Matthias Feist Email & Phone Number

County Louth, Ireland

County Louth, Ireland

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Teaching employability skills to a cohort of c.200 international accounting, actuarial science, business analytics, finance, and risk management master’s students. Designing academic module content and assessments using Canvas virtual learning environment. Lecturing in class, online, and asynchronously.Offering one–to–one career support online and in–person.

Delivering weekly webinars and advice sessions, as well as asynchronous career support for a global community of software developers.

Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom

Supporting a charity that teaches no-code tech skills to young and vulnerable people using the Microsoft Power Apps platform. Helping with building a recruitment pipeline for tutors.

Ireland

Delivering online, on-site, and hybrid workshops on the future of work at universities in Germany, Ireland, the UK and the US. Often partnering with international collaborators, e.g. at Georgia State University.Mentoring budding entrepreneurs, professional peers, and private clients.

San Francisco, California, United States

Led global alumni engagement strategy at Silicon Valley based Y-Combinator EdTech startup. Drove high re-engagement rates among 'lost' alums and executed successful outreach campaigns. Managed a remote career coaching team using asynchronous and agile methods.

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Managed engagement with an alumni community of 40k+ at Ireland’s largest private third level institution.

Designed learning content, learner support, and remote participant experience for digital and enterprise skills academy start-up.

London, United Kingdom

Acted over multiple roles as institutional lead on employability, student enterprise, new student inductions, and alumni relations. Accountable for service standards to the executive and board. Involved in setting university strategy, as well as infrastructure development and finance oversight.Other roles held:- Interim Head Development & Alumni Relations (2017 - 2019)- Board Member / Non-executive Director (2014 - 2020)- Head of Careers & Business Relations (2008 - 2018)Achievements:- Managed transition from location-based to online service within one day.- Involved in 40+ successful programme validations in a variety of subjects up to professional doctorate level.- Introduced entrepreneurship support, including launching a start-up co-working space in 2018. Helped Regent's become "the school with the highest density of founders" (at 12.2%).- Reduced on-boarding time by 50% while leading student campus inductions (c.1000 per year).

London, United Kingdom

- Led on business and finance placements for c.200 students per annum- Worked with faculty on employer liaison, school marketing, and business development.- Spearheaded adoption of knowledge management and client relationship platform.

- Responsible for departmental web and print content, and destination reporting.- Supported implementation of departmental CRM and roll-out of career management system.

London, United Kingdom