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Responsible for all marketing and communications for a leading youth charity, making a genuine difference to the lives of hundreds of vulnerable young people each year.My role involves planning and delivering all marketing activity, including writing and designing marketing materials, producing newsletters, web content and thought leadership pieces.

Aldershot

Managing publicity, marketing copy and social media for the UK's leading promotional pen supplier. The role involves writing press releases, company newsletters and all marketing copywriting. Also manage over a dozen social media accounts, update web content and SEO copy, proofread all marketing material and produce our annual catalogue.

Working for an IT company specialising in InDesign and QuarkXPress plugins. Advising customers, conducting training sessions, producing training materials, liaising with and advising software developers, software testing and project management.

Preparing a range of marketing materials including catalogues, brochures and adverts in InDesign and other publishing software. Worked with big names including Visa, Bentley, Massey Ferguson and Triumph. Also some proofreading and XML editing.

Laying out documents in Illustrator and MS Word. Editing PDFs. Proofreading. Database management. Staff training and team management.

Editorial duties including copy-writing, sub-editing and proofreading. Laying out publications in InDesign, QuarkXPress and Pagemaker. Liaising with customers and printers.