Simon Cope Email & Phone Number

High Wycombe, England, United Kingdom

Oxford, United Kingdom

Manage, maintain and develop website, ensuring content is up-to-date, relevant, appealing, and accessible to key audiences, and maintaining the highest standards of usability and accessibility through ongoing refinement of the site's design & structure.Manage, maintain and develop intranet, ensuring current members are able to access content and functionality appropriate to their role, supporting internal communication, and facilitating administrative processes.Manage social media channels, posting regularly, tailoring messages appropriately to each channel, monitoring and responding to reaction and feedback.Production of an internal e-newsletter: sourcing and editing content, designing the newsletter, getting sign-off, and distribution.Act as first point of contact for all press and media enquiries: responding to requests for comment from local and national media; escalating these where appropriate and developing responses.Manage all requests to carry out filming at the college: responding to requests to use the college as a location; liaising with colleagues to assess these; presenting requests for sign-off; negotiating an appropriate location fee and agreeing terms & conditions and working methods with production companies.

Project managed the development of a new website for the Chilterns AONB. This involved regular meetings with the client to gather requirements, present designs, manage expectations and ensure timely signoff on work completed. Played a major role in the site build, and migration of content from a previous site. The new site was launched September 2011, on time and within budget, and has been widely praised.Developed a concept paper for a new multi-language website focusing on immunisation for the European Centre for Disease Prevention & Control. With little prior knowledge of the subject area, I combined guided research with my extensive knowledge of best practice in web development.Designed and built a new campaign website for Pinkstinks, who target the products, media and marketing that prescribe stereotyped and limiting roles to young girls.Project managed and built a website for the UK Race & Europe Network, a network of UK NGOs involved in combating racism in Europe.

Over the course of 16 years, I led the development of NCVO’s web presence from an initial page on the fledgling world wide web through to its current suite of sites that provide a broad range of services to its members and the wider voluntary sector:• Developed a website that was consistently rated as the most important of NCVO’s offerings by both members and non-members alike.• Secured significant grant funding and sponsorship for the site, from initial funding from BT that helped us develop our first site to a NOF grant that paid for the digitisation of material from NCVO publications, as well as sponsorship from commercial partner organisations.• Helped colleagues at all levels across the organisation understand both the opportunities and the challenges presented by the growth of the internet, by acting as an internal consultant to core teams as well as to cross-organisational project groups, identifying emerging trends and technologies and advising on their application and use.• Convinced the senior management team to give their authority and a financial commitment to the 2009 redevelopment of the website which refocused it around the needs of key audiences. Engaged and managed external consultants to lead a series of workshops involving staff at all levels in order to get buy-in from the whole organisation for this project.• Developed and implemented a web strategy, ensuring it complemented other cross-organisational strategies in delivering NCVO's objectives.• Ensured NCVO’s web presence maintained, complemented, and extended NCVO's brand and its values, communicated its key messages, and supported the achievement of membership, donor income and earned income targets.• Managed the web development officer and web editor, ensuring they performed to the best of their abilities and developed within their roles.• Played a leading role in the Information & Publishing team delivering the print publishing, HelpDesk and membership magazine functions.

Ba, Humanities

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