Ben Ford Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

As a Fund Management Advisor, advise and support negotiation, design, start up and turn-around single and multi-donor pooled funds with focus improving the strategic management and performance. Initiatives supported have included the Santiago network, hosted engagements based in Geneva, and multi-donor funds in Myanmar.

Senior independent consultant for UK based partnership that provides consulting services for the development and humanitarian sector in organisational development, organisational resilience, operations management and humanitarian response. Projects included providing fund, change and project management support to DAI, Transparency International UK & HelpAge International.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for the design and delivery of a capacity building program focused on change management, project management and continuous improvement coupled with specific support to global projects/priority work across Save the Children.

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Responsible for leading the design and delivery of organisational development strategies and the management of change in support of the Ethiopia Country Office’s strategic and operational plans. Worked with teams across the organisation to support a programme of continuous improvement and capacity building.

United Kingdom

Plan’s Change Programme started in 2012 and was delivered through various work streams focused on designing improvements in governance, core operating processes and core support processes. Responsible working collaboratively with key stakeholders across the organisation to improve the efficiency and effectiveness through which the Plan Federation acquired and managed funding.

London, United Kingdom

As Award Manager, I was responsible for providing change and project management support for the end-to-end transition of member-owned awards into Save the Children International and rolling out Budget Management Training to regional and country offices.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for driving Save the Children UK’s Emergency Response and Children’s Emergency Fund fundraising strategy with corporate partners, and thereby significantly contributing to delivering an ambitious voluntary fundraising target for emergencies.

Yangon, Myanmar

Responsible for the grant management of over 70 donor funded projects with a combined value of over £30m. Key responsibilities and achievements included successfully establishing the new Funding & Grants team of 8 staff in Myanmar and taking over full responsibility for all donor grant administration and management and acting as focal point for all donor relations, including narrative and financial reports, proposal submissions and funding queries.

Yangon, Myanmar

Responsible for designing and managing the communication strategy of ActionAid in Myanmar following Cyclone Nargis, representing ActionAid at in-country coordination meetings and liaising with donors.

London, United Kingdom

Whilst employed by Accenture Consulting in the UK I worked on a number of diverse projects including acting as Real Estate Design Consultant for Shell and Process Design Consultant for BP.