Emma Brownlow

Experience

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  Durham University

  Aug 2012 - Jul 2014

  Development & Alumni Relations Officer

  RESPONSIBILITIES: Managed relations and communications with alumni and stakeholders of Collingwood College. Engaged alumni and stakeholders with the college, its values and its aims, and encouraged philanthropic giving and volunteering which contributed to the improvement of student experience and employability prospects. ACHIEVEMENTS: Successful events programme brought over 500 alumni back into contact with college. Designed and established ‘Collingwood Connect’ to provide a series of careers events and employability skills to students, and give them access to careers profiles from over 100 alumni. Re-styled and restructured the annual alumni magazine and introduced e-comms and social media activity in order to deliver more purposeful communications. Worked alongside Development Officers to secure major donations and establish scholarship and internship programmes. Show less

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  The University of Manchester

  Jul 2014 - Sept 2015

  Part of the wardinial team responsible for overseeing and managing the pastoral care, welfare and discipline of over 1000 students in a University of Manchester hall of residence.Recruited and managed a team of Residential Pastoral Advisers.Responded to out of hours emergency incidents and crisis situations, including mental health, medical health, fires, student complaints. Work in collaboration with colleagues from the Division of Development and Alumni Relations to contribute to the development and implementation of a strategy aiming to raise awareness among staff, students and young alumni of donor supported projects and the impact of philanthropy at The University of Manchester, and build on this awareness to increase participation in philanthropic giving.

  • Deputy Warden

    Sept 2014 - Sept 2015

  • Regular Giving Officer (Students & Young Alumni)

    Jul 2014 - Sept 2015
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  Cialfo

  Mar 2016 - Apr 2017

  University Admissions Consultant and Student Development Mentor

  Outlook 2017: Top 5 Start Ups to Watch - Straits TimesCialfo started as a overseas education consultancy in Singapore that streamlined the US and UK college application process for students with a unique combination of online platform solutions and mobile applications, designed by highly experienced veterans of the college admissions process. 100% of Cialfo’s students have been admitted to a college of their choice and 60% of them admitted into top 20 US/UK universities.Cialfo offers an innovative SaaS platform (available on web and mobile) for independent college counsellors, private organisations and high schools to streamline their overseas college application process. It increases the effectiveness by enabling efficient task management, managing communications with their students and parents; and an automated proprietary college shortlisting algorithm. Cialfo is on a mission to democratise tertiary education globally and help 1 million students through its platform by 2020.• Winner of EdTechX Asia 2016• International collaboration partner of FutureWorks (an edtech accelerator of TAL Education) and MOOC Times in Beijing owned by the Haidan Government• Listed among the 20 Hottest Singapore Startups 2014 by Singapore Business Review • Featured on CNBC, Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, Straits Times, e27, TechinAsia, Sohu, 36Kr, Times of India, NDTV and over 100 publications globally Show less

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  Durham University

  Jan 2022 - now

  • Vice Principal (Collingwood College)

    Apr 2017 - now

  • Acting Principal (Collingwood College

    Jan 2022 - Oct 2022