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London, GB

London, England, United Kingdom

• Working with industry, consumer and Governmental partners to forward the UK Government’s commitment to introduce a private parking Code of Practice.
• Developing proposals for parking charges and debt recovery fees.

• Leading teams to develop and adopt Government policy around various elements of the local government finance system, including supporting the system through the COVID-19 pandemic and shaping the approach to reforms.
• Efficiency: Exploring opportunities to realise efficiency savings in local government to protect public services whilst reducing costs, and to strengthen local government’s financial sustainability.
• COVID-19: Led the organisation’s team overseeing financial support to local government in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, adapting the team’s direction and workstream as the situation developed to reflect the.
• Business Rates Retention: Developed the Government’s position on Business Rates Retention reforms, covering £15 billion annually, negotiating agreement with Treasury in particular and supporting Ministers to determine.
• Exceptional financial support: Secured agreement with Treasury and local partners to support three councils to balance their budgets through exceptional financial support, negotiating with various relevant groups to.
• Devolution: Supported colleagues’ development of policy to devolve funding to local areas, identifying and exploring opportunities within the local government finance system to support broader devolution objectives.

• Delivering a series of different initiatives, including project management of parking-related infrastructure schemes, development of proposals for future schemes, and thought leadership in aligning the partner.
• Through establishing a multi-disciplinary, cross-partnership coalition of officers established foundations on which an integrated parking policy without precedent in the UK could be built, recognising the constraints.
• Enhanced working relationships around parking policy and management between the partner organisations by bringing a new focus on shared objectives, demonstrating how prior arrangements (such as the separation of on.
• Explored and exploited opportunities to embed consideration of matters outside my specific scope, such as public electric vehicle charging and increased cycle parking, in local parking policies – demonstrating how.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

• Coordinating and contributing to the development and agreement of the Greater Cambridge City Deal between five local partner organisations and Government, working closely with senior officers and local political.
• Secured agreement of the Greater Cambridge City Deal between five local partners and central Government – coordinating the project from inception through to delivery, providing policy support to senior-level.
• Unlocked £500 million for a transformative transport infrastructure programme by leading a project to demonstrating the benefits deliverable as part of that City Deal, along with measures to improve the alignment of.
• Secured political adoption of the first phase of £100 million for investment in transport infrastructure, working with consultants and local authority experts to develop and prioritise a proposed programme and advising.
• Established a joint governance arrangement across three councils, along with the local business and academic communities, with delegated responsibilities to lead this agenda on behalf of the partnership.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Supporting the Leader and Chief Executive to ensure that they were properly prepared for their roles, including preparing and presenting reports for senior management and political meetings, preparing briefings, correspondence and speeches, and undertaking ad hoc research to inform internal and external engagements.Ensuring that strategic directions were.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Leading the delivery of a series of favourably received cycling projects, including harder infrastructure-based and more behavioural-based interventions.Key projects included:* Successfully budding for a Cycle City Ambition Grant for Greater Cambridge, bringing in £10 million as part of a 10-year vision for cycling in the city-region.* Delivery of a.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Rotating around a variety of teams relating to growth, planning and transport.Coordinating work around the implementation of the Cambridgeshire Future Transport initiative to replace subsidised scheduled bus services with more flexible community-focused services.Leading work to develop proposals for pooling retained business rates across the six Councils.

Msc, Transport Planning & Management, Merit

Studying a variety of aspects of transport policy, my focus was on the links between transport and economic growth/regeneration. My.

Ba, History And Politics, 2:1

My key area of interest and focus during this course was international relations in various forms. My main dissertation focused on the.