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London, England, United Kingdom

Delivering local grant-making and grant management process

Led strategic development and implementation of a core organisational objective, aimed at supporting the most vulnerable children to access the benefits of reading.

London, United Kingdom

Based in Crisis’ North London client centre, led projects and partnerships to drive system change and improvement at local level, bringing together homelessness policy and best practice.Key achievements include:Partnerships:o Founding Brent’s multi-agency Homelessness Forum and managing its most important and impactful areas, including: - Scoping and.

London, United Kingdom

Managing service-oriented and business development projects for local independent homelessness charity.Key achievements included:Fundraising and business development: o Secured £500,000+ from the Oak Foundation, the largest grant in Lift’s historyo Achieved multiple grants to fund flagship place-shaping programme, Harlesden Working Together, including a.

London, United Kingdom

Managed a large portfolio of global campaign research and policy projects and responsible for creating and maintaining robust systems for research quality and effectiveness across ActionAid worldwide.Key responsibilities included:Campaigns:o Coordinating multi-country campaigns through extensive scoping and research, developing shared work programmes.

London, United Kingdom

Oversaw a portfolio of policy, strategy, research and quality assurance projects.Key achievements included:Strategy development:o Developing Older People’s Housing Strategy to reconfigure the specialist housing stock, achieve large-scale savings and create major new specialist housing developmentso Coordinating key sections of the Local Economic Assessment.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for managing UK Government preparations for the European Commission Dairy High Level Group (HLG) meetings:o Project management to ensure that HLG workstream leads developed and delivered policy briefings for delegateso Maintained a policy overview of the HLG processo Provided Secretariat services for project board meetings and the Dairy Supply.

London, United Kingdom

Key responsibilities in this role included:o Quality Assurance of ministerial correspondence responseso Drafting correspondence on behalf of ministerso Directing team members on priority and complex caseso Strategic communications: assisting in coordinating public engagement events for Secretary of State

Colombo, Sri Lanka

Key responsibilities included:o Researching international and Sri Lankan domestic legislation on rights of persons in detentiono Collecting evidence for Pirosner of Conscience applicationso Compiling information on different models of detainee support networkso Stakeholder management with human rights NGOs, legal professionals, detainees and their.

Colombo, Sri Lanka

Key responsibilities included:o Designing national human rights project for prospective funding applicationso Research and analysis of on national human rights contexto Producing a range of policy and communications material (reports, press releases, articles)

Ma, Human Rights

Ba (Joint Hons), French And Philosophy