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rachel gee

Content/Social Director

OBJECTIVE

Social director, writer and editor seeks meaningful  new project. 

Published works

  • Luxury Gold
  • Insight Vacations 
  • Marketing Week
  • Formula Life
  • Drapers                          
  • HG2: A Hedonists Guide to
  • Virgin Atlantic
  • Red Carnation
  • Dorchester Collection
  • Corinthia
  • Retail Gazette
  • The Travel Corporation 
  • Transatlantic 
  • BrandLab
  • High Lantern PR
  • BAAM 
  • Bowmore 
  • Sauce Communications 

Personal development

  • Currently studying a part-time MA in International Development at UCL 
  • Google, We are Squared digital leadership course
  • Advanced Social Media (Jellyfish) 

  • Editorial skills: Copy-Editing and Proofreading qualification (PTC)

  • TEFL Qualification

  • COPE Qualification

  • Lived in Switzerland for 2.5  years

  • Worked for 8 months in Eastern Europe

  • Breathwork qualification 

positions of responsibility

  • Social Director for Bowmore. 

  • Freelance content producer, writer and art director.

  • Have led and managed photo and video shoots globally for The Travel Corporation. This has included shoots in the US, India, Portugal, Switzerland, Austria, France and Germany.

  • Represented Marketing Week and Retail Gazette internationally and led work meetings in Las Vegas, Florida and Munich.

  • Social Media Manager at Marketing Week, Retail Gazette, DEC Education and Forum Business Media. 

  • Product manager for Dental Practice Manager magazine.

  • Consultant Mentor at Foxtons. 

  • Led media faculty at DEC Education in Ukraine. 

  • Sports instructor for DEC Camp (Carpathian Mountains). 

  • Representative for Religious Studies and History at Cardinal Newman College. 

  • Designed and helped build an orienteering course in collaboration with my local town's heritage centre.

SKILLS

  • Photoshop and photography skills (led classes in Ukraine)
  • Video and sound editing skills on Adobe's Premier Pro and After Effects
  • Website development
  • HTML
  • SEO
  • Indesign
  • Graphic Design

CoNTACT

Work History

Nov 2020Present

Social Account Director – Bowmore

Sauce Communications (contract)
  • Running the social team and leading the content direction for Bowmore whisky
  • In charge of regional paid ad plans
  • Launching the company's Christmas campaign
  • Running the brand's social partnership with Aston Martin
  • Planning the brand's 2021 social content strategy
Sept 2013Present

Freelance Writer and Content Producer

  • Work published for Formula Life, Virgin Atlantic, Drapers, Corinthia, HG2: A Hedonist's Guide to, Red Carnation, Dorchester Collection, Transatlantic, BrandLab, High Lantern PR, BAAM (Malaria charity). 
Oct 2017March 2020

Global Marketing Content Producer

The Travel Corporation (TTC)
  • Based in Switzerland
  • Working on the Global team for two of TTC's leading travel brands, Luxury Gold and Insight Vacations
  • Working with the company's charity TreadRight
  • Creating and implementing a content strategy to meet the regional marketing team's specifications
  • Leading photo and video shoots globally
  • Leading the company's blog strategy
  • Working with freelancers to produce quality content
  • Producing content for the company's blog
  • Creating and editing video content
  • Copywriting
April 2016Sept 2017

Marketing Week

Content Producer/Social Media Manager
  • Working on weekly and monthly social content plans
  • Running all Marketing Week's social media channels
  • Acquisition to the Marketing Week site through Twitter and Facebook more than doubled during my time running the social channels
  • Representing Marketing Week at international conferences in Las Vegas and Florida
  • Reporting on travel and technology news
  • Writing wellness, sustainability, travel and technology features and analyses, including pieces on Lastminute.com, National Geographic and "wellness in the workplace"
  • Copywriting
  • Working on white papers
  • Building a wide range of contacts at leading travel and technology brands
  • Producing and editing podcasts on wellbeing  and career progression
  • Producing and editing weekly videos 
Sept 2015Apr 2016

Editorial Assistant/Product Manager

Forum Business Media

  • Editor and Product Manager for Dental Practice Manager magazine

  • Editing, proofreading and commissioning work

  • Launching online and written publications/ e-products

  • Running social media channels

  • Implementing a new social media strategy

  • Managing the product life of six magazines

  • Copywriting

June 2015August 2015

Editorial Placement

Drapers fashion magazine
  • Working on the features desk for the Indicator and careers features
  • Liaising with PRs and brand contacts
  • Interviewing members of leading fashion brands
Jan 2015Feb 2015

Editorial Intern

Hg2: A Hedonist's Guide to
  • Writing articles and reviews for Hg2's travel website
  • Writing pieces for Virgin Atlantic, The Dorchester Collection and Red Carnation
  • Proofreading and editing work
  • Sourcing images
  • Photoshop
  • Researching destinations and relevant things to do at them
  • Contacting PR's and creating relationships with leaders in the travel industry
Dec 2014May 2015

Editorial Assistant/Social Media Manager

Retail Gazette
  • Journalist/editorial duties
  • Features writer focusing on technology, global business development, travel, fashion and marketing  
  • Writing content for the daily newsletter
  • Proofreading
  • Liaising with PR's for high profile interviews 
  • Promoting brand and advertising methods
  • Running the magazine's social media platforms
  • Witnessed the company's Twitter followers rise by 2000 in three months
Sept 2013Sept 2014

Graduate Marketing and Sales

Foxtons
  • Copywriting
  • Working with developers on projects
  • Working as a mentor 
June 2012Sept 2013

English Teacher & Sports Instructor

DEC education
  • Based in the Carpathian Mountains and Kyiv, I taught lessons in a sometimes challenging environment and fully immersed myself in understanding the country's culture and history
  • Taught pilates classes and took students on daily hikes

Education

Sept 2020Present

Education, Gender & International Development (MA)

UCL
Jan 2017July 2017

We are Squared

Google Campus
  • In 2017 I passed Google's We are Squared course in digital marketing leadership 
Oct 2010July 2013

English Literature

Lancaster University
  • English Literature BA Honours, 2.1
  • Minors in English Language and Sociology

Interests

  • Recreational: Immersing myself in new cultures, travel photography, video editing, working on personal content projects, reading, creative writing, music and singing.

  • Sport: County level netball, boxing, trail running,  swimming, pilates, hiking, yoga, barre, ballet, modern dance, HiiT, long distance running (in various charity races across Europe). 

  • Other: Fundraising, current affairs.