Leading on member education for the union. Creating and commissioning national courses to develop confidence and activism. Overseeing national education partnerships. Strategic responsibility for developing learning reps.

• Leading on developing two new roles for the Manager in Partnership (senior activists in healthcare) involving consultation with the Chief Executive and Project Officers • Working in partnership with the Black members, LGBT, Young Members and Women’s Officers to devise innovative strategies to increase activism and confidence for the self organised groups • Facilitating the Young Members Weekend with over 120 participants and engaging specifically with apprentices and Black young members to facilitate discussion• Initiated the piloting of a Women’s only IT seminar focusing on ‘Get Your Digital Voice Heard’ to encourage women to participate in on line forums and social media • Facilitating planning a campaign seminar for library workers, promoting the use of the Save Our Public Services Toolkit for local government activists • Actively contribute to the twitter feeds,e bulletins, forums and facebook • Contributed to the development of the moodle site for learning reps to share ideas, resources and good practice. • Experience of writing and delivering a range of training; Negotiating Skills, Equality Reps, Tutor Training , ULR training, Tutor Training Skills etc.

- Managed the £2 million Inclusive Learning project using the PRINCE 2 methodology; budget profiling, projecting learner numbers, reporting on monthly financial outcomes and quarterly reporting on outcomes - Negotiating with Unionlearn on a regular basis on the management of the contract, provide employer case studies and articles for publication- Line managed two national project workers, the project administrator and indirectly managed the regional learning officers - Strategic overview of 65 regionally based projects- Instrumental in the development of e- notes for learning reps

Led on developing the Skills for Life (literacy, numeracy & computing skills) Strategy which had implications for collective bargaining and equalities. Over 27,000 members responded to the research which had implications for organising, bargaining, negotiating and campaigning. I developed tailored guidance to support the branch, employer and ULR to implement the key research findings and how to organise around the Skills for Life agenda. This led to increasing membership, recruiting learning reps, recruiting digital and maths champions, an increase in new learning agreements and more branch involvement in delivering skills relevant to both the employer and the employee.

Delivered City & Guilds 7302 Level 3 Certificate in Delivering Learning Delivered Assertiveness Skills for Women in the community

Delivered the City & Guilds 7302 Level 3 Certificate in Delivering Learning

-Responsible for the strategic and operational implementation of the Skills for Life and Family Learning Strategy from the outset- Interpreted Management Information Data on a termly basis to influence forward planning - Negotiated achievable targets for delivery and participation with the Learning Skills Council and partnership organisations- Contributed to the termly brochure of courses and write press releases for marketing courses - Initiated and promoted new learning opportunities creatively in areas of greatest need

- Successfully led Slough Council on Area 14 (ESOL, literacy & numeracy) in the ALI/OFSTED inspection achieving a grade 2 with ‘good management of ESOL’ identified as a strength- Managed and led a team of 25 Skills for Life (literacy, numeracy & ESOL) tutors - Developed and piloted Power to be You (raising self-confidence for women) - Chaired Steering Group to engage young people in improving their literacy and numeracy skills - Managed the Skills for Life development of an ESF project and a Key Stage 4 project in school- Conducted training needs analysis to ensure staff trained to required teaching qualifications

 Formulated a whole school mentoring strategy for supporting underachieving pupils  Developed, implemented, monitored and evaluated individual action plans  Liaised with Behaviour Support Services, Careers Service and Educational Welfare Officer  Produced monitoring and evaluation reports for LEA and DFES requirements