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rachel gee

Content Manager & Travel Writer

OBJECTIVE

Dynamic content manager and travel writer,  seeking a meaningful new role related to travel that will allow me to use my digital expertise and communication skills to contribute to a leading travel brand.  

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

Personal development

  • Google, We are Squared digital leadership course
  • Advanced Social Media (Jellyfish) 

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

  • TEFL Qualification

  • COPE Qualification

  • Currently live and work in Switzerland 

  • Worked for 6 months in Eastern Europe

  • Currently working on a a new travel project linked to female explorers, that aims to empower women
  • Working on events with my boxing club aimed at helping reduce gang related violence in Brixton

positions of responsibility 

  • Freelance content manager and travel writer  

  • Have led photoshoots and video shoots abroad for TTC. This has included shoots in Portugal, Switzerland, Austria and Germany. I am scheduled to lead one in India next month. 
  • 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

  • Representative for Religious Studies and History at Cardinal Newman College

  • Senior Prefect

  • 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 - obtained full marks at GCSE
  • Netball- Started playing the sport aged 7 and I have represented my University College team and played at county level

CoNTACT

Mobile- 07990015711

Email- rac[email protected] 

Twitter - @Rachell_gee

Instagram - rachelemilygee

132b Bravington Road

Queens Park

W9 3AL 

Work History

Oct 2017Present 

Global Marketing Content Producer

The Travel Corporation (TTC)
  • Working on the Global team for two of TTC's leading travel brands, Luxury Gold and Insight Vacations
  • Working on 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. 
Sep 2013Present

Freelance Writer and Content Manager

Wildflower Creative

  • Working on my photoshop and editorial skills to produce interesting and aesthetic material

  • Copywriting and proofreading material to ensure all work is to the highest standard

  • Travel works published for Formula Life, Virgin Atlantic, Drapers, Corinthia, HG2: A Hedonist's Guide to and Red Carnation 

  • I have also been working on the content and writing the copy for a new brand called Y.O.U (Your Own Underwear), a company that aims to raise money for women without underwear and sanitary products in Africa. I have been working on the photography and written content for the project - these will be unveiled along with the actual brand in September.
April 2016Present

Marketing Week

Content Manager and Producer
  • Putting social and digital content plans together through data collated on google analytics and through market research 
  • Running all Marketing Week's social media channels
  • Acquisition to the Marketing Week site through Twitter and Facebook has more than doubled since I took over running the social channels
  • Representing Marketing Week at international conferences in Las Vegas and Florida
  • Reporting on travel and technology news
  • Writing travel features and analyses, including pieces on Hostel World, Lastminute.com and Expedia
  • 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 on 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
  • Feature writer focusing on travel, technology, 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.
September 2013September 2014

Graduate Marketing and Sales

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

Media Specialist/Social Media Manager

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 
  • Worked on cost-effective methods to rapidly increase traffic for future seasons
  • Taught students about advertising, writing skills and the importance of e-commerce, using Facebook, blogs and twitter to assist SEO process
  • Conducted Photoshop and photography classes which focused on nature and travel photography 
  • Promoted from sports counsellor to specialist media teacher.

Education

January 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
  • Dissertation on 'The Ups and Downs of Patrick Branwell Brontë' (Looking at the psychological representation of bipolarity within the works of the Brontës)
Aug 2008Jun 2010

A Levels - A* A B B

Cardinal Newman College
  • Four A Levels A*-B grades (English Language and Literature, History, Religion and Philosophy, General Studies)
  • Extra AS level A grade in Media Studies

Interests

  • Recreational: Exploring new places and meeting new people there, travel photography, working on my blog, reading fiction and memoirs mainly focused on travel and history, creative writing, music and singing.

  • Sport: County level netball, boxing, swimming, pilates, hiking, yoga, barre, modern dance, HiiT, long distance running. 

  • Other: Fundraising, current affairs.