Anna Valentine

Frank Engagement consultant, Anna Valentine brings to our clients more than a decade of experience working alongside central government agencies and corporates as a ministerial advisor, business analyst, project manager, bid and technical writer, and event organiser. She’s built her career on helping clients communicate with important stakeholders, gathering all the information they need to be informed and ensuring they have what they need to influence decision-making.

Anna has spent the last seven years working in central government, across a number of government agencies, giving her an in-depth understanding of the machinery of government. Prior to that, she worked for two large engineering firms in Queensland writing complex tender bids.

Anna is a communications professional who specialises in responses to the Official Information Act, translating technical documents and reporting into easily accessible information for governance, executive teams, internal and external stakeholders and general public.

Anna is a PRINCE2® certified project professional, focussed on business analysis, process design and implementation, organisational change, and function installation and management – put simply she’s brilliant at helping organisations get their ducks lined up and marching in the same direction.

Her career highlights include:

• Running the Official Information function for the Tertiary Education Commission with 100% on-time delivery statistics.
• Designing and implementing the full ministerial function at the Electricity Authority to manage the relationship between the agency and the Minister’s office, and respond to all requests for information.
• Recruiting and training a new central ministerial team at the Ministry of Health, while writing the training manual and managing internal and external communications.
• Being part of the tendering team that secured $100M worth of engineering maintenance work in Queensland
• Organising a multi-national three-day conference for sharing ideas around prisoner education and training for the Department of Corrections.

Qualifications

Anna has a Bachelor of Commerce and Administration, majoring in Commercial Law from Victoria University of Wellington. She also attained a PRINCE2® Foundation and Practitioner certifications in 2017.