Emily Bruce Email & Phone Number

Oxford, GB

Oxford, England, United Kingdom

• Primary responsibility for the Alumni Relations events programme, including planning, executing and follow-up of events
• Responsibility for the production and distribution of alumni publications including The Aularian (annual magazine), termly e-news bulletins and other publications where required
• Managing significant budgets for events and publications, ensuring that appropriate administrative procedures are in place
• Together with the Director of Development and the Development and Alumni Relations team, developing an alumni engagement and communication strategy
• Primary responsibility for updating the alumni section of the College website and social networking sites; maintaining events calendars; and reporting of recent events
• Acting as a member of the St Edmund Hall Association Committee attending bi-annual meetings

Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Oxford, England, United Kingdom

• Managed and produced publications for alumni and friends of Merton College, including the College’s Annual Record and Donor Report
• Communications and digital media for the College’s alumni: website management; social media; and producing the College’s termly e-newsletter
• Key part of the College’s 40 years of women celebrations, including interviewing and writing biographies of the women featured
• Assisted with events including online webinars
• Design and print projects, which included event posters; advertisements; event brochures and souvenir programmes; and fundraising appeal cards and brochures
• Volunteer management of the College’s alumni Year Representatives

Oxford, United Kingdom

• Planned a comprehensive alumni events programme during the year; identified and recommended new opportunities for events
• Liaised with the Conference and Events Office and other College departments to book venues, arranging catering and making travel arrangements for key staff attending
• Produced invitations and effectively promoted events
• Attended events and ensured their smooth running
• Monitored the success of events where necessary and applied feedback to implement changes and improvements to the programme
• Produced the biannual Brazen Notes alumni magazine: sourced and wrote articles and liaised with designers, printers and mailing houses

Oxford, United Kingdom

• Assisted in the management of alumni events
• Wrote briefing biographies for all alumni and donor events
• Assisted as required with the creation and distribution of the College's Annual Record and biannual magazine
• Helped to keep the Alumni and Development web pages up to date and regularly updated social media accounts
• Updated alumni records on the College’s database including information from questionnaires, letters and emails
• Managed contacts and data exchanges with the Oxford University Development Office database and the College’s student database

Melbourne, Australia

• Processed donations using the charity's fundraising database
• Dealt with enquiries from donors via phone and email
• End of day banking for donations
• Assisted with the implementation of the charity's Christmas Appeal campaign

Melbourne, Australia

• Put together, designed and sent out newsletters using MailChimp
• Recruited and trained volunteers
• Organised, planned and managed events
• Processed donations
• Membership administration including processing payments
• Provided administrative support to the various teams within the organisation

Oxford, United Kingdom

• Researched potential funders
• Wrote applications to potential funders and reports for existing funders
• Researched opportunities to engage with the political landscape
• Supported with follow ups after meetings with funders and key influentials
• Explored potential for increasing and responding to social media conversations and connections
• Contributed to the charity's social media accounts including Twitter and Facebook

Oxford, United Kingdom

• Liaised with the Business Development team to decide on forthcoming training dates
• Booked trainers, venues and accommodation
• Created booking forms for trainings and ensured the most up to date training dates were on the charity’s website
• Processed training applications
• Managed and sent out pre-training paperwork, including preparing contracts
• Helped the charity with the transition to a new database, including assisting with a data transfer and database developments

Wrote reviews of albums for the print magazine.

Oxford, United Kingdom

• Liaised with PR companies to arrange interviews with artists
• Sent out a list of interview opportunities to reviewers
• Proof read and published posts
• Reviewed concerts and albums, wrote music-related features

Wrote columns and special reports for the features section of the paper.

Oxford, United Kingdom

• Proof read and occasionally wrote the weekly newsletter
• Wrote custom mailshots to specifically targeted audiences
• Scheduled social media marketing posts over both Facebook and Twitter
• Dealt with enquiries via email and telephone from customers buying tickets and clients selling tickets
• Performed admin duties and proof read events as they went on sale

Writing a piece every week on news, current affairs and other lifestyle features for the site from October 2012 until it closed in January 2013.

Oxford, United Kingdom

• Dealt with enquiries over the phone and by email about summer English language courses
• Processed applications in the school's database
• Welcomed students upon arrival

Bachelor Of Arts (Joint Honours), American Studies And English, 2:1

Activities and Societies: University Radio Falmer

Visiting Student, 3.4 Gpa

Year abroad as part of my degree.

3 A Levels, 11 Gcses