Lauren Stevens Email & Phone Number

Swindon, Gb

• Creating, developing and running Emerging Talent interventions in line with our organisational needs and equity diversity and inclusion strategy. Identifying the future skills need, allocating the resource, training line managers for managing emerging talent, designing, and delivering development sessions and the onboarding, induction and mentoring of the emerging talent. • Nominated for a Social Mobility Award for the work and success of our Graduate Internship which I developed• Working with Amazing If on their ‘Squiggle and Stay’ programme to implement career experiments across the organisation to increase retention and internal mobility within Macmillan, using data to create a targeted approach to experiments to have the maximum impact to colleagues and the organisation

• Creating and delivering development opportunities for Post Graduate Researchers whilst they complete their PhD- • Work with the UKCEH Post Graduate Researcher Committee to collect and analyse data relating to the PGR experience, using this to make recommendations to Senior Management Boards• Lead developmental coaching sessions with Research Associates at key milestones in their posts, handling confidential information sensitively and identifying learning and training needs• Managing and creating content on the company’s LMS system Moodle• Worked with supervisors to recruit, coach and identify talent within their teams • In the first 6 weeks reviewed, re-designed and delivered a new PGR induction to improve the experience for students -including the addition of a wellbeing session. After delivering this induction asked for feedback in order to improve continuously• Provide support to other UKCEH teams during negotiations of UKCEH’s engagement with UKRI Doctoral Training Partnerships and Centres for Doctoral Training• Member of the PGR Committee, raising challenges and improvements to the Executive Board to help improve PGR experience• Manage, mentor and develop the People Development Administrator

Swindon, United Kingdom

• Managed the apprentice and trainee programmes across the business to ensure successful completion of their training and on completion gave continued support throughout their further career. This included conducting regular performance reviews, coaching, and identifying those who might be struggling or required additional support• Partnered with colleges, universities, and learning providers to promote and recruit for the apprenticeship scheme through careers fairs and events to increase the visibility of the Tithegrove Apprenticeship Scheme• Worked with apprentices and trainees throughout their recruitment cycle and completed company inductions• Worked in collaboration to create a company framework for apprentices to complete alongside their nationally recognized qualification• Conduct skills gap analysis across the business to highlight areas where we lack skills. Where gaps are highlighted, I work collaboratively to design and create effective learning solutions which delivered specific content in a way that suited the business e.g digitally or on weekends to limit site down time• Managed the company’s training budget and government apprenticeship levy. Researched and utilised any funding and training grants available to the business, saving the business on average £80,00 a year• Manage and mentor junior members of the People & Development department• Build and maintain strong relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders. These relationships helped create strong open lines of communication and also cost saving with rates of training

Swindon, United Kingdom

• Created a ‘Career Development Flow’ worked collaboratively with all Department Heads and Directors across the business to show clear competencies, training and qualifications needed for roles within each department of the business. This is used to highlight areas individuals need to strengthen skills and develop within their careers and progression routes available to them throughout the business• I worked with the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) to form the company’s first apprenticeship scheme, I worked to recruit and onboard apprentices, worked with other departments including Health & Safety, Accounts, Production to create a company induction and liaised with colleges to arrange the delivery of the course• Whilst working collaboratively with the accounts department I created a way to track financial records for funded training and administer grant recovery claims• Maintained training records and monitoring compliance in legal and regulatory training • Liaising with training providers including colleges to assess learner progress and identify solutions to barriers to learning

Swindon, United Kingdom

• Created and implemented a company training matrix to log all qualifications and expiry dates to ensure that training is kept up to date and compliant with company and construction safety regulations• Administering insurance claims and occupational health cases and assisting the HR department in day to day operations

• Providing administration support for the field and store promoter teams on behalf of clients such as TomTom, Sony and Phillips• Completing sales reports• Coordinating and arranging the content and attending monthly national client meetings• Recruiting for store promoter tactical activities• Processing wages