Leading on recruitment strategy, talent management and progression. Design and delivery of organisation-wide learning and development initiatives, with particular support for Heads of Department on performance and leadership development. Stewarding organisational culture and HR business needs to facilitate growth and impact.

Member of Eastside People's diverse community of experienced professionals. Working with not-for-profits to build the capacity and impact of their organisations. Specializing in strategy, organisational development, culture and workforce. https://eastsidepeople.org/member/katie-roberts/. Clients include the Youth Investment Fund, Big Issue Invest, Born Free Foundation and The Mint House.

This role combines organisational and senior leadership development with strategic project delivery and innovations. Based in the Chief Executive’s office and leveraging key business relationships, this role collaborates with departmental senior management teams in the implementation, monitoring, communication and assessment of the corporate priorities, the Global Strategy and the development of an enabling culture.

Working alongside the Director of Policy, Public Affairs and Campaigns to set our strategic direction, establish a new senior management team and create and embed ways of working that enable us to make the greatest impact. The role involves global organisational design, effective change and project management, culture and diversity, strong relationships, excellent communications and creative and authentic people management through a unique period of challenges and opportunities for the voluntary sector.

Enabling and inspiring work on fundraising, advocacy including popular campaigning, private sector, gender, media and church relationships. Managing and developing the structure and culture of the strategy, staff team and budget. Leading staff and volunteers to deliver fundraising and advocacy targets through partnership relationships in order to support poverty and justice projects across around the world.As part of the senior management team for the department I am also responsible for our UK-wide volunteer programme, key national church relations, community fundraising strategy and delivery, organisational change programmes and aspects of organisational policy and procedure.

Leading Christian Aid’s work across South East of England to tackle the unjust systems and structures in today’s world that contribute to more than half the world’s population living in poverty. Enabling and inspiring work on fundraising, advocacy including popular campaigning, private sector, gender, media and church relationships. Managing and developing the structure and culture of the strategy, staff team and budget for the region within a shared framework approach for England. Leading staff and volunteers to deliver fundraising and advocacy targets through partnership relationships in order to support poverty and justice projects across around the world.

Directing Trees for Cities’ landscape, community and education teams to develop and deliver environmental regeneration projects in London and other regional cities. Responsible for scoping and implementing major trust and grant funded programmes and corporate partnerships. Key role in external communications, including public speaking at national and international conferences. Projects involved multi-stakeholder partnerships across sectors and successful local community engagement programmes. Responsible for award-winning landscaping and tree planting projects with lasting social, educational and environmental impact, strengthened by a community-led design approach. Leadership of two teams across multiple sites, the national volunteer programme and our horticulture training programme for long-term unemployed. Member of senior management team, working alongside the board of trustees. Instrumental in shaping charity-wide policy and procedure including health & safety and monitoring & evaluation programmes.

Managing the development and delivery of community engagement programmes in London and regional cities, including consultation, events, education and youth workshops. Responsibility for leading a team of up to five staff and managing and developing the charities volunteer programme. Additional responsibilities include First Aid, health and safety, child protection, budgets and monitoring and evaluation.

Responsible for the design, organisation and delivery of school workshops, community consultation and events. Promoted to manage the team in November 2006.

Supporting the Community and Education manager in the organisation, design and delivery of the community and education programme. Promoted after six months in post.

Taking responsibility for reviewing and redesigning the departments policies and procedures. Providing administrative support including maintaining databases and dealing with the general public. Marketing, design and administration of profitable training programme. Technical support to environmental officers, using GIS to compile a contaminated land and drainage system database for the district, producing a housing strategy, participating in energy efficiency roadshows and a Junior Citizens scheme. (part time contracts during study)