Mike Hatt

Experience

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  Swinton Insurance

  Feb 2008 - Mar 2010

  Project Officer

  Provided project support to the IT development department within Swinton Insurance responsible for the following key tasks:• Creation and maintenance of MS Project Plans• Risk & Issue logging• Writing highlight reports• Chairing meetings• Minute taking

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  British Council

  Aug 2010 - Jul 2022

  Project lead for the British Council’s Grant & Mobility Tool which is a secure online platform to receive online applications, carry out assessments, and perform on-going case management once grants or scholarships have been awarded. A key part of my position was rolling out the platform to new programmes within the business. I was responsible for gathering and documenting the requirements, commissioning the work with external suppliers and coordinating both internal and external resource to ensure technical projects are brought in on time and to budget. Show less Project/Marketing manager for the British Council’s Study Work Create digital platform which promoted opportunities for UK students, recent graduates, and young professionals to participate in an overseas experience through British Council or external providers. Responsible for the development and implementation of an effective marketing strategy across our website, social media channels, publications and face-face events in order to increase awareness of the benefits to an international experience and promote the opportunities available. Key responsibilities included:• Developing & implementing marketing campaigns• Develop & maintain project plans• Budget management• Project reporting• Partnership management Show less A split role between the Digital and Marketing teams within the British Council’s Education and Society department.Working across a number of projects providing expertise in the following areas:• Co-ordinating digital projects including liaising with internal & external developers, maintaining risks/issues logs, and project planning. • Writing content for British Council websites using a bespoke CMS and EPiServer. • Monitoring and fixing errors on websites using Siteimprove web management tool. • End user testing on websites and digital products. • Developing surveys within Survey monkey and Formstack.• Producing social media and website analytical reports to demonstrate impact of marketing campaigns, using Webtrends, Hootsuite analytics, Facebook insights and Twitter analytics • Editing and distributing e-newsletters using Constant Contact and Campaign Monitor.• Writing content for social media channels Facebook and Twitter Show less First point of contact for all HEI’s attending British Council Education UK exhibitions in East Asia.Some of the daily tasks performed included:•Managing applications from institutions to the exhibitions•Maintaining content on the exhibitions website through a Drupal CMS •Drafting promotional communications to encourage applications•Advising institutions on suitable markets •Liaising with market experts in our overseas offices•Overseeing exhibition budgets Led on the following projects aimed at improving the Education UK exhibitions service to UK Higher Education institutions:•Visitor Registration System – Implementation of a bespoke online system developed by a third party to capture visitor registrations to the exhibitions globally while also integrating with an email marketing package to maintain a customer database for direct marketing. •Online Handbook – Drafted functional requirements for internal developers to implement an online handbook for exhibitors, used to disseminate information about the exhibitions and collect details from customers. Show less

  • Senior Project Manager

    Jun 2017 - Jul 2022

  • Project Manager

    Jun 2015 - Jun 2017

  • Digital Systems & Marketing Officer

    Oct 2014 - Jun 2015

  • Project Officer

    Aug 2010 - Oct 2014
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  St John Ambulance

  Jul 2022 - now

  Digital Project Manager