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William Pannell

Ilminster

Summary

A Naval Officer since 2018, proven reliable professional across several areas of expertise with leadership and motivational skills when managing teams. Comfortable working across new and challenging areas, assimilating complex information and making difficult decisions effectively and quickly. Combined front line roles with representing the Royal Navy as an endurance runner:

  • Finished first Brit in the 2023 Marine Corps Marathon competing for the RN against the USMC, top 15 overall finish.
  • Top 100 in 2022 London Marathon, finishing top 3 inter services marathon championships
  • Successfully helped identify, train, and compete with new running talents.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education

Work history

Officer

Royal Navy
05.2018 - Current

COVID Resilience Officer

RNAS Culdrose
  • Led on internal communications on COVID across a front-line establishment, with ~5000 military and civilian personnel through the C-19 pandemic, in tandem with teams across the MoD
  • Wrote policy and guidance to align operations with government regulations, keeping 6 flying squadrons able to maintain output throughout

Assistant Defence Attache

Royal Navy
Den Haag

· Managed diplomatic clearances for civilian and military personnel visiting the Benelux countries

· Represented the UK at Official events and commemorations including multiple events for the 75th Anniversary remembering the end of WWII, hosting Government ministers and Royalty

· Regularly gave speeches at large events, including being televised and recorded


Personnel & Capabilities Projects

Royal Navy
Portsmouth


  • Spent time embedded within a public/private partnership streamlining the way the RN uses large datasets from its 30,000 personnel and multiple physical assets, achieving good knowledge of SQL and databasing
  • Upgraded hardware and software regularly for optimised systems performance.
  • Served as non-executive member on 2 promotions boards for RN ratings
  • Helped create a final product that allow fully customisable data queries across any element of the data the Navy holds.

Client Executive

JPES Partners
01.2016 - 05.2018
  • A PR, Marketing, and communications consultancy specialising in the asset management sector, representing over 40 clients Worldwide
  • Advised 10+ clients on their public facing profiles; and developing media strategies, as well as editing the company blog - creating content calendars and managing 6 colleagues' individual submissions
  • Managed a large workload effectively, with clients across 15+ countries - including infrequent work in the Nordics, and in German language
  • Placed clients on BBC news (video and radio), Bloomberg TV, and in publications including the FT, The Times, The Telegraph, The Guardian, and The Economist
  • Aided clients with their social media, blogs, podcasts, and video.

Researcher - Energy Environment & Transport

Westminster Forum Projects
Bracknell
07.2015 - 12.2015
  • Organised and ran political events around my policy brief.

Intern

Westco/Westminster Council
06.2015
  • Worked out of the Policy, Communications and Strategy department of Westminster Council

Communications and Campaign Assistant

York Liberal Democrats
04.2014
  • A part of the 2015 Election Campaign.

Education

Level 5 Diploma - Leadership and Management

Britannia Royal Naval College
2018 - 2018

BA (Hons) - Politics

University of York
09.2012 - 07.2015

Bishop Wordsworth's School
2012

Skills

  • IT Proficiency: Microsoft Office, Databasing
  • Report writing
  • Intelligence gathering & analysis
  • Attention to Detail
  • Public service liaisons
  • Written & Verbal presentations
  • Languages: proficiency in German & French

Interests

Hobbies and Interests , A keen endurance athlete having competed at various events for the Navy - including in international competitions. Finished top 15 in the Marine Corps Marathon in 2023 Qualified several times for the UK Marathon championships, part of the London Marathon - finishing top 90 in 2022. Helped lead Navy road running teams, advising less experienced athletes on various aspects of competition Represented the Navy at various levels, in Rugby, Cricket and Duathlon. Achieved RYA Competent Crew qualification at Dartmouth. competed in a tall ships multi-stage race from Norway to Denmark and back with the Dutch Navy as part of an international composite crew, from 7 different Navies on HMLNS Urania for 2 weeks.

Languages

German
Intermediate
French
Elementary

Timeline

Officer

Royal Navy
05.2018 - Current

Client Executive

JPES Partners
01.2016 - 05.2018

Researcher - Energy Environment & Transport

Westminster Forum Projects
07.2015 - 12.2015

Intern

Westco/Westminster Council
06.2015

Communications and Campaign Assistant

York Liberal Democrats
04.2014

BA (Hons) - Politics

University of York
09.2012 - 07.2015

COVID Resilience Officer

RNAS Culdrose

Assistant Defence Attache

Royal Navy

Personnel & Capabilities Projects

Royal Navy

Level 5 Diploma - Leadership and Management

Britannia Royal Naval College
2018 - 2018

Bishop Wordsworth's School
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