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Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Wasps is Scotland’s largest creative community – a charity with a 46-year history providing affordable studio spaces for artists and makers. Wasps now manages 20+ buildings all across Scotland supporting around 1000 creative people, as well as providing support activity to help creators prosper.I work closely with the CEO to deliver the charity’s strategic objectives, leading on the day to day delivery of all business operations. This includes overseeing our Property Management, Project Management and Finance teams, as well as delivering all HR, staff training, occupational health and safety, data protection/security, licensing, business analytics and charitable governance.(Interim Feb 2022 to Aug 2022, then permanent from Aug 2022 onwards)

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Wasps is Scotland’s largest creative community – a charity with a 46-year history providing affordable studio spaces for artists and makers. Wasps now manages 20+ buildings all across Scotland supporting around 1000 creative people, as well as providing support activity to help creators prosper.As Head of Projects, I led Wasps’ internal project management section. I had responsibility for overseeing all capital developments, business efficiency projects, and the arts & enterprise events programme which supports Wasps tenants across the country. Key achievements in this role included the launch of Inverness Creative Academy Phase 2 (£4m) - the first creative hub of its kind in the region. Project details included under the Projects section on my profile.

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Wasps is Scotland’s largest creative community – a charity with a 46-year history providing affordable studio spaces for artists and makers. Wasps now manages 20+ buildings all across Scotland supporting around 1000 creative people, as well as providing support activity to help creators prosper.As Project Development Manager, a core part of the group’s small Projects Team, I managed the day to day delivery of capital build projects to expand Wasps’ estate. This involves close collaboration with architects, contractors, potential tenants and major funding groups. Key achievements in this role were the delivery of Inverness Creative Academy Phase 1 (£2.2m) and Perth Creative Exchange (£4.5m) - project details included under the Projects section on my profile.

London, United Kingdom

Pick Everard is one of the leading, independent and multi-professional property and construction consultancy partnerships in the UK.As an Assistant Project Manager I provide ongoing support to Senior Project Managers on multi-million pound programmes:- Co-ordinating meetings, minute taking, managing the action log- Compiling control documents such as Project Execution Plan- Managing the change control process- Taking ownership of work packages including surveys- Document management and filing- Managing projects in line with the business' Business Management System and Health & Safety Management System- Visiting live construction sites- Contributing to bids for new work

London

Pick Everard is one of the leading, independent and multi-professional property and construction consultancy partnerships in the UK. I look after the business support and financial administration for the London & South East region and as part of this have put in place a number of financial systems to improve tracking and forward financial visibility.- Monitoring and forecasting yearly office income - Collecting and reporting on KPI data from project leads - Tracking profitability of individual jobs and producing reports - handling all regional invoicing and financial queries- supervising health & safety locally- inducting all new staff and co-ordinating health & safety training- Development of office and financial systems including the development of a bespoke integrated 'Fee Manager' and commercial tracker.- Highly skilled in use of MS Word & Excel - Proficient in use of MS Project

London

Askonas Holt is an amalgamation of two long-established and distinguished artists'​ management agencies managing a roster of truly world-class classical instrumentalists, singers and conductors. During my short time at Askonas Holt, I assumed responsibility for the design of their annual brochure to complement their visit to the IAMA (International Artist Managers' Association) conference, and assisted with copy writing and the design of marketing images for their newly launched website.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

I worked with Duddingston Leisure Ltd for a number of years, starting my employment as Bar Staff and leaving as Assistant Manager of a large late-night venue in Edinburgh.- Working within a dedicated management team- Devising marketing strategies and new income streams- Leading a team of up to 60 staff- Technical installation & management- Transforming the venue into a multi-room free comedy space during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe- Co-ordinating repairs and carrying out basic maintenance- Ensuring the venue is well presented at all times- Chair of staff and supervisor committees- Staff recruitment and HR administration- Staff rotas and resource planning- Monitoring KPIs and setting sales targets for staff- Managing and counting high volumes of cash- Managing and delivering ongoing training for all staff covering customer service and consistency of product- Working with venue security to keep the premises safe- Monitoring and recording staff compliance with legislation- Devising and monitoring upselling incentives for staff- Proactively selling the venue for private bookings- Events planning and co-ordination- Fire evacuation co-ordination- Complaint and conflict resolution- Ensuring the venue complies with health & safety law- Collecting and analysing data from in-house systems

Edinburgh

Sourcing information from performers, designing marketing materials and creating strategies to target key audience, to advertise classical music-led events internally and externally of the university.

Master Of Arts (Ma), Creative & Cultural Entrepreneurship

- Intense research of the business climate in London surrounding arts centres, venues and performance spaces - Development of a thorough.

Bmus, Music, First

Activities and Societies: Chamber Choir, Chamber Orchestra, Flute Choir, Concerts Committee, Stage Manager, Solo Performer, Flute Quartet.