Harrow School is a full boarding independent school for boys aged between 13 and 18. The School was founded in 1572, under a royal charter from Queen Elizabeth I. Today, it is one of only three full-boarding, all-boys schools in Britain. About 820 boys attend Harrow, from across the UK and further afield.Through my role as the school's Careers Professional it is my responsibility to support Harrovians young and old to make confident and informed career choices through the use of inspiring information, bespoke advice and unique experiences.

NHC is a 16-19 college that delivers a wide range of qualifications at four sites across Hertfordshire. My role was to ensure that students had access to high quality student support, careers advice and a range of enriching activities. • Student Services & Safeguarding: Managing a team of seven support coaches, CEIAG advisor and Finance Officer who offer a range of support to students across the college. All support tracked to show positive impacts on attendance, retention and student achievement. Lead for college safeguarding team. • Budgets and Bid: Responsible for an overall budget of £600,000 and for writing external funding bids. • Personal Development: Overseeing the delivery of the ‘Bridge Programme’. A programme of college tutorial sessions to develop personal skills and equip our students for life after college. • Students’ Union & Enrichment: Managing a team of fours Students’ Union and enrichment staff who provide high quality student voice and enrichment activities across the college.• Work Experience: Managing a team of three Work Experience Facilitators who help to organise placements for all students at the college. Currently over 95% of students receive a placement each year.• Learning Resource Centre & Library: Managing LRC/Library spaces including two LRC staff to create a positive learning environment that helps to improve student experience and success rates.

Denbigh High school is an award winning school in Bedfordshire, which in 2009 was named Secondary School of the Year by the Times Educational Supplement. The role of IAG Manager required me to lead and manage several projects simultaneously. The aim was always to ensure pupils have a positive learning experience and leave school successfully prepared to move onto the right career and education pathways. My extra role as Head of Year for Year 11 required me to monitor pupil performance and the quality of teaching in order to guarantee the best outcomes for all pupils.• Improving quality of teaching: Monitoring teaching standards and working with subject teams to improve teaching provision and improve pupil outcomes.• Tracking Pupil Progress: Using data to monitor the progress of 225 pupils in Year 11. Then removing any barriers to education highlighted by their data.• Leading Careers Education and Guidance: Ensuring each pupil receives quality and impartial careers education throughout the curriculum and from extra-curricular events.• Managing the Gifted & Talented programme: Developing programmes to motivate and challenge top pupils. Monitoring G&T pupils and offering effective support and motivation to help them achieve the highest results possible. • Organising Work Experience: Making sure that all 225 Year 11 pupils have a two week work placement to attend and completing all paperwork and monitoring that goes with this.• Managing College Applications: Ensuring each Year 11 pupils has completed a successful application to post 16 education or training through a series of presentations, events and inventions running throughout the year.• Delivering Staff CPD: Developing and presenting staff CPD sessions on IAG and G&T.