James Addy Email & Phone Number

Epsom, Gb

London, England, United Kingdom

Currently role is as Senior Policy Advisor at the Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy in the Hydrogen Sector Development Team working to facilitate private investment across the hydrogen value chain , including developing the new Green Industrial Growth Accelerator to support UK based supply chains , and ensure the UK is well positioned to capture emerging international trade opportunities. Key achievements include:• Delivered high-level events to engage investors including Ministerial roundtables and inaugural Investor Forum, coordinating keynote speech from the Secretary of State. • Collaborating closely with No.10 officials, wrote first UK’s first ‘Hydrogen Investor Roadmap’ and key commitments on trade and invesment in the Sector Development Action Plan (published July 22)• Presenting hydrogen policy landscape and investment opportunities to range of audiences including international delegations.- Managing relationship with UK Infrastructure Bank to ensure their work is aligned to deliver H2 deployment ambition.

Epsom, England, United Kingdom

Director of company that develops new immersive gaming concepts to be played in pubs.

London, England, United Kingdom

Built and managed cross-cutting team responsible for writing all Ministerial briefings, correspondence, parliamentary questions, and speeches relating to UK hydrogen policy. Also responsible for providing secretariat for Hydrogen Advisor Council chaired by Secretary of State and comprising of senior industry leaders from across the hydrogen sector. Key achievements include:• Briefing team achieved and maintained 98%+ rate of meeting deadlines for all commissions

Epsom, England, United Kingdom

Built and managed a company that ran a market stall selling locally sourced craft beer at farmers markets in Epsom, Richmond, Cobham, Camberley and Chiswick.

London, United Kingdom

Built and managed multi-site escape room company, partnering with pub operators across London and Brighton. As CEO I was responsible for operations, business analysis, finance, legal processes, human resources, strategy, and digital marketing. • Achieved £400K turnover annually with 25 staff and over 1K five-star customer reviews.• Implemented commercial strategy for business scale-up to operating across 7 sites. • Awarded Trip Advisor Certificate of Excellence for three consecutive years.• Developed and negotiated first-of-its-kind partnership with national UK pub operator.

London, United Kingdom

Built and led new central team responsible for project managing new schools into large national multi-Academy Trust, developing improvement projects, and empowering senior education advisors to revitalize underperforming schools. • Developed group growth strategy in collaboration with senior management team. • Led team that integrated over 10 new academies into the group using established project management techniques while adhering to deadlines and budgets.• Coordinated support from the centre to drive individualised improvement plans to revitalise under-performing schools.• Led on the development and implementation of the Group’s growth strategy.

Department For Education

The Department for Education (DfE) is responsible for education, children’s services, higher and further education policy, apprenticeships and wider skills in England, and equalities. DfE is a ministerial department, supported by 18 agencies and public bodies.Responsible for ensuring we have a sufficient, diverse and high quality pool of Academy sponsors to secure sponsored solutions for 200 of the worst performing primary schools. • Developed and implemented the Department’s sponsor growth strategy, including identifying gaps in the sponsor market, removing barriers for new entrants, developing incentives and conducting targeted activity to recruit from different sectors groups.• Handled the application and assessment of new sponsors (processing over 200 over a year), including drawing together policy, legal and procurement expertise to negotiate and agree new and innovative sponsorship models.

London, United Kingdom

Led a team responsible for identifying and removing unnecessary bureaucracy in schools so teachers have more time to focus on raising standards. Key achievements include:• Conducted review of all regulatory and non-regulatory demands on schools working with advisory group of senior school leaders, school unions and Ministers to build consensus for a set of recommendations that were implemented to reduce bureaucracy in schools. .

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for providing ongoing advice to the Secretary of State and other key Ministers (from two departments) on implications of transfer of funding, planning and commissioning responsibility for 16-18 learning provision from the Learning and Skills Council to Local Authorities. Key achievements include:• Developed a range of system design options for how provision could be delivered then contributed to writing and publication of the White Paper ‘Raising Expectations: enabling the system to deliver’ March 2008. • Led on two strands to implement White Paper proposals, including working with key sector representative bodies to help build local authority capacity, and working with senior LSC officials to develop a design blueprint for a new National funding body - the Young People’s Learning Agency.

Wellington

The Ministry of Education is the Government's lead advisor on the New Zealand education system, shaping direction for sector agencies and providers.Worked on secondment in the Strategic Funding teams on a range of policy areas, including coordinating the budget process for Schooling Group, working with senior officials to agree new spending priorities, identify savings and cost pressures. Key achievements include:• Successfully coordinated a multi-million-dollar budget process for Schooling Group, working with senior officials to agree new spending priorities, challenge existing programme expenditure to deliver savings, and identify cost pressures.• Designed a new scholarship scheme for private schools to meet a coalition government manifesto commitment, as well as initiated a project to identify efficiencies and ways to use funding levers to encourage schools to make savings.

Ba Hons, Economics And History, 2:1

Activities and Societies: Worked as presenter on Leeds Student Radio Promoter for own club nightEconomics and History

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