I am a burgeoning graphic designer and illustrator currently working as an office administrator at a London based graphic design agency. I recently graduated English Literature and American Studies student from the University of Sussex and during my third year at University, I studied abroad in the United States at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Through studying English at University and Art at A Level, I have continued to cultivate my imagination and creativity. My English degree has given me reliable writing, editorial, and grammatical skill, and my artistic talents have given me both innovative capabilities as well as a high attention to detail and perfection. My creative abilities have helped me to become self-taught in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. Years of working with customers in the service industry has given me confident social skills and I consider myself an extremely approachable and engaging individual. My previous employments have been diverse, and I have enjoyed the challenge of learning new skills for each role, and this makes me an adaptable and proactive individual.
Work history
Office AdminstratorDragon Rouge
London, United KingdomFull Time
As Office Administrative Assistant my main responsibility is our front of house is welcoming and meeting rooms have a tidy and professional appearance at all times, along with all other receptionist duties.
Responsibilities:
• Maintaining a welcoming and tidy front of house, meeting and greeting all visitors and providing refreshments, making sure meeting rooms are well prepped for meetings.
• Answering the main switchboard phones, transferring and relaying messages taken.
• Liaising with all suppliers to ensure all cleaning and repairs are completed.
• Ensuring the kitchen, bathroom and office supplies arrive and distributed, as well as keeping on top of supply and stocking checking.
• Organising post, lunch orders, taxi bookings, couriers, and other travel arrangements.
• Supporting the administration staff and the wider team as needed.
• Undertaking responsibility of the office notice board by designing the layout and creating posters and information that is relevant and of interest to the company.
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Account ExecutiveStorm Communications
- London, United KingdomFull Time
As part of my role as Account Executive, in addition to carrying on the below day to day account execution and administration, I undertook additional admin responsibilities, lead all media work and basic daily client communication, and assisted with day to day activity on the social media accounts.
Additional admin responsibilities:
• Sent all media coverage to clients
• Created specific trade, consumer and influencer media lists
• Handled all financial admin on accounts, from PO forms, bike forms and paperwork for job bags
• Took the lead on all supplier research as required to obtain costs, booked and briefed all suppliers used for client campaigns from photographers, printers and designers.
Media work responsibilities:
• Drafted press releases (trade, consumer, news), competition copy, as well as by-line features and commentaries as appropriate
• Compiled the forward feature programme for clients and drafted submissions as appropriate
• Planned and lead sell in activity and follow ups to drive all day-to-day coverage
• Planned and organised media tours, drops and events and handled all media and client liaison
• Searched and flagged media opportunities and handled all reactive media enquiries
• Set up all media competitions and promotions and managed the complete process
Client responsibilities:
• Daily contact with clients to request information, flag items of interest, liaised on media approvals and opportunities
• Assisted with prep for client meetings, presented throughout and created contact reports
• Attended internal client catch ups and assisted with creative plans for existing clients, helped brainstorm ideas, research and drafted of proposals as required.
• Attended and contributed to new business brainstorms and undertook media research and media audits for new business proposals.
Social media responsibilities:
• Handled social media analysis, monitored analytics and drafted the monthly social reports
• Drafted monthly social media content plans and scheduled posts
• Monitored social channels and competitor channels and booked in advertising on a daily basis
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Skills
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Outlook
- Admin Skills
- Editorial Experience
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe Indesign
- Illustration
- Graphic Design
Education
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English Literature and American Studies 2:1University of Sussex
- United Kingdom