Rebecca Mcfarlane Email & Phone Number

Dollar, GB

Dollar, Scotland, United Kingdom

Responsible for developing, growing and implementing the fundraising function within the school. Current major project - FIDA - the Futures Institute at Dollar Academy. FIDA is a new open-access education initiative that has placed Dollar Academy at the forefront of educational innovation in Scotland. FIDA offers young people the opportunity to learn in a.

Dollar

Rebecca McFarlane Ltd provided research and evaluation services and organisational development, capacity building, and fundraising support. Rebecca is also an Independent Grant Assessor. Previous Clients include: - Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care - Evaluation of their Truacanta project- Clackmannanshire Economic Regeneration Partnership.

Dollar, Scotland, United Kingdom

Responsible for:- strategy development and delivery- marketing and communications - Community Engagement, - networking and partnership development

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Edinburgh

• Worked with the team at The Lines Between - contributing to planning, fieldwork, facilitation, analysis and reporting on a number of their projects. Selection of projects delivered when at TLB:
• NCRA - supported a national consultation involving a series of workshops with stakeholders from across rural Scotland, followed by consultation analysis to support the development of a National Rural Strategy
• Historic Environment Scotland – supported the development of their international strategy
• Scottish Artists’ Union – designed, analysed and reported on their 2018 annual survey of their membership
• SCAN – developed a suite of case studies to demonstrate art’s impact on Scotland’s national performance framework
• Alzheimer’s Scotland & IRISS – reported on a series of stakeholder workshops identifying the additional barriers to those people with dementia and protected characteristics

Dollar, Scotland

• I worked from home in Dollar, managing the Scotland Office, delivering research and evaluation projects focusing on health, social care and equalities policy. OPM was re-branded as Traverse but is now closedA selection.
• Edinburgh CHP: a qualitative research project which examined the support needs of older carers. Followed by a series of 4 workshops for voluntary sector carer support organisations across Edinburgh to support the.
• Marie Curie: evaluation of a fully funded 18-month pilot in NHS Fife aimed at developing the existing Marie Curie Service for generalist palliative care
• Caring Together Programme, a partnership between Marie Curie Cancer Care, NHS Glasgow and Clyde, and the British Heart Foundation. 2-year programme of Action Research to develop an effective integrated model of care.
• Health Foundation’s shared decision-making programme MAGIC - 2-year formative evaluation to identify what worked in relation to programme design and widespread implementation of shared decision making
• ‘Childcare and Early Learning Hubs’ two-year formative evaluation looking at their development of across England

I held a 3 year PQASSO Mentor license. PQASSO is a quality assurance system for the voluntary sector developed by the Charities Evaluation Services. PQASSO mentors help organisations to implement PQASSO by providing training and one-to-one support.

Clackmannanshire, Scotland

Play Alloa is a charity based in Alloa, Central Scotland, that provides play and social opportunities for children, young people and adults with additional support needs and disabilities. I was a board member from 2010 supporting organisational development, quality assurance and fundraising, in 2013 I successfully secured funding from the Third Sector.

Alloa, Scotland

I sat on the Board of Directors for a small voluntary organisation supporting children and young people with additional needs across Clackmannanshire. Responsibilities include quality assurance, volunteering, organisational development, monitoring and evaluation, and fundraising.

Leeds, United Kingdom

Role included providing support to the director to develop both Global Synergy Solutions (an equality and diversity consultancy) and Global Promise (a not-for-profit organisation). Key responsibilities were to provide strategic and operational development support, including programme management, fundraising, and publicity and marketing.

Leeds, United Kingdom

The role involved simultaneously working on a wide range of research and consultancy assignments for public sector clients including Yorkshire Forward, the National Employment Panel and the Yorkshire and Humber Regional Assembly. Main policy areas: Employment/worklessness, regeneration/neighbourhood renewal, governance, social exclusion and the labour.

Development Studies With Politics (Incl Semester Abroad In Zimbabwe), 2:1 (Hons)

Ma Public Policy And Management, Public And Third Sector Management And Policy