Kev Wright Email & Phone Number

Benfleet

Integral part of Regeneration team tasked with the delivery of the ‘Regeneration Framework’ a £500m series of transformational projects set to revitalise Castle Point. Lead for local business engagement with responsibility to improve the image and relationship between the local authority and local business base, which had previously been poor, ensuring that Castle Point businesses are not disadvantaged.Key workstreams:Lead and conduit for Town Centre Regeneration projects, including the Hadleigh town centre masterplan, town centre steering groups, Hadleigh Hall development, Hadleigh Art Trail and Christmas Market. Devise and implement Castle Point & Rochford Employment, Skills & Business three year action plan. Lead officer for local district engagement on Superfast Essex Broadband and Low Carbon Business projects. Communication and stakeholder engagement - focal point for town centre regeneration projects and business enquiries, engaging with wide range of delivery stakeholders and communicating project information to a range of audiences, Council Members, local businesses, residents and the press.Improve public profile of local authority – develop and manage the social media offer for the local authority, increasing its engagement with the public.Website content management – using the Verseone CMS, evolve, develop and manage the Castle Point Regeneration web content. Selected as key user to evolve local authority website and use new CMS tool to roll out new and improved web content.Event Management and marketing – project lead for Castle Point Business Forum events and associated business to business workshops. Generate and source copy, edit and co-ordinate distribution of business to business publication. Generate regular e-shot marketing material to create awareness of relevant business to business events/opportunities to benefit the local business base. Establish a social media presence to channel opportunities.

Project and content manage the online commercial land and property website, www.choosesuffolk.com - managing & liaising with over 30 commercial property agents & district/borough council access account users to ensure information is up to date and accurate. Project and content manage the organisational extranet - from design of the concept to successful rolling out of data to the end user.Project and content manage the client management system, Evolutive - leading on in-house training for new users and provide IT support for all users of the system. Work regularly and closely with external agencies to ensure that all web based content is continually developing and is functioning correctly, tackling issues as they arise. Create, maintain and update the Investing in Communities (IIC) Suffolk website.Enter details of daily enquiries/EEI enquiries/investor development visits onto Evolutive system - maintaining the database and co-ordinating data for marketing campaigns.Extract data and compile regular statistical reports, on both a quarterly and annual basis, on property enquiry data for partners, data that has been used to make informed future planning decisions in local district areas - in addition to responding to requests for bespoke data reports on the demand for commercial property in the county.Lead or provide support to Inward Investment Manager with information gathering/data collection for major enquiries/potential investors as required, organising site visits when required. Handle enquiries from overseas via leads from the East of England International, responding to deadlines, liaising with district partners, local commercial property agents to present business case information back to EEI to present to the overseas client.Assist with creation of marketing material/campaigns, including e-book publications and a bi-yearly business magazine.

Responsible for maintaining, updating and reporting from the Care Support System and other computer based records and undertake a range of administrative duties associated with support to the Supporting People Team.Collection, interpretation and presentation of relevant Supporting People information including key performance indicators and the quality assessment framework information.To ensure effective communication with providers, partners and key stakeholders.To manage, develop and maintain, in partnership with Supporting People. Officers and Finance Manager, the process by which providers of support services sought accredited status with the County Council.Co-ordination, effective running, and communication of Supporting People forums, meetings and training events.Prioritise own workload and where required that of other members of the team, dealing with a wide range of enquiries.

Co-ordination of ‘A Little BIT Better' a European funded project, designed to maximise the tourism potential in Irvinestown and Ballinamallard electoral wards.Gathering and dissemination of research data of ‘assets' in target area.Research into training needs of local organisations & individuals and recruitment of beneficiaries to and co-ordination of training programmes. Beneficiary targets achieved ahead of schedule.Co-ordination of marketing of project, the preparation and issue of press adverts & releases, both print & audio, live interviews conducted.Creation, development and maintenance of client databases.Monitoring project finances to auditable standard, submitting monthly reports to College central finance unit.Submitting quarterly reports and financial claims to project funders.Delivery of project updates on a monthly basis to steering committee.

Analyse financial data either office based or at project premises and prepare payments documentation for Programme Manager and Central Payments Unit.Verification of claims received, ensuring submitted claim documentation and expenditure adhere to SEUPB guidelines, identifying and resolving any problems arising.Liase with Local Strategy Partnerships, Implementing Bodies, Task Forces, and projects to advise and obtain outstanding & corrective information required, to ensure that claims are paid within the imposed 30-day deadline.Identification, creation and regular maintenance of irregularity report database for regular submission to Head Office.Ensure accurate electronic and paper records are updated regularly to auditable standard.Regular interaction and responding to queries from Local Strategy Partnerships, Implementing Bodies, Task Forces, projects.

Processing of all internal payments.Preparation & collation of reports/information for programme manager.Provide an effective first point of contact to internal and external partners on project related issues.Ensures that accurate records of all activities/meetings undertaken by the project are maintained and reports are prepared/distributed.Regular interaction face to face/telephone with colleagues/clients.Work regularly to deadlines, work under pressure, use of initiative

Analyse financial data and prepare reports and other documentation for Liaise with all temporary research staff, ensuring that their records are accessible for project outcome reports. Liaising with Personnel Department or finance to ensure that they are paid the correct amount for the hours worked and leave taken. Liaise with sub-contractors to ensure they complete their contractual agreements prior to authorising payments for their services.Provide management information for the project leaders and external funding bodies through liaison with Finance Department and the relevant internal and external partners as necessary.Ensure accurate records are kept in relation to project expenditure against budgets and maintain procedures for tracking all income and expenditure liasing with finance and project leader as necessary.Oversee and process financial transactions' ensuring comprehensive evidence is kept for audit purposes and are in accordance with the University regulations.Prepares and maintains computerised and manual records/data related to all areas of project activity, ensuring that all appropriate records are kept up to date, to facilitate monitoring against contractual and financial targets.Monitor budgets and estimates for Project Manager, liasing with University departments as necessary, providing regular reports to the project manager.Liase with sub-contractors to ensure they complete their contractual agreements prior to authorising payments for their services.Identify and resolve problems that arise in relation to the collection and analysis of financial and other management information system data from across all partner organisations and recommend solutions, promptly and appropriately.Responsible for monitoring, editing and updating the Food and Drink Website and liasing with an external agency to ensure that the website remains live, accessible and devoid of defamatory material or virus infection.

Liaising with the Director, & Finance, and the University's European Office, making links with local colleges to investigate and ultimately solve the large problem that the department where experiencing with regard to their three European Social Funded projects. Success achieved via:Detailed planning, problem solving, Attention to detail as required by ESF Ability to tackle complex data Organising/ overseeing activity of 5 part-time workers Effective communication on all levels, in University & College departments & external customers.Creation and maintenance of beneficiary database, both electronic and paper-based, information to be used for project auditing.

Ba (Hons), Business Administration

AREAS OF STUDY Marketing, (Services & Leisure) International Marketing; Understanding Organisations; Business Strategy; Finance; Human.

Diploma (Hnd), Business And Finance

Industrial Studies, English, German, C, D, E

Education record

Graded A- C including English (B) & Maths (B)