Jess Leathem Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

- Project management of the 2024 Annual Review digital publication.- Executive Assistant to both the Director of Communications and the Director of Digital. - Board secretariat for internal senior management meetings and external key stakeholder meetings including the Digital Advisory Board.

- Led on the business growth for captionme: subtitle and transcription providers for a wide variety of media content with clients from a multitude of industries including Coventry University Online and many of the Royal Colleges. - Inputted into Marketing and Sales strategies, creating and presenting pitches and project timelines. - Led external meetings with both existing and potential partners.- Represented captionme at 5+ events meeting with potential partners. - Project managed a wide variety of subtitle, translation and transcription requests meeting tight deadlines with the highest level of attention to detail in order to meet stakeholder expectations. - Delegating tasks to the captioning transcriber teams and supporting adhoc queries.

- Producing media for elearning content, working on a daily basis with suppliers, freelancers, choosing creative media treatments contingent on budget and delivery times, scoping licensed content to edit or create media, explaining and supporting the suppliers on the treatments and leading external meetings.- Using my expert knowledge of pedagogy, media and licensing laws in relation to elearning to influence and create the highest quality video, audio and image content whilst also budgeting. - Leading on projects that were of interest to the business, significantly impacting on saving costs. - Offering creative insight during learning design workshops and working with a multitude of well known organisations.- Supporting heavily with asset recording, from creating thorough media briefs, to in person directing and quality control. Production and Post production work including voice over and video editing.

Camden, England, United Kingdom

- Assisted in the production of online courses, having the pleasure to work with partners such as Samsung, Tommy Hilfiger, NHS, DHL, Department of Education and City & Guilds. - Designed and built manuscript documents for external partners, sourced, edited and formatted images, edited video and audio assets using Adobe Creative Suite, particularly Premiere Pro, Audition, After Effects, Illustrator and Photoshop; reviewed and uploaded media and editorial content before uploading it onto the public facing platform. - Responsible for ensuring the media content was transcribed and accessible. - Engaged and collaborated daily with external partners, freelancers and suppliers, creating unique and close working relationships within each project and hosting internal and external meetings. - Assisted on video and audio shoots both remotely and in person, offering direction and support, setting up the equipment and recording equipment operating.

Camden

Building, maintaining and nurturing the close relations with external partners and stakeholders to assist with technical queries and support. Performing Quality Assurance checks in order to ensure the content is accessible and of a high-standard. Managing the Partner Support inbox, supporting partners with technical and course production queries and escalating where necessary. Guiding FutureLearn’s partners on a daily basis to ensure that they could access and navigate their way efficiently on the platform.

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Working on the production of online courses, reviewing, editing and uploading courses and articles, and the creation of e-books using Oxygen XML; copy-editing for the articles; creating web-page hubs for BBC/OU radio and TV series and updating this content regularly; occasionally assisting and participating in interviews for course trailers and occasional voiceover work. Other tasks included image research, ensuring the material was cleared in terms of copyright. As well as using the following software: Adobe Premiere Pro for editing videos for the online courses, Adobe Photoshop to create logos, trailer images, stills and course images, Audacity for editing audio and 3Play for uploading and retrieving transcripts and subtitles for the audio and video content on the platform. I communicated with internal academics on a weekly basis to collaborate on creating successful courses. I collaborated with my teammates with great team work in meetings and weekly workshops. I offered new initiatives for evolving ways of working, and continuously and consistently remained organised whilst recognising and celebrating achievements and milestones.

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

(3 month cover alongside being an AP) Creating and managing the Facebook-sponsored advertisements, as well as moderating the Facebook comments and managing the budget documents. I also created the monthly external online newsletter which allowed learners to explore our recent content, and produced copy for both internal and external communications whilst working with various departments at the Open University to collaborate on communication ideas.

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

In this role I created e-book versions of free online educational courses from OpenLearn. I mainly used Photoshop and Oxygen XML to create, package and quality check the content before publishing it online.

Paris

Paris

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Milton Keynes

French, B2

Bachelor'S Degree, Journalism With English Language, Upper Second Class

Activities and Societies: Femsoc