Analyst, Compensation & Benefits

• Oct 2018 - Present

Compensations and Benefits Intern

• Jun 2017 - Oct 2018

-Data mining and preparation from HRIS and payroll systems for various projects (compensation reviews, salary reviews, salary movement, gender pay gap, employee turnover). -Project management of a new absence reporting system; involving system calibration, company-wide communication, manager training and query handling. -Grading of and salary benchmarking for new roles created within the company, using grading architecture software and market data.-Member of Wellness and CSR committees; organising events (Men’s Health Day), encouraging sustainable office practices (plastic free office supplies, pro-recycling) and fine-tuning HR policies to reduce unconscious exclusivity. -Project management of an international relocation platform, used to aid new starters when relocating to UK offices.-Intermediate Excel skills (pivot tables, vlookups, macros, custom formula) used in data extraction, data preparation and analysis and reporting. -Ad-hoc HR reporting, office administration and systems management, ensuring data quality across the various systems used.

Sea Turtle Conservation Intern

• Jun 2016 - Nov 2016

A seasonal government internship to monitor and actively conserve the marine turtle nesting population: Over three seasons (2012, 2015, 2016), role included: Research:-Monitoring of nesting ecology via four daytime beach surveys per week; locating new nests and excavating hatched nests to collect reproductive output data. -In-water capture surveys to monitor foraging population numbers and health. -Night-time beach light monitoring surveys to generate a qualitative and recent measure of development on turtle nesting beaches to use in further risk analysis.-Monitoring of a nesting population via nightly beach surveys; recording individual turtle nesting behaviour, applying tags for later identification and clutch assignation.-Survey effort recording to quantify and optimise time investment. Conservation: -Active monitoring and risk mitigation of at-risk (threatened from beach lighting, inundation, poaching) nests and individual nesting turtles.-Coordination with Enforcement team to prevent and reduce poaching per seasons. Project management:-Project managed the 2016 night surveys for individual nesters; increasing data coverage to 50.3% of all nests (compared to previous high of 21.7% of 2015 season). -Co-managed the 2012 hatching season; generating work schedules for the beach surveys, liaising with beach property owners to reduce risk from beach lighting, and releasing rescued turtle hatchlings. Education and outreach:-Educational excavations of hatched nests for school groups to raise environmental awareness in the younger generations.-Informal and ad-hoc outreach during beach surveys.

GIS Demonstrator

• Jan 2016 - Apr 2016

Demonstrated on BIO3416 Marine Spatial Ecology module (https://goo.gl/9YVLqz); an undergraduate Geographical Information Systems (GIS) module. Role included:-Teaching and fielding queries on GIS to groups of (20-40) undergraduate/postgraduate students. -Conveyed technical language to laymen and troubleshooted and solved software-related problems to increase student understanding and confidence. Demonstrated on BIO3416 Marine Spatial Ecology module (https://goo.gl/9YVLqz); an undergraduate Geographical Information Systems (GIS) module. Role included:-Teaching and fielding queries on GIS to groups of (20-40) undergraduate/postgraduate students. -Conveyed technical language to laymen and troubleshooted and solved software-related problems to increase student understanding and confidence.

External Relations Support Officer

• Mar 2013 - Jul 2014

A graduate placement divided between two departments: Development and Alumni Relations Office (March 2013 - September 2013) and Research and Knowledge Transfer (September 2013 - July 2014). Role included: Corporate partnerships management:-Clerical support work (meeting organisation, minute taking, monitoring, data collection) for corporate partnerships.-Relationship management via liaison with senior management, academics, professionals and prestigious University alumni and facilitation of university-corporate discussion to strengthen relations and stimulate collaboration.Event coordination:-Logistical support for events (alumni networking, research meetings, conferences) held at the London office and Streatham campus.-Organisation of memorandum of understanding signings and research showcases to stimulate collaboration between the university and corporate partners. Web article creation:-Researching, interviewing and writing of web articles for the University’s Research Gateway (http://www.exeter.ac.uk/research/), showcasing research and collaboration.

ESI Environmental Monitoring Technology Review Intern

• Mar 2012 - May 2012

A desk-based review of current animal tracking technologies using web-based and phone searches, to produce a report for use by university staff.Role included:-Professional report writing-Qualitative and quantitative data collection

Research assistant

• Jan 2010 - Apr 2012

Assisted three postgraduate researchers, based in the Centre for Ecology and Conservation, in data collection and input.Role included:-Following lab methodologies (fecundity counts, invertebrate behavioural monitoring)-Data collection, input and processing-Field equipment maintenanceUndertaken part-time between degree studies.