Alexandra Webber Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

I led Girlguiding's successful influencing campaigns on a number of issues, supporting girls to call for statutory Relationships and Sex Education, age-verification for online pornography and a ban on gender stereotypes in advertising. I also drafted the calls and influencing approach for our girl-led campaign, Future Girl, and created and implemented our.

London, United Kingdom

* Delivering an effective policy and public affairs programme to support girls to speak up on issues they care about* Developing and updating Girlguiding's Public Affairs strategy* Engaging with parliamentarians and their staff, including providing briefings on our research to inform parliamentary questions and debates* Briefing senior staff, colleagues.

• Managing projects, staff and budgets
• Developing service models and transforming projects to engage children and young people
• Engaging young people to access services and take part in policy talks
• Analysing political and organisational developments and collaborating with colleagues to write policy briefs, summaries and responses to government calls for evidence
• Briefing colleagues on disability and equality issues
• Leading our organisation's contribution to the 'Every Disabled Child Matters' and 'End Child Poverty' campaigns

London

• Setting up the ‘Parent Partnership’ education advocacy project
• Writing and contributing to bids and marketing materials
• Writing and preparing materials for training courses
• Drafting all project policies and procedures
• Attending government briefings and influencing key decision-makers
• Setting up a volunteer programme

London, United Kingdom

• Using policy and legislation to advise service-users
• Liaising with professionals, agencies and homeless service-users

London And Various

• Research Assistant, Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority (Summer 2007)
• Collating and summarising information for reports and brochuresAcademic Researcher, Dr Randy Sparks, Tulane (June-July 2007)
• Conducting research for use in academic textsResearcher, various publications (2004-2006)
• Setting up and conducting focus groups
• Summarising findings on topics such as diet, health and relationships

London

Writing a fortnightly column on social issues in a magazine aimed at girls and young women.

Social Anthropology Masters, Gender And International Development, Distinction

Master's by Research, Social Anthropology • High quality training in qualitative research methods • Modules on how gender impacts on life.

American Studies Ba, Southern History And Race Relations, First

Activities and Societies: Amnesty International, university newspaper.