Beth Thomas (Events Manager) Email & Phone Number

Bristol, Gb

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

To oversee the successful development and implementation of Employer & Events Management for all Employment Support Programmes.-Strategic development, operational planning, monitoring and controlling all aspects of events (and employer) management.-Lead on innovative new events to benefit individuals and local communities, in particular Bristol’s most excluded and marginalised communities facing barriers to work.-Create robust and inclusive event management plans, risk assessments and site plans for a wide range of engaging events- ranging in scale from community 'Drop In' events to large scale Job Fairs.-Achieving the programme objectives and targets within defined schedules, costs, quality improvements and performance parameters.-Identifying and securing all resource requirements, including efficient budget monitoring, contract management and negotiations, and fund raising to sustain the programmes of activity.-Promoting the departments programmes through proactive marketing, partnership working, customer led services, communication and reporting with all key stakeholders and motivating all those involved.-Create and implement an engagement strategy to the wider council, to support the development of bespoke and inspirational employment support and promote future career development for the city’s residents and employers.-Identify opportunities for process improvements across the events and implement best practices.-Develop and sustain strong working relationships across the Council and with partners, a wide range of agencies, relevant stakeholders and community groups to lead on the promotion of employment and skills programmes to guarantee that all programmes are delivered with high quality outcomes and within agreed priorities.-Represent the council externally at network meetings, developing important partnership collaborations and progress new programmes of work.

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

-Creation of the project and the team, processes and CRM database. People management and direct report to project team members.-Built and developed networks of employers and ensured good working relationships were established with existing networks.-Recruited employers and support job fairs which were inclusive and accessible for all equalities groups.-Worked in partnership with a wide range of agencies to ensure local job and training opportunities were maximised, particularly in the city’s disadvantaged communities and amongst groups under-represented.-Proactively engaged with employers and provided bespoke support to develop and recruit hard to fill roles through the development of good quality work experience programmes, traineeships, apprenticeships and job development.-Worked across the Council and with external partners, stakeholders and community groups to promote the project, ensuring that opportunities are available to residents and businesses in deprived communities.

Wales

Wales & West-Delivered training/coaching to Lifeboat Stations, Lifeguards, Managers and Volunteers, ensuring the end users are able to work effectively and as an efficient team and are trained to an excellent standard.-Developed and maintained strong relationships with volunteer crew, fundraising communities and paid members of staff from various backgrounds, acting as a key link in motivating and empowering them to engage with the systems and overall vision of the RNLI.-Collaboratively worked on various RNLI Projects (e.g. CRM, SHE, TRiM, Risk Assessments, Safeguarding) to develop systems and drive improvements- creating, testing and deploying key Project Management documents whilst steering the policy and practice of each project.-Organised and volunteered at large scale fundraising activities and events for the RNLI to promote and connect the larger community. Examples of events include the Wales 3 Peak Challenge, May Day 60K, Mumbles 10k RNLI Run.-Represented the RNLI at national events (i.e. Pride Cymru) working with the Marketing and F2F -Fundraising team to generate new memberships, legacy and philanthropy donations and engage new supporters.

Swansea, United Kingdom

Take That Project-Established & launched a Charity Shop based in Swansea, helping the Charity to integrate into the local community.-Recruited and managed vulnerable young people and volunteer mentors to engage and participate in the Agored Cymru accredited 'Take That' work experience project, focusing on young people who are at risk of social/geographical exclusion, and/or have additional learning needs.-Worked directly with the Director and Board of Trustees to plan and implement sustainable activity to secure the projects longer term future.-Planned and networked at Local Aid events, Workshops and various other activities to maximize community engagement and outreach throughout Swansea/Neath area. -Networked with job centres, charities, volunteer forums, schools and colleges to raise awareness of project and receive participant referrals.-Ensured the day to day smooth running of the project and assist with the monitoring and evaluation of the project, including undertaking baseline assessments on young people to track progress during each placement.-Maintained all budgets, external communications, accounts, marketing, endorsements and allocated budget of Take That project.-Created the marketing and engagement strategies and continuously sought opportunities for improvement of project, regularly updating the website and social media sites.

Bristol, United Kingdom

Smart Outbound Team-Managed the day to day running of the team (up to 27 full time team members) to include leading meetings, 121’s, coaching, monitoring and managing performance. Used various engagement techniques to drive team performance towards desired targets.-Integral member of the Social and Engagement Committee in OVO Energy organising company-wide events to a wide range of audiences i.e. wellbeing sessions, hosting community talks. -Organised and delivered a successful programme with The Prince’s Trust to offer young people a role within my team, to help combat local unemployment, resulting in offering 7 out of 8 of them a paid role. Organised a large-scale celebration day for the successful participants including special guests & an award ceremony open to whole company and family/friends.-Led disciplinaries, investigations and terminations of employment and supported other managers taking minutes in similar meetings.-Managed all the recruitment and on boarding process for a large number of new starters, developing the training materials & delivering the training for all new starters.-Internally promoted to become Polarstern Team Manager (secondment position whilst required) with 10 full time direct reports.

Bristol, United Kingdom

South Wales

-Teaching Primary School children in after school clubs, assemblies and at parties/events-Covering a range of scientific topics as part of the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) initiative-Interaction with children and hands-on learning approach, undertaking experiments in a safe and controlled manner

-Carried out practical conservation and environmental work to improve green spaces-Cut back invasive plants in areas surrounding Bristol as they were having a negative effect on environment, undertook habitat management of areas-Worked effectively as part of a team, and as a team leader

Event Management, Event Management, Diploma

Activities and Societies: Event Crowd Diploma in Events Management (Level 4 Equivalent), recognised by the Chartered Institute.

Bsc (Hons) Conservational Biology, Conservation Biology, 2:1

Activities and Societies: Conservation Volunteer for TCP Bristol •Conservation Volunteering involved creating habitats and preserving.

Human Biology, Chemistry, Welsh Baccaloureate