Peter Beckley

I am a public awareness and media specialist of expansive and diverse experience. My advocacy skills are informed by my work within national and international networks. As a broadcast journalist, my technical proficiency in various media directly impacts on the appropriate use of communications strategies and how they relate to the development of communities and institutions.

I have special skills in information technology such as web design and editing, desktop publishing, and in photographic and video production, and the ability to judge the reach of these methods within my working environment.

I also have extensive experience in Media Project Design, producing innovative and effective materials for radio and television, public relations materials, working with the media, and the design and management of communications projects.

In ActionAid, my contributions to workshops and seminars have consistently focused on consultative communications projects, campaigns design, messaging, and communications/media strategies.  My ongoing personal training and development in the areas of computing, video and radio methodologies and in media relations have also included the integration of participatory tools.

I joined ActionAid in 1998 as Programme Support Officer, Communications and Documentation and have served in several capacities including Head of IT, Spokesperson, Campaigns Coordinator, Participatory Communications Team lead and Africa Media Coordinator – WSF 2011.

I am an avid environmentalist and before I joined ActionAid, I was producing and presenting a 30 minutes national television programme on the environment called ‘Enviroscope’. In this programme I dealt with issues ranging from deforestation, to land degradation. I also worked as a Communications Consultant for the Conservation Society of Sierra Leone and The Environmental Foundation for Africa.

I like reading thriller novels and watching action movies when I am at home and my best relax zone is the beach.