Clare Whitcombe Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• Guiding and supporting the planning, reporting and governance of Melton City Council’s Enterprise Project Management Office (ePMO), ensuring alignment to the Council's Strategic Plan 2021-2025.• Guiding and supporting the adherence to the Council's Project Management Framework, ensuring continuous improvement in project governance.• Providing guidance to Executive Leadership team and stakeholders during the project’s lifecycle including Stage Gate Reviews.• Providing direction to Project Managers on scope, schedule, budget, risks, issues, change management and dependencies.• Evaluating the prioritisation of initiatives and program and portfolio development.• Collaborating across the Council to monitor and report on the performance of the portfolio of programs and projects, identifying opportunities to optimise portfolio outcomes.• Coordinating ePMO reporting and analysis, identifying common themes and opportunities for continuous improvements.• Leading benefits realisation reviews, identifying opportunities to optimise program and project outcomes.• Leading and monitoring resource utilisation and resource reporting.• Providing in-depth project performance analysis by capturing and reporting complex data. • Undertaking quality assurance for project documentation and ensure documentation meets expectations.

London Area, United Kingdom

- Senior Project Manager, Business Analyst and Data Analyst driving a Programme Management team to establish UCL's new £280M neuroscience research and treatment facility launching in Central London (2024).- Leading the planning, management, collaborative design, pilot testing and implementation of the 11 x major digital/IT, infrastructure and operational solutions to ensure effective operations of the new clinical trials facility.- Cross-functional team management of Project Managers, technical experts, Business Analysts, IT teams, Facilities Management, construction and architectural teams.- Fostering a collaborative co-design approach with key Programme stakeholder and governance groups.- Leading the design and planning of laboratory layouts across 4 floors in the new facility in collaboration with external teams including construction teams, architects, UCL research departments and technical advisors.- Leading migration planning for staff, equipment and research samples to move into the new facility and driving organisational change management to encourage staff to work in a more collaborative manner than previous processes.

London, United Kingdom

Analyst informing the NAO 'Ensuring Food Safety & Standards' Report (June 2019) which evaluates the performance of United Kingdom’s food regulatory system and its ability to respond to emerging risks, including the impacts of Brexit and new trade deals. This report will inform Ministerial planning and investment into the United Kingdom’s future food system.The report (launched 12 June 2019) received extensive international and national press coverage as below: - National Audit Office - Food Standards Agency UK - EU Government Europa - New York Times - The Guardian UK - Royal Society of Public Health - Institute of Food Science & Technology - Food Manufacture UK - Local Government Association - Food Spark – Igniting Innovation - Telegraph - Which - The Consumers' Association UK - Food Safety News UK - Mirror UK - Express & Star UK

Melbourne, Australia

Major Impact: Program improvement and enhanced service delivery achieved by an enhanced data extraction and reporting system, delivery of higher quality data and meaningful evaluation findings. Key achievements:1. Management of the Doctors in Secondary School Program Evaluation. Analysis of results and sharing of meaningful findings with program stakeholders to inform program planning, program improvements and best practice.2. Frequent in-depth analysis of the Doctors in Secondary Schools Program data extracted from 100 school-based medical clinics Victoria-wide to identify issues and highlights and trigger immediate enhancements to program delivery.3. Development of an enhanced data flow model and data governance structure to ensure all sensitive program data is managed in accordance with relevant legal parameters and professional standards throughout all stages of data collection, extraction, analysis, storage and reporting.4. Work in collaboration with six Australian Primary Health Networks, 100 Medical Centres, two medical software companies, one university and across other government departments to plan the enhanced data governance model.

Australia

Major impact: Enhanced organizational business practices, products and services to support the mental health and wellbeing of young people and older adults. Key achievements:1. Led and managed all projects, products and services within beyondblue’s youth and older adults portfolios, including managing project teams and external contractors to successfully deliver projects, while undertaking evaluation, data collection and data analysis to monitor and report on project impacts and develop recommendations to enhance future practice.2. Co-developed strategic directions, team plans and budget plans for the Families and Education Teams of beyondblue.3. Led the development of a coordinated interagency service model for youth mental health in collaboration with other national youth mental health organisations.4. Co-designed and facilitated implementation of beyondblue’s business improvement and change management initiatives including the:5. Led the digital integration of beyondblue’s workplace training into the internal systems of Australia’s largest aged care provider to enhance workforce capacity.6. Procured and contract managed a number of external service providers to deliver information technology, digital product management, content creation and evaluation services.

50 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne Cbd

ROLE 1: Food Safety & Regulation UnitROLE 2: Food Systems and Nutrition Policy UnitMajor impacts: - Influenced the Trans-Tasman food system and food policies by providing policy advice to Food Standards Australia New Zealand. - Influenced changes to Victoria’s food system to increase the supply of quality, nutritious foods and enhance the safety of foods supplied to the public.

Melbourne, Australia

Major impacts: - Strengthened the nutrition quality of Victoria's food system through collective impact initiatives in collaboration with a range of stakeholders.- Enhanced the nutrition quality of foods supplied in Victorian schools.

Victoria, Australia

Northern Territory, Australia

Brisbane, Australia

Certificate, Agile Foundations, Complete

This course provides all foundational knowledge to develop an in-depth understanding of Agile methodologies and Agile project management..

Certificate, Data Science

This course develops expertise in data analysis and management through topics such as: - Exploring Data - Analysing and Visualising Data.

Certificate, Prince2 Foundation & Prince2 Practitioner

PRINCE2 is a process-based method for effective project management. Used extensively by the UK Government, PRINCE2 is also widely.

Certificate, Inclusive Leadership Training: Becoming A Successful Leader

Understanding and application of leadership styles used by successful 21st-century leaders. Incorporation of inclusive leadership.

Certificate, Project Management, Certificate

Tools and processes to manage day-to-day activities efficiently and effectively, using a project management methodology.

Bachelor'S Degree, Health Science, Honors