Developed and delivered data protection and information governance training programs and frameworks to raise awareness and promote compliance.Monitoring the delivery practices of organisations to ensure these are carried out in line with legislation and supporting the adaption of legislation to consider best practice.Managed data breach investigations and implemented corrective measures to prevent future incidents.Responding to Subject Access Requests, EIR and FOI requests ensuring compliance with data protection regulations and legislation.Developed and implemented robust information nationally recognised policies, procedures and guidance.Creating, building and maintaining relationships with stakeholders across all sectors.Provided expert advice on information Governance and Cyber security best practice.Conducted and reviewed comprehensive data protection screenings. DPIAs and security risk assessments to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities with internal and external partners and suppliers.Engaging with internal and external stakeholders to facilitate the development of the project, recognising dependencies & synergies and share best practice.Managed complex projects, ensuring timely delivery within budget and scope.Briefing Ministers and Senior managers on activities and incidents while recommending appropriate actions.Engaging with external parties including the ICO, UK Government, Scottish Information Commissioners Office, NHS Health Boards and other parties to deliver shared outcomes.Deputising for my line manager and unit head at meetings representing the Scottish Government.Supporting colleagues for Managing actions and KPI’s of service providers, stakeholders, partners, and subcontractors.

Drafting policy papers and correspondence for the public and private sector on behalf of Ministers and the Government.Providing advice and support to government departments and agenciesConsulting with stakeholders, including government departments, industry representatives, and interest groupsContributing to the development of government strategies and prioritiesMonitoring and evaluating the implementation of policies relating to the pandemicIdentifying and addressing policy challenges and issuesContributing to policy reviews and updatesEngaging with the public and stakeholders on policy issuesCommunicating government policies and initiatives effectivelyResponding to public inquiries and feedback.Analyzing data and evidence to inform policy decisions

• Analysing, developing and enhancing master product plans, RAID logs, resource plans and a variety of progress reports.• Creating and maintaining, process & control, documents that support product deliverables including plans, guidance documents, Agile backlog tracking & development, and test reports.• Assisting in the implementation of best practice by promoting the use of Programme, Project, and Organisational Management methodology.• Engaging with, internal and external stakeholders to facilitate the development of the product, recognising dependencies & synergies and share best practice.

Working with governing bodies including FIFA, UEFA, the SFA and SPFL, Scottish and WorldRugby, and Police Scotland to ensure the successful and safe delivery of elite competitions and associated events.Ensuring Broadcasters and Sponsors follow organisational and governing body delivery requirements.Performing actions to ensure that crowd monitoring and control, spectator engagement andmanagement, attendee guidance, and management are carried out to a high standard in line withorganisational and governing body policies snd procedures as well as appropriate government guidance.Supporting the delivery of Broadcasters for live television and operational requirements pre, during and post-event.Leading on unplanned and priority actions including emergency responses.Briefing and Leading groups of external contractors to ensure duties are fulfilled completely.

Successfully delivered four record-breaking Glasgow's Pride events, solidifying the city's reputation as a leader in LGBTQIA+ inclusion.Overseeing multiple teams and delivery areas to ensure seamless event execution, from planning and logistics to on-site management.Negotiated partnerships and secured sponsorships to support the event's growth and sustainability.Fostered a positive and inclusive atmosphere for attendees, ensuring a memorable experience for all.Working with competing brands to align them to our objectives and build on our KPI’s.Managing relationships with artists, suppliers, Local Government, funders and the media sector.

• Consulting on brand activations and event activity plans.• Assisting with the development of brands by ensuring they meet an external standard.• Supporting the delivery brand activations and the running of events.• Developing written manuals and guidelines for brand development.

My role as a referee with the Scottish Football Association is built on my passion for football however this has enhanced my transferable skills of organisation, timekeeping, planning, professional appearance, man management, people skills, grievance handling, accuracy and report writing. Due to the requirements of this role, I need to have a strong discipline in ensuring that I am fair, in the issue which I am acting upon, and also that my fitness is to a high standard so that I can perform at the specific level successfully. I have developed my skills in being very accurate and report writing through the requirement to provide detailed disciplinary reports to the appropriate body. Due to the passion shown by other, I am required to communicate effectively and also efficiently so that when I am providing the reasoning being a decision it does not take a long amount of time and is able to be fully understood. This has been a challenge some time where I have been selected or personally invited to represent Scotland in other nations were the teams have not been from English speaking countries or the local interpretations of the laws of the game are held differently which will usually require further clarification when put into practice even though there had been lengthy discussions prior to the event. I have also developed my awareness of brand loyalty through this role due to the contracts which are developed by the organisation and the focus on appearing professional to act professional and have shared this with colleagues by supporting them in gaining matching equipment which was not available locally by sourcing and procuring these items through what my colleagues were looking for. From this role I have supported various events run or organised by the Scottish FA which allowed me to gain multi-organisational work experience which has only benefited me in my roles in later organisations and projects.

• Leading on projects, for my team, to develop the operations and outcomes.• Managing and producing the 57 national competitions from Registration to the Finals.• Producing the results event and ensuring that information is fully accurate.• Coordinating the work of the Competition Organising Partners and Training Managers to ensure successful delivery of competitor training and the national finals.• Coordinating with sponsors for activations, rights delivery, agreement and relationship management, event promotion and delivery, public relations and media operations.• Creating and developing digital materials to develop and support ways of working.

In my role as Treasurer, I am responsible for all of the financial aspects of the organisation which include ensuring suppliers are paid in timely fashion, checking invoices from suppliers to ensure they are correct, managing agreements and relationships with suppliers to ensure we are receiving what we expect, sourcing and procuring products for the organisation, creating effective communications to members to ensure they are fully informed, ensuring members have paid their fees on time and tracking these should there be any additional costs required, ensuring grant payments are made on time, providing monthly reports to the membership and executive committee, providing merchandise to members as required, chairing and being part of sub-committees, ensuring that the required accounts and documents are provided on time to the appointed auditors, and the membership, as well as representing the association and membership at partner events in a professional manner.

Throughout my long term as a Youth Worker with Renfrewshire Council, I have been able to enjoy a variety of opportunities and aspects of community education which, some people, may not considered as learning. This role requires me to plan, develop, implement and evaluate learning programmes, mainly for 14-26 year olds, out with of formal education. This means that I am required to create and nurture a rapport and relationship with the various groups which I am working with and adapt the programmes to match their needs while showing how it matches what they want. To develop the programmes, I carry out a continual process of consultation with the groups which I am working with as this allows me to provide the training and development in what they are looking for while also getting to understand their interests and wants so that I can market the programmes directly to them in a way which links the activities and what they are interested in. Through partnerships with other government agencies such as the Police and Fire & Rescue, I have been able to build relationships between local young people and these agencies and been able to proactively reduce the anti-social behaviour and complaints made against the young people by members of the community. From my length of time in the organisation, I have been promoted to manage newer members of staff and support them through their development in their role by providing training and monitoring their performance. Although there is the strong focus on being a local face for the organisation through being in the front line position of providing service user support should they have any questions or issues, I am also required to assist with the management of the organisation by ensuring that all statutory requirements are met for data protection and that the management information system is kept up to date fully with all of the required and expected information.

Carrying out the fieldwork research required for a health research Survey. This involved collecting dry blood spot samples to anonymously test for the presence of HIV and Hepatitis C and supporting the completion of the questionnaire.

This role required me to be adaptable and flexible with my approach while also being very organised and providing a professional image to every task as I was attending institutions on behalf of the government to carry out various reviews. My tasks included consulting with stakeholders to gain their views on their experience with the institution, working with Her Majesties Inspectorate of Education to perform a formal assessment on the effectiveness of Further Education institutions, producing and presenting an end of review report presentation to the board and senior managers of the institution and external stakeholders which is followed by an additional written report outlining current weaknesses and future developments and points of action, sharing best practice between partner institutions and organisations, working across departments to enhance processes, training and mentoring new colleagues in the processes and policies of the organisation and reviewing, developing and streamlining the processes used by the organization to support sector progression. During my time in this role, I was appointed to one of three pilot projects to develop a new process for the way in which reviews would be carried out in the future due to the major overhaul of the further education sector within Scotland. This required multiple partners to come together with an appointed institution and develop a new process which would provide continual evaluation of the organisations practices which would meet the needs of the sector, and its stakeholders, rather than having a review for a week once every four years which would allow a proactive approach to developments rather than short term assessments.

This role was mainly a marketing role to promote Enterprise Holdings and to build brand awareness across the city. The main part of the role was to promote the various programmes which are offered to students, including internships, extended placements and graduate programmes while also meeting set targets of the number candidates being put forward for programmes. With this I would also attempt to identify new corporate opportunities such as setting up meeting with new possible clients, identifying possible locations for the newly acquired car share brand and promoting the benefits to current clients, who may be unaware of them. During my time in this role, I would support local branches by filling in when they were short of staff or required additional support at short notice.

This was a customer facing role where I dealt with customers directly through providing answers for questions and queries, providing the day to day services of the organisation and the behind the scenes tasks for the branch. These activities included fully underwriting customers contracts and ensuring that they were fully aware of what they were liable for, ensuring the correct brand was being presented to customers, promoting partnerships to customers and other business partners, using social media to enhance the business of the branch and awareness of its activities, setting daily branch targets, being creative to promote diversity within the branch and organisation, supporting and training newly hired colleagues with branch practices, managing corporate accounts to ensure payments are kept up to date, completing the management portfolio to show my experience and managing the branch email to ensure customers received prompt replies and confirmation of their orders. From being based at Glasgow Airport, I had to continually adapt my communication style as I provided services for customers who spoke little or no English, where I incorporated new technology so that both sides were able to form an understanding of what was being discussed; new customers to the sector whom had never rented a car before, which required the process to be carried out slowly and confirming that they are aware of the full process; customers who had bad experiences with competitors, and reassuring their worries that we would ensure they do not have any issues; corporate customers, providing the service which they require while ensuring our processes are fully completed and in all cases exceeding the expectations which the customers have set of our service. Also in this role, I carried out marketing activities which successfully allowed us to support local business’s clients who had not planned to require their own transport as well as the businesses themselves to support their needs.

This role allowed me to be involved in the planning, implementation and evaluation of a variety of events and activities while creating, developing and enhancing the multiple brands of the organisation. The activities included creating the personality of the mascot and bringing it to life for crowds ranging from 10 to 50,000 people, ensure that there are no brand identity issues through the knowledge of sponsors, partners and their competitors, producing and directing in-house and external shows involving the mascot and highly decorated athletes including Tom Daley, Sir Chris Hoy and Usain Bolt, liaising with sponsors and media outlets to gain the highest level of coverage possible, planning and setting up promotional areas and organising activities to ensure that they are as visually stimulating as possible and organising multiple large scale events, working across departments, to show the brands in the most positive light. Using social media to enhance multi brand interest was one of the most useful tools as it allowed the team to reach the full commonwealth in providing information and sharing assets as well as using new technology during this process such as live streaming through YouTube and using multi-posting so that information was share simultaneously through multiple social media accounts. One of my most enjoyable moments in this role was supporting the Queen’s Baton Relay team on the international sector of the tour of the baton where I got to visit a number of the commonwealth nations and meet their athletes before competition and promote the brands, and competition, to the nation, and sister commonwealth associations, directly. I learned the importance of inter-departmental working and how different areas can support each other as well as the importance close collaboration between departments to ensure the end goal can be reached successfully so that interest can be enhanced with excitement and awareness being created organically.

My main responsibility was to represent the full student population, however I was also responsible for the day to day running of the association which required managing a large budget and ensuring the money was fully accounted for; managing members and subgroups, making sure they follow the rules and regulations of the association; delegating tasks to suitable officers and keeping communication constant to monitor projects and processes to ensure that they were completed fully; planning, organising, implementing and evaluating medium and large scale events and creating presentations to present them to large crowds involving important delegations including funders, royalty and competitors. During my time in this role, the sector was going through a full change which included a merger process cutting 42 institutions, across the country, down to 13. Due to my area of study and experience, I was selected, by my colleagues in the sister institutions which were joining with ours, to lead on presenting a business case to our main funders, the senior management of the new college, to ensure that the new association, being formed, would be able to achieve what would be expected of it and also be able to become a sustainable model. To achieve this, and ensure that I was not spread thin, I managed to have the college agree to provide a development officer in supporting the process of the creation of the written business case. From the actions of myself, and support of the three teams, I was able to be very successful in ensuring that the new association would be able to achieve what would be expected of it through gaining a 39-fold increase in the budget of the association, ensuring three full time workers removing a shared focus on working and studying and having the new association, and institution, in place, being the only organisation to meet the government’s target of being in place on time.

I gained a large number of skills and experience from the multiple projects which I was involved in. These skills focused around budget management, document control, event management, volunteer management, training creation and delivery, evaluation report writing and negotiation. The activities to gain and develop these skills included planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluating 4 annual music festivals where the group were required to organise the full event by sourcing suppliers and contractors for equipment such as the stage, the pa system and finding bands and fillers for the full day event; advertising and marketing various events in the lead up to the event such as audition days, volunteer training and the event itself. I was required to source and develop a training programme for volunteers so that they were fully aware of event processes while being able to complete their roles fully. Managing the budget was a new task for me at this time and I considered it to be a large budget, of £56,000, for providing the agreed project however as I was not originally involved in the planning of this project the needs and wants developed. From these developments, I was able to identify and develop my skills in negotiation by being able to alter the plans for the grant which had been provided for the project. This meant that we were able to move specific capital when it was needed as specific times of the year as the funders process share the whole allocation at specific points of the year. This then helped the second part of the project which was to provide a free to use recording studio. When I joined the group were 6 months behind in their planning of this part of the project where I took the responsibility of sourcing the required equipment and then agreeing with funders of the project to move money from the under spend that we had so we could purchase very high quality equipment.