Thomas Hughes Email & Phone Number

Nottingham, England, United Kingdom

Working as the sole dedicated communications professional for the university's largest school, which comprises over 1000 staff.Responsibilities include:• Creating digital weekly staff newsletter for distribution to over 1000 staff.• Content creation, design and optimisation on intranet and external website.• Designing digital and print assets, including course brochures.• Management of LinkedIn, X, and Facebook channels.• Writing and editing communications for the Dean of the School of Medicine.

Nottingham, England, United Kingdom

• Lead content writer and curator across four websites.• Developed and executed social media strategy across all Group social media channels.• Led the Communications team in the absence of the Head of Brands.• Lead copyeditor and proofreader for all marketing communications and materials.• Wrote blog post on transversal skills – became the second organic search result on Google and was consistently in the top five most-visited pages of the Group website.• Research, copywriting and social media marketing for Let’s Go Further podcast.• Completed Emerging Leaders programme.• Managed successful sponsor relationship with Inspiring Culinary Generations (ICG).

Nottingham, United Kingdom

Wrote blog post on transversal skills that is ranking as a number one search result on Google and is consistently in the top five pages of the website for traffic.

Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

- Wrote the blog post with the highest amount of organic traffic on the Evans Halshaw website ('Best Used Family Cars for Towing Caravans'), which reached over 7,000 organic hits per month and had the 7th highest organic traffic of all pages on the website.- Writer of three blog posts in the top 10 most-visited blog posts on the Evans Halshaw website (the above blog post along with 'Best Car Lease Deals' and 'Best Used Cars with 2000kg Towing Capacity'). - More than doubled the average engagement rate in my five months of managing the Pendragon Vehicle Management (PVM) LinkedIn page, peaking at a rate of 5.37% in June 2019.

Preston, United Kingdom

Providing pastoral care to and nurturing the personal development of a team of young people taking part in the National Citizen Service programme. Delivering sessions to enhance learning, reflection, and team-building.Inspiring and motivating the team when taking part in challenging outdoor and entrepreneurial activities.Supporting the team as they carried out a social action project in their local community.Working together with other members of staff to manage the whole wave of 40 young people.Significantly boosted my leadership skills, verbal communication, and confidence. Given excellent feedback by the Programme Leader : all 4s and one 5.

Nottingham

In this role, I took on tasks on an ad hoc basis. It primarily involved analysing survey results and writing reports on the findings, providing the Students' Union with valuable insights into student opinion. The role required the following skills: - Survey testing and distribution.- Data analysis.- Report writing.For example, I analysed the results of a survey asking for students feedback on the Grad Ball, and through my report the SU was made aware that students were dissatisfied with the event for various reasons. In this job I learned a great deal about student preferences and audience segmentation.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

This role began as an internship, and at the conclusion of this I was asked by my manager to continue in a part-time capacity.I was in charge of social media marketing and was also part of the product development team. This role involved:- Social media management.- Use of social analytics.- Branding and content design.- Editing webpages.- Creating email newsletters with MailChimp.- Assisting with user research and improvements to UX. - Organising data with Excel.- Market research of software, competitors, and content sources. My main achievements included doubling Instagram engagements, project managing a beta launch of the app, and rebranding the Facebook and Twitter pages.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

A casual role in which I supported the running of university events such as open days and careers fairs. Sometimes this would involve talking to prospective students and staff about the courses available through the English department, and giving them an insight into what student life at UoN was like. At other events, I had a more specialised role, such as promoting the Unitemps recruitment service on a stall at a careers fair. On this occasion, I persuaded over 50 students to register for the service in just two hours.

Conducted test purchases in supermarkets, convenience stores, bookmakers, and bars, to determine whether staff were following the correct ID procedure.Carried out media compliance visits in pubs/bars to check for illegal broadcasting of live football.Evaluated customer service in travel agents and nightclubs.Successfully completed 250 visits in a variety of locations across the country, sometimes travelling significant distances at short notice.This role had a positive impact on my time management, confidence, and attention to detail.

Derby, United Kingdom

This was a two-week full-time paid internship over the Easter holidays.Evaluated existing marketing activity.Managed Facebook and Twitter accounts.Launched new marketing campaigns and ideas.Used digital PR to promote exhibitions.Wrote marketing report using analytics.Produced marketing schedule for the rest of the year.Took photographs and video recordings to create social media content.My main success was doubling Twitter engagements.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, English With Creative Writing, 2:1

Activities and Societies: English Society, Advocate Law and Politics Magazine, Impact Student Magazine, Handball Club, Blogging Society.

A Levels And Epq, English Literature (British And Commonwealth), A*Ab Plus A* For Epq

Activities and Societies: School Prefect, Awarded Anne Webb Prize for Achievement in English Literature 2015

Gcses And Ocr National, 7 A*S, 2 As And 1 Distinction

Activities and Societies: Awarded Humanities Prize 2013