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Lead Officer working with a team of specialists responsible for advising on natural flood management and community resilience, investigating and delivering natural flood management within Cumbria. Manage funding of £6.6m over the duration of the programme. Manage and direct the flow of a wide variety of programme delivery information including financial data, programme milestones, approvals and risks. Work within the relevant professional practice/standards/guidance as defined by a framework of council best practice and procedures, as well as legislative guidelines with the ability to tackle issues and develop innovative solutions.Support the delivery of the project within a programme of activity and within budget so as to contribute to the long-term strategy of project delivery within the team. Frequently working with a number of internal or external stakeholders to establish and agree project scopes and outputs.Co-ordinate programme and project delivery across all stages of the life-cycle. Identifying issues and risks and seeking solutions to these.Identify the services and work that must be procured to complete projects. Commissioning of works with consultants and contractors. Co-ordinate consultants and contractors to ensure that work awarded is carried out in a timely fashion.

Carlisle, United Kingdom

Managing flood alleviation schemes with a value of up to £0.5m throughout Cumbria, and Project Lead for the Cumbria Innovative Flood Resilience (CiFR) Programme managing a budget of £6.6m. Producing tender documentation and procuring consultants and contractors through various frameworks and Open Tenders. NEC contract management (Options A, C and E) including the checking and approval of Programmes and Compensation Events. Managing consultants ensuring milestones are achieved on-time, chairing progress meetings, reviewing Early Warnings, checking and approval of invoices and Applications for Payment. Setting up of programme governance, including the drafting Terms of Reference for various groups.Producing Officer Decision Reports, Service Level Agreements, Procurement Exemption Reports and Subsidy Control Assessments as required, working closely with officers from Legal and Finance. Working closely with external Workstream Leads from various government bodies ensuring progress is properly reported and financial monitoring is undertaken. Producing monthly BRAG reports, including the updating of budgets, payments, risks, programme and uploading of key project documentation. Managing the programme spend profile and producing quarterly reports on progress and finance to the external funders.

Carlisle, United Kingdom

Working as part of the Infrastructure Recovery Programme, following Storm Desmond in December 2015. NEC Project Manager (Options A and C) for 3 work packages of bridge repairs following Storm Desmond, consisting of 178 assets. Including the procurement of 2 stage Design and Build contracts, contractor management, gateway reviews, chairing progress meetings, checking and agreeing Programmes, Early Warnings, Compensation Events and Application for Payments. Managing stakeholders and liaising with landowners. Responsible for the day-to-day management of NEC Supervisors and their resourcing. Responsible for producing the programme BRAG Report on a monthly basis, ensuring all required input is sought and all approval processes are followed.Responsible for managing and maintaining the live Programme of Works and updating the mapping system as required following any approved change requests. Ownership of the Press Release Planner for the Programme, ensuring press releases are drafted as and when required, gaining the required approval before submitting to the Communications Team.Management of the Forward Plan and Key Decision Report process for the Programme.

Lancaster, United Kingdom

Responsible for maintaining and reporting on a service wide project schedule, scheduling individual projects and writing project documentation. Responsible for managing Risk, Assumption, Issue and Dependency logs across multiple projects and maintaining project documentation, resource plans, approvals and milestone logs.Ownership of the University project documentation templates. Providing instruction and advice in relation to project management and documentation. Responsible for gathering project status information, reporting on progress, proactively identifying risks and issues escalating where necessary and writing status reports.Providing advice and interpreting customer requirements to provide suitable work solutions, problem solving where necessary.

Chelmsford, United Kingdom

Managing Customer Projects, up to a value of £0.5m, making and delivering space imaging sensors to various specifications as requested by the Customer. Working closely with the design and engineering teams to ensure dependencies are identified and managed, minimising unnecessary cost and delay to the project. Holding progress meetings with Customers. Budget management and ensuring that the gross margin stays within target. Providing monthly expenditure reports to senior management. Responsible for ensuring the Project Management Office follow the same processes with project planning, risk management and change control, maximising best practice and consistency. Responsible for the weekly production of revenue forecasts across the division.

Chelmsford, United Kingdom

Production of weekly financial dashboards for multiple projects, including analysing the data to ensure labour and material bookings are correct and as forecasted identifying any anomalies.Managing the programme risk register, producing customer invoices and status reports. Taking minutes where necessary and action chasing. Arranging international travel. Responsible for organising and co-ordinating training courses, workshops and seminars.

Carlisle, United Kingdom

Working as part of a small team, closing down the Council's external IT contract and bringing the service back in-house, and supporting the procurement and delivery of the Connecting Cumbria programme. Responsible for updating key programme documentation such as risk registers, action logs and communication and engagement plans, preparing reports and monitoring progress against project plans, key milestones and risks.Responsible for the direction and day to day management of apprentices including performance management.Organisation of publicity events around the county, including Members of Parliament and the public.Providing advice, guidance and support to internal and external stakeholders including Members of Parliament.

Carlisle, United Kingdom

Acting as Personal Assistant for the Head of Service. Responsible for all ICT equipment purchases, office moves and telephone requests across the Council including cost negotiation with suppliers. Responsible for the logging, monitoring and closure of IT project requests.

Carlisle, United Kingdom

Processing of grant applications and monitoring community budgets. Arranging, publicising and taking minutes during public meetings.

Foundation Degree, Business Management, Distinction

Modules covering: Managing Finance, Managing Self Development, Employability Skills, Managing Marketing, Managing Operations, Managing.

8 Gcses A* - C