Jessica Buck

• Travelled from Sydney to Cairns.

Corporate Hospitality, National Rugby League

• Actively engaged in selling final series tickets, including processing payments and managing invoicing.
• Prepared detailed itineraries for corporate suites and boxes, ensuring a seamless experience for clients.

Receptionist, Safety Culture

• Provided sick cover for the receptionist/office manager. Duties included welcoming guests and sorting parcels.

Consultant, Veldhoen + Company – The University of Sydney

• Conducted a utilization study aimed at optimizing space use. Presented findings to senior management, highlighting potential areas for improved service delivery and upselling follow-on services.

• Bid Writing – Write persuasive and well-structured bid sections to promote the company’s services, including sustainability initiatives, environmental policies, and modern slavery commitments
• Design – Develop visually appealing and professional bid content using InDesign, ensuring all submissions are polished and aligned with company branding

• Spent time caring for my Grandfather in Australia and went on a two-week road trip from Sydney to Melbourne and back

• Led consult and construct projects and programmes with both public and private sector clients, consistently delivering or exceeding clients' sustainability objectives
• Managed teams, resources, and client relationships
• Supported the Responsible Business (RB) team with line management, up-skilling colleagues, interviewing, business development, and representing the RB team on Mace's modern slavery (MS) board
• Created and implemented sustainability strategies and reporting for the UK Parliament’s £140 million office refurbishment
• Set objectives, action plans, and KPIs to deliver innovation and best practices
• Developed engaging infographics using ArcGIS maps to show sustainable outcomes across different constituencies
• Developed sustainability and social value toolkits with project information, trackers, and progress dashboards to help teams work faster, smarter, and achieve greater impacts
• Created a social value action plan for an NHS testing lab development in Blackfriars, which included a six-week science club at a local school, bringing primary school students for a site visit, and running workshops creating marshmallow and spaghetti towers
• Completed a whole-life carbon assessment with recommendations for carbon reductions and offsetting for the Natural History Museum Urban Nature Project
• The reductions contributed to Mace’s target of saving 10 million tonnes of client carbon
• Calculated and implemented a 10% increase in biodiversity net gain for Ministry of Justice projects
• Conducted project surveys, including an EDI survey and an annual temperature check survey at UK Parliament
• Regularly presented and up-skilled colleagues through workshops on measuring carbon emissions, improving EDI, modern slavery awareness, sustainability innovation, materials, and circular economy initiatives
• Co-wrote several bids, winning projects with UK Parliament, JLR, and Dyson
• Pitched consultancy and construction services to UK Parliament and Native Land, which led to project wins

• Managed several environmental planning projects from the tender process through to coordinating the work of sub-consultants and colleagues, managing project finances, and stakeholder consultations
• Worked with private clients on development planning to help gain consent for Central London developments
• Coordinated large Environmental Statements and wrote socio-economic and climate change chapters
• Worked with clients on London developments to ensure 10% biodiversity net gain targets were met
• Represented LUC at national events such as a seminar on Air Quality – Implementing Practical Solutions
• Organized the London Christmas Party for 70 people, including choosing the fancy dress theme, booking the venue, ordering food, writing a pub quiz, and finding a location to dance

• Worked on the initial planning and development of solar parks and battery storage facilities, including site searches, site visits, and gaining planning permission
• Wrote Planning, Design, and Access Statements for battery storage facilities to gain planning permission
• Assisted with site visits, meeting the EPC contractor, and ecological bird surveys for solar sites
• Worked with the legal team on the company’s Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Statement