Experience

ARC; Association for Real Change

• United Kingdom
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• TILII Project Officer

  • Oct 2019 - Present

  • Planning and facilitating advocacy activities with adults who have a learning disability. • Filming, directing and editing footage for TILII TV • Filming, directing and editing footage as part of our accessible information provision • Creating Easy Reads, plain English text and child friendly documents, amending them through co-production, arranging for a Speech and Language Therapist to check documents and making client alterations as required. • Communicating with accessible information clients, generating quotes and meeting deadlines. • Writing funding applications. • Collating data for impact reporting. • GDPR compliance. • Meeting financial targets set for TILII Translates Easy Read Service. Show less



Praxis Care

• United Kingdom
• Individual and Family Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Support Worker

  • Dec 2014 - Present

  • Working with adults who have a learning disability • Developing and implementing person-centred support plans. • Use of positive behavioral support strategies. • Medication management and administration. • Compliance with company policy. • Daily record keeping and administration. • Advocacy for individuals being supported in order to affect change. • Working with adults who have a learning disability • Developing and implementing person-centred support plans. • Use of positive behavioral support strategies. • Medication management and administration. • Compliance with company policy. • Daily record keeping and administration. • Advocacy for individuals being supported in order to affect change.



Titanic Creative Management

• Professional Training and Coaching

• Administrator

  • Jan 2014 - Nov 2014

  • Creating social media content and interacting with users. • Researching business opportunities. • Developing administrative processes and documents. • Developing website and marketing text. • Administering courses and creating supplementary course documentation with tutors. • Liaising with customers and suppliers • Creating social media content and interacting with users. • Researching business opportunities. • Developing administrative processes and documents. • Developing website and marketing text. • Administering courses and creating supplementary course documentation with tutors. • Liaising with customers and suppliers



YOUNG AT ART EVENTS LTD

• United Kingdom
• Performing Arts

• Event Manager and Workshop Designer

  • Aug 2013 - Nov 2014

  • Designing workshops for age specific groups in line with the specification give and to a budget of £0.45/unit. Providing clear workshop instructions, cost breakdowns and design templates.• Delivering craft workshops for young people, operating within the parameters of child protection and health and safety guidelines.

• Administration and Operations Officer

  • Aug 2013 - May 2014

  • Executing the efficient running of YAAE by maintaining up-to-date files, contact lists and booking information for all YAAE activity.• Responsibility for the company inventory and archive, ensuring clear and tidy storage and maintenance of costumes. • Providing costing and booking information to potential clients, improving service and increasing its success and sustainability• Preparing all paperwork, contracts, etc required for artists and personnel. • Supporting the operational management of all bookings. • Supporting the marketing strategies and brand development of Young at Art Events. • Maintaining an up-to-date website, social media profiles. Show less



YOUNG AT ART LTD

• United Kingdom
• Performing Arts
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Food for Thought Project Officer

  • Jun 2014 - Jun 2014

  • Creating a visually stimulating environment, in accordance to brief, in which families could enjoy a meal and conversations. • Facilitating conversations through the creation of conversational prompts and games. • Recording the event for evaluation. • Writing an end of project report and editing an end of project video for funders • Creating a visually stimulating environment, in accordance to brief, in which families could enjoy a meal and conversations. • Facilitating conversations through the creation of conversational prompts and games. • Recording the event for evaluation. • Writing an end of project report and editing an end of project video for funders



Maiden Voyage Dance

• United Kingdom
• Performing Arts
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Hospital Engagement Facilitator

  • Jan 2014 - Mar 2014

  • Coordinating 5 outreach visits to hospitals and public health settings across Northern Ireland. • Building relationships with staff in health care settings and arranging the logistics for visits which included performances from dancers. • Arranging training and information for dancers to ensure that they could work safely within a healthcare setting • Gathering evaluation material, including interviews with dancers, healthcare staff, patients and ward visitors. • Producing a detailed end of project report and video for funders. Show less



Northern Ireland Theatre Association

• NITA Coordinator

  • Dec 2011 - Nov 2013

  • Coordinating and delivering the work of NITA’s 8 working groups, including captioning, communications, conference, training, emerging professionals, international, lobbying and research. • Writing funding applications and ensuring compliance with awarded funding requirements including detailed reports and meetings with funders. • Writing lobbying and research documents for submission to organizations including the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the Culture Arts and Leisure Committee. Oral presentation of written submissions to the CAL Committee in March 2012 and April 2013. • Working in partnership with colleagues at Theatre Forum, delivering two annual conferences (Belfast 2012 Conference had 350 delegates and over 50 speakers and the Derry~Londonderry 2013 Conference has over 280 delegates and 30 speakers and contributors). • Organising the delivery of 7 bursary training schemes over two years. • Arranging and administering board meetings, AGMs and members meetings. • Budget management and financial record keeping for all of NITA’s programmes of work. • Ensuring up to date communications through emails, members’ bulletins (MyEmma), Twitter, Facebook and NITA’s website. • Representing NITA at events and building up sector contacts and partnerships for future work. • Renewing and processing membership applications. Show less



REDR UK

• United Kingdom
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• PA

  • Aug 2010 - Jul 2011

  • Diary management. Making CEO’s travel arrangements. • Coordinating internal and external meetings on behalf of the CEO, including the preparation of documents and communication with all participants. • Administering CEO’s expenses, analyzing credit card expenditure and budget management. • Compiling reports for funders. Collecting and analyzing data in order to report effectively on whether organizational targets have been met. • Taking minutes for senior management team meetings, away days and board meetings. Highlighting action points and resolutions, accurately summarizing the content of meetings. • Establishing an online file share for trustees. • Organising board meetings and documents. • Assisting members with membership enquiries. Helping to process membership applications and organizing membership interviews. Communicating with members through our website (using Preside) and regular member e-bulletins (using Dotmailer). • Organising speakers for RedR events. Setting up a RedR Speaker Series to engage the humanitarian community and RedR membership. • Maintaining the RedR database using Salesforce. Show less



British Association of Dermatologists

• United Kingdom
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Receptionist

  • Aug 2008 - Jul 2009

  SEPT 2008 – AUG 2009 • Administration and coordination of room hire and functions. • Administering the Dowling Club (DC) and British Society for Dermatopathology (BSD) - processing membership applications, coordinating email and postal communication with members, updating web pages, organizing functions at exclusive London venues, designing and disseminating surveys using Survey Monkey and continuously liaising with the DC and BSD Secretary and President. • Processing Purchase Orders for Patient Information Leaflets. • Proofreading documents and sending them to print. • Manning reception – welcoming guests, fielding all incoming calls and emails transferring/redirecting them as appropriate. Responding to public enquiries. • Carrying out other office related roles - helping to organize elections, maintaining office supplies, sorting, distributing and franking post. Show less



Oxford Research Group

• Advertising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Communications and Outreach Officer

  • Aug 2006 - Aug 2007

  • Organising events and functions for colleagues, supporters and funders. • Assisting organisation of track II level consultations and dialogues (logistics and supporting documents). • Editing the ORG newsletter - commissioning and writing articles, proofreading, organising design, print and distribution. • Using Quark to design marketing documents. • Public speaking about the work of ORG. • Conducting research into the Human Security implications of the 1999 NATO intervention in Serbia. • Editing and updating the ORG publication of Everyone’s Guide to Achieving Change. • Assisting to redesign the ORG database and transfer data. Show less