Dominique Gracia Email & Phone Number

London, GB

London, England, United Kingdom

Responsible for managing all aspects of the School's effective running, including:* Supporting academic leadership to develop and implement their strategy to maintain financial sustainability, growth objectives, and research and teaching goals;* Offering authoritative advice on HR matters, including recruitment, people management, and organisational.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Working collaboratively with colleagues across the US, UK and Canada to deliver an open set of digital humanities tools for students and researchers across disciplines, including:
• Translating requirements of senior academics into specifications for the development and research teams;
• Developing editorial and HTML markup guidelines for postgraduate students (along with the US Administrative Director), including the use of CodePen and Canvas for technical learning;
• Directing work across the team of postgraduate Research Assistants;
• Shaping a sustainable system of managing funds and staff time by monitoring and coordinating use of funding across universities; and
• Contributing to the development of funding bids.

London, England, United Kingdom

Responsible for managing all aspects of the Institute's running, including:* Supporting academic leadership's strategy development and operationalising that strategy to help achieve financial sustainability, growth objectives, and organisational goals;* Offering authoritative advice on HR matters, including recruitment, people management, and.

London, England, United Kingdom

Managing the Telling Our Stories Better project at the Faculty of English, which aimed to challenge misconceptions about who studies English and the career paths they take. Brought together alums and current students of the English Faculty to talk about their time at Oxford and their career paths, leading to the development of a set of biographies and.

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

* Supporting the Internal Market Sub-Committee in its inquiry on state aid and the level playing field in UK-EU negotiations* Establishing a new International Agreements Sub-Committee to scrutinise new treaties negotiated and agreed by the UK* Running special projects focused on working practices and culture

London, United Kingdom

• Working within the Business Improvement and Change team leading the House of Lords response to inquiries into bullying and harassment in Parliament and our broader culture change programme, including:
• Supporting and monitoring the implementation of recommendations emerging from the 2018 Gender-Sensitive Parliament Audit;
• Conducting culture audit workshops and pulse surveys to develop an organisational vision;
• Developing a medium-term programme plan for wider culture change, including a change communications strategy using appropriate models, such as ADKAR and Schein, and integrating existing initiatives from across the.
• Working with Communications and other colleagues to develop responses to media inquiries and internal communications about bullying, harassment and culture in Parliament; and
• Working with the House of Commons team implementing the recommendations of Dame Laura Cox QC in her report on bullying and harassment of House of Commons Service.

London, United Kingdom

• Chief of Staff role, advising and representing the Lords CEO, including:
• Driving strategic priority to create a Unified Administration, such as delivering an administration-wide cross-office working system to break down office silos;
• Initiating a Senior Leadership Forum focused on developing a cohesive corporate leadership culture with clear behaviours and norms;
• Developing ways to communicate the CEO’s strategic priorities and foster administration-wide buy-in;
• Supporting Inclusion and Diversity campaigns and projects to help embed I&D in our daily working lives;
• Working with political staff and staff of the House of Commons to develop common understanding and shared approaches;

London, United Kingdom

• Head of a front-line office responsible for the provision of procedural advice to members of the House of Lords and HM Government officials, including:
• Leading a team of more than a dozen peers to guarantee consistent high-quality advice;
• Managing the daily production of paper, online and app versions of the House of Lords Business paper
• Using interests-based negotiation and other soft skills to deliver unwelcome advice and develop consensus;
• Acting as senior user on a new authoring tool for business papers, including mapping office business processes and balancing distinct user needs;
• Running the training and development scheme for staff on the Administration’s graduate development programme, including running seminars and producing training and assessment materials;

Brussels Area, Belgium

• Sole Lords representative in Brussels, on secondment to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, acting as the House’s ‘eyes and ears’ and supporting the work of its seven EU Committees (EUC), including:
• Co-ordinating cross-functional teams across London and Brussels on various projects, including organising international fact-finding, networking visits, and EUC’s attendance at EU Presidency events;
• Managing and developing relationships with EU institutions, other national parliaments, and Brussels-based stakeholders as an ambassador for the Lords and EUC;
• Identifying, monitoring and analysing European policy and legislative proposals of interest to EUC and the House, often in fast-moving or ambiguous circumstances;
• Increasing and diversifying the audience for EUC’s major policy reports, including product managing and later running one of the first permanent Twitter accounts in the Lords (@LordsEUCom); and
• Working in partnership with approximately 40 other NPRs to ensure that national parliaments were capable of collective bargaining when their views diverged from those of the European Commission or European Parliament.

London, United Kingdom

• Managed the work of several Lords committees, including:
• Dynamically managing the work of the EU sub-committee teams, totalling approximately 20 people;
• Managing committee inquiries, including programmes of witness sessions with experts and opinion leaders on topics such as the EU’s policy towards Turkey and the Western Balkans, and the EU’s multiannual budget;
• Producing online content and maintain website via the parliamentary content management system;
• Drafting reports on behalf of the committees; and
• Supporting the Chairman in his role as Deputy Speaker, including in building relationships with bilateral ambassadors and key figures in the EU institutions.

London, United Kingdom

Working in partnership with a House of Commons committee team, I:- Advised Select Committee of MPs and peers on procedural issues;- Analysed and synthesised evidence heard by the Committee; and- Drafted sections of the Committee's report on behalf of the Chairman

Bachelor Of Arts (A.B.), English, Cum Laude With High Honors In English

Activities and Societies: Harvard Undergraduate Journal of Medieval Studies, Undergraduate Council, Eliot House HoCo, Radcliffe.

Gdl And Bptc, Law, Commendation And Very Competent

Activities and Societies: Streetlaw, ICLR Moot Competition, Legal InCite (student publication)

Master Of Arts (M.A.), English Literature, Distinction

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), English Literature

Activities and Societies: Administrative Director (UK) of the Central Online Victorian EducatorDissertation on late-nineteenth-century.