Jessie Beach-Thomas Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

Auckland, New Zealand

Health NZ is New Zealand’s national public health provider. I worked as a Project Manager within the Mental Health and Addictions clinical team in central Auckland, where I was responsible for coordinating the implementation of ‘Zero Suicide’. Zero Suicide is an internationally developed and utilised model designed to improve care received by those most vulnerable to suicide, and has been proven to reduce rates of suicide and suicide attempts in organisations across the world.• Project Management: Managed a complex, directorate-wide project.• Co-Governance: Worked alongside a unique governance group, consisting of senior clinicians and directors, and external volunteers with their own lived experience of suicide ideation and/or bereavement.• Presenting: Conducted a series of presentations across our services to introduce staff to the project, presented bi-annual updates to the directorate's senior leadersh at, presented virtually at an Australian Mental Health conference.• Training Development: Coordinated the development of a comprehensive staff training programme, which included managing a series of working groups attended by senior clinicians.• Surveys: Developed and conducted a survey of nearly 180 staff to identify areas to focus on in our training rollout. A repeated survey will aid the evaluation process post-training rollout.• Data and Evaluation: Working closely with the directorate’s data team to identify data sources and analyse findings.• Meetings: Independently arranging meetings, developing and sharing agendas and presentations, chairing meetings while simultaneously taking minutes and actions, distributing papers in a timely manner.• Training: Received certificated training in suicide prevention, including a course with internationally recognised 'SafeSide'.• Intranet management: Received a day of SharePoint training and am responsible for managing my project’s intranet page, keeping it up to date with new information and resources.

London, England, United Kingdom

The role provided an in-depth introduction to the challenges faced by healthcare providers, from overcoming societal inequalities to ensure equity of access for all patients, to hitting national targets to secure funding, and recovering from the impact of Covid-19 and political changes such as Brexit.• Project management: Supporting the development of project plans and Gantt charts, and guiding projects through governance processes.• Admin: Liaising with operational and clinical staff, setting agendas, collating papers, and taking minutes and actions.• Data packs: Utilising a range of sources to regularly create branded data packs for clinical leads to present.• Elective care: Supporting regular meetings and projects for ENT, gynaecology, orthopaedics and urology.• Urgent and Emergency Care: Supporting projects relating to identifying and supporting HIUs (High Intensity Users), and improving patient pathways for SDEC (Same Day Emergency Care) across North West London.• Outpatients: Minuting meetings which explore the challenges and opportunities faced in outpatient care.• Finance: Using Oracle SBS to create POs, liaising with suppliers, and ensuring invoices are paid on time.• Covid recovery: Helping reduce elective surgery waitlists by empowering hospitals to maximise efficiency.• Training: Undertook training in Project Management Fundamentals and Advanced Microsoft Excel Skills.

London, England, United Kingdom

The role required strong time management, administration and project management skills, working across a portfolio of clients including law firms, and technology and carbon offsetting teams within blue chip companies. Duties and responsibilities included:• Project management: Ensuring adherence to agreed timescales, tracking KPIs and budgets, managing upwards, adapting plans in line with project changes.• Project leadership: Lead a company-wide project, managing a group of senior staff members, developing and presenting a plan to the MD, overseeing successful project implementation.• Project planning: Conducting research, generating ideas in line with budgets, coordinating brainstorms, developing slides, presenting to external stakeholders.• Reporting: Creating reports and providing feedback on existing reporting methods to improve formatting.• Communication: Running calls, a daily point of contact for clients, building strong relationships with stakeholders.• Microsoft: Using Excel to track and process data, PowerPoint to develop branded presentations, and Outlook to manage inboxes and calendars.• Onboarding and mentorship: Supporting onboarding of junior staff and providing ongoing mentorship.• Briefing documents: Creating documents for important meetings - outlining objectives, background information, agendas and key talking points.• Secretarial support: Writing and circulating agendas, taking detailed and accurate minutes, sharing notes and actions following meetings.• Delegation: Setting tasks and deadlines, and providing timely and constructive feedback.• Policy: Tracking policy relating to tech (including the Online Safety Bill) and attitudes towards carbon offsetting (often in relation to COP26).• Attention to detail: Reviewing press releases, budgets, plans and reports, and correcting numerical and grammatical errors.• Diversity and inclusion: All employees attended training on proactively working towards a more inclusive society.

London, United Kingdom

The role required strong time management, communication and administration skills, working on a portfolio of between five to seven clients within the technology sector. I was the only staff member at my level to be kept on during the pandemic and I quickly adapted to my additional responsibilities and workload. Responsibilities included:• KPI and budget tracking: Developing and managing documents used to track KPIs, budgets and media coverage.• Line management: Managing two junior team members, conducting onboarding, developing and running training sessions, setting tasks and deadlines, and providing ongoing support and feedback.• Briefing documents: Creating briefing documents for senior clients ahead of important meetings - outlining objectives, background information, an agenda and key talking points.• Communication: Running calls with internal and external stakeholders, being a daily point of contact for clients and building strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.• Written communication: Writing well researched blogs, press releases, articles, and Q&A style commentary on behalf of the company and its clients.• Reporting and data analysis: Creating detailed monthly, quarterly and annual reports, utilising data analysis and a number of PR tools, ensuring strict adherence to branding guidelines.• Microsoft Office: Utilising Excel to track and analyse large amounts of data, Power Point to create branded presentations, and Outlook to manage individual and shared inboxes and calendars.• New business generation: Conducting research, developing ideas, producing presentation slides, and confidently pitching both in person and virtually to prospective clients, helping secure new business opportunities for the agency.• Social media: Creating content calendars, drafting and scheduling posts for Babel and clients. Supporting with management of Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram accounts, including paid social.

Kew, Greater London, United Kingdom

I initially spent eight months as an intern, working one/two full days per week alongside my full time degree, before starting a full time role as an account assistant at the end of my final exam period. After three months I was promoted to Account Executive, a role which I held for my remaining four months at the company. Duties and responsibilities included:• Written communication: Writing well-researched blogs, articles, press releases, social media posts and corporate presentation slides on behalf of the company and its clients.• Data analysis: Sourcing and analysing clients' social media analytics, and presenting results in an engaging data sheet I had developed to demonstrate positive trends.• Briefing documents: Creating briefing documents for clients ahead of meetings with journalists and analysts - outlining objectives, background information, an agenda and suggested talking points.• Lead qualification: Successfully sourcing business leads and using PR software to track leads, communications, follow-ups, proposals and negotiations for account managers.• Pitching: Identifying specialist, national and international journalists to pitch stories to on behalf of clients. Developing and utilising media pitches to secure media opportunities for clients.• Social Media: Developing content and managing Twitter and LinkedIn accounts for clients.• Events and Awards: Sourcing opportunities for clients to attend, sponsor, exhibit and present at conferences and events in EMEA and North America. Finding relevant award opportunities and writing nomination entries on behalf of multiple clients.

Kew, Greater London, United Kingdom

Kew, Greater London, United Kingdom

Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom

Voluntarily managed the Photography Society’s Events Team during my final academic year. Responsibilities included:• Email Advertising: Promoting the team I recruited to university departments, societies and media outlets.• Negotiation: Arranging fair hourly rates and expenses refundment on behalf of photographers. • Communication: Liaising with photographers and event organisers to provide employment opportunities for student photographers, and affordable and reliable photographers for university events.

Egham, England, United Kingdom

Alongside studying full time, I worked 15-20 hours per week on campus at the university cafe and bar - Crosslands.

London, Uk / Baracelona, Spain

This was a part time/intermittent voluntary role which consisted of assisting full time employees with running large scale conferences by providing friendly and professional customer service for attendees. Conferences varied from three to five days and typical hours were 7.30am-6.30pm. Roles and responsibilities included:• Assisting senior external stakeholders: Confidently assisting senior event attendees from many of the world's largest companies, and a number of government organisations. Supporting attendees with checking in, planning timetables, providing directions, and operating a waitlist system for some of the most popular seminars.• Large scale events: Voluntarily assisted at over 15 conferences ranging from 500-7,200 attendees. At the request of a number of full time Event Planners, I was flown out to support at Gartner's largest European event, the IT Symposium/Xpo in Barcelona, Spain.

Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom

Eden Springs provides water and coffee solutions to businesses across Europe. During my internship I had the following responsibilities:• Design: Designed and created marketing collateral using Photoshop, Word and PowerPoint, including brochures, data sheets, handouts, corporate presentation slides, and social media content.• Social Media: Created Eden’s Instagram account, and images and text for multi-faceted social media campaigns. Managing accounts using HubSpot and analysing performance using Google Analytics.• Copywriting: Writing well-researched content for printed marketing collateral and the company website.• Proofreading: Demonstrating strong attention to detail by highlighting and correcting spelling, grammar and design errors in existing webpages, marketing collateral and bespoke price lists.• Sales: Shadowed sales team members, learning to pitch products and process orders.

Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom

The Orbital is Royal Holloway University’s official magazine.• Social Media: Developed a framework for writing, presenting and scheduling social media posts consistently, efficiently and effectively, in addition to encouraging increased post engagement.• Outreach: Doubled The Orbital's digital reach on Twitter and Facebook, significantly increased post interactions and subsequently expanded the overall readership of the magazine.• Awards: The Orbital was awarded Best Overall Digital Media by the Student Publication Association in April 2018 for its effective use of social media to cover stories live from campus.

Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom

Assisted the Head of Marketing and Social Media in promoting Royal Holloway's official magazine online, drawing on my previous personal, professional and academic experience with managing social media and marketing. I helped produce plans to increase our reach on social media.

Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom

Sydney, Australia

Oppizzi is an offline marketing agency.• Sales: Researched and pitched for clients, including Uber and Naked Wines.• Team Management: Briefed small teams to maximise flyer distribution and profitability.• Profitability: Regularly received highest weekly financial return in my manager’s team of 20.

Uk And Australia

• Marketing: Marketed myself and gained customers through my Instagram and Official University Societies’ Facebook pages, building a reputation for my friendly, professional and efficient service.• Social Media: Communicating with customers and sharing commissioned work through multimedia.• Awards: Highly Commended for Best Student Photographer in UK and Ireland by Student Publication Association in 2016. Royal Holloway’s Best Photographer 2015.• Creativity: Regular jobs included weddings, private parties, head shots, magazine cover and spread shoots, university balls, theatrical productions and sports tournaments.

Gloucester, United Kingdom

Week 1:- Work as team member to complete challenges- Participate in team building activitiesWeek 2:- Attend presentations by local charities- Work as a team to pick a charity we wanted to help- Received training with St John's AmbulanceWeek 3:- Plan a project for our charity- Raised over £1000 for our project- Visited local businesses to negotiate prices for resources to help with the projectWeek 4:- Renovated homeless shelter- Installed kitchen used to teach valuable life skillsAfter project:- Successfully graduated from NCS scheme- Awarded by Gloucester City Homes for contribution to the local community

Bachelor Of Arts, English Literature, 2:1

Activities and Societies: Head of Marketing and Social Media for the Orbital Magazine - Received Passport Award for involvement.

International Exchange, Marketing And Film, Distinction

Activities and Societies: International Student Ambassador - Active Member of the Photography Society - Active Member of International.

A-Levels, English (B), Business (B) And Photography (A), Gcse: 11 A*-B (Including English, Maths And Business Studies)

Activities and Societies: Regularly achieved 100% attendance; school prefect; played hockey, netball, tennis, and rounders for school.