Holly Holman (Bsc, Pgce) Email & Phone Number

England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Research facilitator and executive assistant to the head of a busy research team. I look after a team of approximately 40 people. My role is to facilitate all aspects of academic and clinical research. Main responsibilities include: pre- and post-award grant management; budget planning, reporting and management, office management, HR management (recruitment, contract extensions), meeting and event planning, general EA support (diary management, travel arrangements, minute taking etc.). Balancing and prioritising these responsibilities to meet deadlines is completely autonomous. I have to be mindful of the different departments involved in task completion and advise on realistic lead times. Our investigators are often involved in multi-centre studies; I am required to communicate with our external collaborators and balance this with my team's needs when facilitating research activities. This role requires strong project management, IT and communication skills.

Blairgowrie, Scotland, United Kingdom

Assistant to the Master Distiller. Assisting with distillation runs (botanical and wash preparation, tails cut off and resting & storage). Bottling (cutting gin to bottling strength, preparation and filling of bottles, start up and shutdown of semi-automatic bottling line). Duty reconciliation (record of LPA for each distillation run & bottling). Production stock inventory (stock take and record keeping plus using these figures to forecast usage and inform ordering). Leading the company's SALSA efforts (Small and Local Supplier Accreditation). Understanding of Food Safety, HACCP and CCPs. Creating and collating required documentation to meet awarding body standards. Customer service (distillery tours, gin tasting experience, shop cover, packing orders, off-site events).

Chislehurst, Greater London

Main position: Secondary school science teacher (KS3, KS4 & KS5; 11-18). GCSE chemistry specialist. Additional roles: Form tutor (pastoral) Main duties: - Delivery of technical content to exam board specification (and therefore national curriculum standard). Facilitating pupil progress in science based on individual learning needs and targets.Extensive lesson planning to deliver technical content in an appropriate and engaging way.Data recording and analysis to assess pupil progress.Using data to inform lesson planning. Report writing.Regular communication with parents (either as a form tutor or subject teacher); emails, phone calls & face to face meetings.Attending and actively engaging in whole school and department meetings.Supporting school promotion by taking an active role in open days and evenings as well as induction days for new students.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for the effective and efficient day-to-day management and organisation of the HoD’s activities and business. This includes:Acting as the main point of contact for the HoD, Complex diary management, Drafting correspondence, Organising and supporting high-level senior meetings and events, Minute-taking, Report/ presentation writing, Assisting in the preparation of papers, Making travel arrangements, Organising conference attendance, Set up and maintenance of an electronic and office-based filing system,Organise and oversee recruitment for academics.Build and maintain good working relationships with other HoD’s, Departmental Business Managers, CAG team members, Professional Services (Research Grants, HR, and Finance) and senior managers across the College, Assist with online manuscript submission and downloading of manuscripts as well as literature searches, PURE, Open Access.Skills:ProactiveExceptional organisational, prioritisation and communication skills. Use initiative to prioritise and manage complex tasks and diary arrangements. Confident in working independently, as well as being a strong team player. Strong analytical and numerical skills.Research grant administration:Work one-to-one with academics as assigned by the Business Manager, and coordinate all their grant submissions: facilitate communication between academics and other staff, collate supporting documentation, obtain information about costings, liaise with Research Grants Office, complete internal research grant approval forms and ensure that applications are submitted for approval and review by the business manager and Research Grants in a timely fashion. Act as first point of contact for the Research Grants Office throughout the submissions process for all grant applications as well as post-award management of grants.

London, United Kingdom

Key administrator in a busy research team looking after several smaller research teams under the KCMHR umbrella.Greatest achievement in-post:I coordinated the high profile Veteran’s Mental Health Conference (200 delegates, mainly external attendees). HRH Prince Harry attended this conference, which posed extra challenges during the organisation of the event, all of which I met head on and with success.Financial duties: Invoicing - payment of invoices and raising sales invoices to receive income, Purchasing - use of college e-procurement system, Use of EAS finance reporting tool to oversee the conference budgetDepartmental organisation:Scheduling team meetings whilst remaining mindful of the changing commitments of the team members, Minute-taking for these meetings,Coordinating travel arrangements for senior staff members,Overseeing the administration for recruitmentTechnical responsibilities and public engagement:Website management – use of Contensis to update and maintain web page contentOverseeing email accounts through which the public are able to contact the research centre and responding in the most appropriate mannerOverseeing the department Twitter account to increase our research centre's public presenceWorking independently and as part of a team:Independent working, prioritising my own workload and shifting as necessary when urgent tasks arise,Maintaining good working relationships with staff at all levels within the research centre, across our wider department and the college.

Phitsanulok, Thailand

Through the ELC I taught for 5 months at Cambridge College Thailand. I taught ESL iGCSE (CIE syllabus) and KS3 science. I also tutored individuals in English after school.

Gained QTS in July 2015. Gained PGCE from Worcester University.Working as NQT.Teaching KS3 and KS4 Science. KS5 Chemistry (mainly AS level).Promoted to 6th form raising achievement coordinator (mat leave cover) - assertively mentoring underachieving students, overseeing sanctions for students missing scheduled study sessions, conducting Year 11 interviews, academic review days (with students and parents)Due to complete NQT in December 2016.

Chislehurst

Trained for QTS as a secondary science teacher via the Schools Direct Salaried (SDS) route. I also studied for a PGCE qualification during this training period.Ages: 11-18 (KS3-KS5)Specialism in Chemistry.Undertook 8 week Skills Knowledge Enhancement Course (SKE) in Chemistry to support my training.

Chislehurst

Educational Support across KS3 and KS4 to boost borderline students with particular focus on exam technique to improve grades working towards GCSETeaching assistant in low ability classes.

St. Thomas' Hospital, London

I have worked at King’s College London in the Division of Women’s Health as Divisional Administrator and PA to Professor Lucilla Poston, Head of Division and PA to Professor Andrew Shennan, Professor of Obstetrics and to Professor Jane Sandall, Professor of Maternal Health Services & Policy.Duties include (but are not limited to):Work closely with and assist Divisional Manager with day to day running of the Women's Health Academic UnitComposing annual reports including REFGrant applications; finance (RG forms)Website maintenance (use of Content Management System - Contensis)Complex travel arrangements, including visa applicationsExtensive diary management and organising division-wide meetingsMinute takingProficient with MS Word, Excel, OutlookProficient with EndNoteThroughout my time in this post I have: • Managed to successfully prioritise a heavy workload and have done so in a dynamic and busy office environment, using my initiative to problem solve. • Successfully built and maintained strong relationships with colleagues across the institute and within the NHS, recognising the importance of uniting these different departments in order to contribute to the success of our academic research division.• Managed to recognise and accommodate the demands of the different levels within our division; academics, teaching staff, research staff, students, management staff and fellow administrative staff.• Implemented new systems to optimise the day to day running of the division.

Bromley, United Kingdom

After leaving University I felt it was important to gain experience in full time, paid employment and successfully interviewed for the post of Assistant Manager at Neal’s Yard Remedies, despite having no previous managerial experience. I quickly picked up on the following aspects of this role:• Organisational skills; The ability to support and lead my team, coordinate therapy bookings, provide excellent customer service on the shop floor whilst driving sales and achieving targets set by head office, with the added responsibility of complex administrative tasks.• Communication; The ability to read and understand large volumes of product information and condensing and disseminating this to both staff and customers. • Analytical skills; Reporting daily and weekly sales figures and break-down of successes and failures (daily, weekly, quarterly and yearly), this included monitoring the success of new products, promotions and any events we may have held in relation to customer footfall and actual purchases (as well as reporting this data for our shop in general on a weekly basis to head office during conference call). • Leadership; I was relied upon to run the establishment in the absence of the manager and had done so on several occasions. Furthermore I single-handedly managed the branch for one month whilst my manager took unexpected leave. • Other aspects of my job included event organisation, visual merchandising and staff training.

London, United Kingdom

- Answering customer queries in the call centre and booking tickets for Royal Collection venues. - Face to face customer contact; selling tickets over the counter at the Buckingham Palace ticket office. - Both roles were challenging; sales targets were regularly set in the call centre and out on the counters.- Required to learn a lot in a short space of time; Inform customers about the range of Royal Collection venues and trained to use the ENTA ticketing system (computerised database). - Buckingham Palace is an internationally renowned institute and I had to uphold the world-class customer service that visitors expect.- Effective Communication; learnt to communicate, often using inventive ways, with customers that were not always able to speak English. - The work was full time despite its temporary basis and my schedule was based on shifts meaning flexibility was key and so was punctuality and attendance.

London, United Kingdom

I temporarily worked at the Institute of Psychiatry in the Child and Adolescent department. I worked under two teams, helping them organise data for their current studies, which included transcription and database work. The sensitive nature of the data meant that confidentiality was of utmost importance.

2:1, Biological Science

Activities and Societies: Member of RUBSS (Reading University Biological Sciences Society).I was awarded an entrance scholarship.

Education record

A-Level Qualifications - Biology: A Chemistry: B Geography: B Have also studied Psychology and General Studies to AS level. GCSE.