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Ipswich, England, United Kingdom

Nottingham, England, United Kingdom

Executive control of a project board combining senior stakeholders from the city's institutions with its best and brightest creative talent. Designing and delivering projects to enhance the reputation of Nottingham, Attracting £400,000 of core funding and above £1,000,000 of direct project fundingRan a collaborative project with Heatherwick Studios to create ten big ideas for 'the future of a city', liaising with stakeholders, businesses and residents at all levels. Led to the delivery of an Esports arena, a new major city centre green space, £300,000 investment in the city's creative artistic community. Led the procurement process and project managed the creation of a vision for the future of the Broad Marsh, one of the biggest potential city centre development sites in the UK.Built a programme of interventions to improve Nottingham city centre through a programme of public art, liaising with stakeholders and commissioning appropriate works across the city which honours the city's most famous people and tales. This process led to the creation of 20 new pieces of work providing £400k of paid work for artists reduced the number of vacant units on a targeted street from 80% vacant to fully let. Project saw a reduction in graffiti and tagging with none of the works, all located in previous hot spots attracting any graffiti. Personally managed a relationship with the controller of Radio 4 and BBC Classical Music, Alan Davey and BBC Concert Orchestra Director Bill Chandler to provide 12 concerts across the city from 2022 and an embedded educational program with the city's two universities providing new courses for over 100 additional students in the city.Established the Robin Hood Fund during COVID-19, raising more than £120,000 for those who needed it most, supporting a collection of frontline charities in the city.

Ipswich, United Kingdom

Developing over 30 BIDs across the UK as well as providing best practice advice on corporate governance, finance and BID regulations. Achieving 100% success in all Ballots. Supported stakeholder engagement across various departments within local authorities to meet their competing needs from a BID Conducted research into the local place, its core audiences and understanding the USP of each location Helped create appropriate corporate governance structures and financial procedures to ensure the full accountability of funding. Sought new leads and ensured a strong pipeline of research work. Produced business plans for a five-year BID term in each location, including costings and where possible identifying streams of additional income accounting for over £10m of annual BID levy income across the UK from all BIDs created. Attended divisional board meetings and provided insight and advice where appropriate

Nottingham

Had overall operational and strategic responsibility for Nottingham BID/Its In Nottingham, one of the UK's biggest Business improvement districts, reporting directly to the board of directorsCreated project plans, reports and budgets to provide appropriate recommendations to enable the BID board to be appropriately informed and make decisions and approvals in the best interests of the BID and Nottingham. Established a nationally recognised project with our 'no place for hate' charter adopted by the Home Office. with Nottinghamshire Police and Drinkaware to encourage safer nights for visitors, residents and students Grow Nottingham Best Bar None scheme to be the biggest place-based scheme in the country, supported by over 100 NTE businesses. Organised regular meetings with sector-based groups including retailers, leisure venues and office businesses to ensure they were engaged with the BID as evidenced by the 48% turnout at the term 2 ballot. Responsible for line management of a team of twelve providing mentorship, training and opportunities for development that saw the team achieve and exceed all annual KPIs set by the board and several members of the team achieve senior roles both in the company and across the place industry. Lobbied and negotiated an exemption for all BID members from the city's late-night levy saving the NTE over £400k in levy contributions. Ensured additional sources of income were brought in to supplement the BID levy including £90k per annum from radio income and £50k from the home office for project support. Created a series of quarterly and monthly meetings with partner agencies across the city to ensure that the BIDs delivery didn't duplicate but enhanced any work taking place across the city as well as maintaining key professional relationships with the City Centre Chief Inspector, Council Director of Culture and Chief Executive of the appropriate regional bodies including the LEP.

My Primary function is to support Central Management Solutions in the development, renewal and management of Business Improvement Districts (BIDs)My key duties include:• Manage and respond to key milestone dates for ballots in relevant locations• Data gathering, analysis and reporting on project basis, responding to business needs for information • Carry out B2B and B2C research as and when necessary and be able to analyse the results• Present factual information in CMS corporate-style to relevant committees• Lead renewal teams as and where necessary• Ensure voter databases in relevant locations are up-to-date• Carry out face-to-face visits with relevant businesses and BID parties • Work as key client liaison in BID ballot locations and lead on-site team through ballot process• Liaise with relevant parties (Ie Local Authorities) to ensure all parties are aware of the process• Follow and understand legislation and industry guidance for BIDs• Formation, maintenance and updating of excel spreadsheets• Updating company information portals with relevant information• Preparation and delivery of communication plans• Gathering and recording of data and providing collated reports for stakeholders, management and other business contacts

Ipswich, United Kingdom

• Development of marketing plan for all aspects of the business • Management of marketing campaigns from brief through to delivery and review • Drafting content for Ipswich's central visitor destination website allaboutipswich.com • Management of B2B and B2C social media including Facebook, Twitter and Pintrest• Responsible for ensuring positive media coverage for both the company and the town• Delivery of oral presentations to stakeholders at quarterly meetings ensuring they have a comprehensive understanding of the company’s marketing activities during the previous quarter • Responsible for writing stakeholder communications. • Responsible for ensuring marketing campaigns are delivered on budget and achieve predetermined marketing objectives • Production of printed material from design through to print

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Politics And International Relations, 2'1

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