Devising Remembrance initiatives at the Royal British Legion, focusing on impactful content and campaign creation, for public engagement and partnership cultivation. Responsible for planning and executing national remembrance strategies to honor service members and foster public support, along with creating and managing partnerships to deliver campaigns such as Kosovo 25, and Windrush 75. In charge of sourcing personal testimonies and contributing speakers and content for publications and events; devising, and curating major exhibitions and creating messaging and matrix working for public and staff communications, including web content, ebulletins, PR, social media, official publications, and membership magazine.Key achievements:• Onboarded and managed partnership with the National Windrush Museum to mark Windrush 75• Planned and executed content for major D-Day exhibition at British Normandy Memorial, France, opened by Their Majesties the King and Queen• Managed relationships with partner organisations including South Asian Heritage Month, Black History Month, Memorial Gates Trust

Co-managed the cross-government Green Social Prescribing Test & Learn project in Surrey, which won the Shaping Places for People category at the ADEPT Awards, 2022, for its contributions to public health through nature-based interventions. Key Achievements:• Oversaw governance and stakeholder engagement, driving participation and support• Facilitated a Green Health & Wellbeing Network of 200+ providers, organizing knowledge-sharing webinars with expert contributors• Directed public communications, including web content, social media campaigns and visual assets• Managed information resources and databases, ensuring efficient knowledge sharing across the network

Pioneered Royal Mail’s award-winning Special Stamps programme, which achieved record-breaking sales and visibility. Focused on innovative themes, introduced iconic topics like Harry Potter and The Beatles, and expanded the representation of diversity on stamps. Key Achievements:• Created and managed strategy, overseeing subject selection, brand partnerships and stakeholder communications• Conducted over 700 media interviews to promote new stamp issues across major networks; increased PR exposure to a value of £10m pa• Developed Royal Mail’s social media presence, crafting content, commissioning multimedia, and responding to trends• Advanced policies to reflect societal diversity, including negotiations with Buckingham Palace for depicting living figures beyond the Royal Family

Directed all publishing initiatives, including brochures, books, and membership magazines, leading a creative and marketing team while managing budgets and timelines.Key achievements:• Spearheaded product marketing and new publishing initiatives, including co-published book ventures• Launched Royal Mail’s social media presence, establishing brand and style standards

• Commissioner and editor of copy for published products for each stamp issue and annuals• Devised the strategy and content for award-winning Millennium Stamps and co-curated and managed budget of the associated major British Library exhibition visited by 150k people

Head of the environment and social development list of illustrated books.

Devised and managed communications strategy to ensure consistency of visual and written message and editor of Greenpeace News magazine.