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Manchester, GB

As the Head of Social Media at Thomson Reuters Foundation, I lead the development and implementation of social media strategies and campaigns that amplify the Foundation's mission to advance media freedom, foster more inclusive economies, and promote human rights.

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Successfully establishing and enhancing a social media function, I developed comprehensive and cost-effective packages for the agency's clients. My role involved crafting and implementing both paid and organic social media strategies for businesses in the UK and the United States, resulting in increased brand awareness and lead generation. Additionally, I.

Hertford, England, United Kingdom

• Worked with a wide range of SME clients to deliver best-in-class social media strategy, implementation and management.
• Created and implemented paid and organic social media strategies and execution plans for SMEs.
• Managed Social Media Ad spend and ad deployment across multiple clients.
• Managed and updated client social media accounts (Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook) with organic content and paid ads designed to increase brand awareness and generate leads.
• Reviewed and defined lead generation campaigns to ensure social traffic was tracked and attributed correctly in Google Analytics, leading to a 37% increase in leads and transactions across clients via social media.
• Managed a team of two social media executives, including implementing and reviewing Personal Development Plans, and facilitating further training and professional development.

United Kingdom

• Created and delivered a market development strategy for the UK market, identifying key areas for growth and detailed competitor analytics
• Managed the £500k social media marketing budget, deploying boost posts and dark posts across Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Tik Tok, utilising Facebook’s Actionable Insights platform
• Developed and delivered influencer marketing campaigns, utilising influencers from the tech and lifestyle sector on both a micro and macro level
• Managed and updated core social media accounts (Twitter, Youtube, Instagram, Facebook) with content designed to maximise brand awareness in the UK
• Increased social media engagement by 23% quarter-on-quarter
• Created, planned and executed weekly livestream events featuring influencers and tech experts to Facebook, Twitter and Youtube using streaming software such as restream.io, OBS, Twitch and Zoom.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

A senior role at the West Midlands Combined Authority. Achievements and milestones in this role include- Developing and implementing an integrated digital and social media strategy across the Combined Authority- Developing, and implementing a social media policy that was legally-binding and in-line with all current HR policies and procedures.- Procuring.

London, United Kingdom

A senior social media role at Tribal Worldwide, working on the ExxonMobil account.Responsibilities and achievements:- Managed a pan-European team of community managers and moderators, ensuring that the client receives 24/7 social media customer support. - Managed ExxonMobil’s budget for social media advertising across platforms.- Consulted with the client.

London, United Kingdom

A head of department role at an award-winning account-based marketing agency, I headed up a department and a team of freelancers to provide personal, bespoke B2B social media strategy and implementation to clients within the enterprise sector, representing nine out of the top ten enterprise computing companies.

London, United Kingdom

A challenging and exciting role at the world's largest teaching publication and teaching resource hub, heading up a department responsible for the social media and community management and strategy across our core brand.Having overall responsibility for a multi-platform social media and community presence of over 700,000 people is a huge responsibility.

Manchester, United Kingdom

From the music industry to broadcast media - a 24 hours a day, 7 days a week role. In a way, perfect for social media - a conversational platform across three brands and eight radio stations (national and regional).After conducting an initial audit and a re-structuring of our social profiles, I worked on producing a social media strategy, a social media.

My first role at a major music and lifestyle brand, supporting the internet team at Ministry of Sound with content creation, as well as the planning and implementation of social media strategies.During my time there I helped in growing our substantial social media presence for Ministry of Sound brand’s Facebook (140k+), Twitter (14k+) and Myspace (43k+).

A varied role at a highly successful digital download store, managing and creating site content, liasing with labels to promote their releases on the site and handling customer support enquiries. My responsibilities and achievements for this role include:- The sourcing and creation of unique content, such as exclusive tracks, artist interviews, DJ top tens.

A freelance role at a start-up digital download service, handling the online PR and Marketing for the brand, and artists associated with the brand, in the lead-up to the full launch of the site. My responsibilities and achievements for this role included:- Providing support for the global side of the company by receiving, checking and sending metadata.

A varied role at a Shoreditch-based provider of meta-data to the music industry, Muze Europe. Our clients included Amazon, Play.com and HMV. My duties, achievements and responsibilities for this role included:- Supporting client Amazon.com in generating new customers by providing detailed product reviews and artist biographies of major albums on sale on.

A senior role in a successful independent record label that was set up by myself and four other writers at www.culturedeluxe.com. My responsibilities and achievements for this role include:- Working collaboratively with PR companies to implement a range of strategies to raise the profile of signed artists. - Attending and setting up plugging meetings with.

Senior role at one of the leading online music publications in the UK, with over 20,000 unique visitors per week. Responsibilities and achievements for this role include:- Interviewing artists such as Sway, Jim Noir, Ali Love, Taking Back Sunday, The Metros and Zero 7.- Reviewing and rating albums and live concerts by bands such as Interpol, Bloc Party.

My duties for this role included editing the student publication (The Substandard), updating the union's website and organising promotional material and press coverage for public nights held at the Students' Union bar, including my weekly Friday night residency.