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London, GB

London, GB

United Kingdom

• A sector-leading charity that mobilises the PhD community to support students from less advantaged backgrounds to access the most competitive universities and succeed when they get there. Responsible for people and.
• Improved commercial awareness and financial decision-making by redesigning budgets and dashboards, rolling out new board reporting and staff training programmes, and increasing transparency around profitability and.
• Ensured financial viability through a comprehensive and well-communicated process of cost-cutting and headcount reduction, while supporting a new sales strategy designed to boost income
• Led finance, legal, HR and digital teams to revamp complex tutor pay processes to ensure accuracy and guarantee compliance
• Worked with external consultants to create new staffing models and systems for improved collaboration and productivity across dispersed, hybrid teams

London Area, United Kingdom

This Royal Charter Body organisation runs residential trips, community-based programmes and online experiences for 120k young people per year. Reporting to the CEO, I made strategic recommendations based on an analysis of impact and financial data from NCS and its key partner and competitor organisations from across the youth sector.

London Area, United Kingdom

• A rapidly expanding youthwork charity working with schools, local authorities and the NHS tosupport children and families who have experienced trauma. Key achievements:
• Developed a new operating plan to enable the launch of a major new Greater London Authority contract, growing the charity from £1.2 to £1.8m income, 25 to 40 staff, and doubling the number of service users
• Developed a new theory of change and evaluation framework and launched a revamp of CRM and data handling
• Built and maintained credible relationships with a network of government and trust funders

London, England, United Kingdom

Led the launch of this start-up charity, incubated by Ark Ventures, whose mission is to support low-income students to undertake postgraduate study in STEM subjects at leading research universities. In four months I led my team to build a network of partner universities including Cambridge, Oxford, Imperial, King's and UCL, create and deliver a marketing.

London, England, United Kingdom

This new charity aimed to scale up its maths circles to reach 26,000 secondary students a year and create a pipeline through to higher education, doubling the number of maths PhDs in the UK. I rapidly engaged a network of board members, maths educators, delivery partners and charity scaling experts, consulted and gathered evidence to craft a strategic plan.

London, United Kingdom

• Led Masorti Judaism, a youthwork, community development and capacity building charity with £1.5m income, supporting a network of community groups with 70 staff, 800 volunteers and 6000 service users. Key.
• Led trustees, staff and expert volunteers to develop new strategic plans and theory of change that connect clear statements of purpose and big picture thinking with well-defined, measurable outcomes
• Achieved year-on-year improvement in delivery of strategic goals by introducing effective systems for managing complex teams and projects 2. Leading people
• Transformed our governance structure and recruited new, skilled board members by engaging hig level professionals in pro bono innovations groups
• Recruited and led a high-performing, motivated and collaborative team, achieving favourability scores of 90%+ on staff surveys
• Developed team members through training, mentoring and coaching and supported them to take up more senior positions within and beyond our organisation3. Driving change through stakeholder management

London

Responsible for developing and delivering strategy in the areas of leadership development, education and communications.Key achievements:Designed innovative strategies to address challenging community sector issues: leadership development, engaging millennials and improving educational standardsCommissioned a communications strategy review and messaging.

London, England, United Kingdom

Creating strategies and business plans for a Community Organising/Parent Voice partnership between Ark and Citizens UK, designed to improve educational and wellbeing outcomes by embedding an innovative project within schools. The outcome was a delivery model and pilot strategy based on desktop research and interviews within a network of community.

Jerusalem, Israel

History and RE teacherDeveloping new A-level equivalent history modulesTeaching special courses for children from disadvantaged backgrounds and/or with additional needs

Jerusalem, Israel

Teaching modern Jewish philosophy.

Waltham, Massachusetts

Designed and taught a combined academic/experiential course on 'Judaism and Justice' at Brandeis University's Genesis summer programme for gifted high school students. The course covered medical ethics in Jewish and American law, civil rights and terrorism, Jewish approaches to social justice, social action strategies and experiences including preparing.

Jerusalem, Israel

Designing and implementing educational and training programmes in Israel studies, Jewish identity and educational leadership for audiences of teachers, young people and adults from Israel, the USA, Canada, Australia and the UK.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Philosophy Of Education

Research topic: Jewish Social Justice Education. Exploring the aims and reflections of Jewish social justice activists and educators in.

Teaching Certificate (Pgce Equivalent), Secondary Education And Teaching

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Judaic Studies

MA in Jewish Studies

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Jewish History, 1St Class Honours

BA (1st class) in Jewish History