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Responsible for the co-creation and implementation of The Scouts member facing services and functions ensuring that high standards of service delivery are maintained at all times. Responsible for a team of c.70 field based staff, working alongside key volunteers to make the Scouts Skills for Life strategy a reality in communities across England. Supporting volunteers through key transformation programmes, building capability to open and reopen provision prioritising under represented communities.

Driving growth and inclusivity - Designed, piloted, evaluated, launched Scouting for 4+5 year old's, Squirrels, with an award winning brand, extensive media coverage, and impactful badge curriculum. 700 Squirrel Dreys opened across the UK prioritising lower income areas and Black, Asian minority ethnic families. Designed innovative approach to providing additional support, peer to peer coaching, guidance, digital toolkits, and practical tips ensuring new provision delivers high quality safe weekly programmePrototyping employer supported volunteering with HSBC through our 'Money Skills' programme helping young people aged 6-10 years make informed financial choicesLeadership of our 'A Million Hands' youth social action partnership, with hundreds of thousands of young people making a positive impact on the issues that matter most to them. by working in partnership with national charities.Enabling more young people to achieve their Top Awards for their age range, building local capacity, increasing knowledge and peer to peer support, reducing administration, resulting in local volunteers feeling empowered.Excellent stakeholder relationship with third party subject matter experts bringing their skills, knowledge, into Scouting to enhance our programme including Duke of Edinburgh Award, The Royal Navy and Royal Air Force. External recognition: Squirrels - Transform Awards - Best Creative Brand - Design Week Awards - Best Identity Design Launch (Squirrels) - Third Sector Awards 2022 - Shortlisted - Brand Development - The Charity Times Awards 2022 - Shortlisted - Change Project of the Year Money Skills - Corporate Engagement Awards 2022 - Gold - Best Charity, NGO, NFP - Corporate Engagement Awards 2022 - Bronze - Best Education Programme - Charity Times 2022 - Shortlisted - Best Corporate Partnership with Financial Institution - Third Sector 2022 - Shortlisted - Corporate Partnership of the Year

Delivered new programme materials and initiatives aligned to the Scouts strategic plan leading the delivery of on the ground pilots, partnerships and initiatives relating to innovating the 6yrs to 24 year programme so that it was impactful, relevant and fun. Recruitment of new youth social action partners for the 2nd cohort of the 'A Million Hands' award winning partnership.Design and delivery of an innovation partnership with NCS to explore support for teenagers.Extensive design, piloting, consultation, branding, securing funding and external evaluation to test the concept of extending Scouting to 4+5 year olds.

Designed and delivered new approaches to support young people to remove social barriers, connect communities and improve lives. Using insight data, and working alongside a youth leadership team , recruited national charity partners with subject matter expertise on big societal issues.Launched the 'A Million Hands' programme achieving extensive media coverage. Easy to use programme, activities and materials developed and shared with 500, 000 members. Significant increase in the quality and volume of youth social action taken and embedded into the long term strategy of the organisation.Localised support embedding knowledge and best practice, detailed reporting for local leadership teams.Outstanding stakeholder management of the partnership involving seven charities. External recognition.- Charity Times Award winner 2016 - Best Cross Sector Partnership- Charity Times Award winner 2018 - Best Charity Project

Developed, delivered, exceptional leadership of the Barclays employee engagement strategy. Created tools and support mechanisms that enabled 40,000 colleagues to fundraise, give, volunteer within their local community sharing their skills and expertise with young people / vulnerable groups. Increase in colleague sense of pride and improved external perception.

Scoped, implemented and project managed multi million pound award winning national charity partnerships achieving impacts for a variety of vulnerable groups including young people leaving care, low income elderly and disabled entrepreneurs. All programmes delivered on time, on budget, and exceeding stretching business objectives.