Keith Lambert Email & Phone Number

London, Greater London, United Kingdom

Design, Recruit and Lead a mixed team of civil servants and commercial staff in delivering the programme of activity required to stand up OCDA by the end of April 2019.

• Leading the process of engagement with business on overall planning and the team’s work with the business on the implications of their transformation plans for the estate (including creation of field forces and more radical business change)• Using scenario planning techniques to lead the process to move from a conceptual design of the Home Office estate in 2020 to a detailed design taking into account assessment of the future requirements of HO directorates in each region, the staff profile, their suitability to adopt TW3 and the changes in the business as a result of corporate and business strategies.• Ensuring alignment in the design between different parts of the Home Office and maximising the potential to fully join up plans • IT and Estate user needs analysis building on TRP work and linking to benefits work• Provide the basis for the Business Case for the TW3 Programme with estate savings and productivity improvements including modelling of financial implications of plans with an external partner

London, United Kingdom

Completed the review of current structures and processes inherited from the NPIA, including an assessment of the skills requirements of PCD in order to meet its delivery objectives;Designed the new structure and processes that support efficient delivery of PCD objectives; working and consulting with the PCD staff to ensure buy-in and understanding;Led plans to manage resource surplus or shortfall of skills;Ensured that PCD processes are linked in appropriately with other Home Office business units (for example, finance, policy, IT);

Cockspur Street, London.

Recruited Government secondees from across Whitehall into LOCOG and DCMS saving over £9m in salary costs despite Civil Service cut backs..

Leading on strategy and operational delivery for the Olympic and Paralmpic Torch Relay including agreeing detailed procedures and protocols. Success has resulted in the team being shortlisted for a Civil Service Olympic Award. Additionally responsible for planning assurance on permanent and temporary Live Sites and Pre Games Training Camps.

Led teams of 1000 staff across 10 sites ensuring appeals against immigration decisions where robustly defended, contributing to major PSA on asylumExtensively reengineered processes around preparing cases for court to meet requirements of major legislative change. Reduced timescale from 28 days to 8 without additional resources.Raised numbers of cases represented in court from 60 to 95% in response to criticism from Home Affairs CommitteeLed response to the crisis involving foreign national prisoners, working with Tribunals Service to develop new process to deals with large-scale increases of deportation appealsStreamlined corporate support services to meet Gershon targets, managing redeployment of surplus staff and restructuring without reduction in quality of service to frontline staffDeveloped and implemented resourcing and training strategy to expand the directorate to meet government target, including major external recruitment campaign for specialist staff, targeting new sources of applicants and developing effective assessment processes

Developed designed and rolled out change programme to transform national operational teams to central strategic policy and process unitDelivered resource and cost savingsCompleted sensitive negotiations with Trade Unions and HRDeveloped a commissioning model to support the single case owner concept by introducing specialist advice on lodging high court applications

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