King Leung CHANG
Project Professional with community experience
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UK
About Me
Dynamic and results-driven professional with extensive experience in project planning, execution, and management. Proven ability to handle multiple tasks efficiently, manage stakeholder relationships, and lead diverse teams. Multilingual proficiency and strong communication skills enhance the ability to work in multicultural environments.
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Career Aspirations
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Seeking more experience in project management as a first step to leverage my background in community development, legal support, and cultural engineering. Targeting to become a strategist preferably in a philanthropic business sector.
Major Skills
Exceptional Quality
Interpersonal and Communications
Strategise, Problem-solving and Organisation
Multilingual
Operation Supervision
Legal Support
Versatile
My Pathway
I have always been a believer in the value of human work. Most of the experiences I have chosen relate to interactions with people, understanding of human society, or the expression of humanity. For me, this is what truly matters.
Education
May 2024 Session
University of London
LLB Exams (self-study distance learning)
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Legal Research: Deepened knowledge by researching with legal database like LexisNexis, Westlaw, BAILII, etc.
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Public Law - Grade 60/100 (Upper second)​
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Criminal Law - Grade 48/100 (Third)
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Sep 2023 - Aug 2024
University of Burgundy Franche-Comté, France
Master 2 in Projects in International and European Cultural Engineering
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Project Management: Developed skills in project conceptualization, implementation, and evaluation using GANTT charts and logic frames.
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Budgeting and MEL: Created budget spreadsheets and Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) plans according to EU funding criteria.
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Legal and Regulatory Knowledge: Understanding the legal frameworks around cultural projects ensures compliance and proper handling of intellectual property and labour issues.
Feb 2023 - Jul 2023
Department of Management, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Erasmus Exchange (6 months)
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​Research skills: Designed, implemented and presented survey on apparel consuming behaviour among university students in Italy
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Market Communication: Received course on language pragmatics with studies on marketing and advertisement use of languages
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Leadership: Finished a 5000-word essay on challenges of remote leadership in the IT era
Sep 2021 - Jul 2022
University of Burgundy Franche-Comté, France
Master 1 in Projects in International and European Cultural Engineering
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Project Conceptualisation: Project ideation and design, backed by desk research, needs analysis and partner identification.
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Legal and Regulatory Knowledge: Understanding the legal protection on intellectual property rights under the French system.
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International Collaboration: Worked on projects with students from 12 different countries, enhancing multicultural teamwork skills.
Professional Experience
Jan 2016 - Oct 2020​
North District Council, Hong Kong
Chief Secretary to District Councillor
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Strategy Planning and Execution: Enlarged re-election winning margins from 4% to 28.1% through correct positioning, magnifying comparative advantage and consistent implementation of strategy
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Office Supervision and Leadership: Reduced significantly Councillor’s management time by supervising office administrations, delegating tasks to 2 colleagues and training 2 interns
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Customer relations: Cemented and expanded supporter base by cultivating and developing relations with constituents through competent stakeholder management
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Problem-solving and case handling: Delivered solutions to over 1000 cases of complaints, disputes and community issues thanks to active listening, proper use of toolkit and coordination with external parties
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External communication: Safeguarded office’s professional image by respecting protocols and tonality in official correspondence, and effective articulation in community communication materials
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Legal support: Won 1 labour dispute counterclaim and reversed 3 insurance rejection or avoidance cases with document drafting, pre-trial preparation, and gave advice to simple legal problems in collaboration with external pro bono practitioner
* Click to read what the Councillor says​
Jan 2017 - Dec 2019
District Minor Work and Environmental Development Committee, North District Council, Hong Kong
Committee Member to Council
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Appraisal and Advisory: Appraised local environmental improvement projects and provided detailed feedback to council members, government officials, and work undertakers
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Right Advocacy: Benefited 445 households and 141 business undertakings by advocating for adding residential settlement and doubling compensation package in government land resumption
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Public Speaking: Presented in 18 bi-monthly committee meetings, participating in discussions of local administration
Sep 2008 - Aug 2015
Self-employed, Hong Kong
Private Tutor
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Guided students to solidify understanding and preparing for real world scenarios (Main subjects: Math, English, Physics)
Other Trainings & Working Experience
Oct 2022 - Feb 2023
English Provender Company via Rapid Personnel, UK
Production Operative (Agency Worker)
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Instruction implementation with use of IT: Prepared and allocated individually and collectively ingredients at quantities as prescribed on computational platform
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Hygiene protocol observation: Complied strictly with hygienic policies of food industry, including wearing of PPE, differentiation of tools, etc.
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Basic warehouse duties: Located goods by reading labels, administering pallet jacks
Apr 2019 - Jul 2020
School of Continue Education, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Professional Diploma in Counselling
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Communications: Trainings in active listening, rapport building, behaviour changing
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Motivation: Understanding the psychological causes of behaviours and the underlying schema of thoughts
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Specialised courses: Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy, Family and Marriage Counselling
Jan 2018 - May 2018
The Hong Kong Management Association, Hong Kong
Certificate in Public Relations Writing
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Pre-Communication Workflow: Trainings in the process of material preparation, including stakeholder identification, planning process, productional precautions
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Public Communications Production: Performed exercises simulating practical situations based on provided fact sheets and inforomation
Aug 2013 - Dec 2013
School of Continue Education, Hong Kong Baptist University - Hong Kong
Certificate in Marketing and Brand Building
Certificate in Buyer and Consumer Behaviour
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Marketing Planning: Conceptual trainings in marketing knowledge, including needs analysis, positioning, segmentation, brand memory, etc.
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Market Research: Collaborative survey, drafting and presentation of brand building proposal
Sep 2003 - Jul 2007
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Bachelor of Arts in Japanese Studies
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Holistic Societal Understanding: Dissecting Japanese culture, society and norms
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Intensive Japanese language training
Languages
(As on Aug 2024)
Cantonese (Native)
Mandarin Chinese (Native)
English (C1)
French (B2)
Japanese (N2)
Italian (Intermediate)
(self-assessed)
Spanish (A2)
(self-assessed)
Ukrainian (A2)
(self-assessed)
Favourite Quotes and Inspirations
Jim Rohn
If the WHY is strong,
the HOW is easy.
Dwight Eisenhower
Plans are worthless, but
Planning is everything.
Muhammad Yunus
If you want to do something you have to imagine it. If you don’t imagine it, it will never happen
