Adrian Roper Email & Phone Number

Assisting clients with their UK wide engagement with government, parliamentary and industry stakeholders. • On behalf of client’s, I continued my engagement on the development of the UK’s deposit return schemes, building on my relationship with the policy team at Defra.• I also engaged with the Department for Levelling Up and with the Electoral Commission on the role out of ID requirements at polling stations.

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London, United Kingdom

Following a reorganisation, I became Head of Political Engagement. Continuing to report to the Chief Executive and Chairman of the Public Affairs Committee, I was responsible for leading a small team of colleagues in public affairs that both represented the interests of the owners of independent convenience stores and newsagents and ensured that members understood any regulatory changes being made.Key AchievementsMy achievements included:Engagement• Raised the NFRN’s profile through sustained engagement with the government and stakeholders, including through meetings with ministers and officials, membership of issue groups such as the National Retail Crime Steering Group and wider industry groups.• Extended our engagement to the devolved governments and assemblies and to the government in Dublin. Local versions of the national policy document, the Independent Retail Report, helped to target and engage on issues of importance to members.• Support for the introduction of a deposit return scheme in Scotland resulted in our first meeting at Cabinet Secretary level and being invited to join the Scottish Governments industry working group.• Enhanced our engagement on the key issue of retail crime through our position as secretariat for the APPG on Retail Crime.Moving the Needle• Successfully engaged with Defra to change regulations relating to the Carrier Bag Levy. Convinced officials of the need for change and built support for our campaign across a coalition of retail trade groups.• Engaged with backbenchers across the House of Commons to successfully oppose changes to the Sunday Trading regulations relating to supermarkets.• Worked with members of both Houses of Parliament and colleagues across retail to persuade government to make assaulting retail and other public facing workers an “aggravated” offence.• Worked with constituency MP’s to address the challenges of over zealous enforcement of Covid regulations by local authorities during lockdown.

London, United Kingdom

Key AchievementsDuring my time as Head of Public Affairs and Communications, achievements included:Engagement• Organised parliamentary receptions and introduced smaller policy dinners at Westminster private dining restaurants to enable more detailed discussion of leading MPs.Working with Colleagues and Members• Worked with colleagues across the NFRN to keep our members engaged with our work, ensuring they were up to date with regulatory changes and, for example, those in the vicinity of terrorist attacks in London and Manchester were supported in the aftermath of the events.• Ran a yearlong information campaign to inform members of the requirements of the tobacco display ban. Using articles in the members magazine, leaflets, the Federation’s website, and social media, along with in person briefings to get the message across. A survey by trading standards, conducted shortly after the ban came into effect, recognised newsagents as the most compliant retail group.• Worked with the Operations team to survey members about their businesses and their experiences and challenges as retailers. The data collected fed into our policy and consultation responses.• Kept members and member facing staff informed of lockdown operating requirements during Covid, together with details of the financial assistance that the governments across the UK and Ireland were making available. Engaging Communications• Supported our engagement by producing high quality policy documents, both nationally and for the devolved countries.• With regulatory updates and briefings and detail of our campaigning, the political engagement team were the largest contributor of editorial content for each month’s members magazine.• I took the opportunity of a change in the NFRN’s logo to ensure a common branding across all policy and related documents, improving the professional image of the NFRN.

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

House Of Commons, Westminster

A short term contract to enhance the political work of the Westminster office.• Briefing MP on a range of national and constituency issues, both verbally and in writing• Drafting parliamentary questions• Drafting notes for speeches and remarks• Drafting letters to Ministers and organisations in the constituency, notably the local council, NHS Primary Care Trust and schools• Drafting responses to constituents correspondence and reviewing drafts produced by other members of staff• Drafting press releases• Liaising with staff based in the constituency office• Dealing with any other administrative tasks as required

Working as part of a small team in a very busy Westminster office.• Organising visits for Rebecca Harris to organisations and events in the constituency• Dealing with telephone and written enquiries• Researching and responding to casework• Handling responses to campaign letters received by the office• Assisting Rebecca Harris with the preparation of her Private Members Bill, including research, drafting letters and briefing documents and brainstorming ideas and issues• Liaising with the local constituency association and local councillors• Dealing with any other administrative tasks as required

Part time, voluntary work focussed on political campaigning and preparation for the general election. • Acting as Agent to the candidate, responsible for all compliance issues for the campaign, advising the candidate and activists on election law and liaising with the Party’s compliance officers.• Working with the candidate and senior activists to plan all aspects of the campaign, including literature, events and door to door canvassing.• Working with the publicity officer to prepare all campaign literature, including newsletters, checking proofs and providing sign off.• Liaising with printers as a single point of contact for the production of all types of printed material, and with other suppliers, including negotiating prices.• Organising volunteer activists. For example arranging leaflets for deliverers, preparing canvassing materials in advance, notifying activists of meeting times and places• Liaising with Party’s national and regional campaign staff, and the Essex Area Management Executive (of which I was Deputy Chairman Political)• Acting as a point of contact for councillors, activists and others• Dealing with letters and telephone enquiries from members of the public or supporters.• Handling any other issues or problems as they arise.

• Providing first line support for a range of the Bank’s web based applications, including Documentum based applications, and web sites• Query management (using the Remedy helpdesk software)• Liaising with users globally (including traders and business sponsors), developers, project managers, business analysts, infrastructure teams and other support teams (particularly those for upstream systems)• User issue investigation• SQL query work• Proactive system monitoring for outages and performance issues• System testing and out of hours post release and maintenance testing• Creation of Webtrends reporting and Marketing Lab 2 account management

• Closing and maintenance of structured credit derivative transactions• Analysis of transaction structure, including checking bookings against documentation and confirming cash flows• Agreeing waterfall payments• Liaising with the legal, cash management and settlements teams, together with the trading and structuring teams• Production of reporting for auditors, involving collating information from multiple sources into a common format• Extensive work with the project and development teams to analyse, on an ongoing basis, agree and document business requirements and specifications, review development and perform detailed user acceptance testing of a new Documentum based document storage and workflow application. Trained other members of the team in use of the application and subsequent changes.

• Capture and managing of corporate actions and dividend payments in the UK and overseas• Stock position reconciliation• Receipt and payment of claims• Stock receipt and delivery• Liaising with the trading floor and counterparties• Building a MS Access database of our correspondent banks and custodians for use by the team.• Introduced use of DTCC Participant Terminal System to team. Identified key functionality, trained colleagues in its use and write “how to” documentation

Ma, International Relations

Ba, Politics And International Relations, 2:1