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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 supporting establishment of a Complex Needs Panel of multi-agency senior managers. Panel is so vital Brent Council adopted proposal and brought it in-house - Building a Migrant Homelessness partnership group - Leading Forum’s engagement with Brent Council’s new Homelessness & Rough Sleeping Strategyo Setting up flagship community hub in Harlesden (council-commissioned), one of the most deprived wards in England, bringing voluntary, statutory and community services together in single space supporting vulnerable and excluded people. So successful that similar hubs have rolled-out across the boroughResearch: o Delivering major peer research report on vulnerable people’s access to statutory digital services in 2019o Building the evidence base for developing services for migrant homeless across BrentInnovation:o Managing the governance of steering and advisory groups drawing in expertise from public, voluntary and private sectors to inform programme design, development and quality o Recruiting and managing consultants to expand capacity and knowledge across the organizationo Co-developed funding bid for innovative place-based programme leveraging just under £1m for the service service)Line management:o Leading a focused team to deliver complex projects ranging from community-based arts programmes, peer research, committee governance and service user involvement

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 Neighbourhood Planning Grant and grants from Locality Our Place and Brent CouncilComplex project management:o Created and co-ordinated a multi-agency and community-led Neighbourhood Forum for Harlesdeno Brought in and managed volunteer and freelance experts to develop a neighbourhood plan which is now one of the foundations for shaping development across the neighbourhoodResearch and evaluation:o Commissioned and ran a £100,000 evaluation of the Harlesden Working Together projectPartnerships:o Running local delivery of the nationwide Community First initiative by bringing together local voluntary and faith sector partners

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, overseeing delivery of policy and research projects and ensuring the specific skills of the team were fully utilised for ActionAid’s flagship campaign research productso Chairing working groups delivering policy and research projectso Identifying policy support needs for global campaigns and bringing in relevant expertiseo Developing ethical research guidelines and templates for human rights researcho Strengthening internal accountability for international campaigns and policy by advising staff across the organisation on key procedures and developing new approvals guidePolicy development:o Quality assuring and ensuring federation-wide participation in the development of international policy positionso Securing buy-in from senior stakeholders at international and country level for policy positions that were previously stalled including land grabs, women’s rights to land, tax justice, genetically modified crops and a range of governance and democracy positionsProject management:o Creating and publishing flagship international campaign policy and research products to tight deadlineso Delivering monthly international policy briefingsPartnerships:o Developing and managing key relationships including with prestigious institutions such as London School of Economics and the University of California Los Angeles.

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 and the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment for health and social careResearch and policy:o As project officer and policy adviser to the Chief Executive was responsible for clear, targeted briefings, drafting speeches and undertaking research projectso Analysing and disseminating Census data including managing a team producing 20+ census-based briefings to tight deadlineso Managing horizon scanning team delivering briefings for politicians and senior managersProgramme management:o Designing a pioneering pan-European community currency programme, coordinating British and European public, voluntary and social enterprise sector partners. My programme design led to the submission of a successful £500,000 funding bid to the EU’s Interreg IVB fundo Leading innovative, community engagement initiative to pilot asset mapping and co-production methods which was subsequently replicated across the borougho Monitoring key transformation programmesOrganisational transformation:o Lead implementation role in an ambitious transformational programme to re-design and commission public services with citizens

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 Chain Forum HLG Sub-Group meetings

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 familieso Producing organisational policy documents and reports

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