I help drive the strategic direction of Mind’s work in Westminster, ensuring that the rights, needs and priorities of people with mental health problems are heard by the UK Government and Parliament.•Lead on the development and delivery of our parliamentary influencing strategy.•Develop, implement and evaluate campaigning plans to influence Government and Parliament in support of our priority campaigns.•Help Mind shape its political positioning and strategic direction on key issues and react to political events. •Produce high quality written briefings and other materials for parliamentarians and a range of other audiences.•Lead on strategy around U.K. elections.

Supported the communications output of the organisation, as well as providing project management and operational support to Apolitical Foundation.•Produced a range of impactful external communications on a daily basis, including social media content, articles and blogs and our weekly briefing mailout.•Supported the development of Apolitical Foundation’s comms strategy.•Supported our Global Network of political leadership incubators (PLIs), as well as Advisors, •Provided project management support on priority areas of work, organising events, convening stakeholders and maintaining planning docs. •Helped lead on early development of a trailblazing project on supporting the mental wellbeing of politicians.

Responsible for reviewing campaigning and fundraising content for major national and international NGOs and supporting clients in optimising their content in line with recommendations from our innovative, machine learning driven technology. • Read and analyse thousands of client campaigning and fundraising marketing emails and web pages. • Support clients in re-drafting optimised copy for their marketing streams to smash use case targets.• Hold virtual onboarding and client guidance calls, write scripts and narrate series of our client explainer videos.

Responsible for leading on Mind's online campaigning and campaigner communications function, working on influence and participation projects and providing strategic support within the Parliamentary and Campaigns Team. • Copy-editing or writing of all Mind's campaigning e-mails and variety of digital content, whilst supporting our three team Assistants in their e-campaigning development. • Responsible for analytics and monitoring the performance of campaigner communications. I developed a new testing strategy and worked with cross-departmental colleagues on cross-selling to significantly boost engagement metrics. • Designed and delivered Lived Experience Advisors project, including a series of workshops and listening exercises with people with experience of mental health problems to better our understanding of the Mind Campaigner experience. • Supported range of events including parliamentary receptions and community organising workshops, whilst representing mind at cross-sector campaign groups such as the Disability Benefits Consortium (DBC) and Campaigns Forum (ECF).

First point of contact for RNIB’s public facing campaigns, whilst providing communications, policy, research and strategic support to RNIB's Social Change Team.• Manage policy and campaigns related enquiries from the public and professionals. Advise on RNIB policy positions and oversee campaigning calls to action.• Provide support to the Parliamentary and Public Affairs team, attending parliamentary events, helping to organise receptions and producing communications for parliamentarians.• Work within the engagement function of RNIB's policy work and campaigning, producing communications for a range of audiences and managing RNIB Campaigns social media.• Trained ‘Stories Champion’ for the Advocacy Directorate, tasked with producing case studies for reports and other communications.

Responsible for the provision of community support services for carers; as well as recruiting and supporting a team of volunteers during a period of significant expansion for the organisation. Gained frontline experience leading on a variety of projects and managing community ‘hub’ centres.• Lead on service delivery for carers.• Produced policy analysis to inform services, including on advice and employment for carers and the carer's assessment. • Built and maintained relationships with local stakeholders including in the Council, Clinical Commissioning Group and relevant commissioners and local services.• Leading role in recruiting, managing and supporting NC's team of volunteers; and facilitating volunteer training.• Involved in coordinating highly successful health awareness campaigns.

Full time voluntary role as leading assistant on the ‘Make Our Rights Reality’ campaign, run by the JustRights coalition. Covered a variety of areas of national campaigning, communication and public affairs engagement including:• Representing Youth Access and JustRights in engagements and meetings with a variety of stakeholders, including a speech on the panel for the All Party Group on Legal Aid in Parliament.• Writing a number of campaign related articles and blog posts.• Collating research and data analysis – some of which was referenced by government departments.• Creating, editing and managing online and social media campaign activity.