Supporting the Health, Population & Methods Directorate

Communications Officer for the Strategic Communications team - Central Comms division.

Social Media Officer for the Census 2021 Campaign

Supports internal and external stakeholder engagement by coordinating divisional communication activities, organising conferences, maintaining stakeholder documentation, improving ways teams collaborate and work together, identifying learning needs and arranging training.

As PA to the Head of Engineering Operations, Service Support, I worked as part of the Department leadership team working directly with the senior managers to enable them to effectively manage their teams in the delivery of operational engineering services to operational users at Swanwick, Prestwick, NATS Corporate & Technical Centre (CTC) and the Remote Sites.

• Secured and briefed world-class international speakers for Vistage Open Days. • Managed their bookings and itineraries and acted as their main point of contact during the events. • Responsible for marketing 30 Open Days per year and updated content and images on Vistage website. • Created and sent a monthly Events Bulletin to over 2000 contacts.• Provided effective use of social media to promote the events.• These regional conferences attract up to 300 CEOs, MDs, business leaders and their teams and are designed to help members gain new perspectives and insights into a variety of topics including leadership, finance, marketing and sales.

Assisted a network of field-based International Trade Advisors (ITAs) with managing their portfolio of clients and identifying potential lead opportunities. Provided accurate reports and management information on the performance of the team against targets across all areas of service delivery. Fed into weekly and monthly performance dashboards and supported ongoing pipeline.

Worked within the Client Community 2 Live Experience team on the planning and delivery of a week-long Healthcare/Pharma Congress in London. This was a short-term contract.

Supported the Chamber in achieving its key strategic priorities including building the sales capacity of the organization, growing membership, improving member engagement and member retention rates, and diversifying revenue streams which helped to future-proof the organization.Contributed to the British Chamber being awarded 'British Chamber of the Year' in 2011 and 2013, and first place for 'Excellence in Membership Development' in 2011 by COBCOE (Council of British Chambers of Commerce in Europe).

Responsible for the management and development of the chamber’s EU policy task forces and events programme, building the engagement with members and securing significant sponsorship income and contributing to a growing membership.Planned and managed the programme of events and activities concerning policy issues with the leaders of committees and task forces to ensure a value added programme for members and achievement of agreed financial targets.Produced timely and accurate management information for all EU policy activities, managed income targets, investigated shortfalls in performance and instigated appropriate corrective action.Maximised sponsorship income for policy events and activities by understanding the needs and priorities of members and potential sponsor companies.Supervised trainees to ensure that the strategy, plans, prescribed tasks and activities were delivered on time and within budget. Developed and maintained effective relationships with Committee, task force leaders, members, potential sponsors, government and EU institutions including elected politicians.Contributed to member development by supporting recruitment and retention of members, further development of member services, best practice, effective communications and feedback

Established the IoD Belgium branch, through project managing the branch´s first major high-level conference in Brussels for 100+ participants on the ‘Cultural Differences in Leadership’. In addition, arranged a successful visit to Brussels for the IoD’s former Director General, Miles Templeman, including a dinner with HMA British Ambassador to Belgium and senior business leaders.