Christopher Maddock Email & Phone Number

Preston, England, Gb

To lead and manage a team of Enterprise Co-ordinators and volunteers to provide high quality careers and enterprise education that aligns with the Local Enterprise Partnership economic and skills priorities, ensures improved career outcomes and achieves sustainable change in careers provision at a local and national level. Plus working closely with the Strategic Hub Lead and cross sector stakeholders within the careers space to drive collaboration and ensure delivery of the Careers Hub Strategic plan.

Enterprise Coordinator with responsibility for a local cluster of schools and colleges in Lancaster, with the aim to facilitate their relationship with stakeholders and support them to improve their careers and enterprise activities and to engage with the world of work.Through establishing local and national contexts the I aim to focus everyone’s efforts on programmes and activities that are most effective in motivating young people, supporting independent choice, and supporting positive outcomes for young people.Key Accountabilities:Establish and develop the Enterprise Adviser Network locally by engaging and supporting a cluster of Lancaster schools and or FE colleges and 50 business volunteers.Build and maintain effective relationships with senior leaders in local schools and colleges within the network, understanding their development needs and supporting the business volunteers in scoping, identifying and addressing these needs.Recruit senior level business volunteers from local businesses and successfully match them to schools and colleges within the Enterprise Adviser Network.

Preston, United Kingdom

Holding responsibility for the overall planning and delivery of the NCS (National Citizen Service) contract in the areas of Preston, Leyland and Chorley, in accordance with the NCS ethos and principles. This is 950 places at a contract value to the business of over £1.4million in government funding.This includes overseeing all elements of the programme from recruitment to ongoing engagement post-graduation. Responsible for line managing NCS Area Coordinators to ensure the achievement of targets and the delivery of the programme in line with required safety, quality and contractual specifications.Involvement in the process of recruiting 400+ seasonal staff at assessment centres, as well as providing training for the successful candidates ahead of the summer delivery period.

Responsible for establishing, strengthening and maintaining high quality, long lasting relationships with stakeholders, in particular at schools and colleges. Working with key school contacts to deploy recruitment and events strategies geared to find NCS participation growth in each school to book in recruitment events for those in the Field Sales Team to engage and convert Young People and their Parent/Guardians, in order to fill thousands of NCS places in the area.

Preston, United Kingdom

With a passion for driving performance to reach ambitious targets, develop the skills of those managed in the Lancashire Sales Team which includes accounts, events and outreach for NCS at The Challenge by managing and motivating a team of 10 people to go out into schools and the community to ensure young people take the opportunity to take part in NCS. Responsibilities included:- Managing the Sales Associates to ensure they go out and deliver high quality presentations, follow up events and PHSE lessons in schools.- Managing the Accounts Team to ensure all the schools in the area are engaged with NCS- Closely monitored targets at both an individual and team level to ensure everybody was operating at their full potential.- Ensuring targets relating to school engagement, event booking, expressions of interests collected, conversion and turn up were met.- Understanding the sales tactics and the key strengths of each team to ensure we use every interaction with young people and parents to full potential.- Form part of the national Sales Leadership Team ensuring best practice and challenges were shared nationally.- Ensured national strategy was rolled out locally.

Preston, United Kingdom

Acting as the face of NCS on-site to oversee the smooth day-to-day running of the programme, taking on responsibility for the safety and well-being of up to 84 young people, and line-managing a team of seasonal staff through the NCS programme.Other responsibilities included working with the Pastoral Care Lead to manage and support challenging behaviour, providing performance feedback to seasonal staff and holding all sensitive information about participants in line with The Challenge’s data protection policies.

Preston, United Kingdom

Leading a team of Sales Co-ordinators to find and place 15-17 year-olds into local NCS programmes within a wider geographical region. Primary responsibilities included:- Building and maintaining effective relationships with schools, teachers and other youth led organisations- Exciting and persuading young people to sign up to NCS through presentations in assemblies, PSHE classes and follow up phone calls- Defining and leading a local strategy for a geographical area to work in conjunction with the national marketing strategy- Coaching and mentoring members of the team and opportunities to train new starters

Preston, United Kingdom

Involved in a fast-paced Sales Team recruiting young people on to the National Citizen Service (NCS). Primary responsibilities included:- Directly reaching out to target schools to get involved in year round NCS programmes- Supporting school engagement for year round NCS programmes through calls and meetings- Building and fostering long standing relationships with a wide range of audiences, including young people, teachers and parents- Exciting and persuading young people to sign up to NCS through presentations in assemblies, PSHE classes and follow up phone calls- Assisting young people and their parents through the sign up process from initial expression of interest to turning up for the programme, primarily through phone calls- Retention of young people through presentations at information evenings and phone calls prior to each programme- Responsible for lead generation and conversion – increasing the number of people signing up to NCSProactively identify new opportunities to recruit new schools and new groups of young people- Administrative duties to support sales and sign up processes.

Preston, United Kingdom

Duties included:- Acting as first point of contact for incoming enquiries to the department- Liaising with tenants and landlords regarding maintenance issues- Liaising with contractors to arrange maintenance and repairs- Responsible for all Administration within the Maintenance Department- Updating property records on the database

Preston, United Kingdom

Providing financial information to management by researching and analyzing accounting data to prepare reports.Duties included:- Preparing asset, liability, and capital account entries by compiling and analyzing account information.- Documenting financial transactions by entering account information.- Recommending financial actions by analysing accounting options.- Summarising current financial status by collecting information; preparing balance sheet, profit and loss statement, and other reports.- Substantiating financial transactions by auditing documents.- Maintaining accounting controls by preparing and recommending policies and procedures.- Guiding accounting clerical staff by coordinating activities and answering questions.- Reconciling financial discrepancies by collecting and analyzing account information.- Securing financial information by completing data base backups.- Maintaining financial security by following internal controls.- Preparing payments by verifying documentation, and requesting disbursements.- Answering accounting procedure questions by researching and interpreting accounting policy and regulations.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Primary Education

Master'S Degree, Outdoor And Experiential Learning, Ongoing

Activities and Societies: Outdoor and Experiential Learning: Contexts and Applications The Reflective Practitioner Theoretical Perspective.