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A highly skilled and experienced professional with a solid track record in arts administration, creative industries and retail. Trusted and respected by heads of organisations – in business, arts and education – to deliver exceptional quality work on time and that adds value. Extensive management experience in retail, voluntary, arts and charitable sectors. Set up Beanphoto in 2004 and built an enviable client list and a first-class reputation. Finalist in the Professional Photographer of the Year awards, 2013. I have loved taking my photography into a successful business. Now seeking a move back into full-time employment.Established myself as a skilled and respected commercial photographer with a distinctive style. Built up strong business relationships with clients including Morecambe BID, Lancaster City Council and More Music. Solely responsible for all aspects of the business including planning, social media and marketing, networking, website design and SEO, book design, client management, financial management and reporting and all photography and image editing. Use my strong interpersonal skills to put people at their ease. This is particularly important with wedding photography – dealing with nervous couples and their extended families. Punctual and reliable.

Administrative support (7.5 hrs per week) for this resident-led community partnership working to improve the West End area of Morecambe. Work closely with the chairperson and the organisation’s groups undertaking email and grant application admin. Arrange and take minutes at meetings, website and social media management and act as the public point of contact.

Administrative role (10 hrs per month) for this consortium of 20 local arts and cultural organisations, working closely with the chairperson. I manage the website, newsletters, social media, minute all meetings and other duties.

KEY SKILLS/EXPERIENCE • Extensive administrative, organisational and time management skills. • Project management. • Talented and effective networker, including social networking and social marketing for small businesses. • Business development, strategic planning and change management plus small business management skills. • Managing and supervising staff and volunteer teams. • Interviewing, recruiting and training staff. Delivering staff appraisals. • Preparing and giving presentations. • Ensuring high levels of customer service and effective handling of customer enquiries. • Marketing and publicity, event management. • Working to and consistently meeting deadlines. • Committed to equal opportunities, diversity and policy development. • Compiling risk assessments. • Purchasing and managing stock. • Financial planning, including setting, working to and monitoring budgets and cash flows. • Writing successful grant applications/evaluations to bodies. • Handling cash, banking and staff payroll responsibility. • Highly computer literate: PC and Mac, Office, Open Office and other proprietary and open source applications. • Full, clean driving licence.

Freelance photographer and virtual administrator

Founded and co-run this dynamic, ever-growing arts organisation whose mission is to help regenerate Morecambe through the arts. Helped secure over 100 businesses and individuals as members. Responsible for finances, website, membership, social media channels and am often the first point of contact.

Litfest is a literature development agency and charity with an annual literature festival. My role is to take responsibility for all administrative and financial matters. My duties include financial planning, budgeting, monitoring and evaluating budgets, preparing cash flows and profit & loss spreadsheets, and reporting to the Artistic Director and Board of Directors. I have been involved in the preparing and writing of funding applications, and in strategic business planning. I also manage the Litfest bookshop, including volunteer staff team. I have managed various projects and I am first point of contact for all public activity. I facilitate all meetings of the Board of Directors, liaise with artists, manage diaries, and maintain organisational policies and customer databases. Litfest is a small team and this is a very hands on position involved in all aspects of the business.

Crossing Borders was a British Council distance learning creative writing programme, managed from Lancaster University, and operating across Africa to assist developing writers. My role was to offer administrative support (one day a week) to the Project Manager. This involved liaison with the UK based writing mentors and the British Council offices in Africa, to ensure effective communication, chase up and process all paperwork, pay invoices, track completion of project assignments and all associated reports.

My “Hardback Hotel” web-based bookselling business involved the buying and selling of collectable modern first edition fiction books. I was solely responsible for all aspects of the business, including marketing and publicity, customer management, finance, stock control, e-mail systems and website design. The business stock was sold on in 2006 when I became too busy with other work commitments to continue activity.

A part-time, short-term contract position with a remit to promote both volunteering and VIC (the volunteer information centre) to the local public. Duties included planning and design of all publicity materials, photography work, maintenance of the vic website, media and press liaison, assisting prospective volunteers, facilitating at regular meetings, and providing written and verbal reports to senior management and other members of the staff team.

A part-time position, in which I was responsible for the maintenance of all Folly buildings, and exhibition spaces. Duties included handling, mounting, framing and hanging of all artists work in the two main galleries and the co-ordination of a multiple site touring exhibition. I also had responsibility for darkroom management and teaching darkroom induction classes.

Relocated from Peterborough to Lancaster to open a new bookshop in the Hammicks chain. Responsible for all aspects of shop management, inc. staff training, supervision and personal development, hiring and firing, conducting annual staff reviews, all office administration, budgetary management (setting and working to), stock control, computer systems maintenance, health and safety, marketing, promotion, customer care, external business development, buildings maintenance and for reporting back to senior management according to company practice. Nominated for Manager of the Year, 2000.

Responsible for all aspects of shop management, inc. staff training, supervision and personal development, hiring and firing, conducting annual staff reviews, all office administration, budgetary management (setting and working to), stock control, computer systems maintenance, health and safety, marketing, promotion, customer care, external business development, buildings maintenance and for reporting back to senior management according to company practice. Nominated for Manager of the Year, 2000.

Lecturer in “Critical Theory & History of Photography” for an independent photography resource.

Manager of Zwemmer's first bookshop outside of London, at Ffotogallery in Cardiff. I oversaw the set up and shop design, managed the opening stock purchases and hiring of staff.

Manager of bookshop in Central London multi-purpose arts venue.

Taught weekly class in basic photography and black and white darkroom skills to young people.

Small non-profit community bookshop.

Promoted to Assistant Manager and transferred to Brighton shop.

Began as weekend job whilst still at college, before being promoted to Assistant Manage and transferred.

First job after leaving school.