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London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

I manage large online communities for the Care Quality Commission (CQC) - The health and social care regulator in England. This is a large and complex public body, with an annual government grant of £249M and more than 2,500 full-time staff.These communities have more than 100,000 members as of March, they’ve more than doubled in size in my time at the CQC. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:* Managing and supporting highly diverse and fast growing online communities* Developing social media guidelines, query response flowcharts, and tone of voice guidelines * Creating and maintaining a cross-channel content calendar* Co-developing and implementing creative and high-impact, multi-channel campaigns* Commissioning on-budget and impactful creative content from agencies* Project managing cross-channel campaigns* Supporting the development of a social media strategy, in-line with the aims of the wider communications strategy, and organisational strategy* Identifying KPIs, and providing regular as well as ad-hoc social media reports* Working in tandem with our media team, and in-house experts to manage crisis comms situations* Developing and delivering social media training for other CQC staff* Account membership and management of public engagement work in a wide range of subject areas, from primary medical services, to care provision for children & young people and a thematic review of CAMHS provision.

London, United Kingdom

"The idea behind the YCT Ambassador scheme is that we want to find dynamic people (of whatever age) who:* Are committed to telling people about trusteeship and supporting young trustees* Will help us publicize our activities and the activities of the organisations we work with. - Are prepared to represent YCT at events if required.If you have particular interest in being an Ambassador please contact us. We will promote the scheme more widely in the future."Find out more: http://youngcharitytrustees.org/yct-ambassadors

London, United Kingdom

I manage a rapidly growing online community that currently consists of 65,000 connections across Twitter, Facebook, Google+, YouTube, Flickr, blogs and internal forums.* Coordinating Girlguiding UK social media campaigns, and ensuring that they are fully integrated with broader communications strategies and that they meet key aims of our business plan* Coordinating social media campaigns with partner charities (Plan UK, British Red Cross, Childreach International, AVA & Railway Children as part of our joint Girls in Action project)* Crisis management, including identifying potential and existing crises, and developing crisis-specific communication plans to resolve them efficiently* Developing social media and blogging guidelines* Developing social media training to be delivered by staff and by volunteers at national, regional and local level* Primary point of contact for all social media-related enquiries, including support-on-demand for 200 - 300 social media account administrators throughout the UK, as well as a wide range of staff enquiries* Supporting the Web Team with technical skills* Developing strategies (Long term and campaign-specific)* Taking an active role in supporting the work of the Press Team, including liaising with journalists.* Supporting our Fundraising and Marketing team (particularly in the area of partnerships and student recruitment)* Monitoring and reporting on our successes and failures (using a wide variety of monitoring tools and applications), and altering our strategies in response to those reports.* Using Photoshop to create and edit visual assets for optimised use on social media platforms

London, United Kingdom

Girlguiding UK is the United Kingdom's largest voluntary youth organisation. Its members form the local Rainbow, Brownie, Guide and Senior Section groups based in communities across the UK. As a charity, Girlguiding UK exists to enable girls and young women to develop their potential and to make a difference to the world.I manage a growing online community that currently consists of 40,000 connections across Twitter, Facebook, Google+, YouTube, Flickr, blogs and internal forums.Specific responsibilities include:* Developing social media guidelines* Developing blogging guidelines* Delivering training* Developing strategies* Integrating social media as part of broader comms campaigns

London, United Kingdom

Helping the University of East London to deliver social media strategies, social media and intervention-marketing training, and supporting digital and social media campaigns.* Developing social media guidelines* Developing blogging guidelines* Delivering training* Co-developing strategies* Occasional coal-face social media work

Developing and growing UEL's sporting and 2012 Olympic presence across a range of digital platforms - Developed alongside a broader communications strategyThe Platforms: * The University of East London Website - Refreshing and SEO-ing content resulting in a doubling of average daily page views* Twitter - Increase of @Team_UEL's twitter following by more than 30% over three months, with the majority of new followers falling within key target demographics. * Blogs - Developing blog presences for key area of UEL, and providing both technical and best-practice training for content owners

Copywriter with key roles in award-winning digital media projects.More:* I produced web friendly, attractive and audience orientated and highly search engine optimised copy for areas across the UEL website * I have worked with colleagues across schools and services to ensure that we delivered a cohesive brand message, as well as a website that puts functionality and user-friendliness first - be they internal or external users, current or prospective students. * I was a member of the team developed and delivered the double-award winning University of East London's Personal Prospectus builder * I have been drafted as a back-up photographer, and have assisted with some of our video recording. * I have provided occasional editorial support to the Publications team (Responsible for prospectuses and a wide variety of other UEL publications) * Worked with colleagues to broaden the University of East London’s digital footprint through innovative use of a range of social media platforms. * I have worked creatively to develop novel campaign solutions, such as the successful ‘Green Game’ – Two colleagues and I devised, storyboarded, scripted, filmed, acted in and produced an environmental awareness game that included comic video sequences

Co. Wexford, Ireland

The Free Press is local fortnightly free-sheet newspaper with a circulation of 10,000 and readership of 25,000+. It is based in Wexford, Republic of Ireland. Role:* Proofing/subbing * Arts & Culture columnist* Photography* Liaising with advertisers

Master'S Degree, Magazines, Merit

Bachelor'S Degree, Journalism, 1St