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Huddersfield, Gb

Huddersfield, United Kingdom

Proud to lead the Business Development Team, Careers Team, Global Professional Award Team, Alumni team to deliver our Employability Strategy enabling students to be successful professional graduates.Key Achievements- Led on the introduction of the Global Professional Award accredited by the CMI largest programme within the University - Secured funding to the value of £750,000 to increase resource capacity - Successfully delivered virtual education to a cohort of 7000 in 2021- Leading a strong team of 4 services to enable graduate success in highly skilled employment- Completed CMI Chartered Manager Fellow status in less than 6 months- Strong partnerships internally and externally with over 3000 employer connections- Achieved 97% employee satisfaction in leadership survey on management style- Repeatedly secured awards from sector bodies

Leeds, United Kingdom

Led and managed the employability team, creating standards, to ensure high quality employability opportunities, careers coaching and advice whilst supporting the development of a long term employability strategy.Key achievements:• Enabled 97% graduates in work or further study 6 months after graduating• Up-skilled Careers Consultants to be the first UK university to trial Thomas International psychometric testing with students• Supported university-wide project to implement a student employability journey framework• Facilitated reduction in employee stress audit within 6 months • Designed, delivered and evaluated a student resilience programme introduced to first year students, delivered findings at multiple conferences• Efficiently built positive stakeholder relationships, both internally and externally, where previously none existed

Across Uk - Owner Of Next Steps

An organisation that provides learning and development solutions, career consultancy and coaching.• Successful in tender for NHS contract to deliver a leadership programme, positively introduced a performance management system and delivered team away days to engage teams.• Produces all social media content and a frequent writer of blogs • Launched an innovative 'client charter'​ training programme with outstanding feedback• Delivered successful outplacement packages to a highly unhappy, aggrieved group of individuals, whilst personally employed by the same organisation. Overcame barriers such as ‘you still have a job’ – to ‘I cannot thank you enough for the skills and knowledge you shared’• Placed a long term unemployed individual into a £22,000 role within four months with both employer and employee delighted with outcomes through intense interview skills training• Designed and delivered numerous career transition workshops with excellent evaluation scores of 98% satisfaction • Advised a number of individuals on business start ups, including business planning and financial grant advice • Repeated successes in improving confidence in public speaking • Transformed individuals life's by removing fears and phobias

Providing learning and development solutions to an organisation of circa 10,000 employees including:• Selected to support internal recruitment and selection programmes both with recruitment and training package during a significant restructure, delivering messages to unsuccessful candidates• Designed, developed and delivered bespoke management development programmes to an audience reaching 10,000 from operational teams to the Chief Executive • Nominated for the ‘Anchor Smile Awards’ for service delivery and outstanding attitude to learning and development and received many ‘Wow’ cards from stakeholders • Coached and developed internal colleagues who were unsuccessful at initial interview, to be successful second time around• Selected by Head of L&D to project manage the Management Development Programme affecting 600 Line Managers including the co-ordination of 8 consultants, training support team and operational teams• Acted as a business partner for the Learning and development team with key stakeholders, commissioning and agreeing key pieces of work• Designed bespoke assessment centre days and programmes

• Designed recruitment and selection centres to maximise and drive operational performance, resulted in displacing 10% of colleagues• Managed change and delivered critical key messages to affected colleagues whilst maintaining key performance indicators• Acted as an internal consultant working closely with ‘Deloitte’ to investigate and identify business opportunities, quickly formed new critical contacts and sold the concept to existing reluctant colleagues• Recommended merger of five separate functions into one, through a re-structure and supported transition

• Consistently demonstrated excellent leadership skills through inspiring a vision, driving 10 team leaders through performance management and an engaging approach• Successfully led team through difficult redundancy situation whilst delivering highest performance results • Influenced and created strong working relationships with aggressive senior managers who felt threatened by the introduction of the contact centre• Worked in alliance with Right Coutts to deliver outstanding outplacement service • Within only 10 months achieved a reduction in absence levels from 12.3 days per capita to 4.67 days

Master Of Arts - Ma, Psychological Therapies, Pass

A specialist Masters degree that advances professional development in counselling, and psychotherapy. Covering contemporary theories.

Ba Hons, Business Studies Hnc Business And Management

CITP Certificate In Training Practice IT NVQ Level 3 Advanced Excel 9 GCSE's Grade A-C Customer Service NVQ Contact Centre Dynamics.

Ba Hons, Business Studies, 2:1

Activities and Societies: Member of the CIPD Yorkshire and Humber Learning Group

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Education

Conducting reserach into the experiences of International Students in relation to the UK labour market.

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