Experience

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  Oasis Church Waterloo

  • United Kingdom
  • Community Services
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Executive Director & Senior Minister

    • Mar 2021 - Present

    Leading a brilliant team of 40 people working to build a community movement for radical change in Waterloo, through a wide range of community projects - including church services, debt advice, Foodbank, youth work, family support, a community farm, and much more.Also developing a national Oasis church network, exploring what it means to build inclusive, progressive, Christ-centred communities in more localities.

  • Business development manager & Minister

    • May 2019 - Mar 2021

    Taking on greater responsibility within our Church leadership, and leading on business development and new partnerships across the charity, including:- Hub Coffee House, our social enterprise coffee shop- Oasis Farm Waterloo- Waterloo Foodbank- Oasis Debt Advice CentreAlso responsible for marketing/communications for all projects, and writing and delivering a course aimed at inspiring church leaders to get engaged with their local communities.

  • Hub projects manager

    • May 2016 - May 2019

    Part of Church leadership team and line-managing various project managers across the Oasis Waterloo team, including those responsible for:- Oasis Farm Waterloo- Waterloo Foodbank- Oasis Debt Advice Centre- St Thomas' Youth Support (team based at St Thomas' A&E, working with young people admitted due to violence/aggression)- Wider youthwork- Oasis Healthspace (new £750,000 project aimed at reducing child/youth obesity)Also responsible for communications for all projects, and writing and delivering a course aimed at inspiring church leaders to get engaged with their local communities.

  • Advice centre manager

    • Sep 2013 - May 2016

    Managing the Waterloo Foodbank, Oasis Debt Advice Centre and other community projects, and also setting up a credit union.

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  The RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce)

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Fellow

    • Dec 2018 - Present
    • London, United Kingdom

    The mission of the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) is to enrich society through ideas and action. Our 27,000 Fellows inspire, support and enable new solutions to address the problems of the 21st Century.

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  Cadenza Marketing

  • London

  • Freelance marketing consultant

    • Mar 2012 - Sep 2013
    • London

    Digital marketing, branding and training for various clients - details below.

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  Evangelical Alliance UK

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Consultant/marketing manager

    • Apr 2012 - Aug 2013
    • London, United Kingdom

    Initially brought in as a consultant to run staff marketing training, then to write marketing strategy, then employed on a fixed-term, part-time basis to implement strategy.

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  Aqumen Social Technologies

  • Project manager

    • Jun 2012 - Apr 2013

    Leading Aqumen through brand development, implementing the brand on printed materials and managing the website design and build project.

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  Samaritan's Purse

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Consultant

    • Oct 2012 - Dec 2012
    • London, United Kingdom

    Initially brought in to run a Google AdWords campaign and train staff on AdWords, then after the marketing manager moved on, brought back to manage marketing department through the interim period.

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  Andy Flannagan

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Digital marketer

    • Apr 2012 - Sep 2012
    • London, United Kingdom

    Working on the digital strategy for the launch of the new album by singer-songwriter Andy Flannagan.

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  Tearfund

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Digital consultant

    • Apr 2012 - Jun 2012
    • London, United Kingdom

    Consulting on digital communications for a large global charity, involving setting up online projects, developing AdWords, social media, and website analytics.

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  CoCreate Consulting

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Brand consultant

    • Apr 2012 - Jun 2012
    • London, United Kingdom

    Working with CoCreate’s founders to create the brand for a new start-up, and working with graphic designers and web developers to deliver the finished product.

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  Smart Currency Exchange

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Marketing manager

    • Oct 2011 - Mar 2012
    • London, United Kingdom

    - Managing the marketing of three distinct businesses – Smart Currency Exchange, focusing on B2C foreign currency exchange, Smart Currency Business, focusing on B2B foreign currency exchange, and the Overseas Guides Company, providing information for those considering moving or buying property overseas.- Managing a marketing budget of £500,000pa, and a £220,000pa Google AdWords budget.- As the first marketing manager for a growing business, writing strategy for each of the three businesses.

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  Oasis UK

  • Online communications & branding co-ordinator

    • Nov 2009 - Oct 2011

    (Oasis is a multi-national charity, working across eleven countries in five continents, and running twelve secondary Academies in England)- Managing Oasis brand, working with world-wide branding staff, and leading charity through large-scale re-branding project. - Training branding, marketing and design staff in new brand, across twelve Academies in the UK and eleven countries, using various methods from face-to-face training in the UK to recording videos for a globally-accessed YouTube channel.- Managing 20+ Oasis websites and consulting on partner agency websites.- Writing social media/online communications strategy and introducing and managing all social media work, including multiple Twitter accounts and Facebook pages.- Implementing online internal communications/intranet structure across organisation.- Managing design staff and overseeing print production.

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  Greenbelt Festival

  • Communications & PR manager

    • Jan 2009 - Oct 2009

    (Annual arts festival)- Dealing with over 100 journalists from national media outlets at the Festival, for example managing the press office and arranging press conferences with and giving interviews to BBC News, The Guardian, The Times, Radio 4 and Radio 5Live plus numerous BBC local radio stations.- Managing Greenbelt brand.- Writing media strategy, writing both proactive and reactive press releases throughout the year and monitoring media; achieving national, local and industry-specific press coverage.- Managing contracted copywriters, graphic designers and web designers, plus around 30 volunteers.- Writing and editing content for print including mass mailing, quarterly magazine and 112-page Festival Guide.- Writing and editing content for Greenbelt’s website, culminating in 50% increase in traffic over Festival weekend. Also working on web presence, especially developing Twitter and Facebook groups and sent a monthly subscriber email to around 4000 recipients.- Managing marketing budget (circa £150,000pa).

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  Precedent

  • Project manager

    • Nov 2008 - Dec 2008

    (Marketing & digital communications agency)- Delivering branding and web projects, using documentation and communication skills.

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  Counties

  • Communications manager

    • Nov 2007 - Oct 2008

    (National charity)- Writing marketing strategy and re-branding charity.- Maintaining websites, and re-launching the websites of Counties’ two biggest projects.- Writing and editing bi-monthly newsletter.

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  Audiences Wales

  • Marketing development manager

    • Mar 2006 - Nov 2007

    (Wales's biggest arts marketing consultancy)- Working with various clients from aiming to increase interest in visual arts in sixth-formers throughout south Wales (culminating in national press coverage) alongside the Arts Council of Wales to partnering in the marketing and press/media work for the National Museums & Galleries of Wales.- Responsible for managing, copywriting, editing and marketing two websites (the B2B Audiences Wales website and the B2C arts listings site, What's On Wales) and line-managing the Online Marketing Officers who updated these sites.- Running ‘Introduction to Marketing’ training courses in north and south Wales.- Lecturing in arts marketing at Swansea Metropolitan University.

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  Blackwood Miners' Institute

  • United Kingdom
  • Government Administration
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Operations manager

    • Apr 2005 - Mar 2006

    (660-capacity arts venue, hosting Funeral For A Friend, The Automatic, Manic Street Preachers, Stereophonics and many more)- Programming events.- Line-managing around 30 full- and part-time employees.- Managing the bar and catering facilities.- Managing front of house, which involved managing the theatre when events were being run.

  • Marketing manager

    • Nov 2004 - Apr 2005

    - Responsible for managing the marketing department, including managing marketing budget.- Writing marketing strategy.- General tasks such as producing seasonal brochures, press releases and direct mail letters.- Managing box office and line-managing box office staff.- Organising press launches for various events.

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  Blaenau Gwent CBC

  • Arts marketing officer

    • Jan 2004 - Nov 2004

    - Responsible for the marketing of two arts venues (340-seat Beaufort Theatre and 220-capacity Abertillery Community Theatre), a cinema and the arts development department.- Also worked on the marketing for the Royal Shakespeare Company's tour to the borough, where an above-target 95% of tickets were sold.