Ben Jacobs Email & Phone Number

London Area, United Kingdom

In early 2024 I was promoted to take on overall responsibility for directing the Help to Grow: Management course project for the ABM. This includes oversight of around 50 staff and/or contractors, the project budget, various areas of delivery: Technical Delivery, Onboarding, Training and Professional Support. It also includes management in a complex matrix environment (three overlapping RACI matrices), negotiating new contracts and being responsible for Risk Management.

London Area, United Kingdom

I was promoted and worked more closely with consortium and government stakeholders to deliver change and set the direction and priorities of the programme.

London, England, United Kingdom

A flagship executive development programme to supercharge SME productivity by developing senior leaders to become business mentors. Delivering on behalf of the Government’s Department for Business and Trade via the industry’s professional body.• Leading cross functional teams of 50+ people – Executive Development, Data, HR, Finance• Matrix stakeholder management and engagement delivering within a consortium model• First hire - growing organisation revenue 1000s% and 25-fold member growth within a single year. • Secured new strategic partnerships with national business support organisations including FSB, IOD and Newable• Personally forging relationships with politicians (ministerial level), senior civil servants and senior business executives• Setting new benchmarks; Leading the largest professional business mentoring programme in the world - recruited over 7000 UK CEOs, Founders/Directors. Supporting a further 5000 SMEs• CRM creation, data analysis, process analysis increasing efficiency to reduce the number of FTEs by 50%, improving profitability• Over 3000 ILM recognised programmes completed across 4 development pathways (up to degree and master’s level)

Energised Project Solutions LTD provides senior project management services for delivery focused organisations, maximising the benefits to the business whilst ensuring the project arrives on time and within the scope. This has included work in complex and sensitive stakeholder environments managing project budgets of £5 million+.

London, England, United Kingdom

I have managed a number of technical IT projects including 4 Office 365 / SharePoint / Teams migrations, numerous automation projects with Zapier, Dynamics, Stripe, Pointer Pro, PayPal, Calendly, Webhooks and Web flow implementations.

London

Training and Development and Events technical consultant. Clients included a Fleet-Street commercial law-chambers leading to achieving a legal-500 award.

West Midlands, England, United Kingdom

Training and Development: Created Digital Training resources, Virtual Courses, Events and films.Management: Management of permanent staff team and 50 temporary workers. Developed 35 strategic partnerships. Developing commercial offerings. Analysis of service and financial data alongside partners and competitors to produce comprehensive 50 page business plan. Including SWOT analysis, risk analysis and contingency planning. Event Management: Delivered 1000-person+ public events including safety and risk management, budget planning and tendering, Public speaking regularly to large gatherings and radio broadcasts.

Leamington Spa, England, United Kingdom

VLC exists to transform the lives of children whom society has forgotten. As a Centre Leader I was responsible to lead the children in our care to flourish and achieve English and Mathematics GCSE. Management: I managed a number of teachers and teaching assistants, compiled reports, implemented strategies to reduce risk and maximise growth opportunities and liaised with businesses, charities and government organisations.Data: Leveraged technology to track student data, organised timetables and administrated SharePoint

Leamington Spa, England, United Kingdom

During this year we opened a second centre and saw the number of students and staff more than double. I was responsible for over half of the curriculum. As the organisation grew I also became the IT coordinator. I received training to deliver the 'Real Love Rocks' CSE awareness course from Barnado's and we delivered it to a number of vulnerable children.

Leamington

I worked directly alongside the principle, writing and delivering quality GCSE English materials to students in alternative provision. The students had a broad range of needs. When I started there, LVLC was a startup organisation which had been going less than six months and had only two employees. During this period we saw it grow in terms of the number of students we supported and the number of staff employed

Master Of Arts - Ma

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba