Christopher Holgate Email & Phone Number

Edinburgh City, Scotland, United Kingdom

Perth, United Kingdom

• Supporting the Head of Public Service Reform Cultural & Community Development and the Community Planning Policy Team Leader in developing and implementing joint resourcing arrangements for the Community Planning Partnership and the key tools to support these arrangements.• Lead Officer for performance management and research Reporting for the Community Planning Partnership. Improving accountability and transparency of the delivery plans for the Single Outcome Agreement• Commission wider qualitative and quantitative research and analysis of the Community Planning Partnership across Perth & Kinross.• Prepare performance monitoring reports for the Community Planning Partnership Board, Executive Officer Group and Executive Officer Team. • Support training and development programmes and events for Community Planning Partners on evidence led policy and practice which supports the delivery of better outcomes for local people and communities across Perth & Kinross.• Support with developing the collation, analysis, interpretation and reporting of statistics and research to assist decision making and continuous improvement.• Creating online data tools to support Community Planning in P&K.

Elgin

Working in the Chief Executive's Office, Corporate Policy Unit Section. • Collating service action plans and analysing performance data for the Corporate Services Directorate and Chief Executive's Office in Moray.• Writing committee reports for Policy & Resources Committee and Audit & Performance Review Committee.• Reporting service performance to Senior and Corporate Management of the Council• Reporting national audit findings from Audit Scotland to Committee and developing follow-up action plans. • Providing Corporate Services analytical support with surveys and data analysis. • Working on quality assurance on the Council's performance indicators.• Working with the Local Government Benchmarking Framework data.• Working on corporate performance reportingProviding analytical support for Moray's Community Planning Partnership.• Profiling areas of Moray• Providing data to inform the Partnership's Prevention Plan• Assisting with the development of the performance management framework for the Partnership• Working on the 10 year plan for Moray. • Worked on follow-up actions from the Audit Scotland report on Community Planning.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Working on projects for the Governance & Performance Management and Change & Development Team • Undertake a number of research tasks relating to local government in Scotland.• Assisting in developing a new online statistic analysis tool to assist: policymakers, council researchers and academics in understanding inequalities on a datazone level in Scotland. • Collecting and analysing data for the Local Government Benchmarking Framework project.• Designing, conducting and analysing online questionnaires for internal staff and external clients. • Gained an understanding of the challenges facing the public service in Scotland.• Exploring how the Christie Commission's recommendations are being implemented at a local level. • Working on evaluating Single Outcome Agreements to understand best practice for Community Planning Partnerships with a focus on economic development. • Engaging with Scottish local authorities on their research needs• Exploring the role of partnerships between government organizations to improve public service delivery.• Creating area profiles for external clients using Scottish Neighbourhood Statistics.• Attending conferences relating to: Census, Scottish Household Survey, LARIA, SIMD Index, Census Flow data modelling, Head of Analysis in Scotland Conference, Population & Migration events and Online Social Surveys. • Active member of the Knowledge Hub and facilitator of a group. • Attended in-house training sessions on Excel, Stata and TISBO Spotfire Silver programs. • Conducting research into the ways each of Scotland's Political Management Systems • Researching Arms length External Organisations (ALEOs)Involved in Research projects on the Governance & Performance Management Team.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Internship at Badenoch & Clark RecruitmentEditing and formatting CV for clients on a tight time scale. Meeting targets and working as part of a national team to turn around CV's quickly and accurately to be sent to clients. Editing CV's involves checking for spelling and grammar mistakes, putting the text in the correct font and ensuring CV's are composed in a logical and easy to read format highlighting key skills and achievements of candidates. Dealing with telephone inquires as well as other general office admin duties.Learning about the Recruitment Industry.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.C.) Honours, Geography, 2.1

Activities and Societies: Senior Student of New Hall 2010-2011 Committee Member of New Hall 2009-2011 On Society Committees Honours degree.

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