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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.

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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.