Devising public consultation processes, strategic planning, project management, event facilitation, fundraising and responding to RFPs, community planning and homelessness planning, specialist engagement through arts and literature, social enterprise development.

• Leadership and advocacy training for those with lived experience of poverty and mental health issues.• Strategic planning, research and report writing on anti-poverty initiatives. • Using the literary arts to develop, social, emotional skills, and community engagement skills for those with lived experience of poverty. • Facilitating annual work plan development for the Richmond Poverty Response Committee. • Planning public forums and events.• Creating and maintaining cross – sectoral strategic partnerships. • Devising engagement techniques aimed at facilitating access to resources for those facing social and financial barriers.Staff and volunteer management/supervision

- Developing a community engagement plan and implementation strategies for the Richmond Primary Care Network.- Working with partners to engage and consult culturally diverse communities in primary health care and set up patient advisory committees. - Connecting family doctors and clinical staff with non profits and community services and devising referral strategies. - Outreach and marketing in primary health care to hard to reach and underrepresented groups. Implementing a social prescription pilot project.

• Devising and implementing community engagement activities.• Coordinating Richmond Local Immigration Partnership.• Maintaining and developing mutually supportive strategic partnerships – nonprofit, government, health and business sector strategic alliances. • Report writing, meeting facilitation, and grant application writing. • Writing and developing an anti- racism protocol for Richmond.• Facilitating anti-racism training and public dialogue sessions on community inclusion.• Devising public and organizational engagement strategies.

• Strategy and policy development, committee work as staff liaison to two committees of Council- Richmond Intercultural Advisory Committee and Richmond Centre for Disability. • Development of five year contribution agreements for Richmond Centre for Disability and Richmond Therapeutic Riding Association. • Regular report writing to City Council and presenting to Council Committees. • Preparing briefing papers and memos to senior management and City Council and carrying out one-on-one briefings with mayor and council. • Project lead on the development of a City of Richmond Intercultural Strategic Plan • Contribute to the development of the City of Richmond’s Parks and Recreation Community Needs Assessment, the Community Services Division Needs Assessment, and the City of Richmond’s Wellness Strategy. • Partner in developing accessibility guidelines as a component of the City of Richmond Affordable Housing Strategy Update • Key staff member on cross- community committee to develop ‘visitability’ criteria for new build housing in the City of Richmond.• Development of staff training in cultural diversity • Developing intercultural arts and cultural programming • Managing recreation subsidy programs for low income residents • Developing access assessments and ratings of City properties • Developing a multi language newcomers guide to Richmond. • Developing an engagement strategy with LGTBQ communities. • Developing and implementing an annual diversity conference for Richmond

• Organizing representation of a network of three hundred community groups to have a representative role in local government through government non- profit partnerships called Local Strategic Partnerships (LSPs)• Role involved strategic planning, mapping of the voluntary sector, organizing and monitoring elections, monitoring and evaluation on behalf of the Government of London, marketing and outreach, formulating option and policy papers, and conducting public consultation in highly politicized environment. • Organizing community input into the development of an integrated strategic plan (the Local Strategic Plan) for all aspects of governance within the Borough of Lambeth, London.

• Management of regional women’s empowerment and community development organization.• Duties included staff management, management committee and governance structure formation, capacity building, project planning, strategic planning, economic planning and resource management. • Trained local residents to manage the organization • Developed a strategic plan for the North-West Regional YWCA. • Community planning on small scale woman’s empowerment agricultural projects. • Managed teams of youth volunteers engaged in HIV/AIDS peer education initiatives

• Community worker for a government funded advisory body that advised government on best practice in community development, based in a large public housing regeneration project in London. • Coordinated multi agency approaches and strategies to community development and acted as a liaison between developers, government and local residents. • Project development, implementation and design of innovative public involvement techniques.