Experience

Madeleine Milburn Literary, TV and Film Agency

• United Kingdom
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Rights Agent

  • Apr 2020 - Present

• Junior Rights Agent

  • May 2019 - Mar 2020



Curtis Brown Group

• United Kingdom
• Media Production
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Artistic Director Words Weekend Festival

  • Oct 2018 - May 2019

  I worked as Literary Events Coordinator before being promoted to Artistic Director of Words Weekend, a new spoken word festival run by live events company Fane Productions part of the Curtis Brown/OTL Group.In my role I managed the festival budget and ran the festival team, which included external PR, branding and website consultants. I created festival branding, set up and ran social media platforms, drafted and edited press releases for the soft-launch, worked with the website consultant to create initial website and wrote website copy, recruited festival ambassadors, liaised with festival venues, researched and fostered relationships with publicity teams, potential artists and festival partners, initiated festival programming and set up company contracts and legal documents. The role required required excellent organisational and time management skills, initiative, effective communication and interpersonal skills.

• Translation Rights Executive

  • Nov 2016 - Oct 2018

  I worked as a Translation Rights Executive for the Books Department at Curtis Brown Literary Agency. I handled rights in Azerbaijan, Mongolia, Indian Languages, Georgia, Russia, Poland and other Eastern European territories. In March 2018 I also began working on our Children's list as well as taking on responsibility for selling rights into Rights Manager level territories for my authors, such as Israel, Greece, Hungary, Portugal and Croatia. I also assisted two Translation Rights Agents, drafting, negotiating and processing contracts, dealing with media and publicity requests and writing news stories for the company website, newsletter and scout update.

• Contracts Executive Translations Rights/Books

  • Sep 2015 - Oct 2016



Burges Salmon LLP

• United Kingdom
• Law Practice
• 700 & Above Employee

• Trainee Solicitor

  • Aug 2013 - Sep 2015

  Completed a two year training contract at Burgess Salmon LLP, a leading UK commercial law firm based in Bristol and London with national and international clients. I qualified in September 2015 into the Commercial Department. I completed seats in Dispute Resolution, Employment, Construction and Engineering, Real Estate and Commercial. During this time I worked on a variety of contentious and transactional matters across a broad range of sectors, including rail, energy, food and farming and nuclear.



Chambers and Partners

• United Kingdom
• Research Services
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Writer/Researcher

  • Jul 2012 - Jun 2013

  Responsible for profiling law firms across a range of sectors for the UK and US edition of the Chambers guide. Work included interviewing partners and clients of firms, analysing and ranking the organisations, and writing editorial summaries for the guide.



Pilgrims

• United Kingdom
• Professional Training and Coaching
• 1 - 100 Employee

• TEFL Assistant Director

  • Jul 2008 - Aug 2011

  Worked at the international language school each Summer between 2008 and 2011 Teaching English as a Foreign Language to senior level students (years 14-17) at Bradfield College, Reading. Responsible for planning, organising and delivering English language lessons for a range of abilities. Also responsible for the safety, welfare and pastoral care of the students, which entailed organising and supervising extracurricular activities and trips across the South East. In the last year I was promoted to TEFL Assistant Director, with additional responsibilities for overseeing the TEFL element of the course, leading a team of seven teachers, managing the initial testing and streaming of students and overseeing lesson plans. The role involved helping to manage the budget for the programme and day to day responsibility for the senior course.