Jill Irving

Experience

A working CV, in narrative.

The roles below are listed reverse-chronologically. The four marked as highlights are the ones most relevant if you are weighing whether to hire me as a virtual assistant.

  1. Co-Owner & Operations

    The Loving Company

    Highlight Current

    Co-owner of a UK WooCommerce ecommerce business with a supplier feed of thousands of SKUs. Responsible day-to-day for product data, supplier coordination, customer service, social media, and the bookkeeping handover at month end.

    • Maintained a clean WooCommerce catalogue across hundreds of active products and a wider supplier CSV feed
    • Built the customer service inbox workflow from scratch, including refunds, returns, and tone-of-voice templates
    • Run the monthly bookkeeping handover for the accountant
  2. Further Education Mathematics Lecturer

    Bournemouth and Poole College

    Highlight Recent

    Lectured Functional Skills and GCSE Mathematics across full-time, part-time, and adult learner programmes. Lesson planning, scheme of work documentation, curriculum delivery, and assessment.

    • Designed and delivered Functional Skills Mathematics programmes to mixed-ability adult learners
    • Built lesson plans and assessment frameworks aligned to awarding-body standards
    • Worked closely with SEN colleagues to support students with exam access arrangements
  3. Special Educational Needs Support Lead

    Further Education

    Highlight Earlier

    Led Special Educational Needs support for college students. Individual Education Plan documentation, exam access arrangements paperwork, multi-agency coordination, and direct in-class support.

    • Wrote and maintained Individual Education Plans for a caseload of students
    • Coordinated exam access arrangements paperwork to awarding-body deadlines
    • Acted as the named link with parents, social workers, and external SEN professionals
  4. College Nursery Manager

    Bournemouth and Poole College

    Highlight Earlier

    Day-to-day management of a college nursery serving staff and student families. Operations, staff coordination, parent communication, regulatory compliance, and safeguarding lead.

    • Held safeguarding lead responsibility, including referrals and multi-agency liaison
    • Managed staff rotas, parent communication, and child records to Ofsted standards
    • Built operating procedures and documentation that the team could actually follow
  5. NHS School Health Nursing Team

    NHS

    Earlier

    Multi-agency safeguarding work in school settings, supporting school health nurses with documentation, family communication, and case coordination.

    • Maintained confidential records to NHS standards
    • Worked alongside school staff, social services, and families on safeguarding cases
  6. International Youth Support

    P&O Cruises

    Earliest

    Youth programme work aboard international P&O Cruises voyages. Daily programme running, family liaison, safeguarding, and shift work to a strict operating standard.

    • Ran daily youth activity programmes for mixed-age cohorts at sea
    • Worked under maritime operating discipline including documentation, drills, and reporting
    • Coordinated directly with parents and ship operations across long sea legs

Next step

If the experience above fits the work you have in mind, write to me.

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