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Edinburgh, Gb

Edinburgh, Gb

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Bath, United Kingdom

Running press, marketing and communications operations for the Abbey during a time of considerable change. Launching a series of highly successful public events to raise funds for the Bath Abbey Footprint Appeal. On a daily basis, producing marketing materials eg. online and print adverts, posters, leaflets, branding exhibitions; keeping the website and social media pages full of compelling content and being the first port of call for journalists and stakeholders.

London, United Kingdom

Promoting the charity's campaigns; working with celebrities, TV crews, journalists and key benefactors to raise the Home's profile. Daily activities: identifying case studies, producing press releases and writing copy for the website and social media pages.

Uk Home Office

Dealing with high profile and challenging issues within one of the busiest press offices in the UK.Key responsibilities:Run national campaigns from concept to execution - set objectives and strategy, identify audiences, channels and key messages.Develop contacts across all media channels - online, trade, specialist, global, national and regional. Bring on board high profile advocates to support campaigns including celebrities, charities and regulatory bodies.Create communications kits and deliver PR advice to Tilley Awards crime fighting partnerships.Create press materials including press notices, web stories, articles, statements, speeches and social media content.Photo opportunities - set up campaign launches and visits. Accompany Ministers on press-calls, interviews and events, verbally briefing them beforehand and acting as a point of contact for the media on location and coordinating interviews.Digital media lead - significantly contribute to social media strategies for a diverse range of campaigns.Run the Home Office website news; writing news stories, sourcing and editing images, tweeting and uploading content on Youtube and Flickr.Experienced member of the out-of-hours on call rota, responding to emergency breaking news and media enquiries on weeknights and weekend shifts. Key achievements:Body Confidence campaign has reached a global audience of over 300 million.11,000 downloads of Body Confidence parent pack in first two days of launch.Number of votes for first ever Tilley Award public vote exceeded target by 100%.Visitor numbers on the Home Office website have increased steadily.Twitter followers have dramatically increased from 11,000 to 39,000 so far.

Uk Home Office

First point of contact for journalists on all breaking news and major developments across Home Office business.Produced concise, targeted media handling advice for the Home Secretary, Home Office Ministers and Prime Minister's Office on a daily basis.Briefed and accompanied Ministers on media visits and interviews. Extradition lead - managed high profile cases such as Abu Hamza. Nurtured relationships with policy colleagues in the Home Office and Foreign Office and key national and international journalists. Key achievements:Secured accurate media coverage of extradition cases.Regularly prevented negative news stories maintaining the reputation of the Home Office.Trained up three new members on Newsdesk, winning praise from senior management.

Regional communications work across a diverse range of government departments and agencies.Key responsibilities:Combined crisis management, proactive work and new business. Managed major incidents; outbreak of Foot and Mouth across the South-East and summer floods. Gained press coverage for clients including the Health and Safety Executive and Maritime Agency and liaised with local authorities and press to raise the profile of COI and gain future business. Sourced spokespeople and case studies for various Government Campaigns e.g. ‘Kill Your Speed', Department for Transport campaign.Produced weekly regional media intelligence briefs for the Prime Minister's office. Key achievements:Foot and Mouth outbreak Surrey - based at Disease Control Centre, Reigate. Managed press for the Prime Minister's visit to the centre, organised regular press conferences, media briefings and photo calls. Resulting press coverage was positive in a time of crisis.2007 Floods - arranged Ministerial visits to relevant sites. Provided briefings, local media intelligence to Minister's team, issued photo calls and press releases, and managed press on site. Resulted in positive reports of government provisions.

Raising the positive profile of the SNP across the UK during the 2007 Scottish election campaign.First point of contact for journalists.Produced press releases for national and regional media.Cultivated relationships with political, regional correspondents and specialist political publications.Wrote a weekly media monitoring report with analysis and associated media handling strategies.Edinburgh SNP HQ for the final stages of the 2007 election campaign. Managed photo calls, accompanied candidates on the campaign trail, and fielded media enquiries.

Sponsored by the four UK government fisheries departments; promotes good quality, sustainable seafood.Produced the company's 2005/06 annual report: Ran a national poster campaign to promote the report.Worked closely with marketing team, graphic designers and printers.Wrote a series of articles for publication in Seafish News, a magazine for trade press and industry

Leading political and current affairs magazine and events company reaching Scotland's key opinion formers with its award winning conferences and editorial.Formed conference ideas from issues dominating the Scottish political agenda. Presented proposals to senior directors for approval, and sold lucrative sponsorship deals to partners.Wrote and published advertising brochures for each conference and convinced high profile speakers to speak for free. Produced two 16-page supplements (Scotland's Health and Education Reform) from initial concept to design and publication.

Supported press office and ministers' offices on contentious issues within the Health and Housing departments. Raised the profile of government funding project for social and housing needs of vulnerable people. Surveyed 32 local authorities and press released the results.Provided briefings to the Minister on NHS waiting lists. Arranged the Minister's summer tours - provided intelligence reports, sourced advocates and projects.Professional awardsHome Office reward for work on 2011 summer riots.ABCD achievement reward for work on Foot and Mouth 2007.

Ba Honours, International Studies

This year's module is DD319: Environmental policy in an international context introduces some key issues and debates in environmental.

Ma Hons, Politics