My Background

20 Years as an Executive P.A.

Hello!

My name is Deborah MacDonald and I have over 20 years’ experience working alongside senior management teams across an impressive variety of industry sectors including: Oil/Gas & Petrochemical (as a Bid Coordinator & Document Manager at KBR), Heritage Charity/Not for Profit (National Trust and Historic England), Project Administration & Support, Pharmaceutical, Bookkeeping & Payroll, etc.  

My roles have included:

  • PA/Executive Assistant to a CEO and Managing Directors, Payroll Manager, Office Manager
  • Team Administrator for a world-renowned pharmaceutical company principally involved with collating clinical data for Regulatory Submissions (Pfizer)
  • Project Administrator and Bid Coordinator for the UK’s largest conservation charity’s flagship new build and restoration project (National Trust) which resulted in a successful Heritage Lottery Fund Bid for £7.75 million
  • Bid Coordinator and Document Manager for KBR (Oil & Gas / Petrochemical), for my 78% bid win rate I was presented with a One KBR Award for my Outstanding Performance and Commitment to Excellence
  • Business Support Coordinator / Project Support Officer in the Policy & Evidence Group (Analytics) at Historic England (the UK government’s statutory adviser on the historic environment, championing historic places and helping people to understand, value and care for them. HE is an executive non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media & Sport).  This involved extensive project support helping to set up the Unpath’d Waters Project and assisting with Historic England’s annual Heritage Counts publication. (Heritage Counts is research published by Historic England on behalf of the Historic Environment Forum, providing evidence for the value of heritage to our economy, society and environment. Heritage Counts provides the historic environment sector with the information and data needed to make decisions and influence policy)
  • Am currently working with the Salvation Army on projects which include: disaster responses to emergencies, community development, anti-human trafficking initiatives and provision of humanitarian services/projects in a wide variety of situations in the Europe Zone.

I also have experience of running my own business and assisting with a family business which makes me a perfect candidate to help you with yours.

Telephone: 020 8239 0482
Fax: 020 8407 2048
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Skype: abalone.virtualassistant