Alice M. Email & Phone Number

Kinross, Gb

Climate FORTH (Furthering Our Resilience Through Heritage) is a NHLF project for Inner Forth Futures that will facilitate and demonstrate the transformative action needed to help the Inner Forth transition to a climate literate, ready and resilient place.The role of Community and Youth Development Officer oversees the delivery of the project's Objective 1: Supporting the resilience of communities to climate and other change. Focusing on a green recovery and just transition, and responding to local needs, I will be working with 4 pilot communities to achieve multiple outputs. These include developing Local Resilience Plans to be delivered through participatory budgets, a Young Leaders pilot, training for young people and community heritage groups, and family focused outreach.Using an innovative piloting approach, I will produce guidance for other communities looking to engage in these processes and share learning with like-minded organisations to ensure continued progress long after the delivery of Climate FORTH is complete.

Loch Leven, Scotland

My role was as primary admin on the reserve: organising meetings, managing information, taking bookings, organising team socials, ordering supplies, dealing with correspondence, preparing presentations and reports and processing financial items such as invoices, purchase orders and expenses. The other aspect of my role was facilities management, including organising maintenance agreements and repairs, creating and managing contractor relationships, environmental monitoring and health and safety compliance. As well as these traditional office and facilities management tasks, I sought alternative income generation streams for our reserve, working on making our facilities more accessible to diverse visitors and improving our social media presence through monitoring our analytics and creating data visualisation, strategic planning and content creation. I also took on additional responsibilities in the form of roles such as Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Champion, Tech Champion and Green Dragon Champion.

Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom

Ecoeats was an ambitious start up seeking to bring zero-emissions urban delivery solutions to independent restaurants throughout Scotland. As Head of Support, I was responsible for line managing the team who provided live support via telephone, email and webchat to our restaurant partners, riders and customers. This involved writing and implementing customer support and operations policies, hiring and training of team members, rota management and dealing with escalated queries and complaints. My additional role as Head of HR required me to handle recruitment, onboarding, learning and development and enhance the wellbeing of all staff.

After 3 years of volunteering with the Students' Union, I was elected to represent 17,500 students on academic matters during a critical year for Irish higher education and society. My day-to-day responsibilities involved academic casework, providing welfare and wellbeing support, attending meetings with university staff and administration, researching and writing policy and reports and chairing the academic senate. I also held a secretarial role for the Union's Electoral Commission. As Deputy President, I was delegated the responsibilities of the President when he was unavailable. I was elected on a platform of equality, diversity and inclusion. In order to try and create a more representative union, I developed and ran a series of 'In Leadership' workshops that sought to identify and overcome the barriers faced by different communities when participating in student politics. These workshops focused on women, disabled people, the LGBTQ+ community and people from BAME backgrounds.One of my key roles was recruiting and training student representatives at the class, school and department level. I ultimately recruited 400+ reps, a record number for the SU. Their training and support was my responsibility and I enjoyed the opportunity to organise a weekend long training conference for 200 delegates, dealing with everything from logistics to training design to entertainment. I was also given the opportunity to attend the 35th Conference of the European Students' Union in Talinn, Estonia as one of the delegates representing Ireland. I also served as Secretary to the Dublin Region Group of the Union of Students in Ireland, a body that represents approximately 380,000 students across the Republic of Ireland.I also actively participated in the Campaign to Repeal the 8th Amendment, including ensuring the policy basis for the Union's pro-choice stance, managing a canvassing team and giving speeches and interviews to local, national and international press.

Master'S Degree, Environmental History, Merit

Environmental History explores the development of humans’ relationship with nature over time and how our perception, and use.

History And English Literature, First Class (I) Joint Honours

Activities and Societies: Trinity College Dublin Students' Union, Volunteer Tuition Programme (VTP) My dissertation was in the area.