Samantha Dottin Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Working with local, regional and national children in care groups to shape services, campaign for change and understand current issues. Work in partnership with a variety of stakeholders to ensure young peoples voice are heard, support all Brent Youth Parliament activities, run all monthly groups (in person and online), increase membership to groups, • Support youth voice to shape services, highlight priorities, provide solutions around issues such as fostering, health & wellbeing, education, housing, • First Youth Inspection of services carried out by care leavers• Development of Children in Care Council• Refresh of Youth Parliament Constitution, Values & Promises, Structure, integration with Council Services• Maintain and develop all groups throughout Covid-19, ensuring the continuous wellbeing of Brent children and young people

London, United Kingdom

Researching a variety of poverty issues occurring nationally and locally; to find and create potential strategies and solutions to tackle poverty; implement new online crisis support scheme for residents; implement digital inclusion strategy; research local needs, services, funding• Digital Unite program researched with a view of being implemented to support digital inclusion• Residents Support Scheme researched, designed with a view of being implemented to support residents who are in crisis

London, United Kingdom

I am supporting Feed Me Good's development as it moves into the next phase of growth. This has included funding support, business planning, project development, partnership opportunities, volunteering strategy, corporate engagement, researching local issues.

London, United Kingdom

Assist with a review of current delivery in the London South region. Develop portfolio of potential partners across the region. Commission and recommission community programs according to the needs of residents. Support the development of cross-regional working. Developing relationships and work with internal and external partners. Develop new projects and pilot. Contract and budget management. Monitor performance of projects.

London, United Kingdom

Review the volunteering program from both a grassroots and a national perspectives. Create and deliver the UK wide volunteer improvement plan for engagement, recruitment, induction, training and management of all volunteers in UK; special focus on national hospice volunteering. First point of contact for volunteering enquiries relating to hospices both internally and externally. Manage volunteers from a hospice and working with other regional volunteer schemes to reduce silos and create a stronger ‘local’ presence. Support the development of various processes to improve the volunteering experience for both staff, volunteers and service users. Work across departments to raise the profile and create more understanding of volunteering. Develop and deliver training for staff to support their volunteer management. Create more opportunities for volunteering e.g. for young people, corporate organisations, and those with diverse skills. Promote, organise and participate in volunteer events. Develop and implement effective communication channels between Marie Curie and volunteers, both nationally and locally. Monitor all aspects of local volunteering and report back to Head of Volunteering• Enhance current aspects develop new opportunities for national volunteering program • Increased the recruitment of volunteers and roles available• Increased the level of joint working between regions and departments• Implement a Community Engagement national project• Manage approx. 100 local hospice volunteers, support hospice staff with their volunteer management and improve local volunteering culture

London, United Kingdom

Recruiting a wide range of volunteers from a variety backgrounds, creating new volunteer roles to meet community's needs and utilising skills available, understanding local community (services, demographics, needs etc.), retaining volunteers by ensuring they are happy, appreciated and feel part of the organisation, develop new projects to support developing needs, create and develop partnerships with corporate organisations, provide opportunities for volunteers to develop through training and supervision, organise a variety of community events, promoting all services of the organisation, signposting to services, partnership working, community engagement• Exceeded all recruitment and performance targets• Created new community projects and volunteering roles• Increased community engagement across 4 local estates• Engagement of local and corporate businesses resulting in corporate volunteering and local support• Supporting volunteers into employment

Twickenham, United Kingdom

Managing a new project that will encourage residents to 'get involved' and shape thier communities; acts as a communication tool between the Council and residents and have a solid awareness of what activities are taking place in the communities. This project has come out of the All in One Survey and build upon the issues raised from this.

Twickenham, United Kingdom

Working on the ‘All In One’ consultation project with the aim to find out what residents feel is good about the borough and what they feel needs improving. This information is then fed back to the relevant service providers to see how services can be improved. The project is also empowering residents and groups to get involved with these improvements. • Creating publicity material for events using borough-wide survey findings• Collating feedback from residents and creating reports for service providers• Creating an engagement plan for the council to take residents recommendations forward and engage with hard to reach groups • Creating a Community Resource Bank event to promote getting involved/volunteering• Assisting with the development of the Volunteer Service specification (to be commissioned)• Creating a plan to develop engagement in consultations (internal & external)

London

Project Management on a programme to get Hackney residents into work/training, developing the Community Development & Engagement strategy with a focus on hard to reach communities, working in partnership with support services, promoting the “Ways into Work’ to Hackney residents & local service providers, registering residents onto the “Ways into Work’ programme, sign posting to a variety of support services, empowering clients to make positive changes, linking up with many external service providers to promote best practice, managing team through training and development, event planning, promoting Genesis Community services, developing and supporting local events, working from a variety of locations on a day to day basis, managing community development team• Designed and implemented a new engagement strategy that increased registrations by at least 30%• Invited to advise on the design of the Volunteer Programme due to ‘volunteer management’ experience • Cross department work – enhancing services by recommending various strategies

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Race And Culture & Media And Cultire, 2:1

Media, Distinction

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