Alaw Joshua Davis
Alaw Joshua Davis (she/they) is an experienced marketing and design professional with excellent administrative and organisation skills, as well as extensive customer-service experience looking for full-time work in the creative sector in Pōneke.
Skills
- Marketing
- Communications
- Administration
- Event co-ordination
- Attention to detail
- Content production
- Social media analysis
- Customer service
- Inbox management
- Asset management
- Co-operation
- Graphic design
- Video production
- Radio/Podcast production
- Product photography
- Event photography
Achievements
- Redesigned Booksellers Aotearoa NZ’s Book Tokens, used in bookshops across the country
- Pitched and launched a podcast for the Rotorua Arts Village, which has run successfully since 2021
Employment History
Media, Marketing and Communications specialist | Schrödinger’s Books
MAY 2022 – PRESENT
- Delivered regular, high-quality social media content across Facebook, Instagram and TikTok
- Managed and produced regular email newsletters to over 3000 subscribers
- Implemented workplace efficiencies, including email templates to streamline shop workflow
- Communicated effectively with customers and clients in-store, over the phone and via email
Graphic Designer (freelance) | Booksellers Aotearoa NZ
AUGUST 2025 – NOVEMBER 2025
- Contracted to redesign Booksellers’ iconic Book Tokens, used nationwide (August 2025)
- Delivered professional, print-ready assets that matched client’s brief
- Contracted to design a cross-platform Christmas campaign (November 2025)
- Delivered range of assets for placement on social and print channels
Bookseller and Marketing Assistant | McLeods Booksellers
JANUARY 2022 – MAY 2022
- Managed store inventory and inwards goods, cross referencing invoices and purchase orders
- Delivered regular, high-quality social media content across various platforms
- Created solutions for customers looking for specific stock, or a recommendation
Podcast Editor/Producer (long-term freelance) | The Arts Village
AUGUST 2021 – PRESENT
- Pitched and realised a new initiative for the community non-profit arts organisation
- Recorded, edited and produced over 50 episodes to date, both in-person and remotely
- Developed a remote workflow to enable the podcast to record in any situation
- Identified attention-grabbing sections to use as teasers at the start of and in the description of episodes
Additonal Experience
- Produce Assistant | New World, Rotorua (SEPT 2021 – FEB 2022)
- Food and Beverage Attendant | Holiday Inn, Rotorua (JUNE 2021 – OCT 2021)
- Food and Beverage Attendant | ATURA Hotel, Thorndon (JAN 2021 – MAY 2021)
- Front of House/Bartender | Sin Bin, Alicetown (MAY 2020 – MAY 2021)
- Usher | Maxime Cinema, Blackwood (JUNE 2019 – MARCH 2020)
- Bartender | The Rose Tavern, Norwich (SEPT 2017 – AUG 2018)
- Bartender | The Loft NR1 Nightclub, Norwich (OCT 2016 – SEPT 2017)
- Bartender | Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff (MARCH 2015 – AUG 2016)
Education
American and English Literature | University of East Anglia (2015 – 2018)