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Europe

Leading all areas of operations for a rapidly growing, mission-focused organisation, including budgeting, finance and accounts, human resource and recruitment, learning and development, IT, procurement, and reporting.

Global

Provided project planning, management, evaluation and fundraising support to organisations in West and East Africa.

Global

Responsible for global welfare campaigns for impact at scale. Designing, managing programmes from concept to completion including scoping, baselining, planning, implementation, evaluation of outcomes, and advocacy/partnership to create impact at scale with external stakeholder funding.Distance and matrix management of cross-functional teams in 30+ countries.

Global

Developed framework for planning, monitoring and evaluating education work in The Donkey Sanctuary's international projects. Support to major 5 international teams on developing education and community partnership programmes.Managing funding cycle of African partners in over 10 countries including training and support on project implementation, monitoring.

Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia

Developed unique approach and project plan for large, complex three year project in partnership with Ministry of Education. Implemented day-to-day management of the project. Coordinated monitoring tools and reported to Ministry of Education panel. Successfully secured a two year follow-on project.Line managed large team of mentors (up to 20 directly, 120.

Autonomous Region Of Muslim Mindanao, Philippines

Designed, coordinated and implemented organisational development and capacity building for Islamic scholars in conflict area of Mindanao to enable them to encourage peaceful action amongst local MuslimsEdited and co-wrote manual to train teacher-trainers on Peace Education integration at primary and secondary level through Mindanao State University. Also.

Promoted recycling by designing and conducting interactive workshops for inner city secondary schools Turned failing project around by exceeding annual targets in only final 4 months of project

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Networked with partner organisations (including Natural England, RSPB, Woodland Trust) to establish and coordinate a project promoting inner city youth engaging with their environment as ‘young Led youth & community groups into local city parks for environmental education & conservation projectsDesigned monitoring and evaluation systems and was responsible.

Japan

Created and presented lectures to audiences of 350+ on topics relevant to voyage, including cetacean ecology, Islamic history, Turkish language, volunteerism and HIV/AIDS awareness and preventionDeveloped and tailored, issue-based curriculum focusing on community development and global cultures Coordinated specific events for language programme including.

Kenya

Handled all logistics and complex project scheduling for remote island expedition baseImproved community development and education programmes to encourage sustainable businesses, universal access to English language training and environmental awareness for adults and childrenTrained and evaluated groups of volunteers in teaching techniques, research.

Bloemfontein Area, South Africa

Led education programmes at 96-bed education facility through the People and Conservation Department Created and implemented environmental education programmes for national and international groups Presented workshops to groups of local teachers on methods to incorporate environment into curriculumEnhanced universal access to park by designing resources.

Canterbury, England, United Kingdom

Taught IT, science and maths at Key Stage 3.

Istanbul, Turkey

Taught business English to staff of major companies in Istanbul. Prepared and delivered in-house teacher development workshops.

Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Taught short course of 50 English lessons to university students (programme managed by Westgate Corporation).

Various

Organised one-to-two day educational leadership conferences in London, Leeds and Bristol.

Master Of Science (Msc), Education For Sustainability, Distinction

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Sociology, Upper Second Class (With Honours)

Education record