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London Area, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

I managed the Communications Team at one of the largest archaeological and built heritage practices in the UK - overseeing all aspects of external and internal communications. This included setting strategic direction, managing high-profile projects, and developing wider brand identity. I also led on equality, diversity and inclusion, supporting colleagues.

London, England Metropolitan Area

• Heritage Open Days is England’s largest annual heritage festival; with 2100 organisations staging 5700 events, for over 2.5 million visitors. I oversaw at both a strategic and practical level all marketing activities.
• Creating and delivering project New Wave, a year-long training programme for heritage organisations looking to better reach and engage 18-34-year-olds
• Leading the digital transformation of the festival in 2020, producing a beginner's guide to developing digital events and leading webinars and workshops in digital event production
• Spearheading the 2020 Hidden Nature campaign, including developing a brand identity, devising innovative campaign stands, and recruiting celebrity ambassadors
• Lightening the environmental footprint of the festival through reducing single-use plastics, changing production materials, and streamlining distribution

London, United Kingdom

• Heritage Open Days is England’s largest annual heritage festival; working with over 2100 organisations to put on over 5700 events. My aim in this role was to utilise existing budgets to significantly enhance the.
• Increasing social media as a source of awareness from 4% to 20% by implementing a clear strategy and posting schedule, improving content quality, and carefully placing paid adverts
• Trebling the number of annual film/photography shoots to almost 100 separate locations, providing significantly more high-quality imagery for use in campaigns
• Developing an innovative 3D impact report, which was highlighted within the central National Trust marketing team, significantly improving our internal and external visibility
• Completely redesigning online stakeholder resources (training guides, design packs etc.) to make these more coherent and easier to use, resulting in increased user downloads

Giza Governorate, Egypt

• OverviewThis project redeveloped the capital of Ancient Egypt, making it more appealing to both domestic and international tourists. I coordinated the activities of over 80 project staff to ensure objectives were.
• Supervising the work of 5 assistants and 77 Egyptian Government inspectors.
• Developing project workflows and timelines, to ensure work was completed as efficiently as possible.
• Producing and editing creative outputs, such as interpretation panels, website content, social media posts, guidebooks and brochures.
• Sourcing and negotiating with local 3rd party suppliers to produce site infrastructure.
• Consulting with internal and external stakeholders, and working with graphic designers to develop a brand identity for the site, including logo design, colour palette and tone of voice.

York, United Kingdom

• OverviewI conducted extensive and thorough market research into the digital heritage sector, helping to better inform The Centre on its strengths and weaknesses, as well as potential opportunities, threats and future.
• Conducting web-based research into recent trends in the digital heritage sector.
• Contacting and interviewing stakeholders to better understand The Centre’s current positioning.
• Producing detailed, evidence-based and visually engaging reports.
• Presenting findings to the Director and the board, as well as responding to their questions.Key achievements
• My findings and report received extensive praise from The Centre’s director and the board. This has subsequently helped to influence their decision making in areas such as resource allocation and staffing.

New Jersey, USA

• OverviewTrailblazers is an outdoor summer camp company based in New Jersey, USA. I led their Leaders in Training (LIT) programme, which aims to equip young adults aged 14-17 with leadership skills and greater.
• Teaching outdoor, survival and leadership skills to groups of up to 14 young adults.
• Leading groups of young adults on hiking, canoeing and biking excursions.
• Developing and leading engaging activities.
• Ensuring the physical and emotional safety of children.
• Collaborating with a team of over 40 other leaders and coordinating activities.Key Achievements:

Konya, Turkey

Key Responsibilities-Assessing, evaluating and critiquing the site’s visitor centre and signage.-Designing written and visual interpretative content for public and professional audiences.-Proofreading and quality checking.-Interviewing site specialists in order to generate website content and social media posts.-Sourcing and negotiating with 3rd party.

York, United Kingdom

Key Responsibilities -Redesigning the catalhoyuk.com website layout and format to make it more publicly accessible.-Creating new written content and visual elements to en-gage viewers.-Completing project within tight financial, technical and time constraints.-Collaborating with graphic and website designers to pro-duce the website.-Evaluating and building.

Various, United Kingdom

-Supervising up to 100 children for two weeks.-Running thematic games and activities.-Presenting content in an acceptable form for children.-Good organisational and time management skills.-Translating and managing Anglo-French relations.

Master’S Degree, Digital Heritage, Distinction

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Bachelor’S Degree, Archaeology, First

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