David Bowden Email & Phone Number

Lancaster

• Facilitating Strategy weekly team meetings and monthly governance meetings.• Holding elections for different roles as and when required.• Developed and implemented a weekly reflection process to ensure ongoing team effectiveness.• Initiated and implemented a review of governance processes, including a review of Strategy team structure.

Lancashire, England, United Kingdom

• Leading project on developing a vision of the future for ATT to provide guidance for our grand objective and strategic milestones.• Running a team of volunteers conducting research into different sections of UK society to build a comprehensive vision.• Consulting widely across the animal rights movement and beyond for input and guidance on what our vision ought to include.• Researching leading ideas in the animal rights movement and other social justice movements to apply to our vision.

Lancaster

• Created report on the rights of children, devolution, and the Future Generations Commissioner within the UK and highlighted lessons and applicability for Animal Freedom strategy.• Developing campaign methodology, strategy and milestones for our grand objective.• Researching the US and UK abolition movements for lessons to apply to organising for Animal Freedom.• Contributed to conceptualising grassroots organising methodology and structure.• Contributed to conceptualising and developing our grand objective and strategic milestones.• Enabling strategic thinking across ATT.

• Created and developed a local organising group structure for an animal rights social movement.• Created and developed local organising group processes ranging from roles to norms to policies.• Conceptualising a national network of local organising groups working together for Animal Freedom.• Creating and developing innovative governance structures to assist in decision making for local organising groups within a national organising network.• Undertook a variety of consultations from the Leading Change Network, to the Sunrise Movement and Animal Rising amongst others to inform local and national organising group structure.• Worked within the Community Organising Team to implement a community organising structure capable of recruiting, training and developing grassroots activists.

Lancaster

• Conducted a series of internal consultations of our compensation system and volunteer processes.• Created a detailed report of consultations for Directors and presented report findings for the rest of ATT.• Produced recommendations for alternative compensation system and volunteer processes based on research from a variety of sources.• Implemented a new compensation system alongside creating new roles, policies and structures for our volunteer processes.

Lancaster

• Scheduled regular team meetings and monthly governance meetings.• Captured meeting outputs and documented next actions for team members.• Ensured implementation of the team constitution and acted as arbiter in disagreements over its implementation when necessary.

Lancaster

• Reserved reservations via phone and email across Europe and North America worth thousands of pounds per month.• Assisted customers with general inquiries, booking questions and account queries.• Managed customer data within internal database and integrated external third party databases with our own.• Ensured customer complaints were dealt with promptly and resolved to the satisfaction of all parties.

Warrington

• Ran food and waited tables in fast paced environment.• Cleaned bar, restaurant area and other parts of the establishment as needed.• Took bookings and managed table seating.

Lancaster

• Assisted with Lancaster University's PPR department's MINDout program bringing philosophy to schools and colleges across Lancashire.• Facilitated group discussions on philosophical subjects.• Coached and supported groups to give presentations on what they had learned.• Educated groups on aspects of philosophical thought and history.

Warrington

• Cataloged, collected and packaged shipping orders for customers across the UK.• Managed time to meet end of day and weekly order quotas.• Multi-tasked between different types of orders varying in size, quantity and value.

Warrington, England, United Kingdom

• Coached and trained children in various sports ranging from football, to archery to dodge ball at sports themed summer camps.• Assisted running sports themed birthday parties.• Safeguarded children in my care and liaised with parents as and when necessary.

Warrington

• Maintained lawn, surrounding bushes and trees, ensuring good care of property grounds.• Undertook ad hoc maintenance tasks as and when required.• Ensured equipment was regularly maintained and in good working order.

Master'S Degree, Philosophy, Distinction

Bachelor'S Degree, Philosophy, First Class Honours