Oliver Fitzgerald Email & Phone Number

Manchester Area, United Kingdom

• Leading a programme of Lived Experience Insight across designated regions, aligning with Shelter’s strategic priorities to tackle the housing emergency.
• Driving culture change by embedding meaningful coproduction and involvement practices across the organisation.
• Planning and delivering training and resources to upskill staff in engaging people with lived experience, ensuring their voices shape Shelter’s services and advocacy.
• Line-managing a team of Lived Experience Coordinators, supporting them to deliver impactful regional programmes and foster continuous improvement.
• Facilitating personal development and wellbeing for participants, offering pathways into volunteering and employment.
• Coordinating cross-directorate national projects and collaborating with internal teams, clients, and external stakeholders, including local authorities and policymakers.

London, Southeast & East England, United Kingdom

• Leading on work operating across London the Southeast and East
• Recruit, induct, manage and develop a team of Funding Officers via a hybrid model
• Responsible for all aspects of budgetary control of an indicative allocation of approximately £14-millionannually
• Chair decision making panels, whole team meetings as well as internal and external networking events
• Learning Lead for the region: leading the development and implementation of the regions learningstrategy
• End-to-end grant making: Assess, monitor, manage and evaluate a large case load of active grants

London, Southeast & East England, United Kingdom

• Thematic Lead for Arts and LGBTQ+ funding
• Assessed, awarded and managed a complex caseload of grants
• Funding focus on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Brighton, England, United Kingdom

• On the Board of Trustees for an organisation supporting young people aged 16-25 who are rough sleeping, 'sofa surfing' or living in temporary or emergency housing.
• Chair of the Fundraising, Strategy and Risk Sub-Committee

London, England, United Kingdom

• Completed the 2027 year-long Professional Development Programme whose mission is to get more working-class people from diverse backgrounds into decision making roles within funds.
• Applied alongside 400 other applicants and after an intensive nine-month recruitment process I was one of 14-people who were accepted as an associate and placed with a fund
• My placement was as a Funding Officer at The National Lottery Community Fund on the Cross Region Team covering London, SouthEast and East region (where I went on to gain a permanent position and then a promotion to.
• Continuous masterclasses throughout the programme to engage in debate and deepen thinking, 1:1 leadership coaching from two CEO’S and grant-making skills workshops
• Networking and peer support with others on the programme placed in different funds and the wider sector

Travelled Thailand, Laos, Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand

London, England, United Kingdom

• Teaching across London working extensively in Special Educational Needs and Mainstream Schools,Pupil Referral Units, Care Homes, HM Prisons, Young Offenders Institutes and Dance Companies.A specialist in working with.
• Produced, managed, and delivered on a number of grassroots participatory and performance projectsincluding Street Dance Battles, immersive events and integration projects
• Organisations worked for included East London Dance, Chicken Shed Theatre Company, RoyalAcademy of Dance, Tomorrows Men, Hype Dance (Sheffield), Street Beat (Doncaster)
• Created and produced professional dance theatre work for events at venues across London, includinga commissioned triple bill of my work for Richmix Theatre, programmed as the opening act for theBreakin Convention.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Riverside is a Special Educational Needs school in Bromley supporting over 300-pupils with varyingprofound and multiple needs
• Responsible for turning the Head Teacher’s hopes of becoming a school of excellence for thePerforming Arts into a reality. Bringing pupils, their families, staff, Governors and the local communityon a journey from.
• Taking a vocational approach to learning I led on all Performing Arts; visioning, strategic planning anddelivery
• Gained the school Artsmark Platinum status
• Line management of teachers, freelance staff, artists and performers
• Producing yearly programmes of innovative and creative activity, ensuring personalised pupilengagement

London, England, United Kingdom

• A member of the senior leadership team for the Step into Dance Programme that operated in over 200youth venues across London and Essex, funded by the Jack Petchey Foundation
• Strategic and operational oversight of over 50-freelance dance artists including producing continuousprofessional development programmes
• Undertaking lesson observations of artists to develop and share best practise
• Identify specific skills in order to match artists with appropriate venues and students in order toprovide a solid foundation for learning
• Prepared and monitor project documentation for funders (surveys, schedules, evaluation etc.),researching new funding opportunities and contributed to applications
• Produced revenue through the creation of participatory dance experiences

London, England, United Kingdom

• Performed with numerous companies and artists including: Liv Lorent, Andile Sotiya, P&O Cruises,Robert Blake Productions, Debbi Purtill, Boogie Train and Hype Dance
• Teaching in multiple venues across London including working in Special Educational Needs andMainstream Schools, Pupil Referral Units, Care Homes, HM Prisons, Young Offenders Institutes andDance Companies
• Developed a specialism in working with groups deemed hard to engage with a focus on those thatpresent challenging behaviour