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Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom

A national role with four key focus areas:• Strategizing Social Value Delivery: Leading the development of tailored social value strategies, aligning client objectives with community needs and national priorities to maximize project impact.• Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborating with clients, local authorities, community groups, and alliance partners to foster meaningful partnerships and deliver sustainable outcomes.• Embedding Social Value into Supply Chain: Influencing procurement, planning, and design to ensure social value initiatives are integrated seamlessly from project inception.• Measuring and Reporting Impact: Establishing frameworks to monitor, measure, and report on social value achievements, ensuring accountability and continuous improvement.

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Core Purpose: To develop a comprehensive management plan to coordinate all social value plans and direction for a portfolio of standalone Specialist Business’s within the wider Group. Use a proactive approach to enable business leaders to adopt a holistic mindset to Social Value, driving performance, and meeting relevant project KPIsSkills in use: Project management, Stakeholder coaching & influencing, Data analysis & reporting

Derby, England, United Kingdom

Rebuild exists to support individuals and families who have experienced Human Trafficking and Modern slavery to break the cycle of trafficking, empowering them to rebuild their lives and embrace a hope filled future. Rebuild advocates an approach that seeks to understand the impact of trauma individuals may have experienced while providing long term support to individuals and their families, that is tailored to their needs and future focussed

Core Purpose: To design and deliver a range of strategic initiatives to significantly increase the social value delivered by the Business. This includes scaling up a Social Enterprise, refining the commercial offer to customers, developing impact measurement, managing community events, delivering presentations (internally and externally) to drive engagement.• Developed an inhouse Social Enterprise shaping Governance, Marketing, Financial controls, operational strategy and an executive steering group; • Project managed the sourcing and rollout of an online calculator to forecast, collate and compile performance social value data from projects;• Collaborated with key departments to audit and refresh all community based projects to evolve efforts to be clearly strategic and reflective of the increasing interest in Social Value evaluation; • Created and managed a UK-wide communications strategic plan delivered through newsletters, website, social media and our first social value annual report; • Liaised with construction customer project teams and supply chain to ensure that all social value PPN 06/20 objectives are met within required timeframes, and present it in reports and case studies; • Worked closely with Marketing, Business Development and Supply Chain to prepare assets, briefing papers and form a seamless social value Work Winning offering • Calculated first Carbon Footprint of the business and built 3 year reduction plan.

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Core purpose: To lead a team and embed project management principles to deliver high-volume programmes for young people across Northern England in line with EY Foundation annual targets and quality standards. (Resigned to take on Homeschooling responsibilities.)

Manchester, United Kingdom

Core purpose: To refine, implement, champion, communicate and evaluate the organisation'sResponsible Business 3 year strategy across the ten different arms of the Group. During my short contract I was accountable for:• Positioning the department, becoming an influencing voice across the organisation by collaborating with all support departments and project delivery teams;• Recruiting and training a network of internal Champions to enable the strategy and signature programmes to be cascaded throughout the organisation;• Auditing and refreshing all inhouse processes and procedures relating to organisation’sResponsible Business activity and ensure best practice methodology is adopted;• Designing and embedding the organisation’s approach to Social Value (for employeesand subcontractors) by delivering training, creating awareness campaigns and managing allinternal and external communications;• Developing key signature programmes to address priority social and environmental issues,whilst ensuring that they remain commercially viable and become ‘business as usual’;• Collaborating with Senior Leadership Team enabling Social Value to be monitored.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Campus Living Villages Foundation is dedicated to supporting students who have difficulty continuing their studies for non-academic reasons and is entirely funded by CLV. • Primarily responsible for establishing the foundation, now working with the trustees to shape the strategic plan and manage the day to day governance and operations;• Providing support to the Chair and Trustees to achieve the Foundations aims, including addressing urgent queries, handling funding applications, engaging with potential partners, communicating with stakeholders and ensuring legal & financial reporting compliance as per the Charity Commission;• Build and maintain relationships with grantees to ensure impact is meaningful, and all charitable projects are allocated appropriate resources including written agreements, financial support and wider project delivery assistance.

Media City, Salford Quays

Primarily to champion, coordinate, monitor and evaluate activities which meet the organisations's Responsible Business commitments • Responsible for the creation, and implementation of the Make a Difference strategy which complements Campus Living Village’s wider business mission;• Enable Campus Living Villages UK to be an involved, responsible and forward-thinking corporate citizen for the benefit for all internal and external stakeholders;• Establish the corporate foundation (a registered charity), now working with the trustees to shape the strategic plan and manage day to day governance and operations;• Develop key signature programmes to address key social and environmental issues, whilst ensuring that they were commercially viable and became ‘business as usual’;• Collaborate with strategic commercial and charitable partners and other stakeholders to enhance and expand Responsible Business practices, broaden participation, report on impact and meet stakeholder expectation;• Design and embed the organisation’s approach to Mental Wellbeing (employees and student residents), delivering training, creating awareness campaigns and managing numerous in-house events.

Clapham Junction, London

To implement, improve and oversee delivery of the training and development framework, content and output across the organisation• Develop staff in line with employee and business needs by agreeing PDPs, creating and delivering in-house training and continuous improvement of HR practices;• Lead on the assessment, recruitment, training, motivation and evaluation of all seasonal staff to be leaders and role models to participants;• Manage and track evaluations of all training and development activities, ensuring programme delivery standards are met and best practice is embedded to future training activities;• Create all training materials including an e-learning module embedded into our website, all staff training plans, staff handbooks and field guides;• Advise on the various training approaches available to create a comprehensive learning environment which improves the knowledge, increases skills and influences behaviour of participants;• Work collaboratively to set the company objectives for the year and ensure all staff understand their specific and critical contribution to a collective achievement;• Accountable for, and reporting against, relevant training and personal development budgets• Develop ethical behaviour guidance and ensure all staff actions reflective of company Values• Enabling staff to make a difference in the communities they worked in through fundraising, volunteering, mentoring etc

Clapham Junction, London

www.future-foundations.co.uk, www.Globalsocialleaders.co.uk , www.ncsyes.co.ukI led on FF’s National Citizen Service (NCS) in four regions and co-created the prestigious Global Social Leaders (GSL) programme. Both of these community-focused programmes motivated teams of young people to produce an inspiring grassroots social action project.Responsibilities included: • Creating and producing programme content, timetable and supporting materials • Sourcing and managing guest speakers, delivery partners, and in-kind sponsors;• Developing processes and controls to track and record all social impacts on local communities • Budget forecast and ongoing control• Building sustainable relationships with local and international schools to promote the programmes, and guiding them through the recruitment process;• Embedding monitoring and evalutation processes enabling the organisation to evaluate delivery against objectives, and begin to understand the programme’s impact through tracking changes in participants’ attitudes and intentions;• Accountability for all child protection and safeguarding issues, working on call as the designated child protection officer, advising and supporting staff across all residential programmes.• Instil a sense of Social Responsibility into all staff, by creating a reward/recognition scheme for those that identify opportunities for business to reduce environmental impact and increase societal impact

Luton & London, United Kingdom

My role as Special Projects Manager involved developing an in-house talent pipeline through delivery of bespoke training programmes for staff and students, as well as creating and implementing a Corporate and Social Responsibility strategy for CLV across the UK.As Special Projects Manager I covered:• Staff volunteering: seeking partnerships, managing individual projects, developing a robust policy and communicating upwards to maintain buy-in from senior management• Forming a not-for-profit organisation to encourage social mobility in Higher Education• Coordinating the CSR strategy to have maximum impact on our students and localcommunities• Exploring opportunities for the CSR programme to become sustainable by developingrelationships and seeking external funding.

Salford, Luton, London

The ultimate goal of the In-house Talent Development Team was to identify and deliver an approach which would equip our staff with the skills and confidence required to strengthen business results through effective management of the in-house talent. My role included: • researching and assessing potential schemes and approaches, • setting up a talent management records system, • reviewing needs and priorities of the 25 selected staff, • working with staff to plan their development goals and actions, • delivering personalised training sessions, based on accredited material• monitoring progress against success criteria • repeating the development cycle to ensure that all objectives were active and new skills were being utilisedThe team worked in collaboration with Development Dimensions International programme to run an audit of business needs and staff profiles,identify any gaps between the two across the range of HR processes, e.g. recruitment and selection, developing current workforce and performance management. I am a qualified DDI practitioner which involved an intensive training programme of ‘Train the Trainer’ style sessions covering the model, the content and best practice on implementation I would estimate that I have delivered in excess of 50 hours of training to the staff at Campus Living Villages

Salford & Luton, United Kingdom

As Resident Life Manager I was responsible for the Resident Life Programme across two university halls. My duties included:• Creating and maintaining an environment that promotes and supports the social and personal development of over 1000 domestic students, including over 500 international students• Recruiting, training, coaching and managing a team of up to 15 Residential Assistants• Planning, organising, promoting and evaluating a full calendar of social and cultural events across nine halls of residence• Fostering positive relationships with university departments, teams, personnel and other community groups to ensure effective communication channels across all student services• Working with those teams to ensure all our residents have a smooth transition into university life, especially those arriving from overseas• Forecasting and day-to-day management of a £50,000 annual Residential Life budget, to ensure maximum impact and engagement across the student demographic• Producing content for a new company website, and implementing a student engagement strategy using social media and paper surveys to ensure transparency and involvement• Development and successful delivery of an annual orientation programme for residents which aligns with, and enhances, the university’s own programme• Identifying opportunities and implementing one-off projects to enhance the residentialexperience and the company’s profile within the local community• Writing, delivering and monitoring the UK policies and procedures based on a global template, including the Residents’ Handbook.

Plakavo, Bulgaria

I own a farmhouse in Bulgaria and project managed its renovation, including the planning and design, demolition, site clearance, and rebuilding.

Latin America, Africa, South East Asia & Morroco

My main duties included:• Developing and delivering flexible itineraries and activities to enhance travel experiences• Communicating facts about destinations and culture in an informative and passionate manner• Ensuring that all tour arrangements ran smoothly, balancing individual interests with the needs of the overall group• Identifying new business opportunities in a competitive and rapidly changing industry• Remaining calm and professional at all times, especially when responding to any serious problems, such as medical emergencies or local infrastructure failures• Monitoring visitors' activities, to ensure compliance to regulations and safety practice• Working with diplomacy, self-motivation and resourcefulness in order to ensure thesatisfaction of clients from a diverse range of backgrounds, and nationalities