Arfah Farooq 🇵🇸 Email & Phone Number

London, GB

Founder of Europe's biggest gathering of Muslim Techies.

London, London, GB

Ada Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in overlooked founders and markets. As a scout, I'm part of a community actively supporting the mission by connecting them to founders from my own community.

London, London, GB

Selected as part of the Ada Ventures Angel Programme. Over the next year I'll be investing in 5 startups! Maybe more.I've been given access to both capital (£50,000) and support to help find and invest in talent from our communities. Personally interested in minority and women founders. I'm interested in Community products, the Edtech, Healthtech, Fintech.

London, UK, GB

Co-Founded the Muslamic Makers Community. Muslamic Makers is a meetup and networking group to get muslim makers (involved in tech startups, design and development) together to discuss and share their thinking and work. We exist because there is huge (but often hidden) talent in the Muslim community, which lacks a space to network, inspire and showcase.

Alongside my day job, I also do freelance work which includes speaking and workshops around community building, diversity+Inclusion, and careers and organizing events. More on my personal site: arfahfarooq.com

London, GB

ImpactVC exists to unlock venture capital’s ability to solve the world’s most pressing challenges. This is founded in the belief that venture capital can deliver transformative positive change in outcomes for people and planet – if VCs focus effectively on intentional positive impact in their investments - and that doing so can unlock significant.

London, Greater London, GB

I was bought in on a 6-month loan from the Cabinet Office for my community expertise to create and build a Community for Artificial Intelligence practitioners in healthcare.- Conducted a 6-week of discovery research to understand the needs of the community - Managed and build a community of 1000+ interested in the AI and Healthcare space- Connected.

London, GB

Leading the flagship Innovation Fellowship Programme, a newly designed prestigious and innovative programme that seeks to increase DDaT capability and knowledge across Government by attracting the top digital and tech talent from across the UK and from overseas. - Working in partnership with the Head of Resourcing, Talent and Inclusion and Number 10 to.

London, GB

Research: Discovery research into cross-government communities of practiceStrategy: Create an overall community strategy and align CoP to GDS businessCommunity Development: Create best practice, guidance and support for community managers in government

London, GB

Government Department part of the Cabinet Office, leading digital transformation in government.- Managing community of 1,500+ Product and Delivery professionals across Government with different initiatives such as events and shadowing schemes.- Developing the Product and Delivery Communities to be exemplars across Government. Fostering a network of.

London, GB

A strategy consultancy to help businesses solve problems.- Worked and implemented strategies for a range of clients, from a worldwide breakfast brand, which included incubating and testing a new breakfast product, to launching a tech app for an entrepreneur and recruiting parents for the initial launch.- Built a community of parents for a tech entrepreneur.

London, GB

I am a 2017 Fellow researching Muslim Women in Technology in USA, UAE and Pakistan. The aim of the research project is to showcase diverse Muslim Women working in the technology field and empower more Muslim girls and minorities in the UK to consider a career in technology. You can view my research, vlogs and interviews on inclusivetechworld.com

GB

Adventure stories helping kids code. A Bright Little Labs product, a children's media company.- Created and implemented a marketing strategy including content and email.- Built and executed PPC campaigns, reducing customer acquisition cost.- Sourced and reviewed client proposals.- Hired and on boarded a new employee.- Made sure adverts represented the.

London, UK, GB

A 12 week intensive bootcamp that takes absolute beginners into jobs as junior software developers.. My achievements at Makers Academy include: - Re-launched the Makers Academy website. - Doubled website traffic.- Reduced customer acquisition cost.- Helped launch the Remote Makers Academy course which was an online version of the main course. - Captured.

London, Greater London, GB

Worked with the Legacy Youth Voice Group to set up a social media strategy. For this I worked directly with young people and trained them up in social media tools by running interactive workshops to help them create an online presence.

Up is a skills development and feedback tracker developed while we were based in the Wayra UnLtd tech accelerator. Taking all our learnings from Discoverables, we built a simple tool to allow young employees and line managers to communicate better. The main benefits behind Up are that it boosts productivity, enables young talent to track their outcomes.

Co-Founded an Education Startup called Discoverables, a gameful platform that enables young people to identify, develop and showcase their key strengths and skills needed to succeed in work and in life. As co-creator in youth charity Spark and Mettle, I was a key team member during its design and build in Year 0 and worked alongside design agency, Pixel.

Full time Administrator for the Government work programme.Duties included: In-work support, petty cash, filing, managing reception, answering telephone calls, raising purchase orders, and general administrative tasks.

Dublin, Dublin, IE

Managed various social media platforms for clients from Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram and new up-and-coming platforms. Used brand values and personality to create opportunities for the community from blogger outreach to blogger management. Drove traffic to client blog by 35% month over month. Analysed Google Analytics data and made real-time.

Proud London 2012 Gamesmaker. Liaised and assisted media in attaining results and fixture information.Managed pigeonholes and the system for presenting printed start lists, results and news to the media.

One of the 13 young people in the pilot "Star Track" programme. Incorporated part-time training, career-focused networking. Also involved in side projects like Dreams Supply Company and Forge On and co-creating and shaping the future programme.

London, England, GB

Won one week’s work placement, as part of “The Project” competition with Virgin media Pioneers:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlAWu1qS8xIPlaced in the Media Trust and worked on the Community Channel. Roles included finding and reviewing new material from up-and-coming filmmakers. Negotiating with filmmakers and production companies. Researching and.

London, England, GB

Part of the PR campaign for BBC London radio across London. Spoke to members of the public, promotingradio station and helping to record vox pops.

London, London, GB

One week’s work experience in the People Development/4talent department of Channel 4: Duties included: replying to email queries; organizing and assisting the assessment day; dealing with confidential application forms.Co-ordinated interviews for an in-house film.

London, London, GB

Worked with the Union Democracy Representation Co-coordinator, helping with a range of administration duties including website management, minutes taking, promoting student democracy and elections.

London, London, GB

Presenter at for student radio. Produced and presented an hour’s show every week clearly and concisely. Edited shows into podcasts and learned to use radio equipment, such as the mixing board.

London, London, GB

Elected to represent the black and ethnic community in the Students Union. Duties included leading campaigns against racism and Islamophobia. Organised a successful Black History month and Multicultural day attended by many students. Spoke and chaired many public debates and created promotional content.

For my final year university project I was producer for a 15 minute documentary.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HIPIYunkXMOversaw the whole production from start to finish. Duties included planning, budgeting, scheduling, running on shoot and editing in post production.

London, England, GB

A one week placement shadowing different departments of BBC News. Departments experienced included: Future News Planning, Engineering, Radio 1 Newsbeat, News Programmes, BBC User Generated Content and 6 O Clock News.

Dallas, Texas, US

Worked as a waitress and delivered the full “Friday” experience to guests. Duties included providing a very high level of customer service, from greeting customers, to taking orders, to serving food.

Worked on a National Youth project where my primary duty was to manage the creative content as well as provide an informative and comprehensive service to users, clients and young people. Duties included: photography, filming and editing promotional content for Youtube and working in teams to complete tasks on time, meeting both individual and team KPI's.

London, GB

Temporary admin work over two summers holidays. Duties included sorting out student queries, data administration, enrolling students onto the database system "unit-e" and general administration duties like filing and organising folders.

London, England, GB

One Week Placement on BBC Asian Network Nihal Phone in show. Contributed ideas to editorial meetings, helped research future phone in shows including calling up potential guests. Also used the central ENPS BBC service and edited audio content as well as shadowing while on air and writing script and pointers for radio presenter.

London, GB

Mentored A-level students on a one-to-one basis with work and revision.

Worked for an Architecture Centre on their youth project. Project-managed various youth projects including a 60 second film competition on YouTube for the designing of a park for the Lea River area as well as a organising a community event and applying to grants. Other duties included general admin work and running social media and blog.

Ba, Media And Communication

A-Levels, Business Studies, Media Studies, 3D Design