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Boston, England, United Kingdom

• My role at Moulton College is strategic lead on all outward facing provision including apprenticeships, commercial and Adult Education Budget. Reporting directly to the CEO, I am also responsible for the marketing and.
• Developed new apprenticeship provision from scratch including designing and delivering the overarching strategy. Our current apprenticeship programme now has over 200 students across thirteen standards with retention.
• Delivered the college strategy to diversify AEB provision by developing an industry leading solar panel installer SWAP course that has successfully recruited dozens of students into permanent roles in a key growth.
• College lead for development of LSIF and SDF bids including supporting with bid design and project management to ensure achievement of KPIs across multiple projects.
• Designed and delivered high impact Industry Skills Boards by recruiting committed employers across each of our sectors and ensuring that curriculum teams were held to account for meeting skills needs and that specific.
• As lead for sustainability within the college I have developed a robust Sustainability Strategy, recruited and chaired our Sustainability Committee and supported with emissions benchmarking to meet our net zero.

• My role at DCG encompassed strategic leadership of all outward facing provision, including apprenticeships, adult education budget and commercial provision. I was responsible for a budget of over £10m and a staff team.
• Secured overall achievement rates in apprenticeships at more than 10% higher than the national average
• Successfully oversaw the acquisition of the apprenticeship provision at Rolls Royce, Derby which involved the transfer of over 300 apprentices to DCG as the lead provider.
• Managed the development of an AEB funded distance learning programme which has enrolled over 1,200 students to date
• Implemented a new apprenticeship enrolment process that made the experience faster and more efficient
• Used knowledge of PowerBI to develop intuitive apprenticeship performance dashboard that utilised data from ILR, ePortfolio and apprentice surveys

Coventry, England, United Kingdom

• My role at North Warwickshire & South Leicestershire College was to project manage the establishment of an IT & Digital Training Academy in Coventry City Centre. The academy was located at Coventry University.
• Worked with stakeholders to successfully develop the branding and marketing to ensure this was consistent with the vision and values.
• Recruited the necessary staff team with the appropriate skills and expertise to deliver an employer responsive curriculum that incorporated the latest industry practices.
• Had overall budgetary responsibility for both the initial capital project and the ongoing income and expenditure once the academy commenced delivery.
• Developed schemes of work and lesson plans to ensure that the delivery model was both engaging and provided students with the knowledge, skills and behaviours employers need.
• Successfully launched the Digital Skills Academy on time and on budget.

London, United Kingdom

• The National College of Education (NCE) specialise in delivery of leadership and management apprenticeships into schools across the country. As Exec Director I had overall responsibility for the apprenticeship.
• Nominee for successful Ofsted monitoring visit in November 2019.
• Oversaw successful reapplication onto RoATP
• Developed revamped masters programme in partnership with University of Buckingham
• Designed and implemented a new level 5 programme for departmental heads
• Reconfigured business development and enrolment teams to significantly increase learner numbers

Hull, United Kingdom

• Reporting directly to the Chief Executive I was responsible for a wide portfolio including Business Development, Marketing, Recruitment, Customer Service and strategic leadership of AEB, Apprenticeship and SSW.
• Tripled Apprenticeship recruitment levels by restructuring the Business Development Team and enforcing a renewed focus on performance management.
• Brought a high degree of commerciality to the college including development of new AEB provision, distance learning and full cost offerings and maximisation of existing loan allocation.
• Lead SLT member on Fresh Start campaign and configuration of the learner and apprenticeship journeys. Worked closely with external consultants to design, automate and implement new processes and procedures.
• Oversaw development of Dynistics dashboards for key performance measures including attendance, enrolment and apprenticeship data. Significantly improved data access and reporting to both SLT and governors.
• Developed and implemented a new Apprenticeship Strategy that delivered an offer that met employer and learner need and ensured that the division contributed positively to the achievement of cross college aims and.

Rotherham, England

In 2014 the business of Optimas Training was successfully acquired by North Nottinghamshire College and became Create Skills Ltd. Create Skills are now a wholly owned subsidiary of RNN Group delivering Apprenticeships, AEB and commercial provision to learners and employers throughout England. As Managing Partner I had overall responsibility for Create.

Rotherham

In January 2007 I established Optimas Training Ltd. Initially focussing on bespoke sales and marketing training we quickly became involved in government funded delivery after being asked to trial the new Sales & Telesales framework by City & Guilds. After initially holding subcontract arrangements with ITS, YTP, Barnsley College, A4e and North.

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Dilectus were a specialist recruitment company dealing with Quantity Surveyor, Project Management and Architectural vacancies.

Leap 29 are a specialist recruitment agency covering the Sales, Finance and Construction markets. I was employed to develop the Construction market in the South of the country. I was responsible for building this market up from scratch, a similar role to the one which I was involved in at Huxley's.

Mortgage Matters are one of the largest mortgage brokerage firms in the country, with a national network of over 50 financial advisors. I was responsible for all areas of the telesales network encompassing a team of over 40 staff.

QAS Systems are the market-leading supplier of the Royal Mails Postcode Address File, and were 51st in the Virgin Fast Track 100's fastest growing companies in 1999. I was based internally and was responsible for generating new business from cold. I was the highest performing sales person over the two-year period and regularly exceeded the targets set.

Master'S Degree, Educational Leadership

Postgraduate Certificate, Education, Pass

Bachelor Of Laws (Llb), Law, 2:1

Bsc (Hons), Psychology, 2:2

11 Gcse'S (8 A'S, 3 B'S) Bsc (Hons), Psychology

4 A-Levels (ABBC)