Project Officer

• Nov 2021 - Present

Community Ambassador

• May 2018 - Present

• Promoting Young Barbican (under 25’s offer) and community discounts at events. • Supporting community groups at Barbican’s public programmes, helping navigate them around the space to ensure they feel comfortable. • Assisting the delivery of Creative Learning programmes such as Walthamstow Garden Party, Ideas Kitchen, Open Fest and Community View events. • Carrying out evaluations and collecting public feedback to influence future public programmes.• Supporting artist and freelances with the set up and delivery of activities at events.

Community Engagement Assistant

• Mar 2018 - May 2018

•Project managing the outreach of Barbican’s first under 5’s initiative (Barbican Blocks) to local organisations in the borough.•Co-producing the first community views event for the Another Kind of Life art gallery exhibition.•Supporting the management of the Community Ambassador scheme by being a key point of contact for day to day enquires, liaising with HR regarding new staff, updating contracts, organising payments.•Creating a review document of the previous year’s Community Engagement financial distribution amongst each project to inform the following years budget allocation.•Collating and managing the community database with previous, current and potential partnerships.•Regularly maintaining relationships with community partners.•Supporting the recruitment of two new Creative Learning apprentices.

Community Engagement Apprentice

• Nov 2016 - Mar 2018

•Researching community organisations and initiatives to help with the creation of a strategic community offer.•Leading on project management of the Creative Learning’s contribution to the Lord Mayors festival in 2017.•Supporting the management of the Community Ambassador scheme by being a key point of contact for day to day enquires, liaising with HR regarding new staff, updating contracts, organising payments and supporting training and 1-1s.•Designing and maintaining financial systems such as excel budget spreadsheets, purchase orders, invoices and staff timesheets.•Organising internal and external meetings with community partners and stakeholders through booking rooms, preparing resources and arranging travel.•Collating notes and minutes from meetings to create informative PowerPoint presentations.•Assisting with community activities, projects and festivals both in preparation, on the day and in post project evaluation.•Supporting the logistics for offsite events.•Updating the community databases and department calendars with community contacts and events.•Regular use of Outlook, Artifax, Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Community Engagement Coordinator

• Jan 2021 - Oct 2021

Assistant Practitioner

• Jan 2020 - Mar 2020

•Ensuring the young people’s needs are met within the session. •Supporting with behavior management and pastoral care. •Assisting lead practitioners with session delivery such as leading warm ups and small group creative tasks. •Ensuring the young people’s needs are met within the session. •Supporting with behavior management and pastoral care. •Assisting lead practitioners with session delivery such as leading warm ups and small group creative tasks.

Participation Assistant

• May 2018 - Mar 2020

•Developing and maintaining relationships with youth groups and potential partnering organisations from the local boroughs of Kensington and Chelsea, Westminster and Hammersmith. •Coordinating the programming and logistics for a concluding project event for young people. •Managing planned community visits to the museum and promoting the new community ticket offer amongst youth organisations in target boroughs. •Developing, planning and delivering activities and Learning projects for the Science City gallery at the Science Museum, co-producing elements of the project with young people. •Liaising with youth leaders to organise sessions for project delivery - incorporating other teams at the Museum where possible to enhance the experience and quality. •Sourcing materials and resources for each strand of the project and completing risk assessments. •Managing the finance set up, contracts and invoices for freelancers and artist as part of the project. •Monitoring participant numbers for HLF reporting. •Supporting delivery of stakeholder events to showcase programmes developed. •Independently creating an online gallery resource for young people to use at the Museum. •Sharing programme developments and best practice at networks. •Writing the learning and reflections from the project in blogs, e-journels and project web pages for wider.

Communications Trainee (Marketing)

• Oct 2015 - Nov 2016

A year long traineeship programme working as part of the communications team providing marketing and digital support. •Updating the Royal Court Theatre website using the content management system. •Resizing images and designing e-flyers using Photoshop. •Acting as ‘the voice’ of the theatre through social networks (Twitter, Facebook and YouTube) •Generating ideas for expansion of Royal Court’s social media following. •Filming and editing ‘vox pops’ and video interviews. •Creating newsletters/emails using Dotmailer. •Assisting with the organisation and filming of trailers and online content including blogs posts, timelines and live streaming. •Managing pre and post-show email communication with RC audiences. •Supporting the Communications Officer with the promotion of the theatre's accessible performances. •Designing and coordinating cast sheets for each show. Campaign research: •Carrying out detailed research and compiling databases of relevant target audiences for each show. •Contacting and communicating with networks and relevant groups to set up promotions/ targeted offers. •Copywriting direct mail and targeted emails. Press: •Collating daily press cuttings by looking through all national press and online coverage. •Keeping digital copies and ensuring offline and online press filing were up-to-date and professionally presented. •Distributing the cuttings through photocopies, scans and links to key staff within the organisation. •Compiling quotes sheets from reviews and updating the reviews section of the website.

Assistant Tutor

• May 2013 - Oct 2015

Kumon Educational is the UK's largest supplementary education provider, offering maths and English study programmes for children of all ages and abilities. •Assisting children with Mathematics and English from ages 5 to 14. •Training junior assistants to replace the senior staff in the future. •Encouraging students to work to the best of their ability and congratulating them once they have reached their goals. Kumon Educational is the UK's largest supplementary education provider, offering maths and English study programmes for children of all ages and abilities. •Assisting children with Mathematics and English from ages 5 to 14. •Training junior assistants to replace the senior staff in the future. •Encouraging students to work to the best of their ability and congratulating them once they have reached their goals.