Anita Tuesley
Enniskerry
Summary
Detail-orientated Administrative Assistant with extensive experience in office management and data management. Achieved improved efficiency and fostered positive relationships with clients and colleagues. Experience covers a variety of sectors including health, people who are living with homelessness, environment, politics and human rights. Administrative tasks have included travel logistics, event management, data management, tracking and analysis, budget management, and relationship-building with vulnerable clients. Ensured integrity, privacy and security, effective and positive impacts, transparency and accountability.
Overview
39
39
years of professional experience
Work History
Administrative Assistant
UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders
11.2022 - 05.2026
- Duties included travel logistics including for official country visits; liaising with human rights defenders; organising team events and meetings; minutes of meetings; data management and improving efficiency of data collection; GDPR compliance/data security; invoicing and payments, and budget management.
Policy Lead
Wicklow Greens
12.2020 - 01.2026
- Working with a team to research and create policy for the Green Party of Ireland. Author policy documents.
- Voluntary
Language Teacher
Bray Language Centre
06.2022 - 07.2022
- Teaching English to secondary school students during Bray Language Centre’s summer programme.
Census Enumerator
Central Statistics Office
04.2022 - 05.2022
- Conducted face-to-face interviews with the public and completed standardised questionnaires to capture population and housing data.
- Reviewed and validated collected data, ensuring completeness and accuracy before submission.
- Provided clear explanations of census questions and why the data is collected to respondents, enhancing participation rates and data quality.
- Cultivated positive relationships with participants by offering friendly and professional assistance when needed.
- Adhered to safety protocols while conducting fieldwork, ensuring personal and public well-being as this census was conducted during the Covid pandemic.
Branch Secretary
Wicklow Greens
12.2020 - 01.2022
- Liaising with members; members database; GDPR; information sharing; organisation of events and meetings; meeting minutes; part of team organising fundraising and budget management.
- Voluntary
Administrator
Bray Area Rough Sleepers Support
09.2018 - 12.2020
- Managed social media; rota of volunteers; relationship building with volunteers; fundraising; managed funds; recorded donations and how they were spent to ensure transparency (using excel); liaised with service users to ensure efficacy of service.
- Voluntary
Music Teacher and Childminder
Self-employed
05.1994 - 06.2014
- Self-employment while parenting and homemaking.
Communications Room Supervisor
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
01.1990 - 01.1992
- Managed switchboard team, emergency medical and surgical team rotas and absence cover; organised training for emergency procedures and kept up-to-date instruction manuals; ensured efficiency and liaised with hospital management. Shop steward duties: negotiated for better working conditions for communications room team.
Personal Assistant to Professor of Fetal Medicine
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
01.1989 - 01.1990
- Liaised with patients and visiting international research doctors; ensured patients’ privacy and data security and endeavoured to ensure wellbeing; managed donations; organised, participated in, and kept minutes of meetings; organised the Professor’s travel logistics; prepared the research team’s research articles for medical journals; managed department office and other supplies within budget.
Office Manager
01.1987 - 01.1989
- Brought the office up to date and trained office staff to use word processing functions of newly acquired desktop computers.
Education
Level 2 City & Guilds Diploma - PC Maintenance, databases incl Salesforce CRM and other apps and office networking and cabling
Loughlinstown Training Centre
01-2019
MSocSc - Sociology
University College Dublin
Dublin, Dublin, Ireland01-2018
BSocSc - Sociology and Social Policy
University College Dublin
Dublin, Dublin, Ireland01-2017
Senior Secretarial Certificate - Senior Secretarial Duties including Pitmann’s Shorthand, office equipment and GCSE Commerce
North West College of Education
01-1980
Skills
- Data management
- GDPR compliance
- Microsoft Office
- Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, Forms, Slides
- Spreadsheet creation and analysis
- Administrative skills
- Written correspondence
- Travel logistics
- Budget management
- Event organization
- Team collaboration
- Communication skills
- Relationship building
- Client relations
- Meeting facilitation
- Call handling
- Multitasking ability
- Multitasking and prioritisation
- Office resource management
- Diary management
- Policy development
Hobbies and Interests
- Volunteer with Bray Area Rough Sleepers Support
- Biodiversity lead with Enniskerry Tidy Towns
- Policy Lead Wicklow Greens – authored Homelessness policy and Supported Housing in Supportive Communities policy
Awards
- Received the Ad Astra Scholarship for Stage 1 and Stage 2 of my degree course
- Social Policy and Sociology Stage 2 Scholarships
- Bachelor of Social Science Stage 3 Scholarship
- Bachelor of Social Science Graduate Scholarship
Timeline
Administrative Assistant
UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders
11.2022 - 05.2026
Language Teacher
Bray Language Centre
06.2022 - 07.2022
Census Enumerator
Central Statistics Office
04.2022 - 05.2022
Policy Lead
Wicklow Greens
12.2020 - 01.2026
Branch Secretary
Wicklow Greens
12.2020 - 01.2022
Administrator
Bray Area Rough Sleepers Support
09.2018 - 12.2020
Music Teacher and Childminder
Self-employed
05.1994 - 06.2014
Communications Room Supervisor
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
01.1990 - 01.1992
Personal Assistant to Professor of Fetal Medicine
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
01.1989 - 01.1990
Office Manager
01.1987 - 01.1989
Level 2 City & Guilds Diploma - PC Maintenance, databases incl Salesforce CRM and other apps and office networking and cabling
Loughlinstown Training Centre
MSocSc - Sociology
University College Dublin
BSocSc - Sociology and Social Policy
University College Dublin
Senior Secretarial Certificate - Senior Secretarial Duties including Pitmann’s Shorthand, office equipment and GCSE Commerce
North West College of Education