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Edinburgh, Gb

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

• Lead, own and manage FCA Innovation’s engagement with external international stakeholders, including at c-suite level.• Build and maintain strong internal relationships, including with c-suite colleagues. • Proactively seek opportunities and create and implement strategies to promote the unique role the FCA plays in the market.• Horizon scan for key innovations and international engagement opportunities.• Work both autonomously and as part of a team, developing and owning sections of the international stakeholder engagement strategy while thinking strategically regarding both team-level and departmental-wide work and priorities. • Organising and coordinating international events. • Manage and deliver high-profile projects that are impactful and demonstrate value for money.• Manage demands from stakeholders and make difficult decisions relevant to competing plans and priorities.• Assess complex situations in autonomy and provide timely recommendations to seniors.• Deliver key messages about complex issues clearly, ensuring that documents are credible, clear, concise, and fit for purpose. • Form judgements about FinTech/innovation issues and problems, and how to solve them, adopting a flexible and pragmatic approach.• Strong oral and presentation skills, with the ability to inspire confidence, remain credible and explain complex concepts to audiences less familiar with the subject matter.• Support and mentor junior colleagues.

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Employed by Ofcom but seconded as Engagement Manager at the Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum (Ofcom, ICO, FCA and CMA), I was charged with authoring and implementing the Forum's engagement strategy with Parliament, government, industry, academia, international, civil society and other regulators to deliver the DRCF’s work plan:• Managing internal relationships with the core team and wider member regulators to implement the DRCF workplan.• Supporting the DRCF CEO at speaking engagements, including background briefings and speech writing.• Representing the DRCF at meetings, events and presentations with senior stakeholders, including ministers, legislators, civil servants and senior industry figures.• Drafting and proofing DRCF documents, including position papers and media outputs.• Understanding the upcoming legislative and technological challenges across the digital remit of the four member regulators;• Protecting and enhancing the reputation of the DRCF and our member regulators.• Organising events such as roundtables and symposia.

London, England, United Kingdom

Implementing TfL’s public affairs strategy through developing and managing successful relationships with Government, Parliament, the London Assembly, other cities, think-tanks, EU institutions and international bodies:• Effectively developing and managing successful relationships assigned bodies to ensure the successful day-to-day delivery of TfL’s public affairs strategy across assigned groups;• Working with colleagues to ensure the effective coordination of activities to support the successful implementation of the public affairs strategy so TfL engages with stakeholders in a joined-up way as a single integrated organisation;• Supporting senior managers to ensure the effective preparation of Executive Committee members and other senior managers to build successful relationships and attend meetings with political and other stakeholders while delivering a consistent pan-TfL message;• Safeguarding TfL’s reputation by actively supporting scrutiny and information sharing processes including Mayor’s Questions, committees, consultations, casework and correspondence relevant to assigned areas to ensure speedy and professional resolution as required;• Representing TfL effectively with assigned stakeholder audiences, resolving issues successfully and sharing feedback with the business to continually improve how we deliver a better service for customers. Provides prompt escalation to drive quick and expeditions resolutions;• Ensuring senior managers and TfL more widely are well-informed about the policy and political environment by effectively monitoring and analysing developments and communicating them in a timely way;• Securing a conducive funding, policy and legislative environment for TfL by working with and supporting senior managers to design and implement campaigns; • Collaborating effectively across public affairs teams, Customers, Communication & Technology and wider TfL to ensure joined-up communication and effective achievement of TfL and Mayoral goals

London, Greater London, United Kingdom

• Providing effective support as specified and required to the relevant senior manager on implementing the public affairs strategy to engage and build relationships with the Mayor’s Office, GLA, the London Assembly, Parliament, MPs, peers and other relevant stakeholders;• Implementing aspects of public affairs engagement activity to support the delivery of the TfL Business Plan and the Mayor’s Transport Strategy; • Providing successful support to manage scrutiny from Parliament and effectively manage systems to log, track and ensure quality and timely responses to correspondence from MPs, AMs, Peers and Ministers as sent to the Mayor/Deputy Mayor, Commissioner of Senior Managers; • Providing effective high-quality draft responses to correspondence, Mayor’s Questions, briefing notes and other written work including submissions to committees;• Being an effective point of contact for MPs, AMs, Peers and Ministers to raise their awareness and advocacy and to ensure their feedback is shared with the appropriate colleagues for consideration;• Providing high-quality support to senior managers and other colleagues within the Government Relations team to help achieve departmental objectives;• Pro-actively working in an open and collaborative manner to build relationships across the entire business.

Houses Of Parliament

This role involved overseeing every part of the MP’s parliamentary activities: • Provided political analysis/advice, devised strategies and liaised with local, national and international press/media;• Drafted press releases, statements, speeches and letters to constituents, organisations, MPs, Peers, Ministers etc.;• Office management, including management of the MP's finances and budget, staff management, diary management and correspondence management;• Conducted detailed research and provided briefings for the MP to use in parliamentary debates, and wrote and tabled parliamentary written and oral question;• Liaised with the secretariats of the two All Party Parliamentary Groups that the Member chairs, organised events, meetings and other functions and publicising the groups' work;• Supported the Member in her role as Shadow Minister for International Development, including writing briefings and suggested questions for the Parliamentary Labour Party to use as Oral Questions, conducting research, creating reports and liaising with the Shadow Ministerial team, NGOs and other stakeholders.

Houses Of Parliament, Westminster

This role was an 8-month Parliamentary Internship in the office of Melanie Onn MP, organised through Crohn's and Colitis UK:• Assisted the Member's researcher with Parliamentary tasks, managed the MP’s diary and responded to correspondence;• Established the All Party Parliamentary Group on Inflammatory Bowel Disease, for which I conducted research, wrote detailed reports, liaised with MPs, Peers and other stakeholders and publicised the group’s work.

Master’S Degree, Mres History

Bachelor’S Degree, History And Politics, First Class

Activities and Societies: Final year course representative