Experience

Forced Migration Review

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

• Promotion and finance assistant

  • Apr 2016 - Present

  Promotion: Social media (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn), incl. preparing draft posts for each issue to be reviewed by the co-editors to be reviewed and amended ahead of the issue’s publication, identifying opportunities for disseminating FMR more broadly (using hashtags, etc.), as well as maintaining event/conference spreadsheet. Recently, assisting Managing Editor with development of a new Digital Strategy, and actively growing audience. Responsible for uploading each issue’s podcasts and liaising with IT podcast team, filling in metadata for each uploaded article (podcast series currently paused). Some independent correspondence and editing (draft emails, draft pdf of issues/weblink checking). Finance: Assisting 2 Co-editors and 1 Administrative Assistant producing 3 issues/year, arranging for quotes, PO numbers, invoice payment, keeping updated expenses spreadsheets, checking monthly general ledger for accuracy. Providing support for applications for funding and reporting to donors, incl. providing bespoke budgets when required at short notice and adapting to varied, sometimes complex, donor reporting structures. Preparing financial reports and budgets annually and then on as needed throughout the financial year. In liaison with the Finance Officer at the Refugee Studies Centre, preparing FMR’s year-end accounts, drafting year-end income and expenditure totals and financial reconciliation sheet for the RSC Finance Officer. Show less



Sidhe Press (www.sidhe-press.eu/books/)

• Berlin, Germany

• Co-editor and contributor, 'Our Own Coordinates: Poems About Dementia'

  • Nov 2022 - Mar 2023



Faculty of Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics (University of Oxford)

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Office Manager, Phonetics Lab (maternity cover)

  • Aug 2015 - Jun 2016

  Supported Professor John Coleman and his colleagues. Duties: email correspondence, typing, office management, managing diaries for the teaching lab, raising purchase orders and receiving invoices, keeping financial records, checking expenses against the monthly general ledger, maintaining health and safety standards, producing annual health and safety reports, seminar/events planning, general admin duties. Supported Professor John Coleman and his colleagues. Duties: email correspondence, typing, office management, managing diaries for the teaching lab, raising purchase orders and receiving invoices, keeping financial records, checking expenses against the monthly general ledger, maintaining health and safety standards, producing annual health and safety reports, seminar/events planning, general admin duties.