Becky Adkins

Experience

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  QMessenger

  Sept 2012 - Jun 2013

  Societies Section Editor

  Edited the societies section of the weekly university newspaper during my second year. This position developed my journalistic and editorial skills alongside my leadership and teamwork capabilities.

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  Queen Mary University of London Students' Union

  Sept 2012 - Jun 2013

  Student Activator - Get Active Scheme

  Sports leader for the lottery-funded recreational sports scheme at Queen Mary, University of London. This role saw me develop essential leadership and teamwork skills applicable not only to sporting situations, but across workplace roles too.I also obtained some sales experience during my time at Get Active as part of my role was to regularly promote the scheme and sell memberships.

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  Three60 Recruitment

  Jul 2014 - Sept 2014

  Intern

  I am currently working on a range of projects including sourcing candidates, creating media packs which provide detailed information about clients to candidates and learning the ropes of how recruitment consultants conduct their work on a day to day basis.Working exclusively in partnership with the UK's leading consultancies specialising in bespoke campaigns, Three60 R2R are a leading bespoke Search & Selection consultancy.A world away from the usual high-volume recruitment to recruitment agencies, Three60 is the partner of choice to a select number of international and boutique consultancies. Our well-researched, informed and thorough approach means that if you are contacted by one of our Search Consultants, you're obviously carving a successful niche within your chosen recruitment career - precisely why you will have been noticed by our business partners.Three60 R2R act as a retained and search recruiter, combining search and selection, growth strategy and head hunting techniques to identify talent in the market place best suited to our clients remit.If you are, or believe you have the ability to become a market leader in your chosen discipline we want to hear from you. Show less

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  QMSU Get Active Scheme

  Sept 2014 - Jun 2015

  Student Activator

  I reprised the role I undertook during my second year of University. See below for details.

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  Queen Mary University of London

  Sept 2014 - Apr 2015

  Sub-Editor

  The QMHJ is an online monthly publication which is also published in hard copy twice a year and can be found in the British Library. The journal publishes student essays covering a wide range of themes including Revolutions, London, The First World War and Black History Month.This role requires the selection and editing of essays submitted, decisions regarding themes for the journal, and the organisation of regular socials for the Journal - including monthly speaker events to launch each edition. Show less

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  Marylebone Cricket Club

  Jun 2015 - Sept 2015

  Waitress
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  Transport for London

  Sept 2015 - now

  HR Business Partner focused on project and programme management in HR's Strategic Planning & Governance team.Accountable for the development, delivery and monitoring of the pan-TfL People Plan, looking at how we deliver people activity for all of our 27,000 employees.I project managed the successful delivery of a reorganisation in HR with a reduction of 30% on staff costs, then became accountable for ensuring the new operating model and ways of working were fully embedded. This included capturing feedback on the operating model and developing potential solutions to iron out any arising issues and monitoring the headcount budget over the course of the financial year.I worked closely with all HR teams to monitor their activity throughout the year and put in place an approach to prioritisation to ensure that, as a support function to the business, we delivered activity / initiatives that align to business need.Responsibility for my team's budget, as well as monitoring budget for all HR teams, working closely with our Finance Business Partner to undertake forecasting, provide insight into budget on a periodic basis and to identify/escalate any issues.Acted as Smart Working Lead for HR, looking at how we could enable our people to work more flexibly, coordinating office moves/changes to make best use of office space, promoting use of technology such as virtual meetings and conference calling facilities.Line management of our team's administrator. Show less Project manager on a two year rotational graduate scheme at Transport for London.Undertook four placements over the space of two years.Placements:September 2015 - April 2016 - Assistant Sponsor - Fit for the Future StationsRole included:- Internal stakeholder engagement - briefing operational staff on changes; preparing materials for staff, such as a Station Operating Guide- External stakeholder engagement - leading a visit by the Montréal Metro- Preparation of the lessons learned piece for the programme- Finalisation and sign off of the station operating conceptsApril 2016-September 2016 - Assistant Project Manager - Silvertown TunnelRole included:- Updating the Project Execution Plan- Risk management- Contract management- Assisting with the preparation of the Development Consent Order submission to the Planning InspectorateSeptember 2016-December 2016 - External Secondment - Policy Officer - London TravelWatchPrimary reason for secondment was to support TravelWatch in the review commissioned by Sadiq Khan of the ticket office closures on the London Underground. Role included:- Preparing a public survey into the closures- Mystery shopping in stations- Liaising with key stakeholders on the changes, including visually and mobility impaired passengers- Collating and analysing data for the report- Attending a briefing with the Mayor's office on the reportOther work included:- Researching and preparing blog posts for the Interchange Matters blog- Updating the draft version of a report on small stationsJanuary 2017-September 2017- Project Manager - HR ServicesRole included: - Co-ordination of the workstreams associated with apprenticeships at TfL- Working on an updated apprenticeship strategy based on the Enterprise Act and Apprentice Levy- Oracle Taleo projects and support- Project controls such as maintenance of risk register and project planning for HRS teams Show less

  • Change Programme Manager

    Mar 2022 - now

  • Change Project Manager

    Jul 2021 - Mar 2022

  • HR Business Partner - Programme Management

    Apr 2019 - Jul 2021

  • Assistant Project Manager

    Sept 2017 - Apr 2019

  • Graduate Project Manager

    Sept 2015 - Sept 2017