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Role overview: Teaching & Learning: Delivering high-quality lectures, seminars and workshops to undergraduate and postgraduate students, underpinned by modular learning outcomes.Module Leadership: Creating contemporary teaching materials, writing assessments, collaborating with overseas partners, management of workshop tutors. I have also updated current modules and built innovative modules for new programmes.Dissertation Supervision: Coaching postgraduate students throughout their research project journey from initial proposals to final submission. Assessment: Marking of assessments in line with assessment policy and providing quality feedback and feed-forward, mindful of assessment criteria. I have also created various assessment briefs for both on-campus and for transnational education partners.Personal Academic Tutoring: Providing pastoral care to students throughout their time at the university. This can range from academic guidance to sign-posting students to the correct departments to best suit their needs. I have also coached students with live client projects to build their resumes and portfolios. Student Recruitment: Delivery of taster sessions to Year 10 – Year 12 students which has included workshops, competitions and summer schools. I have also represented the marketing & digital team at university open days, liaising with potential students and their guardians.

Sunderland, England, United Kingdom

Role overview: Operations: Managing a large team of both team members and supervisors. A typical day would include delivering a high level of customer service, banking significant amounts of cash and ensuring the business is always fully compliant with health and safety regulations. Other aspects included scheduling film times and completing film projection responsibilities i.e., digitally programming required advertisements, appropriate trailers, house lights and the film. Marketing: Overseeing, approving and advising on all marketing activities completed by the marketing supervisor. Liaising with film distributors and local partners to create robust marketing activities targeted towards a variety of demographics.Human Resources: Rostering a large team, tracking sickness, payroll management and conducting meetings as required in line with company and Acas policies. I also have copious experience of planning creative recruitment drives for both group and one-to-one interviews.Retail: Sourcing, implementing and marketing new retail products for the cinema. Team member targets were set on a regular basis, with regular management of staff incentives to ensure key performance indicators were met.

Leicester Square, London

Role Overview:Digital: General management of the brand’s social media platforms in line with brand guidelines. A highlight of which included creating social media content live from the red-carpet. This included UK, European and World premieres of upcoming films. Strategy: Formulating marketing strategies and completing action plans for the marketing director. This often involved collaboration with film distributors such as Disney, Warner Bros, Universal Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox. This aspect of the role also involved building and maintaining relationships with local partners whilst working closely with them throughout marketing campaigns.Branding: Regular representation of the brand at film distributor slate presentations and film conferences. Sourcing and co-ordinating in-house and external promotional materials relevant to film scheduling. Communications: Writing articles about the cinema for local press outlets such as London Underground Magazine. Responsibility for the production and distribution of the monthly Empire Jnrs newsletter and The Reel Review (film reviews).

London Area, United Kingdom

Role overview: • Writing well researched, accurate copy in required house style.• Attending and representing the brand at events including film premieres and multimedia screenings.• Providing quotes for marketing materials which have been credited on posters and trailers.• Pitching appropriate and creative feature ideas.• Developing industry contacts and maintaining relationships.• Writing high quality reviews of film, theatre and restaurants.• Regular attendance at press screenings.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Marketing (Part-Time)

Keywords: Masculinity; Marketing; Metamodernism; Subculture; Strategy; Quantitative; Qualitative; Brand Equity; Product Anatomy

Master Of Arts - Ma, Marketing

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Magazine Journalism