Ailsa Mclagan Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Straftord Upon Avon

Delivering innovation in design and engineering since 1957.With a passion for designing award-winning, safe and sustainable solutions BakerHicks deliver inspiring environments for tomorrow’s world – in aviation, defence, life sciences and manufacturing, nuclear, power, public and rail sectors. BakerHicks. A Morgan Sindall Group company.

Warwick

London, United Kingdom

Working with the PR Manager on the daily running of a very busy Press Office, covering the PR activity for a wide range of sectors from financial and technology to politics and social research. Included working on the Scottish Independence Referendum and the General Election PR campaigns.Daily tasks included: Answering press phones and dealing with media enquiries, creating media lists and lining up media slots. Writing and distributing press releases; working off data tables to pull out the story and then proactively pitching ideas and selling this in to the media. Building and maintaining relationships with the media. Media monitoring and evaluation, using the Gorkana platform. Producing a monthly board report on all media activity.Examples of outlets I have placed coverage in include: The Times, PR Week, City AM, the International Business Times, Marie Claire, BBC national and local radio and TV stations, the Press AssociationI was also responsible for writing a monthly report showcasing all work produced across the business for client distribution, plus a weekly internal newsletter for Directors and twice weekly press coverage round-ups.In addition to this I assisted with the social media and online strategy by providing social media support for the Online Communications Manager, tweeting at events and managing the corporate Twitter account when needed. I also created and uploaded content to the website when needed, working with CMS systems and HTML code. Other tasks included:Organising an internal briefing series to show case the work across the company.Also worked on events, internal communications, and general marketing tasks when required.

London, United Kingdom

The role also included assisting the PR team in coordinating and delivering the PR strategy and acting as the corporate communications representative for the Arts and Business campaign team.Press: Media monitoring and evaluation, covering over 20 campaigns. Daily round-ups of key coverage. Identifying potential coverage opportunities, managing the media contact database. Including, implementing a new evaluation system to allow more in-depth coverage analysis.Events: Working on a variety of large-scale events both in the planning and on the day.Diary Management/Administration: Personal Assistant to an extremely busy and creative Communications Director. Managing the organisation of a Director and C-suite level Communications Group. Attendance rates for the Group increased over the six months from being handed this project.Managing the team’s finances, including invoices, credit card and event budgets. Social Media: Assisted the online team with implementing the social strategy, including: Running the social media platforms on Give and Gain Day 2013 and assisting in delivering BITC’s 2013 Party Conference social media strategy.

London, United Kingdom

Assisting the Head of External Affairs and Events Officer with the planning and running of a busy and diverse events and external affairs programme.

Shrewsbury, United Kingdom

Assisting various teams within the Childrens' Services Department with administrative tasks and the running of the SureStart programmes and Continual Professional Development Conference and Training programme.

Master Of Philosophy (Mphil), History

Conducting an extensive academic research project. Included formal training in research methods and ethics.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), History, First Class

Graduated with First class honours in History. Studied History, Politics and American Studies modules. Gained a first for all third year.