Gary Almond Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

• Developing strategic and informative internal communications and employee engagement campaigns, ensuring they align with the business goals, company values and branding guidelines
• Conceptualizing and managing campaigns with internal stakeholders to ensure material meets objectives and is delivered via the appropriate channels in a timely and cost-effective manner
• Working at all levels of the business; partnering with the regional President on quarterly town halls content and delivery, the Executive Committee on regional business announcements, the Legal and HR departments on.
• Awarded a Silver Recognition Award for a communications campaign promoting a Sports & Social fundraising event, which attracted record employee engagement and raised more than £30,000 for the bank’s UK charity partner
• Managing the intranet news pages; sourcing, scheduling and producing articles, graphics, interactive elements and photo albums
• Collating statistics of intranet viewing figures and campaign measurables for analysis and legacy reporting

London, United Kingdom

• Managed the entire editorial and design processes involved in developing illustrated reference titles as well as coordinating with other internal departments in production, marketing and sales
• Liaised with external stakeholders on custom projects commissioned on business needs or wider consumer trends, ensured the projects were produced in a targeted manner appropriate to audience and timing
• Worked on multiple different projects simultaneously, in charge of a team of five in-house staff, editors and designers, controlled workloads, project budgets and timelines
• Edited and proofread all materials at various stages of production, conducted design checks to proofs and plotters, and created original copy for book introduction pages and covers, as well as briefs to freelance.

Kampala, Uganda

• Managed relationships with international organizations including Save the Children, Oxfam, Goal, Unicef and DFID on international development and education projects
• Developed creative briefs, timelines and budget proposals based on stakeholder objectives, then ensured briefs were adhered to throughout the creative and production process
• Monitored and evaluated the effectiveness of projects and presented results to donors and partners in Europe and the USA via company reports
• Suited my interest in exploring new channels and challenged perceived wisdoms for communications

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom