Zara Williams

Zara Williams

Operations and Events Coordinator at The Guild of Fine Food

London, England, United Kingdom
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About

I am an Event Manager with more than 6 years of event experience. I specialise in award ceremonies and have a passion for delivering high quality events from launch to completion.

Experience

  • Guild of Fine Food Graphic

    Operations and Events Coordinator

    Guild of Fine Food

    - Present 1 year 6 months

    London, England, United Kingdom

  • Wilmington plc Graphic

    Senior Event Manager (Awards)

    Wilmington plc

    - 8 months

    London, England, United Kingdom

  • Wilmington Healthcare

    Wilmington Healthcare

    5 years

    • Wilmington Healthcare Graphic

      Event Manager

      Wilmington Healthcare

      - 1 year 8 months

      London, England, United Kingdom

      • Responsible for the delivery and all operational aspects of the HSJ Awards portfolio consisting of four award ceremonies. The HSJ Awards are national awards and are considered to be the standard for healthcare excellence for the NHS, and private healthcare sector
      • This includes but not limited to budget management, production and AV management and design and signage
      • Assisted the Awards Director with the training of new staff members, creating training documents and general day to…

      • Responsible for the delivery and all operational aspects of the HSJ Awards portfolio consisting of four award ceremonies. The HSJ Awards are national awards and are considered to be the standard for healthcare excellence for the NHS, and private healthcare sector
      • This includes but not limited to budget management, production and AV management and design and signage
      • Assisted the Awards Director with the training of new staff members, creating training documents and general day to day mentoring and support
      • Responsible for delivering events within budget, reporting figures and statistics to management and implementing processes to ensure events are delivered within timelines

    • Wilmington Healthcare Graphic

      Event Executive

      Wilmington Healthcare

      - 2 years 1 month

      London, United Kingdom

      • Assisted the senior event manager in the delivery of the HSJ Awards portfolio, a total of four large scale awards a year ranging from 700 – 1800 attendees
      • Responsible for the overall judging process for each awards programme. Including recruiting and managing the judging panels consisting of experts and C-suite healthcare professionals
      • Managed the shortlisted organisations, responsible for answering enquiries and sending our communications regarding the awards and judging process

    • Wilmington Healthcare Graphic

      Event Coordinator

      Wilmington Healthcare

      - 1 year 5 months

      London, United Kingdom

      • Responsible for all operational aspects of the Wilmington Healthcare seminar series. Small scale seminars in London and Birmingham
      • Delegate manager for a two day congress. Delivering a high level of customer service to delegates pre, during and post event consisting of over 1000 delegates who attended two different events at the Congress.
      • Assisting the wider team with delivery of events across our portfolio including summits, awards and conferences. Both pre-event and on site

  • School Administrator and Transport Coordinator

    North Bridge House Prep School

    - 1 year

    London, United Kingdom

    • Responsible for the schools transport across four sites
    • Organised Parents’ Evenings for varying year groups throughout the year
    • Created and wrote the Head Teacher’s blog, edited the website and new app alongside the central marketing team and organised focus groups with parents
    • Provided support to the senior leadership team

  • Zeus Street Greek Restaurant Graphic

    Front of House Member

    Zeus Street Greek Restaurant

    - 1 year 3 months

    Brisbane, Australia

    • Worked on the POS system, interacting with customers and dealing with complaints
    • Working as part of a team in a extremely busy environment

  • President

    QUEST Society

    - 1 year

    The University of Queensland

    QUEST is the Queensland University Exchange Student Society at The University of Queensland. It is a volunteer, student-run society that aims to show international students the parts of South-East Queensland and Australian culture that they may not come across on their own. Throughout the year we ran over 50 events for our 1800+ membership base.

    As President of the Society, I was heavily involved in the overall organisation of the club including event management and society…

    QUEST is the Queensland University Exchange Student Society at The University of Queensland. It is a volunteer, student-run society that aims to show international students the parts of South-East Queensland and Australian culture that they may not come across on their own. Throughout the year we ran over 50 events for our 1800+ membership base.

    As President of the Society, I was heavily involved in the overall organisation of the club including event management and society administration. As well as being responsible for the overall administration of the society I also lead the 30 student executive committee. During my year as President, QUEST received Club of the Year out of 200+ clubs and societies at The University of Queensland.

  • Spotless Group Graphic

    Corporate Waitress

    Spotless Group

    - 2 years

    Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane

    Working in the Corporate section of Suncorp Stadium my duties include:
    -Serving drinks
    -Taking orders
    -Generally interacting with customers

  • Waitress

    Pepper and Salt Cafe

    - 1 year 9 months

    Keperra, Brisbane

    As a waitress at Pepper and Salt cafe for two years my job included:
    - Working at the cash register and handling money
    - Serving food, making cold drinks and preparing cakes and slices.
    - Interacting with customers and handling complaints
    - Helping to teach, guide and welcome new and junior employees.

Education

  • The University of Queensland Graphic

    The University of Queensland

    Bachelor’s Degree Bachelor of International Hotel and Tourism Management (Events and Hotel management)

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    Activities and Societies: Queensland University Exchange Student Society (QUEST)

  • The Gap State High School

    High School

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    President of Rotary Interact, Silver Citizenship medallion award for leadership and volunteer work.

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