Nicola Ashton Email & Phone Number

England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Brighton, United Kingdom

Sole responsibility for day-to-day delivery of the alumni engagement programme. Running of University of Brighton alumni-specific social media accounts (Facebook, Twitter, Linked In and lnstagram) and writing, creating and scheduling high quality content using house style. Designing, planning and sending mass communications for the worldwide alumni community. Updating and maintaining the team webpages using CMS. Management and stewardship of all alumni volunteers. Organisation of reunions, networking events and alumni association presence at graduation ceremonies. Ensuring promotional materials remain current, relevant and in line with corporate identity guidelines. Development of mutually beneficial partnerships with alumni based overseas to encourage engagement and set the context for fund raising. Line managing and mentoring Digital Marketing Intern.

Brighton, United Kingdom

Working as part of the REF team checking and compiling the submission. Running import/export and validation processes. Management of user records and complex data sets across multiple systems. Organising and coordinating large meetings with many stakeholders. Extensive knowledge of guidelines set by the Higher Education Funding Council and regular checking of FAQ's constantly subject to change. Updating the intranet site with news and information on the submission. Liaising with the Communications Department to ensure the university community were kept informed. Using Sussex Research Online (an internal research repository) to check output selection for staff. Dealing with audit queries after submission.

Organising teleconferences for quarterly meetings with global regions of the business: preparing agendas, creating reports and documentation for discussion and producing minutes. Producing Excel reports from pivot tables to provide information for Security Directors. Member of the Editorial Committee of the Manor Times (the internal comms newsletter). Analysing data for insurance claims and keeping data on the system current. Coordinating the collection of the worldwide insurance questionnaire data including troubleshooting, collating the information and producing reports on the results to share with management. Stepped up to help working on the security scheduling team during the 2012 Olympics.

Assisting the council's blind solicitor to produce bundles of documentation for prosecution cases. Assisting in court. Researching legislation and legal information in order to bring cases to court. Helping to complete all relevant forms in the proceedings.