Experience

SUFFOLK REFUGEE SUPPORT

• United Kingdom
• Civic and Social Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Volunteer

  • Nov 2021 - Present



(various, Suffolk)

• Bury St Edmunds

• Volunteer - Archaeologist

  • Feb 2018 - Present

  Post-excavation support, Cotswold Archaeology (Nov 2021-); Historic Environment Record enhancement, Suffolk County Council Archaeology Service (2017-18); fieldwork, Archaeological Field Group, Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History. Post-excavation support, Cotswold Archaeology (Nov 2021-); Historic Environment Record enhancement, Suffolk County Council Archaeology Service (2017-18); fieldwork, Archaeological Field Group, Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History.



Dedham Vale AONB and Stour Valley

• Volunteer

  • Feb 2021 - Present

  Promoted Footpath Volunteer - helping to maintain safety, access and waymarking of popular trails around Long Melford. Promoted Footpath Volunteer - helping to maintain safety, access and waymarking of popular trails around Long Melford.



Suffolk Coast & Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB)

• Suffolk, England, United Kingdom

• Volunteer

  • Feb 2021 - Present

  Promoted Route Volunteer - helping to maintain safety, access and waymarking of a popular Rendlesham Forest and Staverton Woodland trail. Promoted Route Volunteer - helping to maintain safety, access and waymarking of a popular Rendlesham Forest and Staverton Woodland trail.



Still Good Food

• Bury St. Edmunds, England, United Kingdom

• Volunteer

  • Feb 2021 - Present

  Stock deliveries for a charity tackling food waste and food poverty. Stock deliveries for a charity tackling food waste and food poverty.



National Trust

• United Kingdom
• Non-profit Organizations
• 700 & Above Employee

• Curator, East of England

  • Sep 2018 - Jan 2021

  Providing a curatorial service to properties in Essex, Suffolk and Cambs, helping improve conservation performance and visitor experience, supporting the research, collaboration and planning for special places and their collections to thrive, to move and inspire people, now and in the future.

• Volunteer, Visitor Experience

  • Nov 2014 - Aug 2018

  Writer / editor (print, online, exhibitions); workshop process design, delivery and evaluation; marketing and public relations



Framsden Parish Council

• Framsden, Suffolk

• Clerk and Responsible Financial Officer

  • Jan 2015 - Jan 2016

  Parish Clerk administering policies, services, budgets and meetings in compliance with legal and audit requirements Parish Clerk administering policies, services, budgets and meetings in compliance with legal and audit requirements



Environment Agency

• United Kingdom
• Environmental Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Communications Business Partner

  • Sep 2006 - Mar 2014

  Helping managers and colleagues to build productive relationships with communities, partners, and each other. Equipping them with knowledge, tools, skills and behaviours to manage contentious and complex issues, build trust, and achieve results in the right way. Providing strategic challenge, advice and learning support, and facilitating cultural change.

• Senior Community and Stakeholder Relations Adviser (assignment)

  • Jun 2011 - Mar 2012

  Providing strategic engagement advice nationally through a period of major change when new legislation redefined the Environment Agency's and others' roles and relationships in the management of flood risk, and set new expectations for plural funding to pay for it.



Museums, Libraries and Archives Council

• England

• Project Director, Renaissance in the Regions

  • Sep 2003 - Jun 2006

  Leading the DCMS sponsored programme to build capacity of non-national museums across England and transform their facilities, capabilities, appeal and relevance. Professional leadership, political relationship management, advocacy, building consensus, evidence-based policy making, and targeting strategic investment to achieve measurable outcomes. Leading the DCMS sponsored programme to build capacity of non-national museums across England and transform their facilities, capabilities, appeal and relevance. Professional leadership, political relationship management, advocacy, building consensus, evidence-based policy making, and targeting strategic investment to achieve measurable outcomes.



Kent County Council

• United Kingdom
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Museums Manager and Assistant Head of Cultural Development

  • Mar 2001 - Sep 2003

  Managing museums and arts services; support to independent and voluntary museums across Kent, integrating heritage, culture and library services; managing projects, securing the funding and partnerships to achieve them. Managing museums and arts services; support to independent and voluntary museums across Kent, integrating heritage, culture and library services; managing projects, securing the funding and partnerships to achieve them.



Suffolk County Council

• United Kingdom
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• External Funding Officer (Libraries and Heritage)

  • Sep 1999 - Mar 2001

  Analysis of funding and development opportunities; project scoping, design, and governance; competing for and securing funding. Analysis of funding and development opportunities; project scoping, design, and governance; competing for and securing funding.



BBC

• United Kingdom
• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 700 & Above Employee

• Millennium History Project Manager

  • Sep 1997 - Jan 1999

  Development of a project linking local heritage initiatives to national broadcasting output for the Millennium; using a national online learning and discovery resource with locally supplied content and programming to reach audiences and organisations across UK and take them further in their learning. Development of a project linking local heritage initiatives to national broadcasting output for the Millennium; using a national online learning and discovery resource with locally supplied content and programming to reach audiences and organisations across UK and take them further in their learning.



St Edmundsbury Borough Council

• United Kingdom
• Government Administration
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Principal Heritage and Culture Officer

  • Sep 1989 - Sep 1997

  Managing and developing museums, arts, heritage and tourism services: Manor House Museum, Moyses Hall Museum, Abbey Visitor Centre (with English Heritage), Haverhill Town Hall Arts Centre; Bury Festival; raising standards through organisational change, securing investment, audience development, marketing and commercial activity. Managing and developing museums, arts, heritage and tourism services: Manor House Museum, Moyses Hall Museum, Abbey Visitor Centre (with English Heritage), Haverhill Town Hall Arts Centre; Bury Festival; raising standards through organisational change, securing investment, audience development, marketing and commercial activity.



Hull City Council

• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Keeper of Archaeology

  • Jan 1984 - Sep 1989

  Managing collections, staff, volunteers, premises, programming, projects; Hasholme Boat, Hull & East Riding Museum, Phoenix Project; fieldwork and interpretation of sites and landscapes with learned societies, regional universities, local people and businesses; collaboration with the University of Hull Department of Geography in multi-disciplinary studies of the Humber region. Managing collections, staff, volunteers, premises, programming, projects; Hasholme Boat, Hull & East Riding Museum, Phoenix Project; fieldwork and interpretation of sites and landscapes with learned societies, regional universities, local people and businesses; collaboration with the University of Hull Department of Geography in multi-disciplinary studies of the Humber region.



various

• Cambridgeshire

• Field Archaeologist

  • Jun 1978 - Jan 1984

  Survey, excavation and input into the publication of prehistoric and later archaeology around the Lower Welland Valley and the Cambridgeshire fenland (Fengate; Maxey; Etton; Flag Fen; SW Fen Survey). Survey, excavation and input into the publication of prehistoric and later archaeology around the Lower Welland Valley and the Cambridgeshire fenland (Fengate; Maxey; Etton; Flag Fen; SW Fen Survey).