Michael Gillespie Email & Phone Number

London, England, Gb

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for delivering high quality bids and diversifying Aktis' client base. Manage a team of up to six staff to ensure technical and regional teams are supported to identify and secure new contracts in line with client requirements. This includes effective analysis of client needs and policy trends to inform structure and content of bids. Assess opportunities for profitability and probability of success to ensure resources are invested correctly to secure sustainable contracts. Approve all commercial proposals, assessing their accuracy and that they achieve established targets. Build effective partnerships with potential leads and sub contractors that is mutually rewarding. Manage client engagement with core clients through building relationships with senior head office client staff and supporting engagement with client embassies through Aktis country offices. Support provision of training across Aktis on the business development life cycle and best practices on bid management. Drive commercial strategy across the business in partnership with the Finance Director. Member of the Senior Management Team leading day to day management of the business.

London, United Kingdom

Undertook and lead project and new business development activities, took responsibility for supervisions of staff engaged on specific sections of a project and support project management.Successfully led and secured three major DFID contracts - £54m second phase of the Expanding Social Protection programme in Uganda; £10m proposal to Strengthen Government Social Protection Systems in Bangladesh; £10m Supporting Uganda's Response to Gender Equality (SURGE). Provided pre-bid positioning, consortium development, key personnel identification, bid management, technical writing, commercial lead and contract negotiations.

London, United Kingdom

Played a critical role in launching a new global partnership with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) by designing and managing the development of new high impact projects that utilise both GSK and Save the Children’s strengths to deliver impact on health systems strengtheningProject managed a £20m portfolio of 20 projects in 19 countries, I was responsible for ensuring financial oversight and to work with project teams to resolve implementation issuesCoordinated the bi-annual reporting across all grants for GSK, ensuring data is correctly monitored and presentedSupported county offices in implementation and coordinate suitable support from technical teams Strengthened my project management skills by successfully managing the development of a major new £9m project and overseeing its successful start-up. Also worked on a similar bid for Kenya to start in 2014

London, United Kingdom

Ensured that over 30 EuropeAid proposals have been developed to a high quality with sufficient technical inputs and coordination between field teams, head office and regional offices. These covered the full breadth of SCUK working including social protection, education, health, malnutrition and food securityDelivered training's to various departments within SCUK on issues such as EuropeAid funding, structure and co-financing complianceActed as bid manager on several major proposals, including multi-country, this includedacting as lead writer as well as coordinating all inputs from various departments and working in-country. Secured funding for individual grants over £10mContinually collected and managed data to provide up-to-date analysis of account performance

South Sudan

Played a central role in coordinating the emergency response to the crisis in Abyei in May 2011, including overseeing the start-up and implementation of UNICEF grants in the absence of programme managers; this required clear communication with field staff and logistics teams to ensure the proposal vision was realisedLead the M&E of $54m USAID funded infrastructure programme being implemented on both sides of the borderRegularly represented Mercy Corps at high level meetings with government officials and major donors to discuss progress of existing grants as well as advocate for new funding Managed and coordinated an Emergency Market Mapping and Analysis assessment, presented the findings to various donors and working groups and developed a successful on funded proposal in response to the findingsProvided on-going monitoring oversight for 6 programmes in 4 states through managing Monitoring Officers and developing monitoring tools and systems, this required close coordination and communication with programme managers and field staff

South Sudan

Develop programmatic monitoring tools and information tracking tools for a number of different programmes and train project staff on their implementation. Ensure accurate data is captured and used in various reports for a range of donors including USAID, EC and UNHCR. Also working on new programme development and recently designed and lead a successful UNHCR application for emergency livelihood programming in Abyei

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Assisted in reviewing the design of new programmes to ensure compliance with donor objectives, including DFID, EU and UNInput into new proposal development and design, including providing HQ lead on coordinating an EC DRR proposal in China and an EC WASH proposal in UgandaProvided support to field teams regarding Mercy Corps policies, systems and identifying technical staff who could provide relevant support on programming and proposal designResearched new funding opportunities from the EC, summarising them and presenting them to relevant field officesDeveloped training tools on EC compliance that utilised virtual classrooms and engagedmultiple country teams

Timor-Leste

Worked for 3 months as an intern in the Security Sector Support Unit. Provided assistance in policy research as well as conducting my own research into my dissertation entitled: "The UN and Security Sector Reform: Lessons from the Field"

Okinawa, Japan

• Successfully adapted to Japanese working environment by maintaining outgoing, flexible and open attitude, freely offering assistance in duties outside teaching • Time management: In addition to teaching responsibilities, ran an English speaking club, establishing ‘pen-pal’ letter exchanges with students in Scotland. • Adaptability and International Perspective: Became fully immersed in local community through learning Japanese and building relationships• Established and implemented the oral communication curriculum • Conceptualised and developed original teaching materials • Working alongside a Japanese teacher requires cooperation and mutual professional support in all aspects of teaching, from lesson planning to student assessment and discipline

M.A., Post War Recovery Studies

M.A (Hons), History And Politics