Experience

EdComs

• United Kingdom
• Investment Banking

• Freelance Facilitator

  • Jul 2015 - Present

  • Work with a wide range of audiences, communicating effectively with young people and teachers in schools, colleges and nurseries, with their families and communities, inside and outside the classroom. • Run and deliver outreach events, science workshops, demonstrations and live shows combined with theatrical experience to varying audiences. • Work across multiple projects, with no boundaries. Often representing different companies such as E.ON, KPMG, BP, GSK, Samsung and the British Olympic and Paralympic Associations. • Bring knowledge of educational objectives and effective performance skills to achieve company objective of making an impact through education. • Engage pupils and teachers in every event. • Flexible approach to work with excellent punctuality and enthusiasm.



Edinburgh International Science Festival

• Biotechnology
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Overseas Assistant Staff Manager

  • Nov 2017 - Nov 2017

  • Supporting, supervising and motivating Team Leaders throughout working at the large scale event. Providing pastoral care and assistance where necessary. • Managing workload and priorities on a daily basis: solving logistical problems and undertaking any preparations needed. Liaising with the management team, production team and third-party organisations who work to deliver the festival; including the local event management agency and local Front of House agency. • Support and deputise for Staff Manager where necessary. • Regularly visiting workshop spaces, checking for any issues with content, team management or production. Gathering daily feedback from Team Leaders and resolving any issues. • Flexible approach to working with the ability to work both independently and in small teams. • Ability to work well under pressure and remain motivated throughout the festival. • Responsible for health and safety of all visitors and staff. • Representing the Edinburgh International Science Festival as a high quality supplier of science events worldwide, maintaining good public relations.

• Generation Science - Science Communicator

  • Nov 2012 - Jun 2015

  • To perform/deliver age appropriate science workshops on a range of topics in primary and secondary schools nationally. • Engage pupils and teachers in the workshop at every performance. • Travel to predetermined number of schools driving transit van provided. • Excellent interpersonal and verbal communication skills, including the ability to work with a wide range of people and an aptitude for improvisation. • Manage own workload/priorities. • Successful delivery of workshop as determined by teacher and pupils’ feedback and by quality control feedback from Education Manager and/or Event Development team. • Whilst out on tour act as an ambassador for the EISF, conversing successfully with others. • Solely responsible for health and safety whilst on tour. • Bring passion and enthusiasm to role.



Glasgow Science Centre

• United Kingdom
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Exhibition Coordinator

  • Jul 2014 - Aug 2014

  • Run the interactive exhibition InMotion - a celebration of the science of human movement and performance in relation to sport, technology and dance for members of the public in a team of science communicators. Run event coinciding with the Glasgow Commonwealth Games. • Possess excellent interpersonal skills, confidently talking to members of the public. • Bring the experience alive and posses a real flair for improvisation when working with the public. • Run each activity, helping with the understanding of the science behind it i.e. inviting visitors to discover their own strength, agility and endurance by understanding the background behind biomechanics and the physiologies of the human body. • Guide the visitors to relate the science behind each activity to themselves or the world around them. • Manage own workload and priorities including set up and close down of exhibition each day and monitoring consumables. • Gather and manage data for visitors taking part in scientific research by having their dancing videoed. • Responsibility for health and safety of all visitors.