My role involves managing and guiding the EIA process, as part of a team, in support of Section 36, onshore planning permission in principle consents. My main areas of expertise include EIA production, coordination and management, stakeholder management, and planning consent compliance. I have experience in drafting various EIA documentation including scoping reports and environmental statements.

Focus on educational policy, AI and the economy, and family life and working practises.

-Built and installed bespoke furniture. - Worked for CMD Bespoke and Armstrong Vinton Furniture; both London based furniture makers.

Selected for leadership development program focused on social entrepreneurship and innovation. - Intensive training in the concepts and delivery of successful social enterprise and innovation.- Fulltime placement with Housing Justice, a national homelessness charity. Introduced a lived-experience advisory group into the charity and designed mechanisms to feed insights/suggestions into the charity's strategic decision-making.

- Yard management- Business management- Operating sawmill equipment

> PROGRAMME AND EVENT MANAGEMENTEnd-to-end project management - scope setting, planning and scheduling, delegation, workload tracking, tracking milestones, communication, risk management, and reporting. Managing digital transformation - design and build of two new websites and bespoke software: allowed The John Byrne Award to grow into Scotland’s largest arts competition. Managing digital marketing strategy - strategising and overseeing organic and paid campaigns across email, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. Monthly unique reach: 10,000+.Managing fundraising campaigns secured grants from corporates and individuals and delivered 2 fundraising dinners.Project initiation - established a network of ambassadors in colleges and universities. End-to-end event management - 7 annual awards ceremonies (800 guests); 2 annual fundraising dinners (120 guests); and bimonthly exhibitions and ambassador training days.Leading an international choir tour - planned, led, and managed two sell-out tours for a high-school Zulu choir from South Africa to The Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Performances in Assembly Rooms (1 of the 3 major venues) and coverage on BBC.> PARTNERSHIPS AND FUNDINGManaging charity financesProactively developing existing and new partnershipsLeading successful fundraising campaigns.Ensuring all programmes are appropriately resourced.Communicating impact to maintain attractiveness to funders.> LEADERSHIP AND HRDesign and implementation of strategyWorking closely with The Board of TrusteesSpokesperson for the charity.Direct reports: Digital Marketing Manager, Webmaster, Fundraising Manager, Operations Manager, Videographer.Providing structured team support - including annual, quarterly, and sprint targets, facilitating meetings, line management, regular 121s, continuous feedback, appraisals, identifying training requirements and co-creating solutions, and recruitment.

• Responsible for co-ordination and delivery of all aspects of the national, John Byrne Award competition including outreach, promotion, logistics, planning and events.• Managing and digitally integrating databases of entrants and their entries.• Driving creative innovation to grow the competition.• Reporting to trustees and charitable supporters of the award.

- Working collaboratively with classroom teachers to meet the educational, care and welfare needs of pupils.- One-on-one teaching with individual and groups of pupils.- Supervising play in breaktime.- Assisting teachers with clerical tasks.

● Promote active travel across 12 primary and 2 secondary schools.● Encourage community ownership of active travel infrastructure.● Work with senior school staff to tailor active travel workshops and lessons● Plan and deliver after-school clubs and bespoke, one-to-one lessons.● Develop and deliver schemes to encourage local communities to take ownership of promoting active travel.

• Active in group planning stages of future aquaponic experiments examining the effects of salinity on aquaponics systems utilizing estuarine plants, seaweeds, and pompono.• Designed a modular saltwater aquaponics system to be installed at Mote Aquaculture Research Park.• Conducted speculative market research by engaging with venders at local farmers markets and restaurants.• Responsibility for conducting daily feeding and maintenance activities on fresh and saltwater finfish species throughout the research facility.

Promoted a brand image/ product by pro-actively engaging with members of the public at high street road shows. Communicated ‘brand messages’ to members of the public in a genuine, enjoyable, and memorable way.

-Planned and carried out an independent research project in rural Nepal, assessing the efficacy of an aquaculture-based intervention project.-Identified, approached and interviewed key contacts in local and regional aquaculture production chains.

• Engaged householders on doorstep to assess energy efficiency of their household and referred them for free loft conversions/ social welfare support as necessary.