Hannah Locke

Experience

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  King's College London

  Sept 2013 - Jul 2015

  Organised events allowing residents to socialise in safe and interesting ways. Various forms of marketing, both social media and print promotions were used to encourage attendance and participation. Managed a block of flats and ensured the residents safety and satisfaction with the facilities. Provided pastoral care for students and worked with police and ambulance staff to ensure the safety of students. Received extensive training in Health and Safety including qualifications in First Aid and Corporate Conflict Resolution. Show less

  • Student

    Sept 2012 - Jul 2015

  • Resident Assistant

    Sept 2013 - Jun 2014
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  The Poetry Society

  Jun 2014 - Jul 2014

  Foyles Alumni Intern

  • Strong communication skills necessary as responsibilities included raising awareness for the competition by contacting sister organisations. • Developed understanding of Social Media Marketing, formulating and sending out suggested tweets and Facebook posts. • Succinct and creative use of language to encourage participation. • Critical thinking skills used to asses the validity of large amounts of submissions to the Foyles Young Poet of The Year Award.

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  Charles Cameron and Associates

  Oct 2015 - Jul 2016

  Client Services Administrator

  • Assisted the business development team to engage corporate partners, through in house visits and online campaigns. • Produced management information reports from CRM data to show the number and value of mortgages that had been secured for employees of the Firm's partners.

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  Charles Russell Speechlys LLP

  Jul 2016 - Oct 2017

  Business Development Assistant

  • Worked closely with a business development manager to raise internal and external profiles of the Firm’s litigation practice.• Supported the 4 teams within the litigation practice: Commercial Dispute Resolution, Contentious Trusts and Estates, Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency and Intellectual Property. • Produced e-newsletters, drew up invitations and organised events both in house and at external venues to boost the external profile of the teams. • Worked closely with Senior Associates and Partners to gather information on cases to be used as case studies on the Charles Russell Speechlys website. Show less

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  Crisis

  Nov 2017 - now

  Working at Crisis I have developed an excellent understanding of housing and practice issues affecting people with experience of homelessness across different housing markets. Through participating in different working groups I have built up an excellent understanding of local authority practice. For example, while supporting colleagues on the implementation of the Homelessness Reduction Act I have developed an excellent understanding of good practice. which allows me to provide meaningful advice when answering queries from the public and other practitioners. My current role involves: • Being the first point of contact for internal and external enquiries regarding the Crisis best practice team, providing appropriate responses or referring to colleagues as required• Organising and facilitating regional events including content, set-up and co-ordination at different venues around the UK• Managing production of the bi-monthly e-newsletter and ensuring it is relevant, interesting, of high quality and delivered in a timely manner • Reconciling budgets, dealing with finance administration for the team and liaising with finance colleagues• Developing and maintaining information systems to support internal communication about projects and networking between projects• Producing content on Crisis’ best practice work for our internal and external web pages and social media, • Promoting Crisis’s best practice work to organisations throughout the UK• Representing the team in cross departmental meetings to ensure that the evidence we gather plays a part in all policy and campaigning activity • Manage office volunteers and temporary staff as required to support the overall work of the team. Show less

  • Senior best practice officer

    Jan 2020 - now

  • Best Practice Team Coordinator

    Nov 2017 - Jan 2020