Creating and delivering bespoke English Language learning for adults.

Translating from Italian to English for a range of clients covering a variety of text types including: European Union funding bids, theatrical scripts, research dissertations, legal documents, strategic reports, policy documents, business reports, financial reports, technical manuals, fiction, short stories, news reports, subtitles.

Teaching the full range of academic and artistic subjects: history, geography, science, mathematics, ICT, drama and art.

I work for a network of Italian Communal Pharmacies. Unlike private pharmacies they have wider mission which includes imporoving community health and wellbeing outcomes.

· Training and developing board members of newly established network organisations · Developing community lead grant giving programmes and training community members to assess grant applications. · Policy engagement & facilitation through participatory activities · Partnership development and performance management implementation and support · Implementing quality control systems · Researching and writing briefing papers for a wide variety of audiences including community activists and Civil Servants · Conference organising & key-note speaking · Commissioning and contract management including ICT contracts; Officer Sandwell Council of Voluntary Organisations · Action planning · Developing a network of not-for-profit organisations · Writing funding applications, monitoring and reporting against action plans. · Partnership working with local authority & private business · Developing and delivering marketing and promotion strategies · Secretariat support for network and key working groups

Developed a local network for NGOs within a democratically accountable organisation.

Union of Students ­ University of Central England · General Management of commercial and non commercial services over 3 university campuses. Services included: bars, specialist bookshop, stationary/confectionery shop, Advice centre, volunteer support centre, sports and transport facilities. · Staff training, management, supervision and appraisal · Training and supporting the board of directors ­ developing learning plans.

· Developing a students union within a Further Education College · Training and supporting students in work-based behaviours · Personal development support for young people