Experience

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  International Trade Union Confederation - ITUC

  • Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium

  • Communications officer at the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)

    • May 2020 - Present
    • Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium

    ▪ Press and media manager: pitch stories to media, deal with media enquiries, established media contacts. Support affiliates media strategies. Implement and manage media monitoring system.▪ Campaign and communications strategies: work with leadership and departments to develop and deliver strategies, including for flagship ITUC Global Rights Index.▪ Social media manager: design graphics, write and publish posts, develop bespoke strategies for campaigns and distinctive events and pieces of work. Collaborate on monthly report to inform best practice. ▪ Video producer: film and edit videos. ▪ Proofreader: particularly in support of not native English colleagues. Produce and review style guide with colleagues. ▪ Newsletter: writer, editor, develop strategy to build audience. ▪ News stories: lead writer, editor, developed strategy to build audience. ▪ Congress: developed and delivered communications strategy in partnership with colleagues.

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  International Transport Workers'​ Federation (ITF)

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Campaigns Communicator

    • Sep 2015 - May 2020
    • London, United Kingdom

    • Implement media strategies, which complement the needs of campaigns, events or the organisation's strategic aims.• Implement strategies to ensure good media coverage for the ITF, using existing, and developing new, media contacts.• Manage editorial team: first point of contact for communications requests, manage delivery through distributing tasks within the team in the UK and globally.• Manage editorial freelance: writers, editors, proofreaders, photographers and videographers – commission and manage production.• Manage and coordinate communications plans with ITF sections, departments and global regional offices: for on-going work and/or specific events or campaigns. Risk assess output in partnership with legal team.• Coordinate ITF media relations: manage media enquiries and contacts with journalists, and other communications teams, implement and manage media monitoring system, produce and review style guide.• Produce digital content: audio, video, written and visual, for all ITF communications channels.• Implement social media strategy: monitor channels, evaluate impact of content.

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  BBC Radio 4

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Broadcast Journalist

    • Aug 2014 - Aug 2015
    • London, United Kingdom

    • Freelance producer for flagship BBC radio news programmes Today and PM• Dealt with high-profile guests, including ministers of state• Managed demands of presenters and editors, adapting workload accordingly.• Output live broadcast

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  BBC Oxford

  • 269 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 7DW

  • Reporter, Producer & Trainer

    • Apr 2012 - Aug 2015
    • 269 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 7DW

    • Social media editor: wrote strategy, coordinating, measuring, training• Project managed regional coverage of London 2012 Olympic torch relay: worked with corporate and public stakeholders and LOCOG• Breakfast producer: daily four-hour live radio show, audience of 100,000, led a team of seven. High-pressure, constant problem solving, split second decisions and sound judgment• Live reporter for radio and TV, shoot and edit as a video journalist: required outstanding communication skills, an ability to clearly explain a story with authority

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  University of Westminster

  • Visiting Lecturer

    • Sep 2014 - Jul 2015

    Delivered modules on using social media for newsgathering, and basic video journalism for undergraduate degree. Planned lessons and developed training materials.

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  BBC College of Journalism

  • Multimedia Journalism Trainer

    • Jun 2010 - Apr 2012

    Trained hundreds of video journalists, radio and online reporters across the UK and internationally, from trainees to experienced correspondents.

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  BBC Oxford

  • Oxford, United Kingdom

  • Multimedia Reporter

    • Jan 2008 - Jun 2010
    • Oxford, United Kingdom

    Worked across TV, radio and online – often daily. One of a few BBC journalists in the world trained to do this. Required outstanding flexibility, adaptability and time management skills.

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  BBC Essex

  • Essex, UK

  • Reporter

    • Oct 2005 - Dec 2008
    • Essex, UK

    Radio producer, newsreader & reporter. Developed VJ skills as lead reporter on BBC Thames Gateway multimedia project. BBC Essex Introducing producer.

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  BBC Radio 5 Live

  • Nagasaki, Japan

  • Reporter

    • Sep 2002 - Jul 2004
    • Nagasaki, Japan

    Reported weekly for Up All Night, BBC Radio 5 Live with occasional reports for Drive. Worked overnight production shifts when back in the UK.

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  Japan Exchange and Teaching Program(me) (JET)

  • Nagasaki, Japan

  • Assistant Language Teacher

    • Aug 2002 - Jul 2004
    • Nagasaki, Japan

    Taught English in a state high school in and around Matsuura, Nagasaki prefecture, Japan. Reported weekly for Up All Night, BBC Radio 5 Live with other reports for BBC World Service and BBC News Online. Learnt Japanese through self-study to a standard whereby I passed the level 3 Japanese language proficiency test and was able to do TV interviews in the language.

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  What PC? and Computeractive

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Staff Writer

    • Oct 1999 - Aug 2002
    • London, United Kingdom

    Wrote news, features and reviews for fortnightly and monthly technology magazines. Did weekly reports on technology news for Up All Night, BBC Radio 5 Live.