Further Education & Skills Specialist Consultancy - Our specialist products and services include the following:Stakeholder and Strategic Review - external view on relationships with key stakeholders identifying best practice alongside areas for opportunity and growth. Supports Ofsted inspection alignment to Skills.Evaluation Reports for Externally Funded Projects - imaginative and creative reports that showcase best practice for external funded projects. Examples include ESF, Shared Prosperity Funds, Big Lottery.Bid Writing - grant funding experts with decades of experience creating imaginative solutions for competitive bids.Project Management - experts in managing funded projects for the education, community, commercial and public sectors including ESFA, DWP, DFE funds.

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Specialist in strategic thinking and supporting and facilitating strategic vision. 12 years experience of Bid Writing and Development and Project Management, currently supporting Devon and Cornwall Training Provider Network and Devon County Council in delivering a regional skills programme. Facilitating lobbying and developing funding programmes with core funders such as DfE, ESFA and other Government funded skills procurement.Support in driving forward the local and regional economy through skills and economic development, supporting independent and public training providers in achieving their ambition. Projects have included (but not limited to), support for the submission of applications for the Register of Apprenticeship Training Providers (RoATP).Exceptional ability to facilitate partnerships with external funding agencies to maximise funding opportunities. Working proactively to facilitate relationship building through key business and specialist group stakeholder networks, lobbying, presentations, strategic initiatives, new market and project development.A firm believer in the power of education to Level Up low income and associated deprivation: ensuring Skills strategies addresses disadvantage and meets the wide range of local skills needs, whether that be through targeted delivery solutions or by driving productivity through enhanced skills.

A member of the senior management team, driving forward and operating a very successful commercially driven department that encompasses the Projects, International and Assets and Estates teams, providing a rapid, strategic response to business opportunities. Generating income in excess of over £3million per annum, the department draws on extensive local, national and international networks and partnerships to deliver growth, prosperity and innovation.Noteworthy successes include IOT, T-levels, MARIUK, Local Growth Fund, Regional Growth Fund, ESF, Erasmus+, Turing, Studio School, CITB Funds, Center of Excellence for Maths, Big Lottery, FECA and further DFE capital programmes.My passion is international development. I have grown the team from student recruitment to international capacity building programmes offering international consultancy and improvement programmes. I have worked strategically with in country governments to drive forward education priorities to help build quality education packages worldwide.

Leading on capital and revenue projects, accelerating commercial income through business and educational partnerships. Leading the international and bids and projects team.

Managing externally funded projects to include ESF, ERDF.