The Strategy Unit are an autonomous consultancy business (as part of the NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU), with a team of over 60 and an annual turnover in excess of £5 million. We help commissioners, healthcare providers, universities, charities, national policy makers, and Government to understand the challenges they face, and make the best possible decisions. Our clients, who are at the forefront of UK healthcare, value us as a trusted partner to provide evidence-informed analysis and advice, and the ability to take that into implementation.

Project Manager for the Masters in Genomic Medicine framework , a c. £7 million offer for NHS staff in England as part of the Genomics Education Programme. Responsible for managing a network of ten universities in England to ensure delivery against student numbers target as well as ensuring appropriate geographic and professional spread of genomic expertise in the healthcare workforce. Key activities include training needs analysis, contract management, performance reporting and governance arrangements for the project.

Employed in the Business Change team in the People Directorate to support major transformation projects across service areas. Predominantly deployed to support organisational redesigns and to facilitate the integration of social care commissioning.Responsibilities include:• Work to formal project management methodologies PRINCE2 (Practitioner qualified) and CHAMPS2.• Conduct research and analyses in relation to social care practices across local authorities in the UK.• Engaging stakeholders across business areas to establish the scope of projects including leading product-based planning workshops.• Write business cases and other project documents. • Present project proposals to staff and senior management team.• Maintain operational control of projects in delivery.• Chair stakeholder meetings.• Conduct process mapping.• Report on product quality and project activities.

Researching social policy under New Labour and Coalition governments, in particular the impact of their social exclusion and localism agendas on England's heritage sector.

Managed community projects and volunteer recruitment in the Gloucestershire Countryside Portfolio as part of a Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) development project. Responsibilities include:• Report writing detailing progress of audience engagement work for HLF.• Registering and carrying out reference checks for volunteer staff.• Creating and maintaining work rota for large number of volunteer staff.• Write and disseminate volunteer newsletter for the region.• Managing outreach programmes working with local authority partners and community groups with the objective of raising the profile of the Trust in the region.• Line manage staff member recruited as part of an access to employment scheme.

SCAWDI are a community action group based in Birmingham with a primary focus on engaging with African and African-Caribbean communities in the West Midlands.Employed as a project manager for two audience engagement projects funded by the HLF with total budget of almost £100,000. Responsibilities include: • Preparing bids for project funding.• Managing the full cycle of the projects including research, progress reporting, organising and promoting project events, volunteer recruitment, developing partners, managing the budget, writing the final publications and evaluation. • Utilising various marketing opportunities such as social networking sites, local radio, press, universities and community centres to recruit volunteers interested in participating in the project and promote the activities of the project. • Develop and deliver a local history programme for local schools.• Writing and designing publications and exhibition materials resulting from the volunteers’ research.• Fundraising through the sale of exhibitions and other materials.

Specialised in providing search and selection for the Management Consultancy sector. Key clients included KPMG, Deloitte, CapGemini, Accenture and Ernst & Young. Achievements and responsibilities include:• Promoted twice in first year to Senior Consultant• Providing recruitment service for international clients and candidates and working to sales targets. • Responsible for desk training of trainee consultant• Completed internal career development program involving management training.

Specialist financial services recruitment covering the Bancassurance market in the Midlands region. Client portfolio made up of major high street banks. Responsible for managing client relationships, preparing candidates for interviews and negotiating contracts in a target driven environment.