Shahnia Rahman

Experience

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  East End Life

  Jan 2011 - Jan 2011

  Assistant Editor

  • Writing articles from giving press releases• Researching and writing up my own articles• Coming up with creative and interesting headlines and layout ideas• Going to different events as part of photo opps for news stories• Administrative tasks such as contacting local organisations for news stories

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  PEN International

  Oct 2013 - Oct 2013

  Communications Assistant

  PEN International fights for the freedom of literary expression. My role involved contributing ideas for new and exciting campaigns as well as managing communications such as updating the intranet and the weekly electronic newsletter (which I edited using Mail Chimp). I was also involved in updating media lists and other administrative tasks as well as translating messages into Spanish for the Spanish version of their intranet.

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  Parliamentary Office of Jo Swinson MP

  Oct 2014 - Oct 2014

  Parliamentary Researcher for Jo Swinson MP

  My role involved PR related tasks such as writing articles and updating event calendars. My role also involved reading and replying to letters from Jo Swinson's constituents. As part of my experience in Parliament, I was able to sit in on Committee Meetings such as the Environmental Audit's Select Committee Meeting on the Sustainable Development Goals as well as the Defense Committee's Meeting on International Affairs.

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  Société Générale

  Jul 2015 - Sept 2015

  Corporate Social Responsibility Intern

  • Developing and updating communications (intranet pages, articles, presentations)• Managing CSR's school's volunteering programme (managing recruitment of volunteers for one of Société Générale's partner primary schools which involved promoting the programme, signing up volunteers and performing DBS checks)• Developing new materials and programmes to engage new joiners in CSR (this involved creating CSR materials, organising and leading a CSR networking session as well as updating CSR communications to new joiners to make it more attractive)• Leading and organising a fundraiser and research project (alongside 11 other interns) for the company's Charity of the Year, Mind Show less

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  MADE NGO

  Jul 2016 - Sept 2016

  Fundraising Intern

  • My role involved engaging with a wide range of stakeholders such as local businesses and charity partners (i.e. for sponsorships)• Organizing and leading a charity dinner to culminate the end of our annual fundraising event• Creating information packs for fundraising events

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  Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

  Jul 2017 - Sept 2017

  Summer Intern at DEFRA - EU Exit Team: Chemicals and Pesticides

  • Part of my role involved helping to develop the team’s stakeholder engagement strategy. As part of this role, I regularly reviewed the team’s draft engagement strategy, I liaised with stakeholders and representatives from other government departments, I created a visual infographic of the team’s stakeholder engagement and created and kept up-to-date an overall team work-plan which highlighted the team’s key stakeholder engagement events• I was also given research tasks, one of which was regarding WTO disputes. This was a task that I was given co-leadership on, whereby I had to condense information from official WTO documents, collate the relevant information and input them into an Excel spreadsheet and then identify trends and patterns and create short summaries. I then presented my findings in the first meeting that was held for this project.• Ministerial Briefing and Correspondence Show less