Stuart Vickers Email & Phone Number

Coventry, England, United Kingdom

LocatED Sponsorship team

Coventry, United Kingdom

Ensuring good practice and efficiency across the Department's business operations and processes. Delivering continuous improvement to support the successful achievement of our strategic goals.

I facilitate and manage change programmes as part of the Change Delivery Centre of Excellence. The Skills Funding Agency delivers numerous changes each year to improve and strengthen adult learning and skills. It is paramount this change is highly effective, well considered, properly delivered and quickly embedded.My role is to ensure this happens and enable the Skills Funding Agency to make successful changes.The service that I offer is facilitation and support to leaders of… Show more I facilitate and manage change programmes as part of the Change Delivery Centre of Excellence. The Skills Funding Agency delivers numerous changes each year to improve and strengthen adult learning and skills. It is paramount this change is highly effective, well considered, properly delivered and quickly embedded.My role is to ensure this happens and enable the Skills Funding Agency to make successful changes.The service that I offer is facilitation and support to leaders of change; to train and provide knowledge and good practice of change methods and tools to staff; and assure internal practices to maximise effectiveness and success. Show less

To provide a modelling and analytical service to the Skills Funding Agency on the feasibility and affordability of strategic targets, policies and programmes, based on high level modelling of delivery variables for different modes and volumes of learning.PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:1. Lead and manage the Strategic Analysis and Modelling team, ensuring that the team are both proactive and responsive in meeting the needs of management group, the Skills Funding Agency, Government… Show more To provide a modelling and analytical service to the Skills Funding Agency on the feasibility and affordability of strategic targets, policies and programmes, based on high level modelling of delivery variables for different modes and volumes of learning.PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:1. Lead and manage the Strategic Analysis and Modelling team, ensuring that the team are both proactive and responsive in meeting the needs of management group, the Skills Funding Agency, Government departments and other key customers.2. Lead in the provision of an analytical and modelling service to keycustomers, covering the following areas:- Developing analyses and models that stimulate and inform policy development and aid future benefits and impact assessment.- Providing strategic analysis to meet the requirements of the organisation's Business Cycle, including modelling the impact of policy on budgets, assessing the impact of new initiatives, producing projections of future trends and developing and implementing action plans for improvement. - Working with colleagues in the management information community in translating national targets into operational measures to inform specification of new business measures and performance reporting.- Projecting performance against national targets and priorities.3. As professional lead, develop effective working relationships with senior colleagues in partnership Government departments, across Agency policy implementation leads, and with Agency regional directors to ensure a clear understanding of their needs and the needs of the Agency to inform the specification of developments in this strategic analysis and modelling.6. Ensure that the activities of the team are integrated appropriately with other functions within the Agency. Show less

To ensure effective analytical and strategic coverage across the national policy teams including Skills Group, Adult learning, Work Based Learning, Quality and Evaluation.To hold the lead liaison role with other national office teams including Research and Business and Performance teams.To represent the Strategic Analysis team at various LSC and joint LSC/Government forums.To compiled board and meeting papers; present analysis and findings to senior colleagues within the… Show more To ensure effective analytical and strategic coverage across the national policy teams including Skills Group, Adult learning, Work Based Learning, Quality and Evaluation.To hold the lead liaison role with other national office teams including Research and Business and Performance teams.To represent the Strategic Analysis team at various LSC and joint LSC/Government forums.To compiled board and meeting papers; present analysis and findings to senior colleagues within the LSC and the Government.To successfully manage a team made up of strategic analysts, temporary contract analysts and external contractors. Show less

• To work closely with senior colleagues, directors and the local Council to ensure the data analysis and research supports and advises the forward strategy and Business Plan.• To collate and project manage the local LSC’s research activity on an annual basis, tendering for research budgets each year.• To devise and chair various local groups to bring colleagues in other local public organisations together to collectively plan the county’s research and data operations.• To work… Show more • To work closely with senior colleagues, directors and the local Council to ensure the data analysis and research supports and advises the forward strategy and Business Plan.• To collate and project manage the local LSC’s research activity on an annual basis, tendering for research budgets each year.• To devise and chair various local groups to bring colleagues in other local public organisations together to collectively plan the county’s research and data operations.• To work closely and effectively with local FE College data managers to improve accuracy and timeliness of data returns.• To represent the region at various national LSC forums and Government department working groups.• To successfully manage a team covering research, and data management and analysis functions. Show less