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About

Jessica Shepherd is the founder of Sparrowhawk Communications. 

Jessica spent almost 10 years at the Guardian, mostly as Education Correspondent, but also as one of the News Editors.

She has worked at a senior level in communications for an agency of the Home Office and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and has been the Head of Communications and Campaigns for a national youth charity and Head of Communications (Education & Student Affairs) for University College London.  

 

She has outstanding contacts in the national and trade media, the writing skills to powerfully and persuasively engage your key audiences and an in-depth knowledge of the education, culture and sustainability sectors.

 

Jessica has worked with Multi-Academy Trusts, education technology companies, household brands, art galleries, literacy and sustainability charities, universities, thinktanks, Higher Education membership bodies, schools in both the state and independent sectors and successful authors.

 

She has also held voluntary roles as a Trustee of an education charity and as a school governor.

 

As a side project, she runs Castaway Stories - think Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, but for everyday people. We capture the stories of your life and the music that holds special meaning to you in a top-quality audio recording that you and your family and friends will be able to play forever.

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Jessica
Shepherd

[ Communications Consultant ]
Jessica@sparrowhawkcommunications.com

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Jess has outstanding contacts covering sustainability and education in the national media and knows what journalists are looking for.

 

She helped us bring our campaign to our key audience and also ran helpful sessions for us on PR and comms.

Laura Foster-Devaney

Communications and

Press Officer

University Alliance

 

My Services

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_Communications
  and PR Strategy/

We will work with you to come up with a communications

and PR strategy that is tailored

to your organisation's aims

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_Crisis
  Communication/

We will advise you on how you can protect your reputation

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  Relations/

Our knowledge of how the

media works and journalistic contacts are second to none

Working with Jessica is always a pleasure. She quickly grasps the fundamentals of any brief and delivers high quality results time and time again. Her experience means that you can happily let her liaise directly with senior clients knowing that she’ll provide them with wise counsel.

Mark Cooper

Co-founder

GK and Partners

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