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Jointly responsible for the strategic, efficient, sustainable, and impactful running - and development - of the organisation. Leading Possible’s campaigns teams and comms team to deliver impactful work. Offering wider strategic insight to ensure that projects, processes, and people are up to the challenge. Responsible for measuring and demonstrating Possible's impact, and ensuring we remain focused on our strategic goals.

London, England, United Kingdom

Zero Hour is the group campaigning to get the new Climate and Ecology Bill passed as legislation in the UK Parliament. I develop our partnerships strategies, lead on approaching new partners – particularly environmental NGOs, businesses, and youth networks - and manage some of our business advocacy partners.

 Strategy Consultant – Hope for the Future, Aug-Sept 2024. Designed and delivered strategy workshops with Trustees and with Staff to kick off the development of their new organisational strategy. Strategic Partnerships Consultant – One Young World, February-August 2024. Developing new programmes and products to increase the charity's income and impact for youth and the SDGs.  Venture Lab Associate – C2LI (Climate Change Litigation Initiative), May - July 2023. Co-led the venture lab process to start up a new climate litigation social enterprise. Involved product development, market assessment, strategy development, business planning, financial modelling, operational planning, marketing mix, brand, income generation strategy, and CIC incorporation. Campaign Strategy Consultant – Save Our Wild Isles (WWF/RSPB/National Trust), April 2023. Supported the SOWI Programme Managers with campaign design, including facilitation of campaign strategy workshop focusing on campaign theory of change going forwards. Strategic Communications Consultant – Renewable World, November 2022 to April 2023; July-August 2023. Leading the organisation's development of new brand framework, brand identity, comms strategy and plan, launch of new organisational strategy, and new website. Advisor – Force of Nature, August 2022 to present. External advisor to the Programmes & Partnerships Director. Force of Nature is a CIC, mobilising mindsets for climate action. Strategy & Communications Advisor – Challenges Catalyst, September 2022 to July 2024. Consultant to CEO and SLT on brand architecture, strategy, theory of change, positioning of business areas, and private sector engagement.

Accountable for income targets for volunteer fundraising, corporate partnerships, and individual giving, and for delivering Raleigh’s communications strategy, volunteer marketing recruitment strategy, Action Not Excuses campaign, and alumni engagement. In terms of strategic relationships, also set up our UK NGO partnerships (e.g. with the Woodland Trust) and some of our media partnerships (e.g. with Trinity Mirror). As a director I was a member of the Global Leadership Team, contributing to strategy, management, and people & culture. I oversaw a department of 12 employees, and an annual income budget of £2.8 million. I was a Strategy Sponsor for our organisational strategy Now Is The Moment and led an international group to deliver the Ignite the Movement workstream of our strategy. With two other NGOs I represented Raleigh as co-lead to the UK-based #iwill4nature network of environmental youth social action charities.

Secured a total of £2.3 million in corporate income. Oversaw a 461% increase in corporate income since joining Raleigh – an increase in income from £140k in 2015 to £887k in 2019. Led partnerships with multi-nationals including BNP Paribas (Suisse), Google, Reckitt Benckiser, Novartis, and McCann, and my team secured six multi-year partnerships. Member of Senior Management Team of UK office.

London, United Kingdom

Supported Module Convenors by developing and delivering both UG and PG lectures, workshops and seminars on Marketing Strategy, Services Marketing and International Marketing Communications modules within the Business School.

A small sustainable development charity focused on implementing long-term development programmes in marginalised and vulnerable communities in Nicaragua. As a Trustee I was responsible for guiding strategy, vision, finances and governance, as well as support to the charity’s director.