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Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Developed project monitoring tools and utilised these to ensure the Gateway Review project is being delivered to time, cost and quality. Worked with procurement team to tender for external consultants to collate evidence as part of the final report. Hold these consultants to account at fortnightly progress meetings. Capture lessons learned throughout the delivery of the project. Maintain a risk register and review these with senior management. Arrange papers for monthly project board meetings and accurately take minutes at these meetings.

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Support contract management of programmes held by the Authority ensuring that these are managed according to recognised contract and project management methodologies. Support the efficient and effective management of contracts in line with funding bodies targets. Ensuring consistent approach to the completion of contract management tools and reports. Also, provide project and programme management support to colleagues across the directorate including setting up systems and processes.

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Spearheaded development of detailed project and inspection plans for various internal teams, ensuring efficient delivery within quality, scope, time, and budget constraints. Controlled progress of projects by navigating performance analysis and conducting feedback meetings. Ensure alignment of team actions with establishment of regulatory framework. Formulated reports to provide comprehensive feedback to senior management. Led inspections of hospitals and healthcare providers to ensure compliance with industry standards.• Boosted team performance by implementing risk-based inspection programme, to efficiently identify, analyse, and mitigate risks.• Stimulated remedial actions through highlighting breaches of regulation to inspection managers. • Promoted through roles of increasing scope and responsibility.

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Directed contract, programme, and financial reporting activities. Created project plans to successfully deliver social work agenda across 148 local authorities and volunteer organisations, with £4M budget. Established, maintained, and strengthened relationships with internal and external stakeholders. Forecasted, analysed, and monitored risks, maintaining a risk register to mitigate identified factors. Tested and approved team projects before launch dates. Conferred with local authorities and voluntary groups to resolve issues related to projects.• Lauded responsibility to control distribution of £8M adoption improvement grant towards local authorities, efficiently liaising spend and recipients.• Enhanced monitoring processes through formulation of analysis tool to collect certified expenditure certificates from external stakeholders.• Presented detailed analysis of customer data, collected via surveys for Step Up project, to provide feedback to senior management.• Stimulated growth of Assessed and Supported Year in Employment (ASYE) project by making robust recommendations for project approvals.

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Supervised and delivered social work projects aligned with organisational business plans. Orchestrated funding initiatives and stakeholder meetings. Guided development and management of projects, systems, and processes. Designed online monitoring processes to secure accuracy in budget expenditure. Developed electronic filing system to effectively maintain and retrieve files through version control. Navigated risks by establishing risk log and addressing accordingly. Reviewed and reported on budgets, performance, and risks. Provided recommendations and aided in complex decision-making.• Decreased project expenditure during second cohort, through successfully identifying efficiency savings of £4M from contractors’ budget.• Advanced development of online payment system in coordination with external IT contractor, testing for identification of areas for improvement.• Promoted operations of project by providing robust recommendations on findings of lesson learnt exercise conducted for investigation and improvement purposes.