I lead and manage a wide range of Student Services provision and support. This includes, Admissions, Student Funding, Additional Support Team, Student Support (Counselling,Careers, Transitions, Mental Health & Well-Being) Student Union, Student Nursery, the College Reception Team and the Spritual Care Team. I am also the Safegaurding Coordinator for the College. I have around 50 staff.We are part of the University of Highlands and Islands and as such I am involved in a range of appropriate professional groups. Locally, I am also a member of relevant partnerships and strategic forums. I have a very pro-active approach to work.

My role was both internal and commerical. Internally, my remit was to map a framework of employability skills and activity across the curriculum and develop good and new practice in this area. It also involved development of employability college wide including through a range of ESF funded projects. I was also involved and active in local and national partnerships and initiatives. Commercially, I was asked to design and develop a range of bespoke new programs (mainly blended and online approaches but some classroom as well ) for employability areas this included areas such as soft skills. These were offered as part of Dundee College's commercial training activities to local employers and organsiations. The Soft Skills programs for both managers and operational staff was particularly popular: as was MBTI contextulised workshops.

Leading and Managing a University Careers Service, the post also involved deputising for the Director of Student Services.Under my management the service achieved the coveted matrix quality mark award- being only the second university in Scotland to achieve this award- at that time. I was involved in a few projects during that time: one included being part of a wider Environmental project along with university partners from Finland and Ukraine. Rules of the funding meant we had to share our practice with others. We helped a university in Ukriane set up a Careers Service (first ever in the country) to benefit their own students and graduates. laterly, I was involved in a 2 year national project (under Transformational Change) which centred around online Personal Development Planning (PDP) models and e-portfolios . One of the highlights was that my colleague and myself were invited to present and outline our work in a paper to the Oxford University Conference.