Alison Reijman Email & Phone Number

Winchester, England, United Kingdom

This is a change of job title which better reflects my current role, focussing on social media and content across a range of digital and printed channels as well as writing Press releases.

Winchester, England, United Kingdom

Basingstoke, England, United Kingdom

Coordinated activities and PR across the company's 16 care and nursing homes, raising the company's profile, managing social media, writing regular website blogs and Press releases, and supporting the homes with tailored individual PR programmes. Compiled yearly and monthly events calendars for activities coordinators and organised themed monthly homes' challenges.Responded to all reviews on carehome.co.uk and provided monthly analytics for monthly carehome.co.uk scores.

Basingstoke

Aldershot

Southampton, United Kingdom

Development and implementation of PR plans, strategies and opportunities for two First UK Bus South Coast businesses - Hampshire, Dorset and Berkshire and South West (Somerset and Cornwall)..Act as first point of contact for Press inquiries. Issue reactive and pro-active statements; research, draft and issue Press releases and media features, and write submissions for awards.Provide crisis management.Maximise social media for putting out out key messages and statements, and oversee content of internal newsletters.Manage and update content on websites and social media.Winner of a FirstGroup Extra Mile Award after being recognised as a star performer for the business.

London

On a rolling contract supporting the Head, Global Estates with department internal communications, bulletin and report writing.

• Built up Press awareness of the association’s monthly Report on Jobs deemed the most accurate source of job data consequently featuring regularly in national print and broadcast media such as BBC Breakfast News and the Radio 4 Today programme.• Provided regular Press releases and commentaries on the employers’ survey JobsOutlook which resulted in it being included in the Financial Times’ weekly recruitment column.• Generated extended coverage for National Temporary Workers’ Week to a potential audience of ten million readers/listeners and an advertising spend of more than £1m.• Researched and wrote features on aspects of recruitment for sector specific Press such as Recruitment International, HR Training Journal and People Management. • Conducted media training for regional directors leading to appearances as spokespeople in local Press such as BBC Scotland and in Western Mail (Wales).• Provided the PR input for in-house campaigns and helped to organise launch events such as for Your AWR Advisor attended by the Employment Minister, Ed Davey. • Prepared reactive statements to counter negative stories relating to the recruitment industry including a BBC 1 Inside Out investigation into age and race discrimination.• Created messaging around the implementation of the Agency Workers Regulations which gained coverage in the Times, Financial Times and Daily Telegraph. • Worked with outsourced PR agency which has successfully quadrupled coverage and positioned organisation as an expert commentator.• Launched the @RECPress Twitterfeed to which more than 2,000 followers have signed up in less than two years.

• Created successful PR strategies for Trust’s commercial wing to counter negative effects of foot and mouth epidemic on its income-generating streams.• Acted as one of the central Press Office team dealing with media inquiries across the whole range of the Trust’s activities including its historic buildings and events.• Appointed Trust PR co-ordinator for SeaBritain 2005 and planned events at properties along the New Trafalgar Dispatch route, researched Trafalgar Night dinners and wrote copy for Ordnance Survey’s Trafalgar Way map.• Assisted in the organisation and delivery of The Coast Exposed exhibition at the National Maritime Museum, drafting press releases and providing background copy.• Instigated Christmas and Spring media campaigns to promote new products in the Trust’s 210 shops that generated coverage in target publications such as Ideal Home, Good Housekeeping and She.• Collaborated with other Trust departments such as marketing and publications and regional offices to develop publicity material for commercial operations.• Targeted media campaigns in national, lifestyle and travel Press which increased annual profits from £9m in 2001 to £16m in 2005.• Secured publicity in national, regional and specialist press to promote the 320 holiday cottages resulting in occupancy peaking at an unprecedented 81 per cent.• Implemented a crisis management plan when a major media story broke about the Trust allowing same-sex ceremonies to take place at properties.

• Facilitated visits from film units including Pride and Prejudice, Crown and Country, The Antiques Roadshow and Wake Up to Wogan.• Undertook crisis management, for example handled the discovery of unexploded World War One bombs in boat onsite. • Helped organise a live broadcast by Meridian Television to mark the opening of a new gallery at the Royal Naval Museum.• Co-organised a live broadcast of a BBC Radio 4 Any Questions? Programme and invited local people be part of the audience.• Organised PR for major events such as a James Bond exhibition which resulted in a Channel 4 film crew filming Lois Maxwell, the original Miss Moneypenny onsite. • Appointed main media contact for activities during the Nelson Decade including the 200th anniversary celebrations for the Battle of Cape St Vincent which comprised a major conference attended by Lord Nelson’s great-great-great-grand daughter.

Nctj Pre-Entry Course, Journalism

National Council for the Training of Journalists' one year pre-entry course.

A-Levels, English, French And German, Russian O-Level.

Three A levels, one S level and one O level.

0-Levels - English Language, English Literature, French, German, History And Biology.