Rory Criddle Email & Phone Number

Battersea

- Manage a programme of 15 mass participation sporting events, which involves strategic planning, marketing and recruitment, stewardship of participants, financial management, risk assessing and evaluating.- Manage event registration process for over 500 event participants across the programme, collaborating with a variety of event organisers, and registration platforms.- Collaborate with marketing and Comms teams to create unique marketing plans and implement bespoke stewardship journeys for over 500 event participants.- Manage relationships with variety of external stakeholders including event vendors, third party event management organisations, merchandise suppliers and more.- Responsible for management of various event budgets and income reports. Alongside undertaking quarterly financial reforecasting across programme of events.- On the day event management at a variety of bespoke, charity owned events responsible for event setup and pack down and management of staff and volunteers

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

The main purpose of my role is to provide effective support for the Challenge Events Manager to achieve agreed fundraising targets and objectives through the delivery of a series of high quality events.My responsibilities include:• Delivering a highly successful London Marathon event, recruiting and cultivating participants, organising logistics of the London Marathon Expo and managing marathon day on Sunday. Ensuring that income targets are met and completing follow up and evaluation afterwards.• Supporting the Challenge Events Manager and Events Manager with Muscular Dystrophy UK’s Town and Gown 10k run series. Taking a lead on elements of the event for Oxford, Cambridge and Leicester Town and Gown, including the Junior 3k Fun Runs. Support and input will be required with on the day logistics at all three events. • Supporting other challenge events in the portfolio such as the Pedal, Paddle, Peak and Ride London where required.• Developing and maintaining fundraising relationships with recruited marathon participants and ensure they receive the best in donor care; offering advice, support and encouragement and monitoring their financial performance.• Update and monitor webpages relevant to events in the Challenge Events team.• To work closely with the Regional Development team in the promotion and recruitment for events in our challenge events portfolio.

Sydney, Australia

• Delivered a wide range of products in a timely manner to numerous locations throughout Sydney city and surrounding suburbs.• Assisted in the picking and packing of orders in the warehouse. Including operating a motorised pallet jack.• Responded to customer enquiries in order to organise efficient deliveries • Responsible for ensuring products were safely secured in the vehicle.

Whipsnade, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom

• Greeted and served customers in a polite and professional manner and responded to all customer inquiries quickly and efficently. • Replenishing and restocking the bar, always ensuring a high level of stock management efficiency. • Trained new team members in key competencies to ensure the team worked well together ensuring high customer service standards were adhered to. • Demonstrating an in-depth knowledge of key health and safety standards used within the industry. • Independently completing the cashing up process, ensuring the finances were correct at the end of the day.

Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom

• A key aspect of my degree was the six week industry placement I completed at the end of my second year. • Increased audiences across all the company’s social media channels by 5% by producing new and exciting content.• Utilised social media analytics software (such as Hootsuite) in order to better understand how to engage with both new and existing customers.• Dealt with customer inquiries through both phone calls and emails, in a professional and timely manner.• Assisted in the creation of new revenue streams for the company through the production of proposals for government grants and partnership proposals within the local business community.

Mentmore

Tring

• Provided a youth insight into sport, allowing organisation to better understand the local youth sport environment.• Promoted youth sport opportunities within the local area, in an effort to boost youth sport participation.• Attended regular meetings and liaised with other members of the network on a number of projects in order to support local sport club partnerships.