Experience

Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW) - Cyngor Cyllido Addysg Uwch Cymru (CCAUC)

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Communications Manager

  • Mar 2006 - Present

  Leading and guiding the organisation’s corporate communications, including:* strategic communications and planning* media relations* crisis and issues communications* corporate identity and publications* managing HEFCW's website and social media profile* upholding the reputation of Wales’s university regulator and higher education system.Member of the CIPR, Dip CIPR, Accredited Practitioner

• Learning and Teaching Manager

  • Apr 1999 - Mar 2006

  Higher education policy advice and analysis in high profile areas such as teacher training, widening access, equality and diversity, modern foreign languages, links with businesses and strategic planning.



Research England

• United Kingdom
• Government Administration
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Communications Manager

  • Mar 2022 - May 2022

  Part-time secondment to provide communications expertise to the team working on the Research Excellence Framework 2021, the high-profile UK-wide system for assessing the quality of research in higher education institutions. Part-time secondment to provide communications expertise to the team working on the Research Excellence Framework 2021, the high-profile UK-wide system for assessing the quality of research in higher education institutions.



Universities Wales

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• International Policy Adviser (Secondment)

  • Jan 2017 - Jan 2018

  During my year-long secondment to Universities Wales, I worked on raising the profile of Welsh universities internationally and to further the interests of Welsh higher education. I helped to progress our three-year Global Wales initiative along with British Council Wales, the Welsh Government and HEFCW. This included managing the Study in Wales brand, delivering on inward visits and outward missions, and representing the higher education sector at international conferences and events. During my year-long secondment to Universities Wales, I worked on raising the profile of Welsh universities internationally and to further the interests of Welsh higher education. I helped to progress our three-year Global Wales initiative along with British Council Wales, the Welsh Government and HEFCW. This included managing the Study in Wales brand, delivering on inward visits and outward missions, and representing the higher education sector at international conferences and events.



Welsh Office

• Personnel administrator

  • May 1997 - Apr 1999

  How do you help uphold the satisfaction of a 3,000-strong workforce? Responsibility for internal communications, advising on staff terms and conditions, processing job applications, organising seminars and monitoring budgets in excess of £0.5 million. How do you help uphold the satisfaction of a 3,000-strong workforce? Responsibility for internal communications, advising on staff terms and conditions, processing job applications, organising seminars and monitoring budgets in excess of £0.5 million.