Cover letter
I am an experienced digital creator with a background in communication, systems, and project management. What I keep coming back to, in every role, is the same thing: taking something that lives inside a strategy or a system and turning it into a message people actually understand and act on.
That is close to how the National Centre for Mathematics Education used me for two years. I rebuilt their website from a static structure into a living channel, modernised the newsletter until it reached 5,000 subscribers, and ran the seminar series with up to 300 live participants, owning the whole chain from planning to published video. The part I was proudest of was working shoulder to shoulder with subject-matter experts, capturing what they knew and packaging it so that people got real value out of it. That is essentially internal communication: someone holds the knowledge and the direction, and my job is to make it land.
Change communication is not abstract to me. When I led the introduction of digital exams at the Institute of Health and Care Sciences, I trained the lecturers who would use it — and felt the room: real doubt, some outright protest at giving up something they knew for a system they didn’t. I stayed with that discomfort rather than talk over it, and got to see the other side of it too: the specific moment a lecturer got it working and was genuinely proud. That is the part of change communication people forget to mention — it is not just explaining, it is being present while someone is uncertain. Later, introducing remote support in the CMS team was the opposite case: the result was good enough that it barely needed explaining at all.
The administrative and coordination side is familiar too. At Burning Man Studios and at Atlas Digital I did project planning, scheduling, and documentation for international game projects, breaking large deliveries into pieces people could actually work on and keeping stakeholders across several time zones aligned. As Production Manager at LBi I ran task management between designers, developers, and copywriters on Volvo’s global website. At Irene Publishing today I run a combined product owner and project manager function, own the newsletter workflow across markets and languages, prepare and produce author conversations, and translate technical and editorial requirements into finished products. I am comfortable preparing presentations, reports, and documents, coordinating meetings, and keeping things moving in a structured way.
I also know how a network of communicators works from the inside. Through my years at the University of Gothenburg I was part of the university’s communications network, where sharing information and staying aligned across a large, decentralised organisation was part of the everyday.
I have built and run communication channels end to end: websites and their CMS, newsletters across markets and languages, YouTube for author conversations, and I keep an eye on both organic and paid social. I work daily in MS Office, used to work daily in Jira, and while not using exactly Confluence and Notion at the time, I’m doing similar things with a Kanban board in Trello and agentic AI collaboration.
I work in Swedish and English every day. Both irenepublishing.com and chromatic.se is written and translated in both languages, every single portfolio entry, and my earliest professional work at Burning Man Studios was done entirely in English with colleagues in Sweden, Germany, the UK, and the USA. My degree is in interactive media, where user testing, iterative work, and clear storytelling were the core, and those have shaped how I communicate ever since.
One thing I am curious about the role already: how you currently know that a change message has landed, not just that it was sent. In my experience that is where internal communication is won or lost, and it is the kind of question I would want to keep alive in the role.
Please have a look at my recommendations from former colleagues and managers, mostly from the University of Gothenburg. I think they capture how I work with a team: linkedin.com/in/andreas-wieslander.
I hope we get the chance to meet and talk more about how I can contribute!