Nicole Meek Email & Phone Number

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Birmingham, United Kingdom

I managed the delivery of a national STEM education programme, engaging with school staff, industry ambassadors and regional enterprise hubs to increase our impact and the number of students we engage with.Key responsibilities:Establish, develop and manage relationships with school staff and other key stakeholders.Build relationships with corporate and industry sponsors and apply for funding to further our outreach activities.Project based work to ensure the delivery of the Experience Day strategy.Managing all operational and logistic requirements for events, ensuring all relevant information is collected and passed onto participants.Create marketing materials to advertise our STEM programmes to schools and families.Lead contact for all delivery staffRecruit and induct volunteers.Lead for CRM processes.Build and manage courses on our learning management platform.Key achievements/projects:Coordinated the digitising of our STEM programmes in response to national school closures. Included building a test online programme, recruiting schools and collecting data to feed back. Trained other members of staff to use the platform and now act as the lead for my department.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Coordinate and deliver the National Citizen Service (NCS), a youth scheme aimed working with 15-17-year olds to increase skills, confidence and aid local social integration.Key responsibilitiesStrong administration and organisation skills, ensuring the smooth setup and delivery of the NCS programme.Meeting regular deadlines during setup of the NCS programme to ensure that targets are achieved, whilst multitasking and working under pressure.Communicating with external partners and stakeholders, such as local charities, community organisations, and councils, building new relationships and maintaining positive ones.Managing seasonal staff, including leading assessment centres, assisting new starter training and providing on the ground support.Working efficiently in a team, taking responsibility for independent work and stepping in to assist colleagues when the situation requires.Excellent IT skills, including Microsoft packages and CRM programmes such as Salesforce, to manage communications.Key achievements/projectsFormed key relationships with Walsall Council resulting in NCS participants being able to work directly with the council’s flagship social integration project. Consequently, NCS graduates now have the opportunity to partake in internships within the council where a ground-breaking skills development scheme for pre-NEET young people is now taking place.Achieved the role of Inclusion Representative in 2019, focusing on ensuring that all young people are supported on the NCS programme regardless of ability or background.Headed a project to provide sanitary products for every NCS group, aiming to reduce period poverty across the country. Facilitated a relationship with a local organisation, leading to the donation of numerous boxes of period supplies, helping to support thousands of young women on the programme.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Supporting staff member in the science department at a large secondary school, focusing on working with pupil premium students and widening participation.Key responsibilitiesLesson support, one-on-one tuition with pupil premium students and small group interventions.Organising and running booster revision sessions, including curriculum planning.Ensuring own understanding of safeguarding policies through internal and external training.Key achievements/projectsSuccessfully achieved funding from the British Science Association to run and develop after-school science clubs. Developing activity sessions, recruiting and managing volunteers and coordinating extracurricular trips.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Led outreach activity sessions for school groups and members of the public, including curriculum-linked science sessions and summer clubs.

Mbiolsci, Biology, 2:1

Msc, Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research, Merit

A Level, Biology (A), Mathematics (A), Chemistry (B)