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Ipswich, Gb

Ipswich, Gb

United Kingdom

Enabling authentic leaders, their teams and their organisations to grow by ‘facilitating positive change’ via coaching and mentoring, strategic consultancy, and facilitation and training.

Ipswich, England, United Kingdom

Led an eighteen month transformation of the charity by:• Establishing a vision, defining mission and developing revised, Board-approved, strategic priorities and new charitable objects.• Rebranding – renaming the charity/company, leading to a new logo, website and suite of social media channels.• Financially restructuring – including realigning the financial year to income generation streams and activities.• Improving governance – recruiting and inducting new Board members in accordance with identified gaps in skills and experience and implementing robust reporting.• Professionalising HR and Operations and embedding a new approach, principles and cultural norms.• Maintaining a stronger focus on the growth of impact and influence as well as presence and reach.

Holbrook, England, United Kingdom

As a member of the Senior Leadership and Management Teams, directed the teams responsible for Marketing, UK and International Admissions, Public & Alumni Relations and Development, and provided strategic counsel in the management and delivery of external communications.

Ipswich, United Kingdom

Leading core elements of the c.10m turnover company & charity that enables the mission & work of the Church of England in Suffolk.- Programme Director; driving the growth and transformation agenda towards achieving the organisational vision. Developing the strategy, ensuring congruence of projects and plans, aligning priorities and measures, and monitoring implementation by setting lead and lag KPIs.- Major income generation; securing more than £5m additional external funding in 2019.- Enhancing the internal and external communications and the reputation of the organisation via the development and implementation of a strategic marketing and communications plan, presenting the external face of the organisation, and ensuring comprehensive stakeholder engagement.- Implementing and embedding GDPR throughout the organisation.

Ipswich, United Kingdom

Supported an Interim CEO with a fast-paced change and transformation programme, with particular focus on process improvement that included the implementation of programme and project management and a dozen new IT solutions.Maintained oversight of the existing governance arrangements and structures, and contributed to their reshaping, throughout and beyond the change programme.

Ipswich, United Kingdom

Assisting the CEO with the mainstream management and administration of one Suffolk’s largest charities (c.£8M turnover); with designated responsibility for the strategic and operational management of:- Communications and ICT.- Operations (including, Corporate Risk, Health & Safety and Project & Events Management).- Safeguarding & Safer Recruitment.

Advising the Bishop and developing a strategy for the work of the Church of England with young people in Suffolk by:- Acquiring grant-funding to develop the infra-structure support for those working with young people.- Assisting parishes & communities to develop services and build capacity at a local level.- Writing and implementing model organisational policies and procedures to ensure the well-being of young people accessing such services.- Organising large scale events, including the Xpression05 youth worship service held on the pitch of Ipswich Town Football Club's Portman Road Stadium.

Ipswich, England, United Kingdom

A short-term part-time secondment; assessing the needs, and developing a strategy and provision, for supporting staff and students within the Ipswich Education Quarter (Inclunding Suffolk New College and University Campus Suffolk) culminating in the appointment of a full-time post-holder.

Ipswich, England, United Kingdom

Creating and developing the provision of services for young people; via one-to-one, detached, building-based and schools-based youth work, and recruiting and training teams of volunteers to deliver such provision.

United Kingdom

Freelance; primarily working on events for young people, including the technical direction of a DfES funded national schools road show.

Postgraduate Diploma, Management

Including: Corporate Risk, Economics, Marketing, Project Management and HR.

Bachelor Of Arts, Youth And Community Work & Applied Theology, 1St Class With Honours

Included JNC professional youth and community work qualification.

Higher National Diploma, Engineering (Electrical And Electronic)

'A'-Levels, Physics, Mathematics, Computing

Gcses, 10 Graded A-C

Activities and Societies: Senior Prefect, Football Team, Athletics Team