Victoria Keen Email & Phone Number

Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

Leading the Karbon Homes Place Shaping Programme with a focus on our first two Karbon Impact Areas - Stanley in County Durham and Byker in Newcastle. Delivering the Karbon Homes Fair Foundations mission by leading a dynamic, multi disciplinary matrix team.

One of the Co Founders of Urbanistas North East - A women led group meeting monthly to share and develop ideas to improve the quality of urban living in the North East.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

Creating and leading the Local Government Capacity Centre's learning programme, responding to local authority and combined authority skills, capacity and learning needs.

Gateshead / Newcastle

Responsible for engagement, CRM and business development planning across the Cities and Major Conurbations team. I co-led a number of agency wide transformational projects which have received endorsements from the Executive Group and the CEO.

Gateshead

Strategy lead for North East Yorkshire and the Humber with responsibility for:- Creation of Operating Area Business Plans;- National Business Planning Process and Review;- Partner engagement and new business strategies for the NEYTH;- Raising the profile of all our programmes and opportunities in the NEYTH, through managing the events programme and.

Gateshead

Area Manager involved in: - Regional Housing Strategy and leading on the Tees Valley Housing Growth Strategy, - Working closely with Tees Valley Housing and Planning Teams to unlock housing sites,- Due diligence project management for Land Programmes,- Contract Management for HCA Affordable Homes Programme (including Empty Homes, Homelessness Change and.

The Skills Adviser role was:- To work with partners to identify local skills gaps and capacity needs;- To support and advise HCA Area Teams on skills and capacity building activities for key delivery partners; and- To share knowledge and learning developed at a local level across the HCA and coordinate tailored programmes in identified priority places.I.

London And Gateshead

While on the EP / HCA Graduate Scheme I worked within the HCA’s London and Gateshead offices, the Notting Hill Housing Trust, Derwentside Homes and Ian Darby Architects Associates. I worked on a range of regeneration and housing projects.

Hammersmith, London

This secondment gave great insight into the varied work of Housing Associations. I worked with the Development, Land, Housing Management and Community Engagement Teams. In particular, I worked closely with the Project Manager of the Barham Park estate regeneration in Sudbury. The project to replace the 'resiform' 1970s homes included intensive public.

Liverpool, United Kingdom

As a research consultant, I conducted thorough qualitative and quantitative research in order to create a report on the future of the Urban Regeneration Company’s Community Engagement Programme. I was based at the Liverpool Vision offices and interviewed all the organisation’s employees and members of the Liverpool Vision engagement panel. I also conducted.

Liverpool

I was a Geography Teacher for 8 years. At Belvedere, I was responsible for teaching Key Stage 3, GCSE and A-level students.

Nice Area, France

The CIV is a large French State school located forty minutes from Nice in the South East of France. I worked within the Anglophone section of the school teaching History and Geography in English to students of various nationalities, including French, British, German and American. I taught Geography to a pre-IB mixed ability class and successfully taught a.

Camden, London

Here I held the position of Teacher of Geography and Lower School Form Tutor. I worked at this thriving girls’ comprehensive school for two years, teaching Key Stages 3, 4 and 5. I successfully led a number of GCSE and A-level exam classes through the two-year courses, organised school residential and day field trips to destinations across the UK.

Geography Bsc, Social Science, 2:1

Master'S Degree, Town And Country Planning, Merit

Professional Diploma - Level 5, Housing Policy And Practice

Ma (Research), Globalisation And Development - Research Methodologies In Geography, Social Science, First Class - Distinction

Pgce, Secondary Education And Teaching