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Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Member of the Senior Leadership Team with responsibility for policy and practice of our venture philanthropy and Scottish Government managed social impact funds. Lead for our Strategic Priority: Improving Lives for Children and Young People. We bring together people, communities, organisations and government to drive social change and transform lives..

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Go2Play invested over £7m over 5 years to build the capacity of the Play sector in Scotland to achieve landscape change, creating new play opportunities for vulnerable children. Through hands on performance management of a portfolio of charities and collaboration at a strategic level, we aim to achieve outcomes for children, families and communities..

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Selected to lead the development of Glasgow's Youth Gateway, a partnership led operational framework for the cities youth employability services. Based in GCC Education Department, my role embraced strategic agreements with DWP, Skills Development Scotland, Glasgow Regeneration Agency and GCC departments and arms lengths organisations. Chair of a multi.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Chief Executive of GWRA prior to merger with the 4 other Glasgow economic regeneration agencies. Worked with the Board and SMT through merger and due dilligence processes which resulted in staff reduction of 30% through redundancies. Joined new organisation which became Jobs Busness Glasgow as a Senior Manager with responsibility for Skills, Training and.

Glasgow

Leading 3 teams and 7 budgets (£1m) we developed the employability of young people and disadvantaged adults through the provision of innovative engagement activities, personal develoment programmes, vocational skills training and aftercare support. Our Youth provision had the highest into work outcomes for the city and its unique approaches were rolled out.

Transnational research project on the role of Service User Involvement within the Employability sector for the Equal Partnership operating across Scotland, Finland and Italy.

Established this social enterprise with Save the Children Lithuania and the Vilnius Municipality to develop a bi-lingual City Guide for Families. The project developed into an online resource and ESF funded employability training project for lone parents.

Responsible for Business Start Up, Business Development, Third Sector Support and Enterprise training. Supported by a great team of 6, we secured inward investment, started 30 new enterprises a year, created 100 new jobs through third sector and business support and worked with our local secondary schools on their Enterprise curriculum.

Working across Lanarkshire, I established and supported social enterprises including The Forgewood Group in Motherwell which ultimately employed over 150 local people across 5 commercial divisions.

Msc, Applied Social Research

Ba 2:1, Business And Psychology