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Coventry, England, Gb

Start up business providing project management, professional training and development, coaching and consultancy services, equipping and energising individuals, organisations and communities to make sustainable stuff happen.

Coventry, England, United Kingdom

A friendly face of Coventry’s year as UK City of Culture 2021, helping to ensure a positive experience for visitors, spectators and performers. Capable, committed and inspirational volunteer welcoming visitors to the city, helping with wayfinding and recommending what’s on and where to visit. Building on the proud history of volunteering already in Coventry.Digital Champion Volunteer providing friendly support with basic digital skills and getting online in a safe environment

Coventry

Providing a high level of support and care for customers, ensuring all visitors have a fantastic experience at Coventry City of Culture events. Overseeing the front of house operations to ensure facilities for the public are well maintained and well-presented throughout.Enabling the smooth running of the world premier of In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats immersive virtual reality experience, equipping the hosts to confidently deliver a caring and exciting visitor onboarding process.

Coventry, England, United Kingdom

Working closely with the May Parade Producer on the large-scale outdoor parade, "This is the City". Enabling strong communication and smooth working processes across the event production team, wider Trust team members, and suppliers. Coordinating rehearsal schedules for the stage management team and supporting the exec-producer with performer contracts, payments, media consents and GDPR compliance.

Coventry

Developed and delivered the business case for the Severn Trent Academy by leading the programme team to create a flagship campus for training excellence and implement an enterprise-wide service delivery model for learning and development.Led the analysis approach and coached the team to design and deploy four new immersive learning solutions using virtual reality technology.

Coventry, United Kingdom

Led the design and delivery of the learning and development strategy to develop the capability of our engineering workforce, to enable future ambitions to bring skills back in-house that have been outsourced for the past ten years.Led the design and implementation of the ‘Skilled by choice’ competency programme, assuring the capability of the operational workforce in Water Quality, gaining credibility with union partners and building confidence with the Drinking Water Inspectorate regulator.Winner of the Water Industry Achievement Award 2017, People category for ‘Skilled by Choice’ capability development programme.Worked with third party training providers to drive best value and future proof NVQ service provision in line with changes to legislative and regulatory requirements.Stabilised the position mapping project to implement skills profiles in HR SAP for 1,400 operational staff; for the first time being able to demonstrate workforce compliance with legal and regulatory skills requirements.

Coventry

Led projects, designed and delivered interventions using our in-house six sigma approach to continuous improvement, Safer Better Faster (SBF).Drove sustainability of SBF across the business and developed change capability through on the job coaching and targeted learning interventions.Rolled out enterprise wide approach to continuous performance improvement using balanced score card and communications cells tools and techniques.

Solihull

Embed best practice project and programme management methodology and tools across Programme Delivery department, to improve capability in delivery of large scale IT change programmes.Provide line management, leadership and career development for up to 20 Project Managers and PMO Analysts.Designed and implemented central resource management scheduling function across the IT directorate, for 25 resource pools and 400 resources.

Coventry

Undertake business case development and deliver end to end process improvement projects to enable operational commitments and regulatory qualification initiatives within Education sector.Develop business change approach and influence new process adoption for implementation of new systems and ways of working.

Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, United Kingdom

Run procurement lifecycle services for public and private sector clients, including development of criteria and weighting models used to evaluate tenders.

Rugby, Warwickshire, United Kingdom

Manage the transformation from local IT department to centralised IT service provider for a national customer base of 6,000 users; ran the delivery model for email and application development services.Coach Competence Centre Managers in North Europe region in standardising and improving IT service delivery, using ITIL best practices.

Leicester, Leicestershire, United Kingdom

Design and implement technical solutions for global infrastructure improvement projects, utilising French and Spanish skills.

Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom

Deliver high quality IT training courses to public and private sector clients, and on behalf of IBM, including pre-training consultancy and post training support.

Loire, France And Barcelona, Spain

Work placement during 3rd year BA Honours degree - supporting process improvement activities within Procurement and Strategic Sourcing departments, utilising French and Spanish skills.