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Portsmouth, England, Gb

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

As the Head of Strategic Planning, I produce the Abu Dhabi education strategy in collaboration with key stakeholders across the education ecosystem and beyond, making reference to research, benchmarking and global good practice in education policy. I support the success of the strategy by helping to develop dedicated plans (including, most recently, for the 42 Abu Dhabi coding school) that focus the overall strategy on the day-to-day work of delivering education, and align it to the needs of the education sector and the overall direction of the Abu Dhabi government. As part of my portfolio, I also manage and advise specific projects, advise on policy development, manage engagement with other Abu Dhabi and federal government entities, support organisation-wide initiatives such as business process redesign, and work with specific committees and task forces to plan, consult on and deliver a wide portfolio of cross-governmental programmes.

London, England, United Kingdom

I was the first Principal Consultant for the brand new Data & Insight function at Agilisys, a consultancy specialising in digitally-enabled transformation. I designed, secured and led projects to help public sector organisations to unlock the value of their data, and oversaw the development of many of the practice's processes and the delivery of some of its key projects, notably facing the local government sector. Ultimately, I decided to move on for the opportunity to work overseas for the first time, but I left behind a rapidly growing and strikingly successful team which continued to expand rapidly and was highly impactful in the market, with important wins not merely in the data space but also in establishing managed information services and jointly delivering (with KPMG) one of the UK's largest organisational transformations in the local government sector.

London, England, United Kingdom

This was a management role within KPMG's management consultancy practice, focusing on data & analytics. My main role was to manage engagements, mainly with public sector clients, and to act as a subject matter expert in relation to local authority services and analytics - particularly within children's services. As such, I led on all aspects of project management including budget management, team leadership and oversight of deliverables.Within our UK local government practice, I managed most of our data-related social care projects. I developed a range of tools that can support finance leads and directors of children's and adults' services, in particular cost of care models that can support any local authority to project its future spending requirements based on an easy-to-use tool that allows planning for the future to include the impact of planned, or even tentative, service changes.As a data specialist, much of my work was designed to help build knowledge, analytical capabilities and ultimately the ability to make decisions on the basis of evidence and insight - an ethos that continued into my subsequent role with Agilisys.

Slough, United Kingdom

As the inaugural head of performance and data, my role was to turn around performance management and intelligence for the Slough Children's Services Trust, an independent body created by ministerial order to take over Slough's children's social care services. The Trust went live on 1st October 2015 and was only the second of its kind in the UK to be created, after Doncaster.I was responsible for overseeing the collection, quality assurance, analysis and presentation of information about children and families and ensuring that staff, managers and senior leaders understand demand and performance. I also had responsibility for overseeing much of the function looking after system administration and data quality within the Trust's databases.One of my main tasks was to recruit a team; the Trust began with only me, but I left an almost fully established team of four analysts, an information governance officer and two systems professionals.Achievements included the creation, population and review of the Trust's KPI set, brand new weekly data briefings and management reporting, forecasting in areas such as future care leaver and housing demand, the development of previously unreported areas of data such as care leavers, CIN planning, Early Help and MASH, and a major revamp of information available to most senior groups including Slough's Joint Parenting Panel.

London, England, United Kingdom

This was an acting up position, pending a restructure. The focus of this post was on strengthening management oversight of social care information and knitting together challenge, performance and data functions to provide an effective, responsive information service. I managed a planning and performance officer and a team of analysts within the Children's performance and data service - 3 direct and 1 indirect report.Workstreams included:- Recruitment and retention of capable analysts, including forging partnerships to reach a wider pool of potential applicants- Overseeing the development of reporting and automation to strengthen the current suite of intelligence products- Enhancing the business focus of the social care team and developing insights for senior management- Conducting a range of monitoring, challenge and quality assurance activities to produce continuous improvement in practice and management gripNotable successes included:- Recruited and retained four analysts and a planning and performance officer to fill new and existing posts within the team, helping to generate a huge increase in applications for almost no cost by building partnerships with the HE sector- Put in place systems around Freedom of Information requests, ad hoc demands and continuous review of performance products- Led on tracking of Hounslow's improvement journey and its position in relation to Ofsted criteria and other local authorities- Pioneered a new mentoring scheme for staff

London, England, United Kingdom

This was a permanent post, and remained my substantive post until November 2015. Its focus was on improving performance, compliance and challenge in Hounslow's children's services, following an inspection in early 2014 which resulted in a judgment of Requires Improvement.Main workstreams included:- Monitoring, maintaining and driving accountability for the council's improvement plan- Working with senior staff to formulate and review Hounslow's 2015 strategy for children and young people- Obtaining, analysing and reporting on performance, intelligence and other means to measure success- Setting targets, defining positive outcomes and providing challenge to foment productive joint working.Notable successes included:- Revamped the service model and outcome framework underpinning Hounslow's new children's strategy, working with the children's joint commissioner to guide senior managers and partners into agreement of a radically condensed set of future outcomes- Devised new models of performance analysis, auditing these against existing tools and supervising operational staff in populating and streamlining them- Guided the development of challenge in service oversight, holding senior managers to account, reviewing the progress made by services and writing and presenting high-level reports on these for top-level management.

London, England, United Kingdom

This post was a temporary contract until March 2014, later extended to August. I moved to London for increased job opportunities and due to the requirements of my partner's postgraduate study.- Developed a completely new suite of highly complex and effective automated reporting tools- Improved existing reporting in a range of areas, including performance indicator reports and early years monitoring- Liaised with ICT to improve services' effective use of systems, and the interface of these systems with products I personally developed- Produced bespoke tools, often at short notice, for purposes such as government returns.

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

I was offered this post on an interim basis due to the absence of the substantive post holder.- Led information-sharing work across the South West to chime with policy direction from the Department for Education, and to meet the requirements of a comprehensive participation offer- Led on changes to business processes by producing documentation, aligning it with user capabilities including through training and liaison with ICT, and overseeing implementation- Supervised the work of administrative staff- Advised the Strategic Leader on matters relating to our councils' position in an increasingly complex policy environment characterised by departmental activity and changes to services- Continued to deliver most elements of my substantive post in the absence of backfill, although some transactional and analytical duties were delegated elsewhere.

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

This was a permanent position in a joint team straddling Bournemouth and Poole local authorities. The team was focused on preparing for the Raising of the Participation Age to 17 in 2013 and 18 in 2015, and this post provided analysis, reporting, research and project support to that agenda.- Successfully bid for, managed and delivered a research contract evaluating the impact of a new programme being piloted by a major third sector organisation- Produced and delivered presentations and analysis to a broad range of partners across the region, including councillors, headteachers, college principals and businesspeople- Provided reporting on the basis of research into challenges facing the participation agenda, including rising levels of special educational needs and NEETs- Monitored sources of policy and information, providing briefings to senior management.

Poole, United Kingdom

This was a project post geared towards implementing a major HR change project. It was ultimately extended several times from an initial period of 3 months.- Delivered a bespoke programme of training to adult social services, allowing them to understand and manage the impact of change processes on their workforce and structure- Chaired job evaluation panels, managing multidisciplinary panels- Conducted provisional evaluations on posts in conjunction with recognised trade unions- Revamped the project's data management- Delivered training and individual support, and advised on restructures, career grades, and other HR issues across internal council services and the borough's schools.

Ma, History, Merit

Activities and Societies: Political, Animation, Ultimate frisbeeFocusing on 20th-century history and in particular the Cold War.

Ba, History & Politics, First Class

Activities and Societies: Political, Animation, Martial artsDissertation focused on historiography of the Cold War.

Education record

Activities and Societies: FencingA levels: English Language (A), History (A), Psychology (B) GCSEs: A*A*AAAAAABBB