Nicola Adele Simmonds

Experience

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  Suffolk Refugee Support

  Mar 2012 - Jul 2012

  Suffolk Refugee Week Coordinator

  • Managed events across Suffolk to celebrate Refugee Week. • Recruited and coordinated volunteers, worked with stakeholder and local community groups.• Developed a valuable relationship between the charity and local radio station

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  Inroads Essex

  Sept 2012 - Oct 2013

  Community Outreach Support Worker

  Supported children and young adults with autism and challenging behaviours to access the community.

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  The Befriending Scheme

  May 2013 - Mar 2014

  Area Coordinator

  • Responsible for delivering services across Suffolk to support vulnerable adults.• Managed and recruited volunteers to provide support to vulnerable adults.• Provided welfare support to both service users and volunteers.• Worked with the local community and built relationships with existing charities and services. • Advertised services with self-produced literature and social media and online advertisements.• Operated in home office and self-managed developing skills in prioritising workloads. Show less

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  Labour Party

  Mar 2014 - Sept 2015

  Campaign Organiser

  Developed and delivered various projects to assist members in their branches.• Managed, mobilised and developed volunteers. • Worked with stakeholders and elected officials including MPs and Councillors.• Developed relationships with local community groups such as Warwick Labour Students.• Developed volunteers and activists with group training exercises in addition to one to one teaching. • Developed and implemented a campaign strategy for a key seat during the 2015 general election.• Used software called nationbuilder to manage and mobilise volunteers.• Worked with staff across the UK at national events and shadow cabinet visits.• Organised grassroots campaigns, raised funds and advertised campaigns with press releases, literature, print, social media and websites.• Problem-solved and developed a great capacity for conflict resolution. Show less

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  Unison

  Sept 2015 - Mar 2018

  Local Campaigner

  Developed and delivered various projects to assist members in their branches.• Managed, mobilised and developed stakeholders• Maintained national membership database• Delivered various projects and campaigns• Creating campaign and communication materials for print, the web, social media and email• Applied for funding to support project work• Developed and trained stakeholders on new ways to map and maintain data across Greater London membership across several employers Show less

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  Unison

  Nov 2019 - Mar 2022

  Provided policy, procedural, and compliance advice and support to senior regional and national staff. • Streamlined how our departments collected data after consulting regional and national staff resulting in removing errors when extracting their data.• Reduced errors in projects delivered in the department by updating internal documents from feedback in weekly meetings, project reviews and from analysing advice and lessons learned logs. • Created and delivered project plans for campaigns involving 5,000+ members which required no interventions from our legal department.• Updated policies and procedures for print publications, the national website and the staff intranet. Show less

  • LGBT+ Assistant National Officer

    Oct 2021 - Mar 2022

  • Member Liaison Coordinator

    Mar 2018 - Oct 2021

  • Operations Coordinator

    Nov 2019 - Feb 2020
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  University of Greenwich

  Sept 2021 - Oct 2023

  Postgraduate Student

  MA Website Design and Content Planning. Grade: MeritA multidisciplinary course focusing on both frontend and backend development, design, principles, and technologies.• Semantic HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and MySQL• Content management and content management systems.• Web standards, resilient web design and progressive web design.• User experience including interactions, research and accessibility.• Applied art and graphic design including typography, vector graphics, colour theory, layout and optimal images for the web.• Search engine optimisation and marketing. Show less