Mark Johns Email & Phone Number

Newcastle Upon Tyne, Gb

Newcastle Upon Tyne, England

South Tyneside

Working closely with senior management and stakeholders to develop and deliver our corporate approach to equality and meet legislative requirements. Manage our corporate social responsibility and engagement activities. Use feedback, data and analysis to identify improvements for employees and service usersI advise the organisation on equality and the strategic direction the organisation should take, undertake gap analysis’, develop action plans and strategies and ensure that actions are delivered via corporate working groups consisting of colleagues at various levels across the organisation. I measure our progress using a range of external frameworks and assessments. I design and deliver training to employees, stakeholders and tenants on a range of activities including, equality, safeguarding, welfare reform, learning disability awareness, accessibility and other half and full day courses.I develop and maintain links with people from a range of diverse backgrounds to ensure they can influence the decision making process. I do this through attending established groups, setting up forums, task and finish groups and other engagement activities. In addition I work with schools, colleges and employability projects to design and develop specific community projects, enrichment and employability projects to allow young people to put something back into the community and help them to gain valuable transferrable skills.I am also a member of numerous corporate management groups, some of these include a safeguarding group which has helped ensure vulnerable adults and children are protected from harm, a corporate equality group setting the strategic direction and delivering a range of operational projects and a welfare reform project group exploring the impact of the reforms and how the company will mitigate the risks.

South Tyneside

Responsibility for policy, strategy, service improvements, risk management, business continuity, equality, involvement, external assessments, projects, and compliance with the audit commission regulatory framework. I managed the successful accreditation against a range of frameworks including the Social Housing Equality Framework, Stonewall Workplace Equality index, EHRC Code of Practice in Rented Housing, and supported the Investor in People Gold and Customer Service Excellence accreditation.Trained as a assessor in SHEF Excellence and assessed housing organisations approach to EDI

South Tyneside

Provided consultant services on the organisations approach to EDI, undertook an assessment and developed a range of corporate objectives and an action plan to improve performance

Managed a team of people to co-ordinates the organisations approach to equality. Developed and delivered a Single Equality Scheme and action plan, equality impact assessments, forums for hard to reach groups, internal equality training and staff resources. Responsible for the organisations approach to community involvement, developed a range of involvement mechanisms and opportunities for seldom heard communities to influence decision making. Developed comprehensive training programmes for tenants and secured external funding.

Pgd, Housing Management And Policy

Ba Hons, Business Management And Orgnaisation

Hnd, Business Management