Providing support to the Policy team across a range of projects and workstreams including grant-making, coordinating research, policy development, statutory assessments, consultation responses and reporting.Manages the Sustainable Communities Fund - Environment Grants for Crown Estate Scotland tenants.Works on the Value Project of Crown Estate Scotland (https://www.crownestatescotland.com/our-projects/value-project)Lead for the organisation's biodiversity reporting.Supporting the implementation of our Climate Change Action Plan and coordinating internal reporting on completion of our organisation's annual compliance emissions report.Helping to coordinate implementation of our Equality Diversity and Inclusion planSupporting the management of our Children and Young People’s Forum

I worked on the Active Communities Volunteering which supports volunteers across Scotland to deliver practical activities in their communities to make it easier for people to walk, cycle and wheel, e.g. learn to cycle, cycle skills and led walks and rides. This provides a programme of practical training to ensure our volunteers have the skills they need to run these activities safely and to promote them locally. The programme also utilises practical insights and tips from behaviour change and social change theory are incorporated into the design and promotion of these activities.Recruited new volunteers, set up new volunteer groups, and provide day-to-day management and support for volunteers.Focus on skilling volunteers to support behaviour change and create social change in their communities and on diversifying volunteer training and the range of volunteer activities Sustrans support.Sustrans is the charity making it easier for people to walk and cycle. We connect people and places, create liveable neighbourhoods, transform the school run and deliver a happier, healthier commute. Sustrans works in partnership, bringing people together to find the right solutions. We make the case for walking and cycling by using robust evidence and showing what can be done. We are grounded in communities and believe that grassroots support combined with political leadership drives real change, fast.Sustrans works closely with communities, the Scottish Government, local authorities and other partners to ensure that the people of Scotland have access to a network of safe walking and cycling routes; making Scotland a healthy, happy place to live, work, and play.

Undertook policy research and analysis to support the production of organisational position statements and corporate responses to external consultations, and provided advice to colleagues on policy developments within Scottish Government and Parliament, specifically with relation to climate change and sustainability.Provide briefings, discussion papers, and reports for members of staff across the organisation on particular issues which are related to our work. For example, The Scottish Government’s Climate Change Plan; Scottish Household Survey; comparing our response to consultations with the analysis of responses report; briefings for staff on MSPs for political engagement discussions; National Performance Framework; and supporting the development of work in the Place Standard which the organisation is undertaking with groups.Support the organisation’s ongoing implementation with the UN Sustainable Development Goals – attending relevant meetings, such as the SDG Scotland Network, and help in implementing the Goals throughout the organisation’s work.Monitored and raised any developments in policy and legislation at a Scottish, UK, and European level which may indirectly or directly impact on the organisation’s work.Recorded all organisational political engagement activity in relevant databases.Supported the Communications Manager to draft relevant social media content and develop and post intranet and internet updates and website copy.

Administered The Stirling Internship Programme which engages with internal and external stakeholders.Assisted the Employer Team with administrative tasks supporting their work engaging with employers.Liaised with previous and current interns, as part of the Programme, for the creation of case studies, gathering feedback, and interviewing previous interns for future webpage and publications.Helped to organise, run, and evaluate events including 4 Careers Fairs and individual sessions on specific careers-related topics.Contributed to the design of the new Internship and Employer webpages.Designed a contact database for the Employer Team to use to make it easier to collate information.I have also taken up the initiative to help other colleagues with technical matters which I have picked up upon during my numerous volunteering placements.

Temporary work experience position.Managed the day-to-day operations of the organisation through dealing with correspondence, collating information, and writing reports, ensuring decisions made are communicated to the relevant charitable company stakeholders.Ensured that all organisational operations were conducted in a correct, cost effective, and timely manner.

When I am back home in Wick on university breaks (summer, mid-semesters and semester ends), I work part-time in my family-run public houses, The Camps Bar and the Mountain Dew Bar as a bartender.Occasionally manage the pub from time to time when home, if required.I also help with stock and cellar management. I am good at interacting with customers: tourist or regulars. I enjoy meeting new people, especially tourists, and telling them about the local heritage of the town and interacting with them about their journeys.