Jack Wallington Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

I am an RHS qualified garden designer, who studied at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. I specialise in stunning future gardens for businesses, public spaces and homes using contemporary design. If you are interested in me transforming your outdoor space please get in touch. Also an award winning freelance garden and nature writer.

Brighton, United Kingdom

As the group’s Director of Community I am ultimately accountable for The Student Room website. Developing our social and community platforms and implementing effective strategies to enhance content and to increase UX across our web platforms and social media channels. I am responsible for leading our talented community management, editorial and volunteer teams, who help me to nurture and grow our student community, striving for audience acquisition, increased user engagement and improved membership retention. ✔ Led numerous site developments across navigation, mobile and new community products, which subsequently doubled our member base to 1.5 million, growing membership acquisition by 12% year on year.✔ Developed and delivered a new content strategy, overhauling the way we communicate with young people, growing Google referrals and audience to 6 million uniques per month – in particular, introducing an entirely new GCSE content section growing our younger audience. ✔ Manage The Student Room’s major content marketing campaigns including Results and Clearing which sees over 400,000 students use the site to get into uni. As well as those for key partnerships with the Government, charities and other clients.✔ Launched data product ‘University Connect’ immediately adopted by 5,000 students looking to make better informed HE decisions.

Brighton

In addition to being owner of The Student Room site, within this role I was accountable for managing and growing a team responsible for developing marketing strategies across the B2B channel. Plus delivering alongside sales directives to ensure all business objectives were met and exceeded. Additionally my team was responsible for B2B marketing materials, CRM and lead gen, event sponsorship and re-launching of our corporate website. ✔ Introduced new engagement commercial products including advertorials and content hubs , with content and community at their heart, which progressively grew registrations, including one transformation that saw an instant 80% year on year increase.✔ Concept for the now annual TSR Options research offering the business and the sector insight into student HE decisions and led an integral student research project, delivering an entirely new navigational structure.✔ Introduced new PR processes securing national media coverage on BBC, ITV, Sky and more.✔ Facilitated the office re-launch event with guest speaker, David Willetts, the then University & Sciences Minister, receiving national coverage in The Independent.

Brighton

As the group’s Head of Consumer Marketing, I was required to bring expertise to our customer engagement activities and our end-user marketing communication. I was responsible for leading data driven projects that analysed our consumer audience and develop and execute relevant engagement and retention strategies.✔ Led and championed the roll-out of our new branding across The Student Room, social platforms and all marketing materials.✔ Introduced the annual Student in a Million Awards to stimulate user interaction, allowing TSR members to vote freely for each other in a number of categories. The annual TSR Awards have become so popular that they now receive national press coverage.✔ Developed more sophisticated communication surrounding how we promoted products to our target audience, including recruiting The Student Room Group's first editorial team, introducing professional content.

London, United Kingdom

Advised on suppliers, budgets and innovation initiatives.

London, United Kingdom

The trade body for digital marketing working directly with 700+ member brands including Google, Channel 4, Microsoft, Sony, Twitter, BT and Marks & Spencer. Led the department responsible for advertising standards, industry-wide collaboration and identifying opportunities for new marketing products and research.✔ Led 17 programmes and over 100 important projects, more than quadrupling the output of a department at the heart of the business, helping grow the IAB and contributing to the growth of the UK’s online advertising industry from [then] £2 bn to £4 bn.✔ Helped to establish new Training, Mobile and Video Game departments.

I have written and published a number of books. I've also been a freelance journalist, interviewer, reviewer and feature writer for publications including: InPublishing, New Media Age, Brand Republic, Smash Hits and others.

London, United Kingdom

Established and then grew my own digital agency, Hypescape, which ran projects for the entertainment industry, predominantly for children and youth audiences. Specialising in high quality content and online community growth. Developing long-term contracts with:- Sony BMG- Warner Bros- Polydor- Jive Records- Pete Waterman Ltd (PWL)- Entertainment Rights- Roar Global- and many others

Rhs Level 3 - Principles Of Garden Planning, Construction And Planting, Passed 4 Exams (With 4 Commendations)

Unit 1: Understanding garden survey techniques and design principles Unit 2: Understanding the selection and use of landscaping elements.

Rhs Level 2 Certificate In The Principles Of Plant Growth, Propagation And Development, Passed 4 Exams (With 4 Commendations)

Unit1: Plant classification, structure, and function. Unit2: Plant nutrition and the root environment. Unit3: Maintaining plant health..

Rhs Level 2 Certificate In The Principles Of Garden Planning, Establishment And Maintenance, Passed 4 Exams (With 4 Commendations)

Unit 5: Understanding garden features, plant selection and planning Unit 6: Understanding the choice, establishment and maintenance.

Bsc, Business Studies (Marketing Focus) And Sociology

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