Libby Clark Email & Phone Number

Leeds, Gb

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

I am currently working as part of the University of Leeds COVID-19 Programme Management Team, with specific responsibility for working with the Faculties to deliver the student education approach for 2020-2021.As a Lead Programme Manager I am part of the senior leadership team in the Business Change Team, working closely with the Director of Operations and other senior team members to drive and implement strategy. I also have line management responsibilities for a team a Senior Project Managers who are delivering a range of strategic initiatives across the institution. Prior to my work on the COVID-19 response, I was the Lead Programme Manager for the Foundations Programme, a programme which aims to build the university's capability and capacity to manager and deliver change, by delivery of new capabilities, improving existing capabilities and addressing technical deficiencies.

Leeds, United Kingdom

As a Senior Project Manager in the Business Change team at the University of Leeds I was the the PM for the EPS Initiative: the alignment of the Faculties of Mathematics and Physical Sciences and Engineering to form a new Faculty, Engineering and Physical Sciences (EPS). Responsibilities included:• Responsibility for the overall coordination, implementation, execution, control and transition of the initiative ensuring consistency with the University’s strategy and change management approach;• Managing the initiative throughout the various stages of the lifecycle and assuming overall responsibility for the delivery of successful outputs and benefits;• Shaping of the initiative, ensuring close strategic alignment and effectively consulting with key stakeholders, including the IT Senior Supplier;• Supporting and providing assurance to the Executive Sponsor and the Lead regarding the management of constraints, priorities and risks, to drive negotiations between parties to gain consensus where necessary and to deliver results accordingly;• Planning for and managing the human aspects of change ensuring clarity and engagement with those impacted, ensuring a smooth transition to business as usual and minimising disruption through effective and appropriate change readiness techniques;• Making recommendations based on lessons learnt for future developments, providing objective guidance and advice;• Sharing best practice, coaching and supporting other colleagues across the University and seeking opportunities to raise the profile of the team;• Demonstrating personal and role model leadership in terms of being focussed, flexible, professional, motivated and personally effective in order to deliver the agreed deliverables and outcomes;• Developing and maintaining a high level of knowledge of the latest developments within the University and the HE sector, and best practice in programme, project and change management.

Consortium Programme Manager for COMDIS-HSD (Communicable Diseases Health Service Delivery), a £9 million international research programme consortium (RPC) funded by the Department for International Development (DFID) and based at the University of Leeds.Duties included:• Supporting the strategic development of the COMDIS-HSD RPC by ensuring planning, monitoring and reporting systems were in place to enable growth, impact, ethical research, financial probity and risk management; • Managing all day to day operational aspects of the RPC, including budgeting, co-ordination of activities, and relationship management with international partners to ensure delivery and reporting of agreed outputs on time and within budget; • Managing governance functions for the RPC including the Executive Committee, the Partners Steering Group and the Consortium Advisory Group; • Line management of the COMDIS-HSD Operational team; • Chair of the Executive Committee, COMDIS-HSD Leeds team meetings and Operational team meetings; • Identifying creative solutions and making recommendations for solving problems by developing and applying specialist knowledge of country contexts and the working methods of the RPC partner organisations; • Communicating complex information to ensure partners understood RPC strategies and procedures and to ensure sharing of best practice; • Working closely with the RPC Research Directors and M&E Co-ordinator to develop and ensure effective implementation of the overall monitoring and evaluation mechanisms for the programme; • Overseeing data management procedures including security and long-term accessibility to data after the RPC; • Working closely with the RPC Research Directors to deliver the long term strategic planning and implementation of capacity building for all aspects of RPC activity including research skills, project management skills, and long term sustainability beyond COMDIS-HSD;

External consultant for 'Performing the Jewish Archive', a £1.8m international project based in the School of Music at the University of Leeds and funded under the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s (AHRC) ‘Care for the Future’ theme.I was retained as a consultant by the 'Performing the Jewish Archive' project in order to complete work on the impact strand of the project. Duties included the following: • Completing the transcription of c.50 vox pop interviews that I conducted during the lifetime of the project;• Writing a set of impact case studies, using data from the vox pop interviews; • Designing and populating an impact database with all available qualitative and quantitative data from the lifetime of the project.

Leeds, United Kingdom

Project Manager for 'Performing the Jewish Archive', a £1.8m international project based in the School of Music at the University of Leeds and funded under the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s (AHRC) ‘Care for the Future’ theme.My responsibilities included: • Overall planning and oversight of the project; • Day-to-day management of project activities;• Driving the planning and implementation of impact activities and project events, including a programme of five international performance festivals, one-off performances, academic conference and symposiums and educational events; • Development, coordination and implementation of delivery plans; • Managing liaison with external partners; • Development of project milestones, and strategies to ensure their implementation; • Co-ordination of project delivery across multiple international partners and research sites; • Development and implementation of a project evaluation strategy; • Supervising work undertaken by Post-Doctoral Research Fellow; • Supervising work undertaken by five Performance Festival Coordinators based in South Africa, the Czech Republic, USA, Australia and Leeds; • Financial planning and management of the £1.8million project budget; • Continually and proactively considering research activity being undertaken and mechanisms used, identifying ineffective systems, making suggestions for improvements and implementing changes; • Ensuring that data management systems were implemented;

Leeds, United Kingdom

My responsibilities included:• Ensuring the smooth operational running of the wide range of activities undertaken as part of the Lifelong Learning Centres (LLCs) community outreach and public engagement remits• Project management of a range of events such as study days, campus visits, workshops, summer schools and conferences• Particular responsibility for developing and coordinating the planning, organisation and delivery of the LLC’s public engagement work including the LLCs Seminar Series and 'Spring into Summer' programme of summer courses and seminars• Line management responsibilities for two members of staff: the Communities and Partnerships Project Clerk and the Communities and Partnerships Events Assistant.• In addition, in 2013 in collaboration with a colleague I designed, wrote and taught a new Project Management module as part of the LLCs Diploma of Higher Education in Business Management

Leeds, United Kingdom

Responsibilities included: • Providing administrative support across a suite of externally funded projects and programmes run by the Communities and Partnerships (C&P) team in the Lifelong Learning Centre. • The first point of contact for all enquiries about the work of the C&P team which meant I communicated with a wide range of people on a daily basis (mature students from non-standard backgrounds, potential students, partners and stakeholders from a range of organisations). • Organising and running aspiration raising events such as workshops and study days for adult learners to encourage them to consider university as a realistic option. • Administrative lead for a number of regional and national conferences designed to disseminate the work of the team to practitioners from a range of different organisations.

Leeds, United Kingdom

Responsibilities included: • Providing administrative support across a suite of externally funded projects and programmes run by the Widening Provision team in the School of Continuing Education. • The first point of contact for all enquiries about the work of the Widening Provision team which meant I communicated with a wide range of people on a daily basis (mature students from non-standard backgrounds, potential students, partners and stakeholders from a range of organisations). • Organising and running study days, workshops and courses for adult learners.

Master Of Arts (Ma), Development Studies With Gender, Merit

• I studied for my MA in Development Studies with Gender part time alongside full time work commitments • Dissertation title: ‘Selling.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Music, 2:1

Activities and Societies: Singer in Chapel Choir of St Hild and St Bede College, Durham University Consort of Voices, Durham University.

Continuing Education Certificate, Child Welfare Studies, Distinction

• I studied at evening classes as a part time, mature student to gain a distinction on the Continuing Education Certificate in Child.