Work history
Communications Project Manager
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- Managed the Local Favorites project for the fastest growing arts and culture platform, The Culture Trip. Included hiring, interviewing and managing four interns and two remote workers.
- Communication with PRs and organisations featured in our articles to promote our platform and increase readership.
- Used my contacts to research, conduct, edit, and publish interviews for the website. Among others, I interviewed jazz musician Terri Lyne Carrington, the executive chef of SUSHISAMBA London, and the rising ethical handbag designer, Akosua Afriyie-Kumi.
- Managed a weekly mail out to over 100,000 recipients, including creating and editing various newsletters with both MailChimp and SendGrid.
- Devised strategies to market our articles on Facebook, using Facebook advertising.
- Experience with Wordpress and Naked CMS, utilising SEO, collaborative drive systems, Google Analytics, photo editing software and all elements of Microsoft and Mac.
- My team helped to boost unique monthly views from an average of 1.1 million to 1.8 million, and unique daily views from an average of 35,000 to 55,000 in our first month of employment. By February, there was an average of ~100,000 daily views.
Research Assistant
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- Employed by the University to assist Dr Joe Kember with his upcoming publication.
- Required to analyse and collate trends in early cinema-going in Bristol from online newspaper archives. Required high levels of organisation and utilising spreadsheets to categorise information.
- Included in the acknowledgements of the publication for my contribution.
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Skills
- Events
- Marketing PR
- Writing
- Editing
- Travel
- Creative
- Social Media Marketing
- Web Content
- Communications
- Office
- Photoshop
- Word
- Content and Media Writing
- Copywriting
Education
English
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BA
English, History, French, Art
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A Level
Awards
Dean's Commendation
On the Dean's list for the University of Exeter for my contribution to the life of the English department
Student Employee of the Year Nominee
Nominated for my role as Peer Advisor at the University of Exeter