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Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

Value & delivery-focussed agile team providing strategic insight aligned with institutional objectives to senior decision makers. Nurturing & consolidating requirements gathered from diverse stakeholders & addressing with practical & creative data-driven solutions in collaboration with IT. Led team on EDI workstream including project design, vision & roadmap, data integration, actionable analysis & reporting, monitoring & training for non-specialist users. Introduced continual implementation/feedback loop following extensive consultation on changing requirements across institution at multiple levels while navigating complex governance. Advising diverse working groups on risk, modelling, qualitative & quantitative data capture design & evaluation. Rapidly resolving critical & high-risk queries independently & through wide network. Creating & deploying scalable data standards.In addition:Senate representative | Attendance at quarterly institutional senate meetings, shaping academic strategy & current sector issues. CDP training coordinator | Coordinating & co-delivering regular competency-based data training for >500 staff across the institution.

Cardiff

Coordinating, interpreting & actioning freedom of information requests to legal deadlines within a team, including collaboration with senior executives across all areas of the University & data reporting with recommendations. Policy research & formulation with internal & external stakeholders. HE data quality assurance, manipulation, analysis & reporting for diverse audiences. Proactively managing projects surrounding EDI, safeguarding & staff training.

London, United Kingdom

Lecturing, coordinating & mentoring individuals/groups of <150 undergraduate /postgraduate students in the field, laboratory and classroom. Pastoral care of new students, chairing committees, taking minutes and hosting guest speakers, designing and marking exams and coursework. Unsupervised time & deadline management, and frequent co-ordination with colleagues. All associated administration including data analysis and liaising with multiple internal and external staff, academics, professional services and stakeholders, across disciplines and departments.

Finnmark County, Norway

Assistance & delivery of marketing strategy to maximise client uptake. Designing, planning, supervising and publishing a 5-week programme of scientific fieldwork undertaken by 70 16-19-year olds in remote Arctic Norway. Compliance with international standards & crisis management.

Data entry and manipulation as part of a team. Managing small projects with complex circumstances.

Kingswinford

General customer service (telephone and face-to-face), administration and legal compliance checks.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Experimental Glacial Geophysics, Passed

Extensive research, writing, and project management including creation of novel protocols for dealing with cutting edge hardware &.

Pgce, Secondary Geography, Outstanding

Creative planning, adaptable teaching, innovative assessment and practical feedback given to students & parents under significant &.

Msc, Glaciology, Pass With Distinction

Independent dissertation (20,000 words; 81%): The application of X-ray three-dimensional computed tomography to debris-rich basal ice..

Bsc, Geography & Earth Sciences, 1St Class

Dissertation title: “Constructing destruction: post-tsunami rebuilding in the developing world.” Open scholarship (based on written exam).

Education record

5 A-levels A-E, 11 GCSEs A*-B (A in maths and English)