I am passionate about empowering others and have applied this through working within social mobility, schools outreach, equity and fair access to Higher Education roles for the past 18 years. This has mainly focused around widening access to university for groups who are under-represented within HE with roles both managing nation wide school programmes and leading large scale significant programmatic changes in line with policy and strategic priorities.KEY EXPERIENCE- Strategic and operational management of large scale projects and programmes at a national level within Scotland and Northern Ireland - Working collaboratively to support the growth and development of a UK wide charity including leading on significant programmatic changes and development of five year strategy.- Responsibility for maintaining key strategic stakeholder relationships as well as establishing new partnerships at a variety of levels of seniority.- Developing and implementing communication strategies with key stakeholders at a local and national level- Marketing and promotion of programmes to schools, universities, local authorities, politicians and other national bodies through a variety of media- Project management and development of multiple programmes at the same time and currently undertaking a project management course to further develop these skills.- Monitoring of data collection and analysis to create impact reports for key stakeholders and the continuous monitoring and improvement of programmes based on results and feedback- Leading teams to develop and implement significant programmatic change to nation wide programmes as well as the development of aspects of an organisation's five year strategy