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United Kingdom

Working on communications around migration, evaluation and resilience planning.

Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom

Secondment, leading a team on Local Outbreak Plan, Covid Recovery, evaluation and special projects.

Hertford, England, United Kingdom

Leading a team on campaigns including Growth, Sustainability, Diversity&Inclusion, Environment, and Transformation. Secondment from BEIS.

London

Managing a team to deliver PR campaigns in support of flagship department policy and ongoing work to raise awareness of the Industrial Strategy.

Special communications projects lead and cross government comms group co ordinator for the department.No 10 planner and lead for regulation and the Insolvency Service (since April 2015).UK Trade and Investment Desk (One year and four months).

Westminster, London

London, United Kingdom

Worked as part of a cross government team in delivering proactive and reactive media handling to promote the London 2012 Games and government involvement in it.

Working on Hertford and Ware, Potters Bar and main editions. Also wrote for magazine and managed the arts pages.

Tutoring in English, Latin and media studies.

Milton Keynes

London, United Kingdom

This included support on the news and education desks, including writing for the education section.

Advanced Certificate In Public Relations (Post Grad), Public Relations/Image Management, Pass With Merit.

Ten month course whilst working full time, with assessment including a critical reasoning test, planning assignment and critique.

National Certificate Examination In Newspaper Journalism, Journalism (Senior Journalist), Passed

On the job qualification to become a senior reporter. This was made up of a journalist portfolio, journalism law, writing articles based.

Nctj Postgraduate Qualification In Newspaper Journalism, Journalism (Trainee Journalist), Pass With Merit

Nineteen week course consisting of newspaper writing, journalism law, public affairs and Teeline shorthand at 100 WPM.

Qualifications In Proofreading And Copy Editing

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), English And Latin Literature, 2:1

Included Greek, composition and creative writing, and publishing and editing.

Gcses And A Levels

Two A*s, 6 As and one B GCSE (English Literature and Latin A*). Two As and a B A Level (English Literature, Latin and History).