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Gold Coast, Qld, Au

• Upskilling and using skills acquired at work - running house, budgeting, organising, efficient processes, negotiation skills, engaging 5 year old in home learning • Community Engagement – Chairperson of village Children’s Gala Day Committee – designing, planning and running the event, fundraising, managing committee members, budget and suppliers, design of programme and posters.Key Achievements: Introducing ride wristbands and committee-ran BBQ – improving customer experience and value. Increasing income; reducing reliance on regular fundraising as each event effectively paid for the next one.• Gained Certificate in Forest & Outdoor Learning Leadership (kids)• Creative Design – branding, design and communications training for dance company, production of photography calendars for village Gala and 2 local schools for fundraising, engagement and promotion.

Edinburgh

In the Group Communications Team• Designing strategy and managing internal communications projects for various audiences - ranging from 200 to 140,000 people.• Designing and managing events – including conferences, recognition events, employee engagement, training and team building events and workshops.• Shaping and delivering engagement strategies to help embed a new culture and way of thinking and engage employees to the company values.• Managing global online news channel: Finding, writing and editing stories, managing the schedule, supporting major announcements, and working with worldwide managers and communicators to cascade messages.• Leading a small team of communications and engagement advisers, delivering our own campaigns and consulting with others to shape theirs.• Providing consultancy to change teams to ensure they effectively engage people in what they're doing and achieve their objectives. • Creating and delivering training workshops to share communications expertise, including how to write clearly and with an effective tone of voice.• Writing messages for Executives and producing Board papers.• Managing an employee engagement research and measurement programme, including making recommendations for improvements.

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

In the Group Finance Change Team - Finance Transformation Programme• Member of the programme management team for a major financial systems transformation programme; responsible for designing and managing stakeholder communications - simply explaining complex changes.• Creating and maintaining a programme-wide calendar – a single view of communications and engagement between the programme and the business to support planning, resourcing and understand business readiness.• Organising team building and engagement activities for members of the programme team

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

In the Group Finance Team - Finance Transformation Programme - fixed term• Capturing, documenting and analysing current and future finance processes following implementation of new technology systems.• Using my previous experience of use cases to design a roadmap to show how data moves through an entire process.• Identifying process improvements and working with process owners to agree opportunities for change.

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

In the Group Finance team• Shaping and delivering communications and events to a finance team of 400.• Producing newsletters, designing and building intranet sites, writing and designing messages for paper and electronic delivery.• Managing internal research to measure how well communications are understood and meet the needs of the business.• Winning an award for creative and innovative development of newsletters and new intranet sites.

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

In the UK Retail Change Team - fixed term• Project managing a regulatory programme to change legal wording on a range of Group-wide literature and systems, managing a team of analysts.• Managing a detailed plan throughout the project lifecycle.• Creating and managing a network of key stakeholders.• Managing risks, issues and dependencies, production of project reports.

Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom

In the Change team• Working with business leaders and technical experts to identify improvements, analyse benefits and find solutions for a range of projects.• Managing functional and User Experience testing.• Contributing to business cases and cost-benefit exercises• Facilitating workshops to discuss requirements, solutions, risks and issues• Producing and delivering training to managers and system users.

Diploma Of Education, Business Systems Development, Bcs Information Systems Examination Board Diploma

Modules: Business Analysis Essentials, Requirements Engineering, Business Organisation & Analysis Design Techniques

Forest & Outdoor Learning Leadership (Kids), Bush Kindy / Forest School, Scqf Certificate - Level 6 Forest & Outdoor Learning Leadership Award