Elena Pollard
Gravesend,Kent
Summary
Resourceful individual with focus on supporting professional teams in fast-paced environments. Ensures smooth operations through strong organisational skills and proactive problem-solving. Thrives in collaborative settings, facilitating seamless communication and logistics.
Looking for a career in the Film and TV industry, in pre-production research for the creation of accurate scripts and production of factual filmmaking.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work history
Social Secretary
Queen Mary Netball Club
London, Greater London
2024.09 - 2025.06
- Organising social events such as parties, team outings, and fundraisers, often coordinating details like venues, budgets, catering, and entertainment for 60+ people
- Budget management to ensure events run smoothly within financial constraints
- Worked closely with team members, coaches, and committee members to ensure events aligned with the team's objectives and goals
- Quickly adapted to unexpected situations, demonstrating flexibility and quick decision-making
- Developed unique and engaging event themes to foster team spirit and create memorable experiences for team members
- Balanced organizing social events with personal academic commitments, demonstrating strong time management skills
Production Assistant- Work Experience
Tribe
London
2024.11 - 2024.11
- One film shoot to date, though working on future projects.
- Assisted in set preparation, ensuring smooth filming process.
- Delivered scripts to actors, facilitating quicker rehearsal times.
- Liaised with various departments for seamless coordination of filming activities.
- Provided administrative support to Director and Producer for smoother operations.
- Executed errands promptly for the production team ensuring timely completion of tasks.
Research and Campaign Coordinator
Safer Highways
2023.09 - 2024.09
- Successful for the implementation of the Stamp it Out campaign across the UK, which aims to ‘put a foot down on roadworker abuse.'
- Part of the project team that puts on the annual Highways Heroes industry award night, reaching a table sales target of 50 at a price of £6995
- Focal point for the Green Laces campaign. This campaign worked with 150 industry leaders to identify how they manage and promote mental health and wellbeing in their organization, to ensure compliance with the Thriving at Work document created by Stephenson and Farmer and alignment to the ISO45003 standard
- Chasing invoices and ensuring payments are brought into the business for events and memberships
Café Worker
Promenade Café
2021.04 - 2022.09
- Maintained a spotless and tidy café environment for optimised hygiene and customer satisfaction
- Carried and served numerous customer orders with care, speeding up service for improved efficiency at peak times
- Provided friendly, efficient table service, taking customer orders and processing swiftly
- Cleared café tables of dirty pots quickly, thoroughly cleaning and sanitising ahead of future customers
- Took payments and handled money
Work Experience
Lower Thames Crossing
London
2019.12 - 2019.12
- Developed and wrote a script for a film ‘Leading the Change' which has been used to explain the improvements in safety and highway engineering, the short informative film was based on Back to the Future
Education
A Levels - History, Criminology, Economics
Mayfield Grammar School for Girls
Gravesend 2020.09 - 2022.06
Extended Project Qualification - 5000 word research essay
Mayfield Grammar School
Gravesend, KentGSCEs - grades 8-5
Mayfield Grammar School
Gravesend 2015.09 - 2020.06
BA (Hons) - History
Queen Mary University of London
London 2022.09 -
Skills
- Good Communicator
- Proficient with Microsoft Office
- IT: intermediate level Word
- IT: intermediate level Excel
- IT: intermediate level Access
- IT: intermediate level PowerPoint
- Social media utilisation
- Relationship-Building competence
- Event planning and coordination
Custom
- Looking for employment as a Historical Researcher within the film and television sector, ensuring historical authenticity is correct.
- Engaged in a few industry forums and groups, Safer Highways and Green Laces. With engagement with the UK Parliamentary groups to raise awareness and get the Stamp it out campaign on their agenda.
- Engaging with senior representatives across the highways and infrastructure sectors. Whether this is through presentations on campaigns to sector lead improvement initiatives with the aims of improving life for all.
Affiliations
- Film Society Debate Club
- Netball
Timeline
Production Assistant- Work Experience
Tribe
2024.11 - 2024.11
Social Secretary
Queen Mary Netball Club
2024.09 - 2025.06
Research and Campaign Coordinator
Safer Highways
2023.09 - 2024.09
BA (Hons) - History
Queen Mary University of London
2022.09 -
Café Worker
Promenade Café
2021.04 - 2022.09
A Levels - History, Criminology, Economics
Mayfield Grammar School for Girls
2020.09 - 2022.06
Work Experience
Lower Thames Crossing
2019.12 - 2019.12
GSCEs - grades 8-5
Mayfield Grammar School
2015.09 - 2020.06
Extended Project Qualification - 5000 word research essay
Mayfield Grammar School