Jodie Kearley

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Music profile: Singer/songwriter with big gutsy vocals and the antsy, agnsty lyrics to go with it www.myspace.com/listentojodie

Non Music Profile:

Vibrant and diverse multi-tasker with a 10 year history of administration, personal assistance, project assistance and events/support positions, for varied companies and ventures and working on a selection of different projects.

Throughout my career so far I have worked for a wide spectrum of industries from interactive technologies, creative arts to public health & education, advertising and charities, as well as frequently assisting in the marketing, events and online promotion for a London Club Night, including the online community forum management for a BAFTA award winning company. I have worked alongside all levels of management directly and indirectly and pride myself in being open and able to communicate easily and efficiently too just about anybody.

Every position I have held has been fast paced, forcing me to think on my feet, be as flexible as possible, meet project deadlines, multi task like the best of them and to keep focused under pressure; always retaining the highest level of professionalism.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Project Support/Events Assistant
NHS Direct (National Health Service)
February 09 – To date

A varied and challenging role in a ever growing and fast changing environment; working as Project Support to the NHS Directs ‘Strategic Development Programme (SDP)’. The SDP’s overall aim, with the support of Ernst & Young, is to take the NHS Direct from being a good organisation to being a great one! Responsibilities; support and diary management to key members of the program and E&Y where necessary; coordinating meetings, events and multi day workshops both internally and externally, and organising the logistics of large-scale three day Executive strategy events consisting of venue research and booking, liaising with venue staff, arranging hotel and travel and preparation and collation of presentation packs. Events Assistance included helping to develop and deliver a series of National road shows at regional NHS Direct locations, acting as first point of contact for all event related enquiries, assisting with all aspects of planning and logistics, arranging speakers, facilitators and venues, ensuring smooth delivery of the event and gathering and responding to feedback. Other tasks include; looking after budgets accounts, keeping our finance department up to date with all expenditures.

Production Assistant (Contract)
All Saints Retail Ltd
July 08 – November 08

A fast paced role in one of Britain’s leading clothing brands. Duties included processing all purchase orders, liaising with relevant departments to ensure All Saints product is manufactured to the highest quality and finish. Working with production coordinators, designers, and third party suppliers. Liaising closely with the buying & merchandising department to ensure that all orders are placed as & when requested. Assisting the Production coordinators to ensure they have the correct information to enable them to provide clear & concise reports to the Head of Production detailing the status of each style & any other reports reasonably required. Assisting with racking & chasing samples prior to the buy so that all the relevant samples are able to be presentable for the buy.

Office Manager/Project Assistant
Soda Creative Ltd, London
October 04 – December 07

A diverse role in a small internationally renowned, BAFTA award winning creative technology company. Responsibilities and experience include financial administration, office management, credit control, disaster recovery, health and safety monitoring and project management support.
Particular project management responsibility included event organisation and client liaison with the gallery and museum sector including the Tate Britain, the Arts Council (Creative Partnerships) and Sodarace, a partnership project with Queen Mary, University of London. I was also the lead moderator for Sodaplay, an international on-line creative community of 200,000 registered users.

Team Administrator
Service Improvement Directorate (SID) Brighton and Hove Primary Care NHS Trust.
February-October 04

Duties included:
PA to 10 Directors, designing of quarterly newsletter, formatting of strategy reports.
absence and payroll monitoring, full diary management to team, conference and meeting arrangement, audio typing, all general correspondence and administration, telephone screening, filing and archiving.

Short Term Temporary Roles, London and Brighton.
Summers By Two/ EB4U/ NHS
June 03 –February 04

PA, Team Administrator and Accounts Assistant at the CRC, including diary management.
All administration and personal assistance to EB4U team also including event promotion.
Team Administrator to the Mental Health department at Brighton General Hospital.
Solicitors Administrator/PA.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY CONTINUED

Personal Assistant/Accounts Assistant
Ms Alison Pye. The Cobra Group plc
March 01 – June 03

Working directly for the Accounts Manager with approximately twenty offices within the UK and Europe specialising in direct sales and marketing, for a variety of different brands and products in numerous fields including Advertising, Charities, Power and Housing.

Duties included:
All Personal and accounting assistance to the Accounts Manager, production of weekly profit and loss summaries for each individual office, design and creation of letterheads and invoices for the individual offices, management of all employees bonds and savings, invoicing and payment of bills travel and accommodation advising and booking.

Framework Scheduler
Allgood plc, London
August 00 - March 01

Duties included:
Involved in the processing of quotes and estimates for our architects and contractors. This would require an analysis of the relevant blueprint to estimate what products would be needed after which I would produce a quote and relevant diagram outlining the details.

Personal Assistant/Office Manager
Magikads Ltd, North Street, Brighton
October 99 - July 00

Duties included:
All personal Assistance to both Managing Directors, recruitment of new employees, recruitment, setting up adverts, arranging and chairing interviews, all office management, reference checking, stock control and weekly figure management.

Other Part time/Freelance roles:

Personal/Promotions Assistant to Club Promoter
Hannah Platt – June 06 – Current (Freelance ongoing)

Duties included:
Handling membership records, online community base set up, promotion, policing and management, data entry and production, ticket collection and cash up, club night set up, liaising with venue management and staff, club promotion and competitions, direct assistance to Club promoter.

Personal Assistant to Published Photographer and Journalist
Lucy Stein Photographic
February 04 - 06, Central London locations plus overseas work. (Freelance)

Duties included:
Managing all model releases, legal documentation, invoices and expense accounts on location and in the office, MAC usage for audio typing, batching/resizing photos, in Photoshop CS, conducting phone interviews, direct surveys, and making travel/accommodation arrangements. I have acquired on the job knowledge of the creative and publishing industries on the job.

Creative partnerships
London Centre of Contemporary Music
Club Subversion
Dirty Pictures Ltd
Panik Brothers
The Cobra Group
Skin Two Rubber Ball
Point Blank London
NHS Direct

1 Yr diploma in Music Performance and Production at the London Centre of Contemporary Music, this includes Logic Pro, studio engineering, reproductions.

Experience with recording and sound equiptment whilst recording in the studio. Experience of assisting with Cubase and administration for a recording studio.

Point Blank London – September 2008 – March 2009.
Music Production and Songwriting courses.

London Centre of Contemporary Music – September 2007 – July 2008
1 Year Diploma in Music Performance and Production with Vocals


The Innovatory - 2005
Sage and basic accounting course.

Future Training Business College, Brighton - April 99 - June 00
Kaz Touch Typing, PowerPoint, Word, Accutype, Access, Excel, TACK (Tele-Development training), KSD 1&2 (Key Speed Development)

Ringmer Community College, East Sussex - September 93 - June 98
11 GCSE's - Grades B-D

Vocally trained on occasion by Nikki Lamborn (Never the Bride/Faking it)

IT SKILLS

80 wpm touch typing speed. 50 wpm data entry speed.
Advanced user of both PC and MAC with extensive use and knowledge of all Office programmes running on both Windows and OSX.
Intermediate user of: Timberwolf (TMS), Fastreact, Lotus Notes, Sage instant Accounts, Sage Line 50/100, Sage Payroll, Bankline, Filemaker, Edison, AS400, Logic 7, Matrix, Adobe Photoshop 7 and AutoCAD.

OTHER PART TIME ROLES

Personal Assistant to Music Producer freelance, professional Singer/Songwriter, online forum management and events promotion, modelling and photography, catering, bar work and shop Manager.