Ivan Brown Email & Phone Number

Greater Bristol Area, United Kingdom

Abergavenny, Wales, United Kingdom

Dartmouth, England, United Kingdom

Training Delivery: Trained and qualified over 500 trainees, with personal training and welfare responsibility for 90 aspiring leaders. Lessons in English, written work, administration, personal organisation, military tactics, military history, basic equipment. Usage of and contribution of content to defence Learning Management SystemsPersonnel Management, Leadership: Effectively managed career development of successful trainees and aided transition further employment with unsuccessful trainees, navigating complex social and interpersonal issues, offering advice, signposting and mental health support, whilst providing tact and discretion. Inspired team to succeed with high success rates.Coaching and Mentoring: Supported trainees with diverse learning needs, including specific learning difficulties, ensuring the success of 90% of learners trained with diverse learning needs (overall success rate between 80% and 90%).Training Design: Designed, authored, implemented and taught a Battlefield Tour, integrating the teaching of key naval warfare tactical lessons with history of the Armed Forces in an interactive format. Training designed to be cost neutral for organisational L&D budget.Teamwork, Inclusion: Organised, improved and augmented social schedule for work colleagues, including quizzes, cooking competitions and seasonal events. Increased social programme by one event per month (delivered 24 events annually). High Professional Standards: Ranked as most effective training officer (of 12) in 2023 appraisal.

Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom

Collective Training Development Team Leader, Customer Executive Board Working Group vice Chair, Needs Analysis Specialist, Organisational DevelopmentNeeds Analysis: Training Needs Analysis, setting working requirements for engineers, warfare technology operators and logisticians on board newly acquired frigates and patrol vessels. Set requirements for training on weapon systems and maintenance of machinery. Increased production of Collective Training Competency Frameworks by 300% in 21-22.Verbal Communication: Chaired and vice-chaired working groups with senior clients on behalf of head of department.Stakeholder Collaboration: Liaised with contractors, providing specialist advice to Qinteiq, BAE and Babcock on the production of Collective Training Needs Analysis. Gathered requirements from contractor, clients and military stakeholders to produce Competency Frameworks.Quality Management Systems, Continuous Improvement: Employed holding to account mechanisms to ensure contractors achieved key performance indicators. Ensured compliance of work matched to ISO: 9001.High Professional Standards: Ranked as most effective member of team in 2022 appraisal.

Hms Queen Elizabeth

Training Design: Created new “Common Fleet Time” training program, completed by all Officers – piloted across 60 learners and rolled out across the Royal Navy for all Officers in Training in 2021. Self-started project to replace out-dated training.Training Delivery: Attained and maintained a rate of 90%+ qualification for promotion to management positions for a 700-strong workforce, through delivery GCSE Maths and English, and career coaching sessions as part of individual continuous professional development, implementing effective L&D initiatives for staff at all levels. Coaching and Mentoring: Increased success rate of potential leaders and Young Officers undertaking Leadership training by 15% on board HMS Queen Elizabeth. Diversity and Inclusion: Increased qualification for promotion for Caribbean colleagues by mapping unrecognised Caribbean qualifications to UK recognised qualifications and instruction of UK GCSE English and Maths.Written Communication: Progress reports and annual appraisals written for 65 individuals. Health and Safety reports and permits to work written for dangerous work. Risk assessments completed for dangerous activity involving up to 1400 people.Verbal Communication: Secured funding against competing bids for renovation of recreational spaces on board to improve welfare of team. Social Media: Oversaw HMS Queen Elizabeth social media account grow to more than 100K followers, making it the biggest MoD social media account in May 2021. Created and managed content for maiden operational deployment. Health, Safety and Risk Management: Responsible for health, safety, security and welfare of between 800 – 1400 individuals, including firefighting, damage control and armed response. On a roster of 12. High Professional Standards: Ranked in top third of officers (of 45-50) on board in 2021 appraisal.

Lympstone, England, United Kingdom

Training Design: Updated training programme for the Commando Force based upon Naval transformation set in 2017. Increased time on exercise by 10 – 15% whilst maintaining all essential and mandated classroom training. Training Delivery: Re-wrote and delivered Royal Marines Commando combat ethics training. Delivered Prevent training.Training Audit: Conducted three first party training audits, ensuring key learning points delivered consistently. Reviewed, re-wrote and assured over 50 lesson specifications. Hosted three OFTSED inspections, including training delivery and welfare and duty of care inspections. Learning Management Systems: Redesigned and updated LMS used by Royal Marines recruits, including interactive lessons, usage of multimedia training platforms, storage of grades and internal validation data gathering and analysis. Adaptability and Initiative: Oversaw successful implementation of changes to training policy (iaw C-19 Government direction) ensuring productivity and training continued to meet requirements throughout 2020-21.Quality Management Systems Managed QMS and contributed new chapters, ensuring compliance to ISO: 9001. Acted as liaison officer to the Royal Marines Voluntary Cadet Corps (VCC), conducting building management, communication of infrastructure requirements to the MoD site and preparing the VCC for external audit.

Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom

Dartmouth, England, United Kingdom

Completed Phase 1 Royal Naval Officer training at BRNC Dartmouth

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Biology, General, 2Nd Class Honours

Conducted an undergraduate degree in Biology - after covering broad, general studies across the first two years, selected ecology.

Royal Naval Officer Training, Naval Officer

Postgraduate Certificate, Human Resources Development And Training Management, Pass

Eal Level 3 Diploma In Electrical Installation, Electrician