Overseeing employee engagement and internal progression

Work force planning manager ensuring a streamlined and well-oiled high volume recruitment process for large home care provider particularly amending recruitment process to hire front line workers during the Covid 19 pandemicLeading and launching new internal progession programme and talent management within the organisation. Setting up the first internal recruitment policy in the company. Overall, single national lead for recruitment process: responsible for achieving nationwide recruitment targets and overseeing all recruitment staff.Ensuring time to hire of applicants can be as short as possible while adhering to strict compliance criteria for employees dealing with vulnerable adults.Publicity campaigns and new initiatives (internal and external) to grow the size of the work force.

Regional Operations Manager (2016-2019)• Direct people and resource management of multiple site locations in fast paced, high growth environment; line responsibility as regional manager for 15 full-time staff and 300 part-time paid care staff. • Consistent track record of reducing staff turnover levels, reducing client complaint volumes and increasing staff engagement rates in my region.• Responsibility for country wide network of offices and ensuring adherence to quality policies and procedures, internal auditing, growth targets and other KPIs. • Key customer relationship management of Health Service Executive and adherence to tender contracts, maintaining strict governance and compliance levels. • Departmental lead on projects for: roll out of new new employee contracts• Company lead on employee-wide engagement survey, increasing response rate by 50%.• Communications strategy experience (internal and external), media and conference presentation experience. • Organiser of multiple client and carer social events including employee town hall style meetings. • Company representative at Client stakeholder and Employee Representative Committee meetings. • Chair of HR Investigations, disciplinary meetings, mediation processes and performance processes

Project and Facilities Management: (2011-2016)• End to end Project Manager (PM) for office move for company headquarters of 40 staff from fit out to final move in. • PM for six other office moves of regional sites• PM for switchover of central scheduling database for entire company effecting working system all company staff. PM from initial scoping, selection, contract negotiating and entire project to delivery. • Facilities Manager (FM) for IT and utilities provision in all sits. Annual review of SLAs and pricing with utility and IT providers and ensuring IT future planning and data recovery strategy. • PM for roll out of new employee mobile app including communications plan.

Chair (Cathaoirleach) of the Ardee Municpal District, June 2024-present.June 2020-June 2021.(Part-time role) Elected as a Fianna Fáil Councillor in May 2019 local elections for the electoral area of Ardee and Mid Louth. Elected with first preference vote of 9.5% as a first time candidate. Re-elected June 2024 with increased first preference vote. Chair of Louth Meath Education Training Board (LMETB) 2022

Fixed term contract with a homeless charity organising for the Focus Ireland Four Peaks Challenge.

• Project Management of 2011 general election campaign from financial management, political communications strategy and volunteer management. • Communications: Responsible for editorial of literature content, distribution of newsletters and local media publicity. Developing and working with colleagues on political and office strategy. • Successfully maintaining constituency organisation on the Minister’s behalf a time of major national crisis for our country. • Advocacy: representing the Minister at numerous contentious meetings with voluntary sector and with departmental officials at time of significant government cutbacks. • Successfully protecting funding for many groups in the Community and Voluntary sector as well as for disadvantaged schools in the Minister’s constituency.• Reporting directly to the Minister on Oireachtas matters, constituency correspondence, representations, liaising with other Government Departments and community and voluntary organisations. • Responsible for liaising with and leading a team of workers both paid and voluntary to maintain a presence politically in the constituency.

Research, compilation and writing of local and general news in leading regional newspaper.