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Coventry, Gb

Coventry, Gb

Coventry, England, United Kingdom

Coventry, United Kingdom

Sutton Coldfield, United Kingdom

Coventry, United Kingdom

Developing and delivering programme and project messages to key audiences through the management of specific communications activities in print and electronic media, including social media; monitoring activity and gathering intelligence to understand audience perspectives; monitoring and responding to press interest; developing strong working relationships with internal and external customers and stakeholders; promoting the reputation of the Agency.Key Achievements:• Developing and managing complex messages across a number of channels• Developing and fostering key relationships with stakeholder and supplier groups• Developed trust in a very short space of time with key staff to enable project intelligence to be gathered and shared appropriately to a very wide range of interested parties.

Coventry, United Kingdom

Developed communications channels for user input and project reporting to support a new web offer and a new online reporting tool; developed stakeholder and partner engagement; delivered product training to partners and audiences; managed the closure of a £10m sector funding project; actively supported the development and launch of a new train the trainer programme including the development of strategies to deliver and support the programme online. Key Achievements• Project managed the stakeholder engagement and communications for the redevelopment of a major FE web site including user input, launch and training.• Project managed the development of a data collection and reporting tool, including negotiation with suppliers, user input/feedback and training.• Initiated and fostered stakeholder groups with partner organisations and internal teams to bring together user opinion in order to develop a web offer to meet defined user needs.

Reporting to the Head of Regeneration and Skills. Developing policy and strategy in line with, and to support, government and departmental initiatives; project and programme management and reporting; development of communication channels to support community and stakeholder engagement; development of new relationships with a range of sector and non-education focussed bodies including those linked with MOD, Cabinet Office and DWP. During this period I was seconded to the post of Head of Regeneration and Skills with responsibility for developing focussed policy approach and outputs, financial management and stakeholder engagement. Key Achievements: • Project managed the pilot period of a major BIS initiative, including a gateway review, evaluation and negotiations with both suppliers and stakeholders• Successfully built up Becta's profile with large employers, including the commissioning of research that was taken up by government departments • Actively supported government targets to reduce digital exclusion and to extend the profile of informal adult learning by engaging with a wide range of newly-formed organisations to ensure co-operative working. • Developed and supported Web 2.0 technologies to engage stakeholders, colleagues and partners including ning, blogs, wikis, and developed a range of assets to exemplify the use of ICT to support learning and development.

Further Education and Skills, Becta, Coventry Reporting to the Head of Client Communications. Developing communications strategy, messages and activities focusing particularly on our relationship with the learning and skills sector. Defining a package of appropriate, customer-focused activities to communicate our messages, and measuring the impact of these. Managing a combination of external agencies and internal resource to deliver activities, often working with partner agencies and central government departments. Using an appropriate range of tactics including online, print, events, exhibitions, speaking opportunities, press, advertising, research and quantitative statistical analysis. Key Achievements:• Developed and implemented Becta's FE and skills communications strategy with primary objective to promote the achievements and activities of Becta to the sector, to partner agencies and to government. • Design and management of targeted events, promotional materials, press and publicity for both internal and external audiences. • Successfully managing Becta's exit from two highly regarded web sites Actively supported government targets to reduce citizen-oriented web sites by successfully managing Becta's exit from two highly regarded sites.

Reporting to the Director of Learning and Teaching. Management of operational outputs and strategic direction of five teams working on 13 diverse projects with a combined budget of £2.25 million, including: information services (Ferl and aclearn.net); staff development and support projects (ILT Subject Mentors Programme, the Ferl Practitioners Programme); research; and the development of content-creation toolkits.Key Achievements Designed, developed and delivered highly successful Post-16 E-learning Practitioners' Conferences in 2004 and 2005. Overall management responsibility for 30 staff, including two distributed teams and a portfolio of 13 projects Developed programmes of work and project plans that enabled continuation and development of services over financial years, negotiating with both Becta and LSC Delivery of accurate project and financial reporting for a range of stakeholders to ensure effective project tracking Actively worked to support my teams in the development of and move to a new content management system for two websites, designed to sit within organisational systems

Ba(Hons), English And French Studies, Iii

Agile Project Management Practitioner

Prince2 Practitioner

Tdlb D32 And D33

Postgraduate Diploma, Librarianship And Information Studies

Ba (Hons), Iii English And French Studies