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Edinburgh City, Scotland, United Kingdom

Delivered resourcing transformation and strategy support across multiple business areas, focusing on forecasting and constructive challenge.

Edinburgh, City Of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Secondment focusing on Wellbeing, Diversity & Inclusion

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Providing professional guidance and support throughout Police Scotland in all aspects of organisational change across Scotland through the current Transforming the Service (TTS) Portfolio. Proactive in the promotion of recognised methods and standards to improve the successful delivery of programme and projects that contribute to the Police Scotland key principle of Keeping People Safe.Providing Programme Senior Responsible Owners with appropriate and effective Programme capability and supporting the SRO in ensuring that governance arrangements, delivery capability and performance of the programme is in line with the SRO’s expectations.Providing direction for emerging Organisational Development ideas and facilitate assessments to determine the scale of projects.Providing specialist technical support to a Programme (typical durations 2-3 years) of strategic transformational change and engaging with multi-disciplinary teams located across Scotland.Facilitating the design and development of programmes ensuring that all milestones are logged and monitored. Assisting the Organisational Development Portfolio Support Manager with programme-level activities including tracking (with projections over 3-5 years) and oversight.

Edinburgh

Currently providing Project and Programme expertise as part of a small team within Police Scotland Organisational Development department, delivering business change programmes to realise significant savings.Main role is supporting the delivery of the Corporate Strategy for the next two years through a significant number of projects encompassing ICT, HR, Finance, Information Management, Communications, Training and Development, Procurement, Estates and Fleet and other key corporate functions.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Supported and monitored the Force's programme of projects. This included providing consultancy advice on the use of Programme and Project management methodology throughout the Force, developing and delivering project training and preparing management reports.Maintained and reviewed the Force's formal project management procedures and promoted and facilitated their widespread use.Role involved supporting a diverse range of project types (legislative, operational, corporate/organisational, IT, partnership) and dealing with a wide range of stakeholders from operational police officers to local government and executive leads.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Provided executive support to the Chief Constable / Deputy Chief Constable / Assistant Chief Constables / Director of Corporate Services and Director of HR. Main duties included: discreet and confidential support to executive officers by preparing reports, organising correspondence, researching information, responding to enquiries and liaising with other police forces across Scotland and the UK, and partner organisations such as COPFS, Scottish Government and Scottish Prison Service.Carried out administrative duties and provided support in relation to Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland (ACPOS) Portfolios and committees held by the members of the Force Executive together with a wide range of secretarial duties.

Confidential secretariat support to the Vice President of Sales (Europe and Middle East).

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Co-ordinated the responses to Requests for Information (RFIs) and Requests for Quote (RFQ) from mobile telecommunications companies across the world by liaising with technical and sales experts within the company to prepare bid documentation to challenging timescales.

First point of contact for a busy, city centre recruitment company, with responsibility for looking after the facilities and day to day maintenance of the building.

Master Of Arts (M.A. Hons), Mediaeval History

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