Robert West Email & Phone Number

Brentwood, GB

London

The CBI’s education and skills team seeks to improve the UK’s skills system through increasing business investment in skills and ensuring the policy environment supports businesses to access the skills they need.

Colchester, Essex

Board Member since 2015 and Chair since December 2021 at the highly respected regional theatre staging a broad mix of classics and new plays. Rob was Chair of the Capital Sub-Committee oversseing a £10M re-development of the theatre that re-opened in 2021.

Essex

Session Coach delivering as part of the football development programme for the Chelsea FC. Work involving children and young people 4-14 (boys and girls) and on initiatives such as Asian Star and also the Disability Showcase.

Essex, England, United Kingdom

Creative & Cultural Skills is committed towards creating a fair and skilled cultural workforce. Part of the Senior Management Team, the role of Director is to shape and deliver the vision and direction for the organisation and to take strategic and policy decisions. In this role I lead a team of Partnership Managers based around the UK to develop, sustain.

Purfleet, England, United Kingdom

Member of Senior Management Team at CCSkills. Leading groups of Skills Academy Managers to develop, sustain and grow partnerships between education and industry to support the long-term economic growth of the creative and cultural industries.

Purfleet, England, United Kingdom

Developing work in the East and South East regions with a view to establishing a sustainable programme of activity with employers, providers and stakeholders in this areas as a model for wider UK delivery.

Purfleet, England, United Kingdom

lead of delivery of a two-year development programme developing partnerships and funding relationships linked to a new training centre in Purfleet, Essex with a view to establishing a sustainable programme of activity with employers, providers and stakeholders in the region.

London, United Kingdom

Lead on developing the National Skills Academy for the Creative and Cultural sector. Recruiting and managing relationships with education and industry with a view to developing partnerships that address the skills challenges facing the creative industries.

Chair of the Board of Trustees guiding the company known for touring groundbreaking plays to young people nationally and internationally.

Director of a consortium of education business partnerships operating in Essex, Southend and Thurrock. Funded by the LSC. Salary £38,091pa

Led a 2 year programme producing work using art to highlight sites in Essex working with Greenwich & Docklands Festival, Mercury Theatre Colchester and Chelmsford StreetDiversions amongst others.

Started as part of the Drama team in 1997 and moved to the London office in 2001 shortly after the Boydon Report which I was a part of.Became Senior Theatre Officer before leaving in 2005 to pursue other things.

Work including directing, workshop facilitation, programming and developing and producing a range of cultural projects with a variety of culturally diverse communities.

Initiating and leading a variety of arts education projects for ILEA offering free service to statutory and non-statutory sector.

Ba, Community Theatre Arts

A member of the innovative Community Theatre Arts course I undertook a three year programme of work that involved performing, writing.

Ba Hons Literature, 2:1

Education record

General comprehensive education leading to O and A Level study.

Education record