Tim Young Email & Phone Number

Bristol

Working alongside the communications team, my role is to deliver excellence in digital communications. The role is responsible for developing an overall digital strategy for the organisation, and then championing and delivering this strategy across the group to ensure that as a group we are delivering excellent digital content and engagement that represents our mission, strategic objectives and brand to a wider digital audience. Specific tasks include:● Developing and delivering a new digital strategy, closely aligned with the charity's recently developed there year group strategy● Leading individual digital project teams to deliver discrete operational parts of the digital strategy● Scoping and delivering a new responsive group website● Leading cultural change across the charity towards a 'digital-by-default' approach to operations

Bristol

Heading up the Soil Association's publications team, my main responsibilities were:● Strategic management of group websites (www.soilassociation.org and www.sacert.org).● Managing a suite of regular paper publications: Living Earth, a biannual supporter magazine (which I directly produced and edited); Organic Farming, a specialist journal aimed at farmers and growers; Mother Earth (soilassociation.org/motherearth) a biannual journal; and our Annual Review and Report and Accounts.● Line managing a team of content editors, and managing external design and print relationships.● Writing and editing content for both the web and print. ● Developing Microsites and other ad-hoc editorial projects such as book partnerships.● Working closely with our fundraising team to drive increased income generation and member recruitment.● Delivering our campaigning, PR and marketing activity through digital channels.● In 2012 I line managed the wider communications team (press, social media, and events) on an interim basis while a new director of communications was recruited.

Bristol, United Kingdom

GDS International publishes B2B business management journals and runs business events. As Senior Editor of a range of titles, I was responsible for:• Managing all aspects of magazine production, including commissioning, writing and editing content for print and online.• Line managing a team of assistant editors and staff writers. • Directing the design team to produce engaging editorial layouts.• Client management of advertising contributors.

London, United Kingdom

Which? is the consumer rights charity, best known for its magazine, one of the country's biggest consumer titles. Working as a Senior Researcher/Writer on the title I was responsible for:• Writing regular feature length articles on topics as diverse as supermarkets, buy-to-let mortgages and ‘super-foods’.• Managing internal research teams and budgets, and commissioning external research agencies.• Supporting the campaigning and marketing activity of Which? by providing appropriate research content• Representing Which? in the media, both through briefing print journalists and appearing on both radio and TV programmes.

London, United Kingdom

I supported research projects primarily through desk research, data collection, and writing tasks.

London, United Kingdom

I was responsible for proof-reading and fact checking magazine features prior to publication.

Postgraduate Certificate, Economics, Merit

The post-graduate certificate in Economics covered Micro and Macro Economic theory, quantitative mathematical optimisation techniques.

Bachelor'S Degree, American Studies (Social Studies), 2(I)

This was a multi-disciplinary degree, focused on the US, and taking in social and political theory, cultural and media study, literature.

A Levels, English Literature, History, Psychology, A, A, A