Katrina Smith Email & Phone Number

Oxfordshire

+ Business-founder and co-creative director of Jamjar Creative, an independent graphic design studio+ With knowledge and insider-experience of schools and education, I procured commissions from new clients within the education sector including independent schools, Oxford colleges and departments, and publishers+ Responsible for growing our client base through recommendations, referrals and focused marketing to new clients from the science, hospitality and health sectors+ Established long-standing, professional relationships with clients through strategic-thinking and creative insights in response to design briefs+ Planned and led focus group sessions with multifarious stakeholders such as parents, students and managers, and analysis of these to inform the design brief and design process+ Policy and strategy plan writing and reviewing+ Tender preparation, writing and presentation+ Interviewed on BBC Radio Oxford about setting up a successful business+ Engaged with CPD from the Design Business Association (DBA), the Design Council, the IPA (Institute of Practitioners in Advertising), D&AD and Creative Review+ Studio website manager and content provider (Drupal)+ Filemaker database development and maintenance

+ During my tenure as Head of History:History was the most popular optional subject at GCSE and A LevelThe History department GCSE exam results were the best in the county for a non-selective schoolLed and mentored three of my assistant heads of history to be successfully appointed as heads of history departments in new schoolsPerformance managed and appraised the history teaching staff+ Organised and led many over-subscribed field trips, such as First World War Battlefields in France and Belgium, castles, museums and sites of historic interest, A Level lecture/seminar days, as well as initiating and arranging specialist talks held at the school+ Led the whole school in developing policy and procedures for academic monitoring; Ofsted described the systems I devised and implemented as ‘robust’+ Advisor for an educational publishing company+ Mentor for training and probationary teachers+ Personally invited and participated in the first Prince of Wales Summer School for History and English teachers+ Middle manager representative on the school senior leadership team+ Coordinated community initiatives such as members of the local Royal British Legion branch visiting the school to talk with students

Knowsley, Merseyside

+ Worked collaboratively with team members to develop curriculum programmes and resources to deliver National Curriculum requirements, including field trip opportunities+ Represented the school and the UK in Vienna as part of a EU education initiative+ Skills of advocacy and diplomacy as union representative+ Key Stage Three SENCO and Gifted and Talented Coordinator, a role which included co-organising university taster-experiences for students with no family history of higher education and other enrichment opportunities+ Mentor for gifted and talented students, and for PGCE students+ Involved with organising community-based projects such as working with the police and veterans to develop empathetic relationships between the elderly and young in the locality

Pgce, History

Ba Hons, History

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