delivered PhD and Honours research presentations and oral thesis defence
• Facilitated genetic analysis workshop and teaching in undergraduate classes
• Presented research results to various audiences, including internationally (World Aquaculture Conference, 2003)

Excellent and professional written communication skills.

• Completed honours and PhD theses and author/co-author of five scientific journal articles
• Produced project reports
• Produced communication products and publications for community education and marketing.

Excellent and professional cross-cultural communication

• Effectively coordinated multidisciplinary teams from different disciplines and backgrounds to complete a task
• Experienced in living and working in developing and developed countries