Secondment working in a unique role with the first elected "Metro-Mayor" of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough and Chief Executive in a fast-paced environment which included:- Interim programme management of the devolution of the Adult Education Budget. Predominantly, this involved successfully resourcing implementation preparations for AEB devolution including: *Commissioning of an action plan *Policy research and advice * Securing relevant implementation resources from the CA Board * Writing a successful business case to the DfE for funding support- Rural strategy and skills strategy development-Event management - Project managed a Mayoral Roundtable event with the region's largest employers in collaboration with Astrazeneca. Created marketing collateral, worked with the Mayor to craft 'key messages' and coordinated comms coverage for the event.- Writing and agreeing Service Level Agreements for the provision of support services to the Combined Authority and establishing governance procedures - Lead responsibility for IT provision and procurement- Written and verbal briefings, research of high strategic importance to the Mayor or Chief Executive, briefings for media appearances. - Recruitment to build the support structure within the CA

Second Placement on the graduate scheme. Within this placement I predominantly worked on high-profile transformation projects, but also spent time in the Policy and Business Development Team in the Economy, Transport and Environment Directorate.The central project for this was working with colleagues in the Council's Senior Management team, the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG and third sector partners to work towards the creation of a 'common language' for health and social care in the county. To date, this has involved working closely with these partners to analyse what is currently used and identify the benefits of a common language - such as a more joined-up, collaborative approach to working. As well as my central project I have also picked up other work from the 'transformation pipeline' to enhance my own personal development while on the scheme, this has included:- Coordinating and responding to the Economy, Transport and Environment's Freedom of Information requests - Writing Reports to be presented at Full Council (Highways and Community Infrastructure Committee Annual Review).

Times Top 100 graduate scheme for local government. This included structured back-to-back placements over the course of the programme. Project 1 (6 months): Transformation and Social Care IT system implementation: - Implementing community resilience programme: working with a local Parish Council to establish practical ways in which they could take on more responsibility and deliver services locally. This involved close interaction with a a number of internal and external stakeholders to create mutually beneficial solutions. Through working closely with colleagues in the Children, Families and Adults Directorate we have established some ambitious yet practical things the Parish can do to help older people to remain independent for longer. This has included training members of the community as Assistive Technology "trusted assessors" to enable them to spread knowledge and be able to refer people whose lives could be enhanced by Assistive Technology. Also, I have laid the groundwork for the establishment of a homecare Micro-enterprise in the village and have created a bid to generate funding for this proposal. - Coordinating link between CCC and Cambridge University: Working closely with student groups from the Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange to tackle the county's most pressing policy 'challenges'. Coming in to this project just after inception I led the project through to it's evaluation. Within this, I was able to work closely with Cllrs to help them realise their vision for the project. Much of this work was centred around publicising the initiative and generated some significant interest including from the LGA and a local MP. - MOSAIC: Worked with the business to match CCC specification in Adult Social Care to Corelogic's best practice configuration through workshops to give practitioners an introduction to the system. This included creating training materials and process maps.

Part-time summer role in working in Tower Bridge providing support on the following:- Developed staff social media guidelines. This document informed staff how to properly utilise social media to discuss the company, enabling them to unlock the immense communicative potential of social media whilst alerting staff to potential pitfalls. - Created templates for internal company publications-Operating content management systems- Undertook extensive market research of competitors websites, providing recommendations on current shortcomings and realistic alternatives.- Drafted website content such as: project case studies; press releases; employee profiles. - Created external marketing materials such as service brochures.

Following the completion of my degree I rejoined the NPS Marketing department on a part-time basis.Involving similar tasks to my previous role I assisted through creating written marketing content as well as a variety of research tasks to support the team.

I was selected by the PPL department to act as their student ambassador. I assisted the University in running applicant days for Sixth Form students who had applied to study Politics. This role included:- Providing guided tours of the campus- Speaking with students and parents about the realities of student life at UEAIt was essential to be both knowledgeable and enthusiastic in this role as students are arguably the University's greatest asset and perhaps give the best insight into what it is really like to study at the institution.

2 month internship programme providing support to a busy marketing team in a variety of ways which included:- Drafting and proofing written content for a variety marketing materials, including website press releases and internal staff news bulletin- Providing technical support advising how to use the computer software Prezi- Creating graphics and visual marketing material- Creating and compiling information for project case studies- Various research projects for senior members of staff- Analysing website SEO