• Design and produce 48-page bi-annual internal magazine for Weybridge Vandals sourcing all content and imagery.• Copy check and sub-edit articles in accordance with established style guidelines.• Generate digital and print content from conception to completion, including photography.• Layout and plan all pages, including advertising and advertorial content.• Consult with sponsorship team leads regarding advertising requirements and branding.• Liaise with third party publishers to problem solve and ensure print quality.

• Serve drinks – including premium spirits and wines – at public bars at Sandown Park, Kempton Park and Epsom Downs Racecourses, and Harlequins RFC.• Deliver high end table service at banquets & events at Epsom Downs Racecourse, maintaining high standards of cleanliness, attention to detail and presentation.• Ensure high standards of customer service in a time sensitive environment, while working as part of a team to maximise output and revenue during busy periods.• Provide security at Royal Surrey County Hospital entrances during lockdown and terminally clean specified isolation rooms - including Covid-19 patients - as required, ensuring all paperwork is correct.

Key responsibilities:• Liaise with Amber’s stakeholders including beneficiaries and their families, fundraisers and supporters, donors, Patrons and Ambassador• Liaise and support volunteers• Manage social media posting and website update and development• Manage photos and videos for social media content• Work with CEO to review and edit internal working documents• Manage the editing, design, and production of promotional literature and materials• Responsibility for production of annual newsletter• Managing mail outs for newsletter and other promotional activities EventsAdministration and Organisation:• Take administrative responsibility, including making hotel bookings and dealing with expenses for performers and volunteers, for organising Amber’s fundraising and awareness-raising concerts and events during the autumn to include:The Amber Trust Annual Concert on Sunday 26 SeptemberThe Virtual London Marathon on Sunday 3 OctoberInternational Wimbledon Music Festival on Sunday 7 NovemberGeneral:• Provide administrative support (e.g. preparing agendas, minute-taking, distributing papers etc)• Keep up to date on all GDPR updates to support Amber processes• Management of organisation-wide Microsoft Office 365 suite (OneDrive, Sharepoint etc)• Set-up and manage an internal team collaboration tool• Input data to Salesforce CRM, ensuring data is up to date and accurate• Ensure consent forms for all images from children and families are completed and GDPR compliant

Having spent 13 years as a news reporter, sports writer and sports editor my key specialisms lie in sport and leisure copy production, although I back myself to adapt to any commission given I also have experience in travel, news and showbiz. I also have experience of internet publishing, video and podcast production and social media.

I worked at St Paul's College, Sunbury and Jubilee High School, Addlestone as part of the Teach SouthEast School Centred Initial Teacher Training programme.This involved:- Teaching up to 10 classes a week for children aged 11 to 16-years-old.- Producing and copy checking resources and accompanying interactive PowerPoint presentations to deliver KS3 and KS4 (GCSE) curriculum content.- Undergoing weekly assessment against the Department for Education's Teaching Standards and preparing associated paperwork, including full lessons plans and student data.

Supervising and delivering up to 25 classes per week for students aged 11 to 16-years-old. This involved liaising with teachers to ensure required lesson content was covered and work was completed.

• Produce and manage online sports content for yourlocalguardian.co.uk and rttimes.co.uk, including podcasts and short videos.• Develop online readership through the use of social media and original content.• Design, lay-out, sub-edit and copy check the weekly sports pages for Surrey Comet, Richmond & Twickenham Times and Kingston Guardian using QuarkXPress and InDesign.• Manage a team of correspondents and freelance journalists to produce quality and wide ranging sports coverage on a tight budget. • Recruitment and management of permanent staff.• All duties as senior sports reporter (see below).

• Develop and produce sports news content for a sports desk serving more than 10 paid-for and free weekly titles in the Newsquest South London portfolio.• Chief correspondent for Aviva Premiership side Harlequins and Championship football club Brentford. Break sports news stories, manage ongoing news production, interview & develop relationships with players and senior management staff.• Source off-diary sports news and feature interviews, including profiles and picture spreads across a wide range of top-level sport.• Write, produce & present weekly Brentford FC internet podcast.

• Cover a wide range of moving and on-going news stories for a weekly publication from court hearings to local government meetings, to human interest and off-diary sports output.• Covered the Buncefield Oil Depot explosion as a rolling live story via the web.• Write and edit the sports section in the absence of the sports editor.• Source and write news backgrounders and features for both the Gazette and monthly ‘Hertfordshire Lifestyle’ magazine.• Edit ‘Hertfordshire Lifestyle’ magazine.• Source fresh angles and manage the Gazette’s on-going ‘Happy in Hemel’ campaign - which featured on BBC TV and in OK Magazine.

Development and management of a programme of extra-curricular student events and sports teams. Role included producing relevant marketing and publicity material and supporting the college's student's union.

Business development and sales support.

Telesales role that involved making outgoing and receive incoming sales calls in relation to BUPA's stable of private healthcare plans.