Claire Colburn Mba, Mcipr Email & Phone Number

Haywards Hearh

Falmer, England, United Kingdom

Brighton, United Kingdom

I am responsible managing all Placements, Internships and work experience programmes at the University of Sussex. The Placements function at Sussex was entirely new and I and my team developed systems and processes to ensure the smooth running of this new option for students. I also have responsibility for facilitating (paid) internships and work.

I set up and expanded a programme of internships for undergraduate Physics students at seven Universities in the South-East. Responsibilities included-Developing and maintaining good working relationships with a diverse team of staff in widespread locations-Employer engagement-Reporting and evaluating the project for HEFCE-Managing an annual budget of.

I was a member of the Southern Railways Stakeholder Advisory Board. At the bimonthly meetings chaired by the Managing Director, I contribute to critiquing the service and helping to developing ideas about improvement. Topics are as diverse as franchising, marketing, equality of access, managing refurbishment, app development and crisis plans during major.

Working in the regional Corporate Relations team, I had a wide range of responsibilities. These included:-Initiating and developing the regional staff email newsletter-Internal and external stakeholder management-Developing crisis communications (for example during flood warnings)-Sourcing and procuring promotional materials-Managing the regional flood.

Sourced and wrote stories for the University's fortnightly newsletter, the Bulletin. Responsibilities included:-Writing and editing articles-Quality control of audience-appropriate news-Web content management-Design and layout of the printed newsletter -Adapting the content for the web-Mass emails

I stood for election in 2007 and retained my seat in 2009.For this post I needed to actively campaign at a local level. This included developing and distributing marketing material adhering to the strict election rules; managing a team of volunteers to campaign on my behalf; having a good knowledge of the issues affecting the residents of the area.During.

I wrote and commissioned articles for two international engineering trade magazines. I initiated and improved several new features for the titles, including replacing an outdated 'Literature Review' with a 'Web review', pulling together and exploring useful and relevant sites on the internet.I developed and wrote content, and undertook the picture editing.

Astrophysics Bsc, Physics, 2:1

Activities and Societies: Actively involved in the student radio station, Rare FM. Planned, edited and presented several weekly.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business And Management

Overall grade - Merit Selected Modules Managing People and Organisations - Distinction Information Systems, Operations and Process.

Postgraduate Diploma, Public Relations, Merit

Activities and Societies: Independent learning, group learning and peer discussion. Sustaining global network of fellow.