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Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Strategic Hub Lead for the West Midlands Combined Authority Careers Hubs of Birmingham, Black Country, Coventry and Solihull.

West Midlands, England, United Kingdom

Lead and manage a team of Enterprise Coordinators and business volunteers to provide high quality careers and enterprise education for 11–18-year-olds. Aligning with the Local Enterprise Partnership / Combined Authority / Local Authority economic and skills priorities, ensuring effective delivery which will improve career outcomes and achieve sustainable change in provision at a local and national level. Ensure service delivery is consistently of a high quality, aligns to the Gatsby Benchmarks and achieves the outcomes within the Careers Hub Strategic Plan, and the Grant Funding Agreement with The Careers and Enterprise Company. Work closely with the Strategic Hub Lead and cross sector stakeholders within the careers space, driving collaboration and ensuring delivery of the Careers Hub Strategic plan.

Waterfront, Merryhill

Lead and manage a team of Enterprise Coordinators and business volunteers to provide high quality careers and enterprise education for 11–18-year-olds. Aligning with the Local Enterprise Partnership / Combined Authority / Local Authority economic and skills priorities, ensuring effective delivery which will improve career outcomes and achieve sustainable change in provision at a local and national level. Ensure service delivery is consistently of a high quality, aligns to the Gatsby Benchmarks and achieves the outcomes within the Careers Hub Strategic Plan, and the Grant Funding Agreement with The Careers and Enterprise Company. Work closely with the Strategic Hub Lead and cross sector stakeholders within the careers space, driving collaboration and ensuring delivery of the Careers Hub Strategic plan.

Wolverhampton, United Kingdom

To bridge the gap between business and education, by increasing collaboration between the business community and education providers, to improve young people’s transition to work. Influence government education and skills policy, to ensure young people develop the skills, experience and attitude to make a successful transition into work.

This role is incredibly wide-ranging, involving the development and management of many different sectors within the school itself: To complement the professional work of teachers by taking responsibility for the project management and coordination of agreed learning activities. To design and deliver the recruitment strategy. To raise students aspirations, skills enhancement, employability and provide valuable enrichment and volunteering opportunities. Full responsibility for the management of the UCAS process. To engage parents in the aspirations of pupils in KS5 with personalised parental contact. To work in innovative ways with individuals or small groups of pupils to assist them to achieve their potential. Line management, including performance management of Post 16 Attendance Officer & Post 16 Work Related Learning Co-ordinator and Post 16 Mentors. To support Assistant Principal of Post 16 in all Post 16 related matters as required. To deputise for the Assistant Principal/Head of Post 16 in their absence. Financial responsibility for Post 16 funding and budgets

Responsible for the management of Learning & Coaching Centre, Academic Coaches in Maths and English.Lead role in the delivery of the Aimhigher programme across whole school - leading to a commendation award for a NEON Award for Outstanding Access to HE Government initiative – identified as outstanding delivery of programme within secondary education. . Management of all non teaching staff training and development plans as well as performance management.

Self-Employed

Self-employed Training ConsultantResponsible for the creative provision of learning and people development solutions for clients. Comprehensive range of products.Achievements Designed and delivered induction programme to 2000 employees for “Alton Towers” (The Merlin Group). Designed and delivered Pendolino Train Managers 9wk induction programme for “Virgin Trains”. Coach to Sainsbury’s employees on redundancy. Designed and delivered Customer Satisfaction programme for “Severn Trent Water”.

Washford West, Redditch

Responsible to Head of People Development for the management and continual development of Halfords learning behaviours. Leading and developing “coaches” to deliver a sustainable learning environment in Halfords stores. Providing coaching, facilitation and personal development advice to all employees both on an individual and team basis.

Field - Based

Responsible to Head of Training for strategic planning and leading a team of Training Development officers, designing and delivering training for Executives, Middle and Senior Managers as well as delivering training to Retail Branch Teams. Generating and managing the revenue budget of £100,000 plus sharing responsibility for a £750,000 training budget. Developing and coaching people, providing leadership, focus and performance management of team. Providing Project Consultancy to functional areas.

Welwyn Garden City, Herts

Responsible to Head of Training for leading a small training team. Delivering product qualifications to all employees and delivering training to Retail Branch Teams. Managing the merger of two companies training functions (Thresher & Victoria Wine into First Quench),

Kingstanding, Birmingham

Responsible for delivering sales and profits of the store and managing a team of assistants. Managing and developing staff members. Delivered sales and profit targets over £10,000 per week, profits 5% up on budget, managing inventory and mounting promotional displays. Delivering customer service initiatives. Area trainer for 25 stores and Lottery trainer for 150 stores.

Diploma In Business Coaching

Education record

Activities and Societies: 7 GCSE's, Grades ‘A’ to ‘C’ including Maths and English.