Office Manager
If you’ve known Write for a while, chances are you’ll have met Nicola. She’s been a dedicated member of the Write team for many years and has managed a range of responsibilities in that time.
Nicola is once again our office manager, stepping back into a role she held some years (and several offices) ago. She looks after the admin team too — Julie, our front-of-house administrator; Les, our accounts administrator; and Hellie, our Plain Language Awards project manager.
Nic loves policies and processes, and always looks for ways to make them shine. She’s generous with her time and advice and communicates with clarity and charm – Nic can chat to you in English and Afrikaans.
To people outside the Write office, Nicola is perhaps best known for her work on the not-for-profit Plain Language Awards. Write founded the Awards in 2006, and Nic has helped coordinate them since then. She is on the Awards working group and is secretary for the WriteMark Plain English Awards Trust.
Nic is passionate about the purpose of the Awards — to bring plain language into common use, and to celebrate those champions of clear communication. She applies plain language principles to everything she works on.