Experience

The Kennel Club

• United Kingdom
• Consumer Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Senior Events Coordinator

  • Mar 2014 - Present

  Organised the logistics for the International Agility Festival (researching various contractor quotes, liaising with contractors for their health and safety documentation, inviting judges, ring managers and helpers for each ring. Producing the schedule, entry form, processing festival entries, sending ring cards to each competitor, selling trade stands and allocating their positions ahead of arriving on site). Worked with the marketing department to produce print material for the festival (competitor and show guide), ensured regular posts went out on Social Media about the festival to help bring in more entries, and worked with press to write relevant releases and newsletters to help promote the festival, and share its success. On site for set up for the International Agility Festival Organised logistics and travel for Agility Team GB to compete at the European Open and World Championships (organised travel itineraries, booked hotel rooms, ordered clothing, booked and attended meetings, attended training days, being the point of contact for all questions, worked with contractors when Agility Team GB Manager needed supplier quotes, kept the Agility Team GB website and Social Media pages updated with news, and results , worked directly with Agility Team GB sponsor to ensure that their requirements were met). My main task was to ensure that the competitors did not have to worry about anything but competing with their dog at both competitions. Experience with working with committees (booking meeting rooms, diary management, producing agendas, attending meetings, taking notes, discussing various issues and working out solutions with the committees, processing travel refunds).



Chartered Institute of Public Relations

• United Kingdom
• Public Relations and Communications Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Events Officer (Awards)

  • May 2013 - Jan 2014

  - Assisted the Events Awards Manager with the PRide Awards and Excellence Awards.PRide Awards:*CIPR regional Award scheme. running twelve of these Awards across the UK.*Liaised with judges across the country to judge different categories for each award, from start to finish, ensuring they had all the correct entries, were able to provide me with the shortlisted entries and then their chosen winners.*Managed the online administration for entrants through producing the application form, pulling off entries from our database and creating dinner pages through EventBrite*Helped assist the Event Awards Manager with table plans/ Processed dinner bookings.*Worked with budgets to ensure that each PRide Awards dinner met their target number of attendees/income.*Worked on site at 10 PRide Awards from start to finish, ensuring that the production of the event ran smoothly.*Worked along side the AV team assisting them with ensuring they had the right documentation for the shortlisted, silver and gold winners for the night on screen.*Assisted in the print materials for the Award series.Excellence Awards*Working with just under 100 judges for our national awards scheme. This involved sourcing the judges, inviting the judges, coordinating the judging schedule with them, assisting with sending entries and questions and the shortlist panel interviews.*Attendance of the Excellence Awards for 2 years. Duties on the night was ensure all attendees were seated at the right table, place cards were set out and put accordingly to their table plan request, registration on the night and then the handing out of trophies/certificates on the night.

• Events Assistant

  • Jan 2012 - May 2013

  Processed all the bookings for each event the CIPR ran in the events department. This ranged from Social Media events, award dinners, book launches, conferences.Handled inquires that came through about the events that we were holding.Organised place cards, delegate lists, name badges for the event days.Assisted onsite at conferences, awards.Ran my own Social Media evening event (Social Summer), which ranged from 5-60 people on Social Media topics. For this event I needed to research topics, speakers, write up description for the website and then be onsite for the event from start to finish.Working with budgets by doing weekly figures for the Event Manager for all the events we organised.



Venture Marketing Group

• International Trade and Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Operations Assistant

  • 2011 - 2011

  Working with the Grad Jobs & The National Franchise Exhibition Assisted with organising of The National Franchise Exhibition at the NEC, Birmingham Ensured exhibitors were provided with essential information prior to and upon booking Assisted at the exhibition to ensure exhibitors were prepared Liaised closely with the Sales Department to place exhibitors on the floor plan using Quark software Collated information from exhibitors to be used in the Business Franchise Magazine Assisted the Accounts Department with bookings for various shows



Hawker Publications Ltd

• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Events Assistant

  • 2010 - 2010

  Worked on the Dementia Congress, Dementia Awards and the Nursery Awards Used Access databases to efficiently organise events; invoiced attendees; prepared delegate and judging packs for awards, attended and assisted at The Dementia Congress, and Award Evenings. Worked on the Dementia Congress, Dementia Awards and the Nursery Awards Used Access databases to efficiently organise events; invoiced attendees; prepared delegate and judging packs for awards, attended and assisted at The Dementia Congress, and Award Evenings.