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Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Lead on Digital Infrastructure projects and Sustainability projects.Building relationships across networks of senior stakeholders.Project and stakeholder management.Public speaking.

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Timely and organised reporting and updates of project delivery goals and milestones.Managing partnerships with project delivery partners.Engaging stakeholder buy in to the Manchester Digital Strategy's aims and goals.Organising and managing Digital Strategy related events.Maintaining and organising board level communications.Developing and maintaining a communications and marketing plan ( including collateral and supplier relationships).Staying knowledgeable on emerging developments in the digital ecosystem in Manchester, as well as internationally and nationally.

Working in a public affairs and policy role at one of the UK's largest Universities to ensure policy makers and influencers have access to unbiased, fair, and evidence-based academic expertise.Writing and copyediting policy briefs, parliamentary and governmental inquiry submissions, POSTnote submissions, policy publications, blogs and social media content.Engaging with MPs, APPGs, Select Committees and non-governmental policy making organisations based nationally and internationally to influence policy on an operational level.Achieved several parliamentary citations for the University.Established successful external partnerships with government departments, peers and policy influencers.Monitoring policy developments and attending, and managing relevant events (party conferences, government seminars etc.).Researching opportunities for policy engagement across a variety of policy areasCross-departmental working to work towards organisation-wide goals.

Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Managed all main brand digital accounts, and led on content creation and planning for them.Increased engagement across digital accounts by 2-4%.Developed strategic communications plans for policy engagement, business support and corporate communications. Engaging strategic partners in policy campaigns. Worked on developing cross-departmental marketing campaigns and plans.Dissemination of clear communications during ‘crisis’ periods such as Brexit and COVID.Developed marketing plans and communications for commercial and non-commercial services - including achieving over 700 signs ups to the GM Business Community during the pandemic.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Content creation including blog posts, articles, social copy, podcasts, long and short video content, e-mail campaigns, GIFs, stories and social assets.Social media across main brand Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram accounts.Website content creation and structure.Developing marketing plans.Using Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel and Hootsuite analytics to track performance.CRM - Dynamics 365.CMS - Umbraco, Wix and Wordpress.Facebook and Instagram paid ads.Social asset design using Canva.Adobe Creative cloud.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Updating businesses on emerging trade policy developments.Reviewing data from HMRC’s data base on UK and North West Trade with various global markets.Managing social media accounts in a B2B context. Content management and creation of an e-Newsletter delivered to 2.5K recipients. Design of multi channel content including infographics and event flyers.Writing and researching articles on International markets, trade news and advice on how to succeed globally.Uploading and writing content for our website.Handling technical queries - advising on customs declarations, VAT, IPR, Market Entry, Export Controls and classification of goods using the Tariff.Pinpointing what skills new to export/import and investment companies need to improve in order to trade internationally via producing an in-depth ‘international trade readiness’ report.Organisation of roundtables, B2B meetings, networking evenings and inward delegations.Lead on market events for South East Asia, China, India, Canada and South and East Africa. Managing relationships with strategic partnerships and approved suppliers.Providing Chamber members with relevant advice by phone call, email and face to face meetings when necessary.Analysing these data sets on Excel and presenting this data in infographics, graphs and PowerPoint presentations. Production of post event reports for clients.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Audited rest spaces, universal toilets and disabled access spaces in the University.Presented data on the findings, and suggested opportunities to increase the number of accessible spaces throughout the University campus.Several suggestions as a result of the audit were approved and implemented.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Sold press releases to the media via phone and email.Composed press releases and online written content. Researched social media practices, client products, potential clients and competing companies and products.