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London, Gb

London, United Kingdom

EasyPeasy is a mission-led social enterprise calling for a systems change in education towards early intervention. Key accomplishments:● Winner, 2020 for Best Resource for Parents and Home Learning, Bett Awards● Winner, 2019 for Best Early Years Content, Bett Awards● Delivered 31% avg yoy revenue growth over five years● Secured >$4m in social impact investment● Built interdisciplinary team of engineers, designers, commercial, operations, and data analyticspersonnel with 90% yoy staff retention● Brokered strategic partnership with University of Oxford, generating multiple positive independentrandomised control trial evaluations of EasyPeasy’s impact● Secured multi-year delivery partnership with the UK Department of Education through their EarlyYears Social Mobility Programme, reaching over 100,000 disadvantaged families● Developed flagship multi-year social impact & digital innovation partnership with LEGO Group andLEGO FoundationResponsibilities:● Create, communicate and implement company vision, mission and overall direction.● Build and lead the senior team and evaluate their performance.● Formulate and implement EasyPeasy’s strategic plan.● Devise appropriate performance measures and evaluate company success.● Model and shape the company’s values and culture.● Maintain an awareness of the competitive landscape, opportunities for growth, new customers, newmarkets, new industry developments.● Allocate capital and resources to the company’s priorities.● Initiate change projects.● Develop the EasyPeasy community through effective experiential/communications activities.● Listen to users in order to improve services and encourage community involvement.● Represent and lead EasyPeasy’s international public and investor relations activity.● Initiate, develop, and maintain cooperative relationships with key partners.● Work with the Board to ensure financing to support short and long-term objectives.

London, United Kingdom

● Led internal product development across Department of Health, Department of Work & Pensions, Ministry of Justice, Department of Business, Innovation & Skills, and UK Research Councils● Investigated and defined user and business needs, worked with policy and business leads to develop product vision and roadmaps, managed and prioritised flow of work with agile teams● Drove effective culture change within government departments through introducing agile working and human-centred design methodologies and achieving senior level buy-in● Formed and led multi-disciplinary teams of engineers, service designers, user researchers, and policy makers

London, United Kingdom

● Designed Nesta’s impact evaluation strategy to measure and communicate the social impact of an annual £40m grant making programme budget.● Led implementation through providing consultation and support on evaluation and social business model design to grantees and training Grant Managers in social impact methodologies.● Communicated and shared evidence of impact to external audiences including policy makers, funders, government and the third sector through producing quantitative analysis, reports, and engagement events.● Running competitive tendering processes to secure external support on evaluation and programme delivery activities.

London, United Kingdom

● Formulated and launched flagship research programme on early years and social mobility.● Led a multi-disciplinary team of statisticians, researchers, and policy analysts in designing andconducting longitudinal analysis, qualitative and ethnographic research.● Developed research proposals, engaged with funders and sponsors, and achieved annual fundraisingtargets of £250k.● Communicated research findings to a range of audiences including to the national media, local andnational government, and practitioner bodies.● Conducted qualitative research activities including focus groups, workshops, ethnography, expert interviews.● Worked with external contractors to design and execute quantitative research activities including surveys, cohort analysis, regression analyses with a focus on reliability and validity.● Analysed and synthesised research outputs into reports and publications aimed at policy and general audiences.● Communicated findings of reports through in-person events, radio and tv interviews.● Supported senior colleagues with proposal development and fundraising.