Charlotte Van Braam

Experience

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  Rechtshulp Noord Advocaten

  Jun 2016 - Jul 2020

  Communications Consultant and Administrative Support

  - Created a strategy for online communications and customer reach, redesigned website (Wordpress), and improving organic SEO.- Responsible for a range of administrative support tasks.

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  Amnesty International Student Groningen

  Sept 2018 - Aug 2019

  Education Committee

  Student committee providing guest lectures on schools.- Introducing topics of human rights to students of different educational levels and ages. - Preparing teaching materials and providing the lectures at different schools, aligned with their educational strategy of Amnesty International Netherlands.- Trained by Amnesty International The Netherlands.

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  Gender Concerns International

  Sept 2020 - Dec 2020

  Women, Peace and Security Programme Coordinator and Administrative Coordinator

  Coordinator of the women, peace and security programme and office management. - Coordinated project proposals on women, peace and security related themes, targeting a range of national and institutional fundraisers of different scales. - Managed campaigns and communications efforts, including campaign design, communications materials such as press releases, news letters and social media posts.- Led the office management of the office, including oversight of the daily office activities, relocation administration and organisation documentation. Show less

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  Plan International EU Office

  Mar 2021 - Mar 2022

  Personal Assistant to the Head of Office

  Assisting the overall management of the European Union office of Plan International, focused on advocating and fundraising on the European context.- Managing the Head of Office communications, including social media content creation and writing opinion pieces (published by EU media). - Organising and co-creating events with high-level decision-makers and youth activists. - Monitoring of EU policy developments and institutional priorities.- Planning of long-term office strategy and organisational planning. - Coordinating strategic meetings with key institutional EU actors.- Producing material and coordinating internal communication and trainings on the office’s priorities and key approaches to institutional engagements. Show less

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  Plan International

  Mar 2022 - Dec 2022

  Coordinated the organisation’s global youth-led 'Girls Get Equal' campaign, focusing on girls’ political participation. Tasks included: - Created the 2022 annual campaigns report, consolidating data from over 65 offices globally.- Managed the internal communications for a streamlined and uniform execution of the campaign. - Implemented localisation efforts of the campaign, by co-designing and organising globally. - Monitored, analysed, and amplified global activities of 80+ offices. - Co-organised events with youth activists, ensuring a youth-friendly and youth-centred campaign approach.3-month fixed-term secondment position to the Global Campaigns Team. Show less Coordinating the Strategy & Coordination department of Plan International Headquarters (Global Hub), an 80+ person department with over 10 sub-teams.- Managing end of fiscal year administrative and financial processes and supported the new fiscal year budgeting for the entire department. - Overseeing departmental logistics including organising and (co)leading monthly departmental and team-head meetings, travel arrangements, and departmental ‘problem-solver’. - Organising large scale events including the global strategy launch session at the International Board and Member's Assembly as well as smaller scale "brown bag lunch" learning sessions.- Acting youth safeguarding focal point for in-person and online events. - Agenda and travel coordination for the Strategy & Collaboration Executive Director. Show less

  • Interim Campaigns Officer

    Sept 2022 - Dec 2022

  • Interim Strategy and Collaboration Group Coordinator

    Mar 2022 - Aug 2022
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  Self-employed

  Sept 2022 - now

  Artist-Researcher

  Artist-Researcher exploring decoloniality, history, and identity through a framework of Indisch (ont)zwijgen. I combine decolonial and historical research, taking embodied knowledge as a starting point. Creative means are my tool to express my activism and research through which I always looks for new ways to work towards collective liberation. I also explore decolonial practices of cultural and artistic institutions, especially those with a direct colonial history, such as ethnographic/anthropological museums. -------------JUNE 2024 (ongoing) | HUMANITY IN ACTION fellowship programme - Amsterdam, NetherlandsReclaiming Narratives: Where History and Activism Meet to Pave the Future---------JUNE 2024 | Decolonial Summer School 2024 (public programme)---------MAY 2024 | UNIDEE RESIDENCY PROGRAMME residency - Biella, ItalyTodas Las Aguas Son Del Agua / All Waters Belong to WaterCurator: Chiara Cartuccia, guides: Mafe Moscoso, Claudia Delso, Lizette Nin and Diego Posada Gómez.---------IMMA RESIDENCY01-2023 - 05-2023From January until May 2023 I participated in a (collaborative) residency at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) cumulating in the Alien Embodiment project, presented on the 13th May 2023. The talk 'Alien embodiment: a critical reflection' that I participated in, can be listened back here: https://soundcloud.com/imma-ireland/alien-embodiments-a-critical-reflectionIn this talk, I speak about my residency at IMMA, the artmaking process there and my reflections on artmaking, identity, history, and decoloniality.---------IMMA PERFORMANCE03-2023 - 09-2023From March until September 2023 I worked as performer at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) where I was selected as core group of performers in collaboration with 7 other artist-performers, as part of the Scenes of a Myth exhibition of Sarah Pierce.https://imma.ie/whats-on/performers-sarah-pierce-scene-of-the-myth/ Show less

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  Beyond The Buzzword

  Jan 2024 - now

  Founder

  Beyond the Buzzword is a research-based platform that aims to bust myths that made decolonisation into a buzzword.https://linktr.ee/beyondthebuzzword

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  Humanity in Action

  Jun 2024 - now

  Fellow

  Reclaiming Narratives: Where History and Activism Meet to Pave the Future