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Constructing Excellence lead on digital, data and performance measurement workstreams

Liaising with the membership on a day to day basis and leading on a number of policy themes such as BIM, sustainability and social media.

The Housing Forum is a cross housing sector membership body acting as a conduit between government, industry, trade bodies and academia. My role included:● management of relationships with stakeholders such as commercial and not for profit companies, trade associations, professional bodies, central and local government, and regulators.● Key account managing 100 member clients, developing excellent personal relationships with key contacts.● Preparing responses to select committee inquiries and government consultations on subjects such as affordable housing, sustainability and planning.● Researching policy and regulatory developments and briefing the Chief Executive and Board on these.● Delivering research projects on behalf of external clients such as the Housing Corporation and Homes and Communities Agency.● Managing external communications such as press releases, policy briefings, reports, board papers, newsletters, web content and tweets.● Created and implemented digital communications strategy resulting in doubling website traffic and building large corporate Twitter account following.● Leading a rebranding exercise and ensuring the corporate guidelines were kept to by staff and external users.● Responsibility for arranging a series of successful external events.

The Local Authority Support Unit was formed to provide expert guidance to local authorities in order to recycling and waste management performance. The main parts of my role here were:● Project management of a national programme of technical environmental consultancy support to English local authorities● Project management of the development and delivery of a database and website to monitor and support the waste management and recycling progress of English local authorities.● Evaluating bids for a large public sector contract procurement exercise.● Liaising with a wide range of parties across central, regional and local, government, industry, and the charity and community sectors, in order to fulfil the objectives of the unit.● Monitoring the £6.5m P/A budget of the unit to ensure consultants did not overspend.● Line management of one permanent member of staff, and supplementary temporary staff within the unit.

This role involved collating and editing questionnaire responses for a review of national fire statistics and providing general research for official publications. Other tasks involved supervision and training of temporary staff, plus general office administration.