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Liverpool, Gb

Bootle, England, United Kingdom

Overall responsibility for the Council’s Homelessness, Migration and Welfare Rights service delivery within the Communities department, across the Council and beyond.Homelessness – Development, delivery, and continuous improvement of the Council’s operational homeless services. This includes working collaboratively with partners and senior leaders to implement new, responsive services that meet the current and future need of the changing homeless population in Sefton.Developing new capital projects to help relieve homelessness including expanding the Council’s temporary accommodation project, improving services for victims of domestic abuse and increasing housing supply in the medium term.Migration – Providing leadership and strategic vision to enable the Council to meet the future needs of an increasing migration population including refugees and asylum seekers of any nationality.This involves leading a new (12 months) service through a changing landscape. Developing new strategies for meeting the longer term needs of this cohort alongside community integration. Maximising various funding opportunities to improve service delivery and future proof demand management through creative and innovative ways of working.- Leading effective partnership working, collaboratively creating a culture that promotes meaningful participation of individuals, communities and Elected Members.- Commissioning partners to deliver a range of departmental priorities to help meet the needs of residents sooner.- Managing significant Council budgets and resources driving up standards and performance within challenging financial constraints.

Key skills and attributes for the role include:- Exhibiting the skill set of entrepreneurial leadership and the ability to perform across multiple teams and different service areas, driving continuous improvement and organisational change.- Exhibiting a skill set to deliver successful implementation of strategy and policy.- Experience of developing solutions that will enable the implementation of key changes to offer delivery.- Experienced line manager, able to evidence getting the most from direct reports.- Ability to apply solution focused approaches to problem solving and make decisions of a highly complex nature with due consideration of the associated risk factors.- Ability to engage effectively with the community and partners to ensure satisfactory conflict resolution as appropriate and facilitating solution based resolutions and interventions.- Ability to demonstrate effective partnership working and identifying future opportunities for collaboration with internal and/or external partners.- Innovative thinking and delivering against strategic challenges.- Ability to apply knowledge of change and or programme management methodologies and the techniques involved in managing a large and diverse workforce.- Ability to plan/prioritise and sequence multiple and potentially conflicting priorities.- Ability to work under pressure to deliver to deadlines. Ability to plan and organise own time, create work schedules, prioritise and set schedules for self and others. - Excellent interpersonal skills in order to build support for change across the community and partners with effective outcomes for residents.- Ability to thrive in a fast moving environment and be able to deal with a varied and high-profile workload.- Ability to engage employees, partners and the community as part of the vision and to utilise coaching techniques to motivate and build confidence of staff.

Liverpool, United Kingdom

I was resposible for managing two complex projects with the goal of achieving cashable savings amounting to a combined total of over £4m.The projects were part of a wider PMO established to implement a programme of transformation and are titled:Commercialisation, andCommissioning and Shared ServicesMy role was to:- Work closely with Head of Service Project Sponsors to drive the project forward- Plan and lead core activities related to the project- Maintain action logs, risk registers and issue logs- Complete weekly progress reports on the project status- Liaise with key people and report back to the Sponsor- Prepare and maintain other project documentation as requested by the Sponsor- Feed back the developments of the project into the programme management office and to work with other project managers to map interdependencies across all projects, plan the delivery, sequencing and prioritisation of activities.The competencies for this role included:Expertise in change managementPlanningListening and empathisingSolution focused and good problem solvingCommunication skillsOrganisation skillsWorking independentlyCool under pressureData analysis and interpretationProcess mapping and re-engineeringEnthusiastic and motivatedBudget planning

Liverpool, United Kingdom

Responsibilities and achievements include:- Leading a team of 12 whose main objective is to ensure that correct processes and procedures are in place which are are effective, meet customers’ needs and are regularly reviewed in line with continuous improvement.- Responsible for ensuring that processes and procedures are robust, that they meet legislative guidelines which practitioners working with families can use to evidence their work. - Implementing a new electronic database across the children’s workforce with a projected 500+ number of end users using Prince 2.- Analysing large amounts of data from several data sources and transforming this into meaningful information which aids continuous improvement, contributes to commissioning of new services and future service transformation. - Projecting and Planning for future risks and opportunities through data analysis. This includes writing team and service level improvement plans incorporating qualitative and quantitative objectives and outputs. - Completion of regular reports, including the service’s annual reports, which are presented to strategic leadership and partner agencies.- Managing a local authority budget during times of austerity.

L21 1Ez

Responsibilities and achievements include:- Implementing and driving the CAF Project; new statutory integrated processes for the assessment of children, to prevent statutory intervention, for the entire children’s workforce in Sefton using PRINCE 2 project management model.- Delivering awareness and training presentations to all areas of the children’s workforce in Sefton to help raise the profile of new integrated processes. - Compiling reports for senior members of Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council and other key children’s sector stakeholders with regard to progress made and findings from ongoing project evaluation.- Establishing and Managing working groups and project boards to assist with key elements of implementation. Also, chairing multi-agency meetings to help reach constructive outcomes.- Promoting multi agency working for all stakeholders supporting families including public, private and voluntary organisations.- Influencing and negotiating with stakeholders to ensure successful delivery of new processes.- Winning Children's Services Team of the Year Award 2010.

Liverpool, United Kingdom

Responsibilities and achievements include: - Promoting various digital companies' brand awareness. Clients I have worked for include: Toshiba, Zanussi, Lenovo, Emporia, Acer, Three, Phillips.- Demonstrating products to consumers and delivering high quality customer service.- Training staff about new products.*Work with Gekko and Channel Advantage have been short term campaigns I have completed over a number of weekends in addition to my full time work.

Runcorn, Cheshire

Responsibilities and achievements include: - Delivering a professional and effective advice and guidance service to support local residents overcome the barriers of moving into employment.- Successfully meeting with local businesses to promote the Halton Employment Charter and providing a cost effective service in terms of recruitment and training.- Creating and maintaining an efficient financial management system to meet the needs of the Halton People into Jobs Service.- Completing all financial claims to external bodies including SRB, ERDF, NRF, ESF, Nextsteps, JobCentrePlus.- Providing an effective recruitment and skills matching service to local businesses and coordinating the full selection and assessment process.- Designing and producing marketing materials to promote the service to the local community, partners and local businesses.- Managing financial and output monitoring systems in hard copy and electronically in spreadsheets I designed and bespoke data management systems.

Widnes, Cheshire

Responsibilities and achievements included: - Promoting the business need for training; including cost savings, improved employee motivation and staff retention to demonstrate to companies the benefits of training their workforce.- Supplying practical advice, support and financial help to overcome barriers to training faced by many organisations. - Developing Training Needs Analysis for Halton businesses wishing to access financial assistance.- Sourcing training providers for local business who would deliver the training to upskill the local workforce.- Completing all financial claims to external bodies including ERDF, SRB, LSC.- Producing the marketing material for the Halton Workforce Development Project 'Skills for Success'.- Successfully building relationships with colleagues, partners and local businesses and delivered presentations to groups of local business leaders. - Coordinating the production of an end of project evaluation document outlining recommendations for future projects.

Widnes, Cheshire

Responsibilities and achievements included: - Providing administrative assistance to the Halton Workforce Development team.- Responsible for organising events, processing payments, producing application packs for employers, taking minutes at meetings and distributing.- Liaising with the Kingsway Learning Centre, Widnes renovation steering group providing necessary planning and other requirements for the project's new offices before moving in to the completed building.- Establishing application procedures for companies wishing to apply for financial assistance from the project.- Developing my project management, communication and negotiating skills.

Widnes, Cheshire

Responsibilities and achievements included: - Managing my own department in the store ensuring stock levels were kept up to date, implementing price changes and maintaining the department on a day-to-day basis.- Supervising the departmental team and delegating duties to them accordingly.- Providing advice to customers in store regarding all products and the use of products.- Assisting the sales team with both telesales and in-store sales.- Designing seasonal product displays and produced seasonal point of sale material.- Producing the staff rota for the 20 strong team.- Re-designing the famous B&Q apron to a more ergonomically sound design which, following intensive consultation, was rolled out across all stores in the UK and available to all staff from April 2003 onwards.

Bsc (Hons) Business And Management Studies, Second Class With Honours

Developed a strong grounding in business and management theory along with practical elements involving people and organisational.

A-Levels, Business Studies, Design Technology, It

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