Kate Adams Email & Phone Number

London Area, United Kingdom

Specialist international development Advisory Collective integrating survivor and youth lived experience.We are a bespoke advisory collective specialising in children and youth issues within international development. Our diverse and deep skills provide comprehensive solutions for CSOs, governments, multilaterals, and social impact businesses, whilst offering bespoke and discrete advisory sessions for political and sector leaders. But what makes us unique? We integrate youth and survivor experience and expertise into our consultancy projects.

London Area, United Kingdom

Senior political adviser and strategist for the new Foreign Secretary's care reform agenda.

London Area, United Kingdom

Sitting on the Board of Trustees, as the advocacy specialist, for the award-winning charity Amna. Amna's mission is to build community capacity for healing and their vision is a world in which refugees determine their futures, unbounded by the impacts of conflict and displacement.

Member of StiR's high-level Global Council, which provides expert strategic advice to the Board and Leadership Team.StiR is an international education charity focused on systems transformation to ensure every teacher and every child loves learning. Backers include IKEA Foundation, U.S Aid, UBS Optimus Foundation.

London Area, United Kingdom

- Provide strategic advice to the Board Chair, Julia Gillard (former Prime Minister of Australia), and CEO (Alice Albright) on key G7/G20 issues and key moments.- Project manager and lead author for the flagship Case for Investment- Leading GPE's high-level advocacy in the UK (government, parliament, civil society)

London, United Kingdom

[consultant]- Dual role as a Senior Adviser within both the Donor and Global Advocacy teams: acting as London-based focal point for GPE's engagement with the UK and advising on GPE's high-level advocacy with other governments and global fora. - High-level policy advice and outputs to support the role of GPE's CEO as a member of the G7 Gender Equality Advisory Council.- Development and implementation of GPE’s donor engagement strategy for the UK through actively building and exploring partnerships with senior influencers. - Creating public policy and strategy papers to help position GPE and education in key development forums and debates. - Management and oversight of key events in the UK (such as Party Conferences) and surge capacity support for global events, including G7 and Women Deliver.

London, United Kingdom

[Contractor]• Devise and lead strategic engagement with the UK Government and parliament; advising the CEO, objective setting, identifying and cultivating national and global influencing opportunities. • Manage and conceived of the ‘Private Sector Taskforce’ to influence internal business models and DFID policy around HHC's mission.• Established and pursue a set of core policy aims and objectives on children in institutions, including playing a leading role in securing a seminal UK Government policy commitment for the first ever Global Disability Summit.

London, United Kingdom

Specialist independent adviser providing flexible and tailored roving capacity support to high-level institutions and civil society, including:• Special Adviser to the FCO PSVI team, producing global principles to end stigma associated to sexual violence in conflict.• Led Concern Worldwide’s strategic approach to the London Syria Conference, including authoring an influential research report and follow-up accountability report using field testimony and donor data analysis.• Provided thorough scoping study and analysis of MoD, FCO and DFID to inform World Vision’s policy and advocacy strategy priorities and produced an academic literature review on child soldiers. • Coordinated and produced GCE UK’s submission to INEE’s global consultation on education.

London, United Kingdom

Specialist Policy Adviser, including having advised on strategic approach, positioning and policy analysis for Comic Relief/GSK projects on zero malaria and as a conflict specialist.

London, United Kingdom

• Advised and supported the Director of Advocacy and Communications in maximising GPE’s global advocacy efforts around the 2018 Replenishment Conference (Dakar) and wider strategic priorities.• Devised and led global partner engagement in the conference, overseeing over 50 events for ‘Partners Day’. • Advised on high-level political influencing; including French presidential outreach, by providing key messaging and briefing to Macron for the Climate Change Summit.

London, United Kingdom

[Consultant]• Devised and produced the flagship document (‘Principles for Global Action’) for the Prime Minister's Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict’s global campaign on ending stigma, to be launched at UNGA.• Led and coordinated global consultations and outputs with over 100 survivors, donors, CSO’s and the broader international community, including the Wilton Park conference on stigma.

London, United Kingdom

〈 Transformed advocacy at War Child, creating its first policy and advocacy department, defining its strategic direction and placing War Child on the global stage, reporting to the CEO. 〈 Drove tangible policy change at international and national level, including influencing policy change with NATO HQ, the G8 and Foreign Office, DFID and UN World Humanitarian Summit Secretariat.〈 Designed and delivered War Child’s first mass-mobilisation campaigns, with concrete results. 〈 Managed, developed and mentored staff in pursuit of War Child’s mission. 〈 Significantly increased War Child’s profile through compelling content creation and high-profile partnerships, acting as spokesperson for national and international events and media.〈 Led on creating consensus positions among independent War Child International counterparts, establishing our first ever joint global memberships and policy reports.〈 Drove sector-wide progress through consortia leadership, notably on Education in Emergencies with DFID and the first All Party Group on Children Affected by Armed Conflict.〈 Conceived of, founded and managed War Child’s innovative Youth Engagement Panel.

London

Sought out by William Hague's team for a contractual secondment to the FCO as a Policy and Communications Advisor on the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict.〈 Seconded in dual-mandate role to Foreign Secretary William Hague’s task team as a specialist advisor delivering the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict. 〈 Led strategic policy development for Summit themes and outcomes, including helping define overarching objectives, developing proposals for practical action and devising and negotiating a joint government policy brief for 1700 ministerial and expert delegates.〈 Project-managed innovative events and global youth engagement in policy outcomes.〈 Planned and implemented high-level ministerial roundtables, generating consensus and political support for neglected issues and developing practical recommendations for action.

London, United Kingdom

Spent one year contracted to four different positions:- Pakistan Flood Response Policy and Programme Officer and EA to Deputy Director- Nike/DFID Girl Hub – External Relations Coordinator - International Relations Division - Education Campaigns Team- South Asia Strategy and Operations – Country Partnerships and Engagement Team

New York

Voluntary support for the political section of UKMIS during the UK Security Council Presidency, leading to temporary employment during and after United Nations General Assembly Week.

Modern Middle Eastern History (With Arabic), Conflict

Foundation Degree, Fashion/Apparel Design

Focus on fashion and photography