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England, United Kingdom

I provide charities with cost-effective, high impact advice and support.Key areas of expertise and recent clients include:- Facilitation of away days (NAPAC, Brook, Project Mama, PHCUK, Richmond Parish Lands Charity, Together Now, etc) - Facilitation of Board development days and staff culture development days (NAPAC, Brook)- Governance reviews and follow.

Tadworth, England, GB

Offering professional, expert advice, interim leadership, crisis advice and support, health checks and strategic planning support. Recent significant contracts include:-Interim CEO of the Bobath Centre for Children with Cerebral Palsy (February - July 2019), managing the charity through a crisis period until the appointment of a permanent CEO.- Interim CEO.

Gloucester, Gloucestershire, GB

I led the GDA following a period of uncertainty towards the appointment of a permanent CEO. Responsibilities included supporting and rebuilding the staff team after a difficult period, preparing and delivering an interim strategic plan based on the findings of my health check, overhauling financial processes and income generation to ensure sustainability.

Tetbury, Gloucestershire, GB

I was re-engaged by the Board to lead negotiations with Forestry England against their proposed national membership scheme which would have threatened the site and the charity, and to support the charity with securing a better relationship with the onsite Forestry leadership. I successfully renegotiated the scheme to protect the site and the charity and.

London, England, GB

Led the UK's most prominent feminist charity through merger talks and beyond, I maintained the charity's platform as the UK's leading gender equality charity during a challenging period. I led the organisation through merger talks to reach the right conclusion that merger was not the right path while still delivering relevant and effective research and.

London, GB

Led the charity through the Covid-19 period and reignited its development and expansion during the recruitment of a permanent CEO. Key results during my appointment include: overseeing an appropriate organisational response to Covid-19; initiating - and securing £250k+ - towards major new community and digital programmes, undertaking a full organisational.

Watford, Hertfordshire, GB

Led the charity through a challenging crisis period, following a physical move and a major redundancy programme, including re-building the administrative and fundraising teams, leading staff consultations for contract changes, implementing major cost-cutting and robust financial procedures alongside a fundraising strategy that would put the charity back in.

Tetbury, Gloucestershire, GB

Led this £1.2m membership charity through a change management process, including a health check, restructure and policy review, including close engagement with financial systems, Board approaches, team building, initiating a major digital transformation project, and supporting the recruitment of a permanent CEO.

Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GB

Transformed this aviation charity, which aims to improve people's lives through the wonder of flight, from a small, local organisation to a national operation. Key responsibilities included strategic and financial oversight, staff/contractor management, designing and implementing a major new fundraising strategy, and improving governance and operational.

At this international child rights charity, was responsible for all aspects of operational management, including strategic planning, staff and change management, policy development and oversight, human resources and fundraising. Primary achievement was to save the imminently failing charity (<6 weeks of funding left on appointment) from going insolvent.

Conducted a comprehensive review of policies, procedures and projects to enhance governance and implement robust practices in this international child rights charity.

Worked as an independent consultant for a range of charitable organisations in areas including monitoring and evaluation, project design, funding, charitable governance, policy/procedure review and others. Key example engagements include:At the Churn Project, I advised on the charity's monitoring and evaluation procedures, including reviewing the current.

London, GB

Responsible for leading the development of new, cutting-edge projects in drug and alcohol treatment, while introducing and mainstreaming innovation throughout one of the UK's largest drug and alcohol charities.

London, England, GB

Responsible for identifying and addressing breaches of human rights violations across the world. Key achievements include designing and implementing a programme of activities in Iran; implementing a new programme of work on the death penalty; and developing a programme of training and resources on freedom of expression throughout South-East Asia.

London, England, GB

Responsible for researching the incidence of child trafficking in the Midlands for a major ECPAT research study: Missing Out: A Study of Child Trafficking in the North-West, North-East and West Midlands.

London, GB

Evaluated the first six years of the UNICEF/ World Vision/ InternationalOrganization for Migration's Law Enforcement Against the Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking of Children project and identified and assessed all other projects and activities running in the field. Designed and held 60 face-to-face semi-structures interviews, two focus groups and.

New York, NY, US

Led the implementation of the United Nations Inter-Agency Programme on People Trafficking in Cambodia. Responsible for: developing strong partnerships across government and non-government stakeholders to improve the response to human trafficking in Cambodia; providing capacity building efforts to grassroots organisations working on human trafficking; and.

Managed over $20 million (£14 million) per annum of regional projects based in South-East Asia for Australia's international aid agency. Major achievements include: designing a new five-year, $20 million regional counter-trafficking project; and finalising Australia’s strategy for engagement with the Mekong River.

Barton, ACT, AU

Responsible for: policy development on human trafficking; delivering training on transnational crime issues; implementing an information campaign on Australia's foreign bribery law; and providing advice on human trafficking, criminal jurisdictional matters and defence law. Promoted from Legal Officer in 2004.

Executive Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Master Of International Affairs, International Relations

Bachelor Of Laws (Hons 1), Law, International Law

Bachelor Of Arts (Philosophy)

Graduate Diploma Of Legal Practice, Legal Practice Skills

Level 7 Diploma In Professional Consulting, Management Consulting

Preparing To Teach In The Lifelong Learning Sector Certificate, Education