I am the Strategic Project Manager for the King’s First Year Project - an initiative which seeks to provide all first-year undergraduates with a transitional learning and community building experience which equips them with the tools and knowledge necessary to succeed.

Working closely with students to understand how their expectations of university meets the reality. Creating space for meaningful conversations with students from all backgrounds to understand how they learn most effectively. Creating practical and experiential opportunities to support learning and foster a sense of community and belonging. Working to ensure that the university experience is memorable and worthwhile.

During my final year of undergraduate study.• Having interned at Heat and Empire magazines, I was invited back to the former as an Editorial Assistant having impressed due to my administrative proficiency and punctuality. • Duties included general office management, organising of conference rooms, diary management, booking venues and cars for interviews and shoots, conducting interviews and transcriptions, writing web content, liaising with directors, taking internal and external calls,… Show more During my final year of undergraduate study.• Having interned at Heat and Empire magazines, I was invited back to the former as an Editorial Assistant having impressed due to my administrative proficiency and punctuality. • Duties included general office management, organising of conference rooms, diary management, booking venues and cars for interviews and shoots, conducting interviews and transcriptions, writing web content, liaising with directors, taking internal and external calls, responding to reader emails, and organising magazine competition content.• Highlight: Visiting the X Factor house and interviewing the eventual winners of the 2011 contest as a reward from the Editor for my work. This role demonstrates my ability to work to tight deadlines given the magazine is a weekly publication, as well as my ability to impress in clerical roles, prioritise tasks, source materials, and speak and write to a high standard of English, while understanding the tone of a magazine’s unique voice. Show less

Job Description:• Responsibility for the welfare of staff, students, and the venue in a front and back-of-house capacity, including excellent and consistent customer-service standards, maintenance of a clean and hospitable environment, ensuring a safe and secure, stimulating and relaxing experience for the university’s personnel.• Back-of-house duties entailed rota production for a staff cohort of 25, bringing the £80,000p/w venue in on budget in terms of labour and financial forecasts,… Show more Job Description:• Responsibility for the welfare of staff, students, and the venue in a front and back-of-house capacity, including excellent and consistent customer-service standards, maintenance of a clean and hospitable environment, ensuring a safe and secure, stimulating and relaxing experience for the university’s personnel.• Back-of-house duties entailed rota production for a staff cohort of 25, bringing the £80,000p/w venue in on budget in terms of labour and financial forecasts, stocks and stocktaking, health and safety, COSHH, and fire safety training, staff training, and proficiency with financial systems Agresso and Total Control, staff discipline, office management and meticulous clerical organisation.• Highlight: Simultaneously managing the venue on a near full-time basis (30+ hours per week) and maintaining and achieving a 1st Class Honours as top of my class, demonstrating my time-management skills and tenacious and determined work ethic. Show less

During my final year of undergraduate study.Interviewer and content provider for popular music, entertainment, and celebrity culture website entertainmentwise.com. This acted as a means of gaining experience in a journalistic field. I was sent to interview a variety of pop music stars such as Cher Lloyd, The Wanted, and Katherine Jenkins. As with most journalistic fields, the role required asking the right questions in the right manner in order to make for a good story. One particular… Show more During my final year of undergraduate study.Interviewer and content provider for popular music, entertainment, and celebrity culture website entertainmentwise.com. This acted as a means of gaining experience in a journalistic field. I was sent to interview a variety of pop music stars such as Cher Lloyd, The Wanted, and Katherine Jenkins. As with most journalistic fields, the role required asking the right questions in the right manner in order to make for a good story. One particular aspect which I found challenging but enjoyable was handling and adapting to the interview when stars had become tired of the press junket and would become disagreeable and distracted. The interviews would then be transcribed and uploaded to the site in the correct style with attractive headlines and appropriate illustrations. Show less

Job Description:• Bar, restaurant, and events manager.• Ensuring top-class service and the provision of a unique dining, drinking, and social experience in one of Newcastle’s leading hospitality venues.• As events co-ordinator and operator, I was responsible for booking and running a variety of events, including weddings (ceremony through to reception), graduations, corporate dinners, business meetings, music events and comedy stores (thus developing a sound AV knowledge). This role… Show more Job Description:• Bar, restaurant, and events manager.• Ensuring top-class service and the provision of a unique dining, drinking, and social experience in one of Newcastle’s leading hospitality venues.• As events co-ordinator and operator, I was responsible for booking and running a variety of events, including weddings (ceremony through to reception), graduations, corporate dinners, business meetings, music events and comedy stores (thus developing a sound AV knowledge). This role was significant for developing my managerial instincts and abilities, cultivating a working environment in which staff and management developed a mutual respect and passion for the venue and its potential.• Events often required a great deal of forward thinking, planning, and on-the-spot autonomous thought and delegation in high-pressure environments.• Highlight: After much campaigning, I secured the venue as the host for the internationally renowned industry magazine CLASS’ World’s Best Bartender cocktail competition. This was the result of developing excellent working relationships with brand ambassadors and a belief in the venue’s potential. Based on my outgoing personality and confidence in public speaking, I acted as compere for this event. Having impressed in doing so, I was invited by the magazine to host to following round in Glasgow. Show less