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Deliver insight-driven strategic communications plans and activities for specific service areas and organisation-wide.Oversee all council social media channels, managing annual content calendar, writing quarterly performance reports for senior management and training communications team on platform optimisation, accessibility and evaluation.Managing the.

Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom

• Deliver strategic communications plans and activities.
• Lead the councils’ communications team, including overseeing workloads, managing performance, and ensuring the team meets its objectives
• Helping to manage the councils’ public reputation by generating high-quality, creative communications and proactively overseeing media relations and positively handling media enquiries.
• Enthusiastically building relationships with key stakeholders
• Managing the councils’ websites, ensuring they are up-to-date and accurate.
• Overseeing the production of council publications, including newsletters.

Didcot, England, United Kingdom

Oxford, United Kingdom

• Lead all day-to-day communications for the Oxfordshire Plan 2050 - a multi-million pound development fund overseen by the Oxfordshire Growth Board - delivering internal, external and stakeholder communication.
• Devise and deliver strategic media plans across all digital and social media channels, creating multi-platform content and using analytics and evaluation to optimise reach and engagement.
• Work closely with media outlets, providing tailored press releases, offering interviews with media-briefed councillors, and efficiently and effectively handling
• Provide strategic media advice and guidance to senior council officers and members, including chief executives and leader, on announcements and potential reputational issues, briefing spokespeople to provide an.
• Devise and deliver engagement and consultation events both in person and virtually, creating bespoke content, liaising with event venues and booking speakers.
• Run internship scheme with local FE college, offering mentoring, training and guidance to our intern and giving them real-life experience while developing their communications skills for the future and carrying out.

Portishead

• Key member part of press team helping the department’s effective planning and delivery of external and stakeholder communications and engagement strategies and activity in keeping with the force’s mission, vision and.
• Anticipated and identified risk, developed crisis communications strategies, and issued approved responses to counter negative narratives and ensure trust and confidence in the force.
• Lead media training to frontline officers, offering teaching and motivation to deal with all aspects of media and become better communicators, delivering key messages in a professional and authoritative manner.
• Utilised digital skills to curate highly engaging multi-platform social media output to deliver key messages to various online audiences, including targeting BAME and other hard-to-reach groups, and increase engagement.
• Lead on media monitoring, understanding and assessing the media landscape, identifying proactive media opportunities, and anticipating potential risk and reputational issues.
• Worked collaboratively with chief officer group, FOI team, and various police departments – as well as other forces - to coordinate media releases, responses and proactive work.

London, United Kingdom

• Lead team of reporters, delivering video news in a fast-paced, high-profile media organisation against tight hourly deadlines.
• Provided training, advice and guidance to junior reporters on all aspects of journalism from copy clinics to media law, motivating and supporting them to create an effective team that constantly met demanding targets.
• Utilised analytical software to set KPIs and carried out regular evaluation, implementing positive change from lessons learned and building on successes.
• Used my organisation skills to strategically plan optimised delivery of content while being adaptable and flexible to breaking news.
• Developed skills in Photoshop, Brightcove, Adobe Premiere Pro and others to produce the most-engaging content across all platforms.
• Represented the brand while meeting and networking with press and PR officers, creating strong and mutually beneficial relationships.

Oxford

• Managed a team of 12 reporters producing comprehensive and compelling content, meeting daily deadlines for multiple newspaper titles and websites.
• Lead digital training for all staff, giving advice and guidance on mobile reporting, SEO, media law, social media and best practice.
• Held regular appraisals with reporters, setting developmental targets, offering feedback, motivation and support.
• Used analytics, Insights and surveys to develop online and media strategy, evaluate success and refine processes, learning from any failings.
• Presented monthly performance reports to senior management outlining progress against KPIs and setting new ambitious targets to ensure continued growth.
• Stayed ahead of digital trends and innovative in my use of social media such as using Periscope for the first time in the UK to present live coverage of a bomb disposal.

Brighton

• Responsible for uploading stories to theargus.co.uk site, interlinking articles and implementing SEO resulting in more than 600,000 monthly unique users and nearly three million page impressions.
• Instigated and managed live blogs for major news stories such as the snowfall in March 2013 combining regular updates with multimedia and embedding Tweets resulting in record-breaking traffic.
• Custodian of The Argus’ social media presence from Facebook and Twitter to Google+ and Pinterest using all platforms to encourage debate, increase referrals to the website and break news first.
• Project managed the online campaigns for Argus Achievement Awards, That’s Good News business initiative, and Argus reward card which all generated additional web traffic as well as commercial revenue.
• Responsible for training new reporters in our content management system, Avid video editing, and new web technologies such as Audioboo, Qik video, Infogram and Scribd.
• Part of company’s online display meetings providing expert advice to other heads of department and producing ideas such as our sponsored live travel blog to help increase audience figures and generate additional income.

Brighton, United Kingdom

Senior reporter for daily newspaper the Brighton Argus, reporting on a variety of news as well as producing news features, reviews and updating the website.

• Provided reliable senior experience and versatility during major rebranding of title.
• Worked across news and sports desk as well as sub-editing, easily able to switch between roles.
• Used well-honed news sense and journalistic nous to source and write front-page exclusives.
• Collaborated with Gold Coast United FC to produce special season preview supplement for paper, interviewing coaching staff and players, sourcing imagery and offering expert insight.

• Consistently brought in exclusive stories such as revealing a local councillor was a former IRA terrorist and a Conservative MP moonlighting while on sick leave.
• Regularly deputised as editor to edit and used my news sense and eye for detail to layout the newspaper to deadline deciding on photos, headlines and angle of stories.
• Created the newspaper’s Facebook and Twitter page to reach more audience and increase the brand’s online presence.
• As the most senior member of the team, I helped train work experience and trainee reporters using my knowledge of content management systems, search engine optimization and media law.

Uploaded stories to Mail Online's website, updated stories with latest angles, sourced and proofed copy, and arranged layout of web pages. Liaised with the picture desk to source images then finished stories with pithy headlines, related links and web optimization.

• Learned my trade starting off as a trainee reporter before being promoted for my abilities to chief reporter.
• Developed news sense, oral and written communication skills, media law knowledge, interviewing techniques and strategic planning.
• Demonstrated creativity in presenting stories such as being a Freegan for a day, the anniversary of the raising of a World War Two bomber from Loch Ness and the centenary of the famous Brooklands motor racing track.

Ba (Hons), Archaeology And English Language

Sports editor for two years on university magazine Impact.

Preliminary Certificate, Journalism

National Certificate Examination (NCE)

Ba (Hons), Archaeology And English Studies

Graduated with a 2:1 in BA(Hons) Archaeology and English Studies Spent six weeks at an archaeological dig on the Slovak-Hungarian border.

Bachelor'S Degree