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Kent

United Kingdom

Kent, England, United Kingdom

Kent

Locate in Kent is an independent not-for-profit primarily funded by Kent County Council and Medway Council to deliver inward investment activities for the region. Supported achievement of organisational contracted job, revenue and soft targets to nurture regional economic growth : managed external membership forums, built and grew C-suite cross-sector/industry network within and outside the region, generated supplementary partnership and sponsorship income and strategically curated ideas/connections/insights to extend LiK’s service offering to incoming and growing companies. Internal and external stakeholder engagement: proactively worked with peer/partner organisations to achieve shared goals e.g. joint organising partner of annual Kent and Medway Business Summit bringing together small business leaders, academia and the public sector ; acquired sponsorship (financial and in-kind) and leads/attendees for events, programme delivery and foreign inward investment trips.Worked with marketing colleagues and external marketing agency to deliver communications across multiple channels and ensure aligned messagingBuilt community of coworking spaces in Kent, with more than 50 operators actively engaged. Strengthened and advanced the coworking sector regionally and nationally: convened regular meetings with relevant content, built links between operators and public/private investors and championed sector. Sitting on the Senior Leadership Team, I pro-actively worked across LiK to advance project delivery and provide additional expertise and resource as required e.g. proposed and initiated business transformation programme. Latterly I took on the HR function and was seconded to lead Operations taking additional responsibility for payroll and finance.

London

Supported senior volunteer leadership: secretariat support, internal / external stakeholder management,communications (drafting speeches, reports and correspondence), event management, budget management.Provided day-to-day support to CEO: oversaw senior volunteer recruitment, streamlined administration processes, event management and liaison with Duchess of Edinburgh’s office (Girlguiding President).Administration of all elements of governance meetings, Trustee Board and leadership meetings (volunteer/staff) including agenda/paper collation and action log maintenance.

London, United Kingdom

Interim role supporting the fundraising and partnerships team at the RA

London

Office manager/ EA to CEO and Founder in Europe's leading digital executive search firm

Project support across London Legacy 2020 programme on culture, youth and sport projects.

Co-ordinated corporate philanthropy activities for LCH.Clearnet

London, United Kingdom

Founding team member of City Year UK - part of the international charity City Year, Inc. Involved in all areas of charity set up and start up including:Fundraising Operational set up Building support for programme in UK, and specifically within it's pilot location of East LondonEvent managementCommunications Tender and implementation of volunteer management and fundraising database

London, United Kingdom

(Lehman Brothers entered administration in September 2008)

London, Uk And Paris, France