Projects
- Celebrating progression of women at work over the past 100 yearsTo mark the centenary since women won the right to vote, I wrote a cover feature for leading B2B publication, HR Grapevine, celebrating key milestones women achieved at work. Link here: https://mag.hrgrapevine.com/HR-June-2018/?page=10
Work history
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Assistant Communications ManagerWillmott Dixon
Letchworth Garden City, United KingdomFull Time
Joined one of the UK’s largest construction contractor’s internal sustainability teams deliver key messages internally and externally.
• Writing award entries, articles and blogs
• Assisting post-2020 strategy workshops to learn more about how CSR is embedded within the business, writing up content/planning launch comms
• Writing sustainability section of annual report and accounts/Sustainable Development review
• Supporting the Foundation team through creating social value case studies
• Managing briefs and delivery of content from external creative agencies/social enterprises
• Supporting bids with sustainability copy/statistics
• Forward communications planning
• Content editing intranet systems/group website
• Event management
• Writing and creating monthly newsletter (MailChimp)
• Social media management and campaign analysis
• Two Chartered Institute of Marketing courses (Effective Proofreading/Writing Press Releases)
• Instagram working group
• Participating in wider communications team meetings
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EditorExecutive Grapevine
Welwyn Garden City, United KingdomFull Time
Worked my way up from intern to editor at this leading B2B publication in the HR/Recruitment space.
• Wrote approx ten articles per week for our digital publication, which attracted an average of 60,000 unique sessions per month.
• Interviewed senior executives within the HR/Recruitment industry for our magazine cover features, boosting views by 10% and increasing brand loyalty, shown through an increase in our target level sign-ups (HR Directors). My last three cover features were with Facebook, Virgin Media and the REC.
• Managed digital transformation of our magazine, from a page-turner format to a long-read scroll
• Wrote specialist GDPR content and sat in on Board meetings to deliver internal compliance.
• Secured a third of the speakers for our keynote event, from brands including L’Oreal, BP and Addison Lee.
Skills
- Writing
- Communications Strategy
- Communications Planning
- Event Communications
- Event Content
- Award Submissions
- Newsletters
- Report Writing
Education
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Bachelor of Arts (BA) University of Sheffield
- Sheffield, United Kingdom
2:1 BA (Hons) in English Language and Linguistics
Received a first on a project where I created a ten-minute-long film exploring food across cultures
Can apply a variety of analytical theories to mediums of text
Wrote a dissertation analysing three celebrity cookbooks using the concepts of performativity and semiotics