Holly Mitchell Email & Phone Number

England, United Kingdom

Nottingham, United Kingdom

• Delivery lead for bulk recruitment of customer service consultants (telephone operatives) for the Customer Services Group of Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC). Recruiting in excess of 2,500 junior grade (AO).
• Responsible for 3 teams comprising of 30 staff (Cardiff, Nottingham, London).
• Manage a recruitment team providing business as usual recruitment for specialist tax roles. Recruiting grades from AO to G6, in small scale recruitment campaigns.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

• Project lead for a small recruitment team dealing with 100+ vacancies per year in specialist property and building professions, grades EO through to SCS. Responsibilities included workforce planning and resourcing.
• Led a team providing tailored recruitment and resourcing support across 5 divisions/Deputy Directors in Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) Capital, with the aim to improve consistency, rationalisation and.
• In this role I led numerous projects to set up PMOs/business support teams, to provide a central support function to delivery teams. This involved scoping, planning and resourcing new cross-divisional teams, using best.
• Working closely with Department for Education HR Recruitment Team and Government Recruitment Service (GRS).
• Using continuous improvement techniques and approaches review and improve processes, learning from best practice, market insight and lessons learnt.Also Vice-Chair of the Department for Education LGBT+ Staff Network..
• Led the Department for Education submission into the annual Stonewall Workplace Equality Index for 2 years (2018 and 2019).

Nottingham, United Kingdom

• Project manager responsible for the delivery of the professional Skills Tests in literacy and numeracy for trainee teachers.Key responsibilities include:
• Project planning, resourcing, contracting, budgeting, risk/issue management, reporting and ensuring projects are delivered to time, cost and quality.
• Lead on chairing meetings, capturing and building on project lessons learnt, project security and test material confidentiality.
• Manage an extended project team, plus external international contractors and subcontractors.
• Direct line management responsibility for one member of staff, previously managed a team of five including agency staff.
• Previously managed the trialling of the high profile Key Stage 2 primary school test.Previous project management roles with Department for Education (DfE):Worked as project manager for the Key Stage 1 and 2 English.

Coventry, United Kingdom

• Job purpose:Project managed a fast paced pilot evaluation of Functional Skills qualifications. Key responsibilities:
• Contract management, procurement, finance, event management and corporate reporting.
• Managed five budget lines for the Functional Skills programme. Worked directly with Finance Department for month end budgets, accruals, queries and anomalies.
• Undertook activities to close all contracts and budget lines, through re-profiling and rationalisation in line with the closure of QCDA.

York, United Kingdom

• Job purpose:Managed a variety of research and evaluation projects in the education and children's services sectors.Key responsibilities:
• Proposal writing, stakeholder engagement, fieldwork research, data analysis (qualitative and quantitative) and report writing.
• Interviewing a diverse range of stakeholders (face-to-face and telephone), summarising reports, writing case studies, conducting literature reviews.
• Worked on projects for a range of clients including public, private and third sector.

Coventry, United Kingdom

• Job purpose:Project management of multi-year projects focusing on coaching, mentoring and teacher CPD (continuous professional development).Key responsibilities:
• Bidding, writing ITQs, procurement, supplier management, ensuring deliverables milestones were achieved and closure activities.
• Budget management, website maintenance, set-up and facilitation of training events, seminars and conferences.