Arthur Thomas Email & Phone Number

London Area, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England Metropolitan Area

Humane Society International is one of the largest animal protection organisations in the world, active in more than fifty countries and works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, respond to natural disasters and confront cruelty to animals in all of its forms.• Leading on public affairs for HSI UK organisation• Representing the organisation in the media and at events• Leading on HSI UKs campaign to ban the import/export of hunting trophies• Working with Parliamentarians from across the political spectrum and both Houses to influence and improve policy and legislation. • Producing engaging content including video content • Event management including for supporter engagement events and Parliamentary receptions• Engaging with colleagues and external stakeholders across three continents • Engaging with international forums such at CITES• Collaborating across the sector to achieve goals• Line management responsibility

London, United Kingdom

IFAW is a global non-profit helping animals and people thrive together. Working across three oceans and in more than 40 countries around the world with an annual income of over $100m. IFAW rescues, rehabilitates and releases animals, and restore and protect their natural habitats and engages with governments, non-governmental organisations and businesses to advocate for positive change. Responsiblities:• Public Affairs - direct engagement of senior level stakeholders including relevant Secretary of State and junior Ministers. Establishing and building on relationships within Westminster and devolved administrations leading to tangible legislative change.• Policy - liaising with departmental officials to advocate on a number of policy areas including: Animal Welfare, Marine Conservation, the Illegal Wildlife Trade and Human/Wildlife Conflict. • Supporter Engagement - creating engaging content and actions for tens of thousands of supporters across the UK. Utilising this engagment to target decision makers and to build relationships.• Communications - creating thought leadership peices, responding to media enquiries and working closely with Communications team to aplify my work and build the reputation of the organisation.• Management - managing our Political Officer and a number of volunteers who joined to assist with policy research.• Events and Presentation - Including managing party conference exhibition stand, guest lecturer at the University of Winchester, representing IFAW at international policy conferences

London, United Kingdom

An international humanitarian organisation that strives for a world free from poverty, fear and oppression. Delivering life-saving and life-changing interventions to the world's poorest and most vulnerable people. From rapid emergency response to innovative development programming, Concern go to the hardest to reach places to make sure that no-one is left behind.• Leading on parliamentary engagement for the organisation• Writing lobbying strategy to identify and target MPs and Peers • Working with relevant APPGs• Line management of Intern• Leading on Concern’s campaigner engagement• Creating and commissioning engaging content such as animations (below) and infographics• Writing parliamentary briefings • Organising events including parliamentary roundtable discussion and public panel discussion to launch the Global Hunger index.• Working as part of cross-sector coalition to defend foreign aid as a force for good• Establishing and leading a cross-sector group to coordinate public affairs on nutrition issues

London, United Kingdom

Established more than 70 years ago NDCS are the leading charity for deaf children. Providing expert support on childhood deafness, raise awareness and campaign for deaf children’s rights, so they have the same opportunities as everyone else.Working both nationally and regionally to remove the barriers that deaf children face.Including: • Delivering on national campaigns strategy to bring about positive policy change• Successful local campaigns, which engaged and supported local groups to improve services across England and avoid cuts to services.• Developing and maintaining relationships with local and national government officials • Managing the Campaigns Team blog and other social media including Twitter and Facebook• Developing videos and other creative and innovative campaigns methods• Surveying and analysing Campaigns Network and finding ways to improve engagement• Representing the organisation at the Disability Benefits Consortium (DBC) • Writing policy briefings for audiences including the Public Accounts Committee and UN

• Creating marketing materials for campaigns including digital content, publications and HTML emails, as well as other resources.• Delivering events to a variety of audiences, including the general public, key stakeholders from across the sector and MPs and other Government officials.• Project management, from project planning and drawing up communications plans to the delivery of projects as well as their evaluation.• Representing NIACE at numerous events and promoting the key messages of the organisation to a varied audience.• Partnership development and relationship management; • Engaging with partners, colleagues and the general public via social media.

• Oversaw the smooth running of strategic partnerships. This involved providing updates to internal and external groups, progress chasing, problem solving any issues that arose and ensuring that all targets were met and that the funder remained satisfied and confident.• Project Management. This involved planning, conducting research, report writing, contracting consultants and budget management.• Helped to plan and organised NIACE’s contribution to The Skills Show 2013.• Managed NIACE’s ‘Have a Go’ stand at the Skills Show.• Worked in a cross-departmental role.

Leicester, United Kingdom

Working as part of a busy campaigns team, to support the delivery of the flagship campaign, Adult Learners’ Week. Also working to implement other national campaigns and communications activity.This work has included; - overseeing all facets of the creation of a nationally distributed publication; - arranging events, writing risk assessments and method statements, booking venues, etc. - working face to face with the public at promotional events; - copy writing; - data analysis; - and relationship management.