Vicky Ball (Nee Jones) Email & Phone Number

Chelmsford, GB

Remote

London, England, United Kingdom

Director-level responsibility for Strategic HR & OD for a national campaigning and awareness charity with a combined staff, voluntary and consultant workforce of over 900Key Achievements:- Acted with Director-level responsibility within the Senior Leadership Team, leading a multi-disciplinary team across four operational remits- Development of the.

Chelmsford, United Kingdom

• Key Achievements:
• Organisational lead for design, implementation and project management of a major long-term succession planning project for Executive and Senior University leadership teams and subsequent talent retention approach.
• Presided over implementation of strategic People workstreams associated with organisational Agile working rollout, business partnering with University Executive Team, Head of Strategic Transformation and local.
• Lead the design, procurement, rollout, impact evaluation and external relationship management for a year-long leadership development programme for 60 senior academics. This incorporated executive coaching, mentoring.
• Oversaw review of university recruitment practices, including attraction and retention, increasing parity for vocational experience, review of executive search spend, and re-design of assessment approach
• Programme Manager for ARU’s membership to national Ambitious Futures graduate scheme, leading on assessment centre, graduate recruitment and attraction, external relationship management, and programme budget of £146k.

Camden

• Head of corporate OD and L&D function for a leading social and commercial housing association that manages 15,000 homes across London and the South East, and a workforce of 1400.Key Achievements
• Strategic project management of People and Change strands of business transformation programme, including talent and reward, engagement, wellbeing, and retention initiatives.
• Designed content for 20 Executive Roadshows for Corporate Strategy Review, resulting in engagement from over 800 staff.
• Lead group-wide staff engagement activity, including consultation on Best Companies survey, resulting in Sunday Times “Ones to Watch” status.
• Implementation and design review of graduate recruitment, assessment and development programme for Housing Services Directorate, for a candidate pool of 200.
• Review, redesign and rollout of a company wide middle management development programme for 80 people managers.

Holborn

• Head of OD function, leading on all aspects of professional development, workforce engagement, talent and succession planning.Key Achievements
• Lead on strategic L&D rebrand and 3 year Workforce Development Strategy in line with business expansion.
• Collaborated with London South Bank University on City of London substance misuse research project.
• Lead on review and development of a three-tier management development programme, including core training modules, professional coaching, 360 degree feedback, and appraisal analysis for 50 managers.
• Head of Centre for an in-house Level 3 Health and Social Care qualification via OCN Direct Claim Status, managing another Assessor/Internal Moderator, for 60 learners.
• Managed organisational OD budget of £86,000 to allocate resource to competing organisational priorities.

Woolwich

• Lead on co-ordination, design, delivery, and promotion of a business skills social enterprise course which helped people in recovery to start their own micro business project.
• Built links with over 30 local employer businesses, charities, partner agencies, and social care services to support 60 service users into ETE pathways
• Supported the start up of 15 successful social enterprises
• Secured £40,000 JSA and Big Lottery continuation funding for project
• Supported service users in achieving £15,000 in start up grants
• Co-ordinated the recruitment of 20 business mentors and investment panellists from local business community.

Holborn

• Responsible for leading L&D operations, content design and facilitation, and management of the L&D Admin Team
• Lead on organisational learning and development reporting processes, and day to day L&D function.
• Instrumental in the design, delivery, and implementation of key development initiatives, including our offending interventions programme, safeguarding mapping tools, and motivational course.
• Supported the Director of HR and L&D Manager in revising the learning strategy review.
• Supervised internal communication of our learning strategy review to paid staff and volunteers.
• Developed a new, interactive company induction for new starters, as well as electronic induction packs for a variety of clinical and non-clinical roles.

Brent

• Lead on content design, evaluation, promotion and facilitation for our “Evolve” offending behaviour support group - successfully launched the programme and trained other staff to deliver.
• Developed professional networks by providing training to partnership agencies such as Brent Probation and voluntary services in the borough.
• Acted as the Offending Lead and Probation Satellite Link worker, leading on assessment and referrals for offenders with Specified Activity and Licence Requirements
• Provided psycho-social intervention to a caseload of drug and alcohol clients in the criminal justice sector.

North Essex

• Delivered Drug Awareness training to volunteer cohorts and Colchester Probation Service.
• Lead on the assessment and care co-ordination for clients on the Drug Rehabilitation Requirement in our North Essex provision
• Provided intervention to Class A drug users through the criminal justice system.