Managing business improvement projects across the Children & Families Directorate including: Children in Care Sufficiency - Residential Homes, Fostering, Mockingbird, Home to School Transport Policy, Gypsy, Roma, Travellers (GRT), Children & Young People’s Plan, Regional Self Assessment.

Operational management of local grant making team in Thames ValleyAssessment and grant making with oversight of multi million pound budget.Account management of 100+ grants across 3 counties with range of organisations from the Voluntary & Community Sector and statutory bodies.Relationship management ensuring effective engagement, networking, developing opportunities for collaboration and funding.Local needs analysis and development of local funding plans.

Grant management of allocated caseload in Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire.Assessment of new applications for funding and preparing of reports for funding panels.Local knowledge of patch, support needs analysis and design of local funding plan.Relationship management with existing grant holders, new applicants, and key stakeholders with a designated geographical area.Engagement, presentations and participation at local funding events to raise awareness of lottery funding opportunities.

Lead for data management and performance reporting, tracking and engagement work with young people, project management and partnership working.Operational management and leadership of the Engagement & Tracking team.Plan and successfully execute Annual Activity Survey to ensure the timely monitoring of young people’s engagement in education, training and employment. Project management to improve outcomes for young people in Central Bedfordshire.Conduct local needs analysis to address youth unemployment and inform strategic commissioning of services.Effective relationship management with key partners – statutory and non-statutory - resulting in improved data held about young people.

Leadership of a multi-disciplinary team responsible for the engagement and tracking of young people and employer engagement.Management and leadership of two operational service areas: Contact Team and Employer Services Team.Design, set-up and implementation of new Contact Team.Developed robust relationships with local employers, training providers, education providers and other key partners to identify opportunities for young people.Effective and creative promotion and marketing of opportunities to young people.

Performance monitoring of sub-contractor relationship in the delivery of the Connexions Service with particular focus on management information, data quality and overall monitoring of Service Level Agreement.Responsible for providing high-quality management information and performance reporting to Connexions senior management team.

Responsible for system management of client caseload information system, working within a multi-disciplinary team and ensuring effective data capture of work with young people.