About me
I am an experienced project manager with an academic and professional interest in the arts, and in international relations. I have a wide range of experience in public, private and third sector companies, and am skilled at working and communicating with a diverse range of audiences.
Projects
- Backstage to the Future: CaribbeanThe Backstage to the Future: Caribbean, skills training for outdoor live events in San Andres Archipelago, Colombia programme is designed to develop and nurture future live event producers and technicians across the outdoor live events sector in San Andres, Jamaica and Venezuela, with a focus on technical and soft skills (communication/networking) for the performing arts and live events sector. It is intended to foster and strengthen relationships between United Kingdom (‘UK’), Colombia, Jamaica and Venezuela by encouraging learning and knowledge transfer between the countries and build links between institutions. It also aims to provide opportunities for young people in San Andres and Providencia, Colombia, Jamaica, and Venezuela to address specific core gaps within the music industry and live event design and delivery. The primary focus will be Colombia but also considering the wider Caribbean and Venezuela. Through this we endeavour to build capacity, connect the islands with each other and the UK, provide new employment opportunities thus creating more local resource and ultimately creating opportunity for economic sustainability of the smaller islands as well as engaging disenfranchised communities and youths.The Backstage to the Future: Caribbean, skills training for outdoor live events in San Andres Archipelago, Colombia programme is designed to develop and nurture future live event producers and technicians across the outdoor live events sector in San Andres, Jamaica and Venezuela, with a focus on technical and soft skills (communication/networking) for the performing arts and live events sector. It is intended to foster and strengthen relationships between United Kingdom (‘UK’), Colombia, Jamaica and Venezuela by encouraging learning and knowledge transfer between the countries and build links between institutions. It also aims to provide opportunities for young people in San Andres and Providencia, Colombia, Jamaica, and Venezuela to address specific core gaps within the music industry and live event design and delivery. The primary focus will be Colombia but also considering the wider Caribbean and Venezuela. Through this we endeavour to build capacity, connect the islands with each other and the UK, provide new employment opportunities thus creating more local resource and ultimately creating opportunity for economic sustainability of the smaller islands as well as engaging disenfranchised communities and youths.The Backstage to the Future: Caribbean, skills training for outdoor live events in San Andres Archipelago, Colombia programme is designed to develop and nurture future live event producers and technicians across the outdoor live events sector in San Andres, Jamaica and Venezuela, with a focus on technical and soft skills (communication/networking) for the performing arts and live events sector. It is intended to foster and strengthen relationships between United Kingdom (‘UK’), Colombia, Jamaica and Venezuela by encouraging learning and knowledge transfer between the countries and build links between institutions. It also aims to provide opportunities for young people in San Andres and Providencia, Colombia, Jamaica, and Venezuela to address specific core gaps within the music industry and live event design and delivery. The primary focus will be Colombia but also considering the wider Caribbean and Venezuela. Through this we endeavour to build capacity, connect the islands with each other and the UK, provide new employment opportunities thus creating more local resource and ultimately creating opportunity for economic sustainability of the smaller islands as well as engaging disenfranchised communities and youths.The Backstage to the Future: Caribbean, skills training for outdoor live events in San Andres Archipelago, Colombia programme is designed to develop and nurture future live event producers and technicians across the outdoor live events sector in San Andres, Jamaica and Venezuela, with a focus on technical and soft skills (communication/networking) for the performing arts and live events sector. It is intended to foster and strengthen relationships between United Kingdom (‘UK’), Colombia, Jamaica and Venezuela by encouraging learning and knowledge transfer between the countries and build links between institutions. It also aims to provide opportunities for young people in San Andres and Providencia, Colombia, Jamaica, and Venezuela to address specific core gaps within the music industry and live event design and delivery. The primary focus will be Colombia but also considering the wider Caribbean and Venezuela. Through this we endeavour to build capacity, connect the islands with each other and the UK, provide new employment opportunities thus creating more local resource and ultimately creating opportunity for economic sustainability of the smaller islands as well as engaging disenfranchised communities and youths.The Backstage to the Future: Caribbean, skills training for outdoor live events in San Andres Archipelago, Colombia programme is designed to develop and nurture future live event producers and technicians across the outdoor live events sector in San Andres, Jamaica and Venezuela, with a focus on technical and soft skills (communication/networking) for the performing arts and live events sector. It is intended to foster and strengthen relationships between United Kingdom (‘UK’), Colombia, Jamaica and Venezuela by encouraging learning and knowledge transfer between the countries and build links between institutions. It also aims to provide opportunities for young people in San Andres and Providencia, Colombia, Jamaica, and Venezuela to address specific core gaps within the music industry and live event design and delivery. The primary focus will be Colombia but also considering the wider Caribbean and Venezuela. Through this we endeavour to build capacity, connect the islands with each other and the UK, provide new employment opportunities thus creating more local resource and ultimately creating opportunity for economic sustainability of the smaller islands as well as engaging disenfranchised communities and youths.The Backstage to the Future: Caribbean, skills training for outdoor live events in San Andres Archipelago, Colombia programme is designed to develop and nurture future live event producers and technicians across the outdoor live events sector in San Andres, Jamaica and Venezuela, with a focus on technical and soft skills (communication/networking) for the performing arts and live events sector. It is intended to foster and strengthen relationships between United Kingdom (‘UK’), Colombia, Jamaica and Venezuela by encouraging learning and knowledge transfer between the countries and build links between institutions. It also aims to provide opportunities for young people in San Andres and Providencia, Colombia, Jamaica, and Venezuela to address specific core gaps within the music industry and live event design and delivery. The primary focus will be Colombia but also considering the wider Caribbean and Venezuela. Through this we endeavour to build capacity, connect the islands with each other and the UK, provide new employment opportunities thus creating more local resource and ultimately creating opportunity for economic sustainability of the smaller islands as well as engaging disenfranchised communities and youths. At the British Council, I was the primary project manager for Backstage to the Future: Caribbean. The Backstage to the Future: Caribbean, skills training for outdoor live events in San Andres Archipelago, Colombia programme is designed to develop and nurture future live event producers and technicians across the outdoor live events sector in San Andres, Jamaica and Venezuela, with a focus on technical and soft skills (communication/networking) for the performing arts and live events sector. It is intended to foster and strengthen relationships between United Kingdom (‘UK’), Colombia, Jamaica and Venezuela by encouraging learning and knowledge transfer between the countries and build links between institutions. It also aims to provide opportunities for young people in San Andres and Providencia, Colombia, Jamaica, and Venezuela to address specific core gaps within the music industry and live event design and delivery. The primary focus will be Colombia but also considering the wider Caribbean and Venezuela. Through this we endeavour to build capacity, connect the islands with each other and the UK, provide new employment opportunities thus creating more local resource and ultimately creating opportunity for economic sustainability of the smaller islands as well as engaging disenfranchised communities and youths. Research shows that there are important gaps in the cultural sector related to scarcity of technical skills, particularly in the fields of Live Music and Performing Arts Events, Visual Arts and Film Production. This has provided the British Council with an unprecedented opportunity to develop programmes to train young generations in technical skills and strengthen capacity in the cultural sector. The British Council will use its position as a market leader in high quality cultural skills provision working together with the UK and local delivery partners to orchestrate this programme. The objectives of the programme are to develop a technical skills training programme focussed on sound engineering, light design, stage management, live event production and management, community arts, and to embed this training with local showcasing during the Green Moon Festival. The programme aims to connect local festivals so that they can have more economic scale opportunities and do more business, and to connect and build trust between the Colombian islands of San Andres and Providencia with Venezuelan and Caribbean neighbours plus the UK. We hope that this will create employment, network and business opportunities for trainers and trainees and strengthen the islands’ training infrastructure to ensure that training is relevant, high quality, and informed by UK and international standard best-practice. The long-term aim of the programme is to re-connect the islands of San Andres and Providencia with mainland Colombia and the greater Caribbean through mutual respect and understanding of their culture.
Work history
Arts Programme Manager
Manchester, United KingdomFull Time
➢Leading development and delivery of FCO Prosperity Bids in China
➢ Focusing on cultural heritage, museums, fashion and gaming sectors
➢ Working closely with the art form teams, and British Council staff in the UK and China to agree programmes and activities which respond appropriately to local opportunity and context
➢ Providing the connection between the UK and and China contributing to the British Council's cultural relations
➢ Drawing upon a wide-ranging knowledge of cross sector programmes, policy and network of UK contacts to provide advice, contributing directly to project design, implementation, management and evaluation
Project Coordinator
- Manchester, United KingdomFull Time
➢ Working in strong partnership with Tesco, I have been connecting frontline charities based in Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Yorkshire, Lancashire and Cumbria to the innovative food redistribution scheme FareShare FoodCloud.
➢ Using mobile technology, FareShare FoodCloud enables these organisations to collect free surplus food from their local Tesco store, boosting their services for vulnerable individuals as well as reducing food waste.
➢ As Project Coordinator, I planned, implemented and managed the roll out of the scheme in all large format Tesco stores across the North of England, managing internal and external stakeholders and leading a team of 5.
➢ Key achievement: signing up 100s of charities across 100+ Tesco Extra and Superstores, managing their entire journey from initial contact to first surplus food collection via a regional team of direct reports.
➢ Positively representing the national food surplus charity FareShare at all levels, including organising engagement events for Tesco stores and their charity partners and presenting to large audiences at Store Manager training events.
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Skills
- Bid Management
- Bid Writing
- Project Management
- Programme Management
- Finance Management
- Building Relationships
- Client Development
- International Affairs
Education
MSc Contemporary Chinese Studies
- Oxford, United Kingdom
Specialising in international relations and economics, with a thesis on the creation of soft power in Chinese museums.
BA MA Archaeology and Anthropology
- Oxford, United Kingdom
➢ Studied both archaeology and anthropology at prestigious Magdalen college.
➢ Focussed on East Asian anthropology, studying Mandarin Chinese at the same time on top of my degree.
➢ My dissertation used statistical analysis to analyse, and compare the art and archaeology of the Maya