Amy Lambert Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

Salford, England, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

We have a membership of 36,000 students and I am currently responsible for overseeing the support and development of campaigns run by members of KCLSU. Responsibilities and achievements include:• Providing skills development training, access-to-resources, tailored guidance and one-to-one support for our community of campaigners, so that our membership has an understanding of campaigning skills which has led to a number of successful campaigns. • Designing and delivering an annual two-day intensive campaigns and community organising training programme for our six student trustees. • Overseeing our campaigns budget.• Built and developed our brand new online campaigns process and website pages so that campaigns at KCLSU can be innovative and accessible. • I was selected by NUS to deliver Lead and Change training to elected full time sabbatical officers from across the UK.• I was elected as a staff rep and also led on the creation of the first KCLSU women staff network.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for developing and implementing the charity’s digital campaigns strategy to mobilise its 25,000 online supporters. Key responsibilities and achievements include:• Managing the completion of our general election campaign parody website ‘Can’t Move’ which saw over 600 parliamentary candidates contacted by our supporters about our national Home Truths campaign and which was voted ‘Best Digital Campaign of the week’ by Civil Society.• Developing and delivering email campaign updates and actions to our online supporters, including our ‘Ask your MP to meet us at party conference’ action which led to meetings with key influencers including the Deputy Chief Whip of the House of Commons. • I was responsible for organising a petition hand in at the Department for Work and Pensions. Over 250 people signed up in under a week and department officials informed me that it was creative and impactful. • Taking the initiative to develop staff engagement across the directorate which has included developing a successful away day and development programme for the team and co-developing directorate meetings.

London, United Kingdom

Supporting with external and internal communication activity across an organisation with 7,000 staff and 3,000 volunteers. Achievements- Managed the external and internal communications around flagship event, Tri Together. I secured a double page spread in My Weekly, including website details, photographic branding and mention in the text, and built relationships with influential regional newspapers and radio stations across the UK.- Sourcing and coordinating celebrity quotes at one of the charity's high profile events; 'Newsroom's Got Talent'. This involved talking directly to BBC, ITV, Sky, Channel 4, and Channel 5 newsreaders to get quotes that were used in the national press release. The story generated positive coverage in HELLO!, with photos, quotes, and interviews from celebrities who took part.- Coordinated film crews and briefing photographers for the charity's key influencing programme, Change100 programme. This involved writing the brief for the film company, coordinating the filming on-site and coming up with creative ideas. I also liaised with the third party design agency who created the look and feel of the brand. - Responsible for managing community engagement newsletter that is sent out to over 300 members of staff, which includes sourcing stories and editing copy.- I also worked on the charity's award winning 'End 15-minute care' campaign. This generated nearly 900 pieces of media coverage, including front page of The Times and was the lead story on all the major news broadcast outlets. - Responsible for the monitoring of all press coverage and creating metrics by which to evaluate the success of media campaigns.- Press release written for national fundraising event received positive praise and feedback from Leonard Cheshire's chairman Ilyas Khan. I was part of the press team working on the event which achieved coverage on Sky Sunrise, Daily Mirror, trade and regional print and broadcast.

Charityworks , Graduate Management Intern September 2013–August 2014Selected from over 3,000 applicants to be part of a graduate cohort of 35 members whilst working at Leonard Cheshire Disability. During the year, I undertook bi-monthly training and learning sessions to increase understanding of the voluntary sector and took initiative to establish professional development opportunities.Responsibilities and Achievements- Wrote three pieces of original research into the charity sector involving qualitative and quantitative research which were used to substantiate my accreditation at the ILM.- Set up a buddy scheme to match interns during placement year to encourage peer support network. - Set up an Action Learning Set with other cohort members to encourage self-development, critical self-reflection and hone coaching skills. - Organised two days of work shadowing at Diabetes UK in their campaigns and communications department and at the policy and campaigns team at Action on Hearing Loss to gain further experience.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Administrative assistant in large contact office of a busy exam board offering first line support and guidance for schools, students and parents.Achievements- Liaising with multiple stakeholders including internal and external contacts.- Using initiative and self-supervision, as well as pragmatism to make decisions quickly and accurately to ensure expectations and needs of customers were met. - Utilising my strong communication and interpersonal skills to deal with varied customer base. - Data entry, updating and maintaining databases and general office administration.

Bristol, United Kingdom

Worked in a small office of a charity and gained experience in a number of roles:- Researched and targeted new local partners to create partnerships through which to recruit volunteers. Created, developed and maintained volunteer database. - Helped to deliver Envision Workshop at NCS event to recruit students onto Envision programme- Solely responsible for organising and managing major fundraising project, including arranging advertising and venue hire, smashing projected fundraising target of £500 by over £120.- Managed telephone switchboard, created school specific resource folders and data entry.

Modules included:Feminisms and International Relations; International Security; Theories of International Relations; Politics of Latin America; Development Skills in Practice; Labour, Care and Gender.Dissertation Title: A comparative examination of the gendered identities used by International Organisations in their discursive constructions of Sex Trafficking.

Msc Gender And International Relations, Dissertation Focused On The Competing Genered Discourses Of Sex Trafficking

Activities and Societies: Committee Member of Lighthouse-Assisting the Homeless

Ba Politics, Upper Second Class Honours

Activities and Societies: Committee member of STAR (Student Action for Refugees), Campaign Co-ordinator for a successful Asylum Campaign.