
Victoria Bowers
Communications Strategist MCIPR
Phone:
07967-581959
Email:
Locations:
Cambridgeshire
Bedfordshire
Driving:
Own vehicle
Profile
CIPR-qualified communications strategist with a background in journalism, media relations, marketing and internal communications across the consumer, business-to-business, not-for-profit and education sectors. I combine my experience in project management and team leadership with my passion for creativity and collaboration to engage and inspire audiences. I am experienced in multimedia and multi-platform content creation, measurement and evaluation - ensuring that ethical and legal implications of communicating information are at the forefront of practice.
Each role has enabled the other, helping to build my knowledge and experience to improve and expand upon communication methods, principles and processes. My strong work ethic drives me to set and achieve goals and I prioritise collaborative working to ensure positive and effective relationships with and between stakeholders, ensuring that key individuals are kept informed and involved at each stage of a project and strategies are reviewed and improved upon.
I have planned and delivered one-to-one mentoring and group training both in-person and online to domestic and international team members, and have embraced new technologies, particularly when initiatives improve productivity. I take pride in planning and implementing impactful content adapted for key audiences and channels, ensuring messaging represents values and aligns with strategic goals. I am driven to continually improve efforts and achieve project and team success by combining in-depth research, effective collaboration, dynamic communication approaches and ongoing measurement.
Continual professional and personal development is important to me and I expand on this through volunteering, independent study and experimentation with new methods and approaches. Overall, I strive to make a positive impact and thrive in a dynamic, collaborative and creative environment, delivering with energy, determination and focus.
Work Experience
Dec 2016 - Present
Freelance Photographer
On-Location
Dec 2024 - April 2025
Communications Coordinator
University of Cambridge
Jan 2024 - May 2024
Digital Marketing Lead
Caring Together Charity
Sept 2023 - Sept 2024
Level 7 Diploma
CIPR
May 2023 - Dec 2024
Internal Communications
RSPB (Volunteer)
Oct 2004- April 2023
Cision - PR Newswire - Agility
Jul 2016 - April 2023
Senior Media Editor, USA
Agility PR Solutions
Oct 2007 - Jul 2016
Media Researcher, UK
PR Newswire
Aug 2004 - Sep 2006
Media Researcher, UK
Cision
Photography is a passion turned ad-hoc endeavour where I have worked on image marketing assignments for healthcare professionals, wellbeing providers, artists and independent business owners, you can read some of the testimonials here. I spend free time capturing nature and wildlife stock imagery.
Curated and delivered content across the internal communications channel matrix to promote the activities and successes of the Estates Division and worked with the senior leadership team to plan future communications strategies and associated content.
Collaborated with stakeholders across the University to compose multimedia messaging for key programmes, projects and events for diverse audiences within a multi-disciplinary environment.
Led the creation of tailored, inclusive and accessible content that engaged internal audiences and fostered a sense of community and shared purpose.
Monitored communication activities, tracked impact and provided communication advice to colleagues.
A project that I helped to produce with a University partner obtained trade media coverage.
Implemented a new digital marketing strategy and revised communications plan to highlight the charity’s mission and raise awareness across social media.
Gathered a bank of case studies, event coverage, staff profiles and volunteer stories to create a series of awareness campaigns.
Collaborated with key teams to plan and schedule multimedia content ensuring content represented the brand, aligned with objectives and was tailored to the intended audience and platforms.
Continued measurement of audience behaviour and adjustments to the content approach led to a substantial increase in engagement during the first quarter.
A key campaign that I helped to produce obtained regional media coverage.
I decided to embark on a CIPR Specialist Diploma (Level 7) in Internal Communications and combined this with volunteering for a national NGO as part of the internal communications team.
Focused on the brand programme during a time of transformational change for the charity, where I worked with the senior leadership team, project leads and stakeholders across all areas of work to engage staff and volunteers in the programme of changes and successfully encouraged key teams to adopt new ways of working.
I helped conduct the end-of-year audits that refined the internal communications strategy going forward and improved clarity of change programmes for impacted stakeholder groups.
Additionally, I spent two weeks on a residential placement at one of their most popular nature reserves and I have been a judge on the annual calendar photography competition two years in a row.
Moved into the PR and communications software sector, beginning as a researcher at Cision, where I focused on media profiling and data enhancement and then later moved to PR Newswire, where I continued as a media researcher and had a taster of internal communications collaborating with project leads and curating content for Inside PRN.
Delivered company presentations and assisted with interviewing for the research department, and was a sector lead for research on PR best practices from the journalist’s perspective to provide advice for senior leaders, service teams and clients.
Requested by the CEO to be part of a team of five that came up with an employee growth and development initiative.
Joined Agility PR Solutions and was promoted to Senior Media Editor focusing on media relations and industry analysis.
Initiated and managed enhancement projects and media relations activities to ensure news distribution and media placement success for clients.
Managed the delivery of newsletters, marketing collateral and industry insights to influence business decisions and strategies.
I grew the newsletter subscriber base to over 90,000 stakeholders across the US.
Under my guidance, the team achieved a 98% success rate for news distributions.
Aug 2006 - Nov 2011
Freelance Journalist
Broadcasting
Five years of live-on-the-hour early morning news bulletins as a freelance broadcast journalist after completion of my BA (Hons) journalism degree, accredited by the BJTC. Working across Herts, Beds, Bucks, Berkshire, Essex and The Midlands
Newsdesk cover which included news compilation, news presenting, forward-planning, setting up interviews, audio capture and editing as well as logging upcoming events and embargoed news items of relevance.
Worked under pressure to tight deadlines to produce engaging, impartial, legally acceptable and concise content.
Joined an online local news platform as a reporter and interviewer working with emergency services, educational institutions and healthcare charities to promote community campaigns to audiences across Bedfordshire.
PORTFOLIO
Musical Credit: Rise Again by Alex-Productions | https://onsound.eu/ Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC BY 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US
SKILLS
Strategic Communications - Internal Communications - External Communications - Communications Measurement - Content Development - Digital Media - Journalism - Newsletters - News Writing - Storytelling - Copywriting - Copy Editing - Proofreading - Public Relations - Media Relations - Publicity - Digital Marketing - Brand Alignment - Audience Behaviour Analysis - Team Mentoring - Staff Training - Auditing - Team Leadership - Digital Production - Broadcasting - Presenting - Photography - Filming - Image Editing - Video Editing - Audio Editing - Interviewing - Podcasts - Wix - WordPress - Canva - Photoshop - Lightroom - Hootsuite - Google Analytics - Intranets - Microsoft Office 365 - SharePoint - Viva Engage - - Word - Excel - PowerPoint - SEO - Websites - Trello - Media Industry Insights - Data Collation - Data Analysis - Data Storytelling - PowerBI - Research - Attention to Detail - Critical Thinking - Collaboration