My CV

Flora Bowen

University of Cambridge

Education

Oct 2017- June 2021 Currently working towards a BA (Hons) in Modern and Medieval Languages at the University of Cambridge.

January- May 2020 Erasmus exchange at the Ecole Normale Superieure Lyon, one of France’s prestigious ‘Grandes Écoles’.

September 2010 – 2017 Bootham School, York

A-Level  French, Spanish, History, English Literature, Extended Project Qualification: 5A*.

GCSE (including Maths, English, Languages and Sciences.): 11A*

Work Experience

Bolivian Express, Video Intern (Sep-Dec 2019)

• Interviews and video production for the English-language magazine

Quaker Bolivia Link, Social Media and Video Production assistant (Sep- Dec 2019)

• Increased engagement on social media channels
• Made a video for the NGO on their work
• Interviewed people from the villages the NGO works with
• Negotiated with village leaders over projects during the political crisis in Bolivia

Foreign News Desk, The Times (July 2019)

• Researched leads for the Foreign News and News Desks 
• Fact-checked articles and carried out research as needed
• Two items published, linked to two section leads 
• Attended editorial meetings

Private Eye (June 2019)

• Researching leads for stories 
• Contributed several items to different sections of the 2^nd June issue 
• Attended editorial meetings

Literary Review (April 2019)

• Copyediting to BSL standard 
• Transcribed and digitised archive pieces 
• Organised correspondence and book proofs 
• Had a review commissioned for the August edition

Telephone Campaign Caller, Clare College (April 2018)

• Worked as part of a team that raised £512,000 in three weeks
• Updated alumni details and increased alumni contact with the college.
• Handled Debit and Credit card payments over the phone using Teleraise software

Vocational experience:

Bartending for balls at Oxford and Cambridge; working at the Deramore Arms  Pub in York; working as a Cleaning and Catering Assistant at Bootham School.

Posts of responsibility in Cambridge

Producer / Assistant Stage Director ADC Theatre (February 2019-ongoing)

• Produced ‘Richard II’ in Clare College Gardens, which involved liaising with several college departments.
• Produced ‘Cold Turkey’, a farce. Raised £600 for a Jimmy’s Cambridge, a local homelessness charity
• Organised props, rehearsal and audition schedules, promoted shows via traditional and social media publicity, successfully bid for a budget of £350 for each show.

Senior Guest Liaison, the Cambridge Union (Jan-May 2019)

• Supporting high-profile guest speakers in their visit, including several MPs, heads of state, and international CEOs.
• Organising travel and accommodation arrangements
• Assisting guests in signing legal speaker release forms.

Secretary for the Union of Clare Students (Sep 2019- May 2019)

• Minuting and organising meetings
• Expanded social media presence and student engagement, advertising activities online and within the College.
• Updated weekly bulletin with events, work and volunteering opportunities, using HTML script.
• Ensured all committee members were up to date with committee work, and acted as a point of information for any queries on college infrastructure and departments

News and Investigations Editor, Opinion Editor, Columnist and Contributor for ‘The Tab Cambridge’ (September 2017-ongoing), contributor to Varsity.

• Wrote more than 30 articles, including a weekly column and interviews, on topics of my choice, which received thousands of views in the most successful Tab team of all 80 UK and US groups.
• Covered major stories at the University, including liveblogging student protests and University and student council meetings
• Commissioned, edited, and published student writing 

• Led a group of four opinion writers, and regularly took responsibility for others’ editing and writing tasks when needed. 
• Wrote, produced, and edited short films for Tab TV, which received thousands of views on social media

Fundraising Co-ordinator, Haladia (Sep 2019-ongoing)

• Have personally raised £500 from high net worth individuals
• Contacting academic institutions, law chambers, and naval groups to work with our new NGO, a legal monitoring ship in the Mediterranean which offers support to refugees.