Will Oliver

Experience

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  The Fish Supper House

  Jun 2010 - Apr 2015

  Kitchen Staff

  • Operated potentially dangerous machinery in order to prepare food for cooking.

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  Posh Nosh Event Catering

  Jun 2015 - Feb 2016

  Waiting Staff

  • Waiting and bar work at weddings and corporate events.• Customer service skills a key part of maintaining high customer satisfaction.

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  JD Wetherspoon

  Sept 2015 - Nov 2015

  Kitchen Associate

  • Role involved preparing, cooking and presenting food quickly and efficiently. • Developed stamina to deal with late finishes and early university lectures.• Team work and and reliability an important skill when part of a small kitchen team.

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  Standard Life Investments

  Jun 2016 - Aug 2016

  Investment Operations Intern

  • Paid ten-week internship working as part of the Global Investment Management Services team. • Was responsible for the distribution and management of valuable software licences.• Role involved passing an advanced excel training course in order to process large quantities of data.

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  Middlemarch Environmental Limited

  Mar 2018 - Sept 2018

  Ecological Project Officer

  • Conducting Preliminary Ecological Surveys to assess habitat suitability for protected species.• Conducting presence/absence surveys of bats, reptiles and newts.• Trained in the techniques of bottle trapping, torching and egg searching for Great Crested Newts.• Revising relevant legislation and writing up results in formal ecological reports.

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  Jacobs

  Jun 2018 - Sept 2020

  • Responsible for planning and delivering a range of ecological surveys on freshwater environments including invertebrate kick sampling programmes, fish habitat and population assessments, macrophyte surveys and Phase one habitat walkovers.• Experienced in writing baseline data reports and Environmental Impact Assessments.• Skilled in freshwater and estuarine fish identification.• Trained in techniques of kick net sampling, fyke netting, seine netting and electrofishing (IFM certified). • Full safety training for working in and near water.• Emergency first aid trained. Show less

  • Graduate Freshwater Ecologist

    Sept 2018 - Sept 2020

  • Seasonal Freshwater Ecologist

    Jun 2018 - Sept 2018
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  Thames21

  Sept 2020 - now

  Thames21 is an environmental charity that aims to put healthy rivers at the heart of community life. In my role as a Catchment Partnership Development Officer I host three catchment partnerships (the Roding, Beam & Ingrebourne, the South Essex & and the Maidenhead to Teddington) with the aim of delivering Defra's Catchment Based Approach (CaBA). My role involves:-Building community and stakeholder groups-Identifying and developing river and valley improvement projects-Securing funding sources for environmental improvement projects-Sharing information and bringing people together in a way that is catchment wide, cross boundary and between multiple organisations. Show less

  • Catchment Partnership Development Manager

    May 2022 - now

  • Catchment Partnership Development Officer

    Sept 2020 - May 2022