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Inclusive BoardsChief Operating Officer
Jun. 2022United KingdomSkills: Executive Search · Business Strategy · Change Management · Marketing · Leadership Development · Business Development · Corporate Governance · Organizational Leadership · Accelerated Growth · Small Business Development
Inclusive BoardsActing Executive Director
Jun. 2021 - Jun. 2022London Area, United KingdomSkills: Executive Search · Business Strategy · Marketing · Leadership Development · Business Development · Corporate Governance · Accelerated Growth
Metame360Certified Professional Coach
Apr. 2021Providing Professional Coaching
Inclusive BoardsDirector of Programmes
Apr. 2021 - Jun. 2022- Diversity & Inclusion Advisory and Training
- Board Recruitment and Exec Search
- Executive/Professional Coach
- Leadership course Instructor
- Leadership training
Raleigh Learning TrustTrust Operations Manager
May. 2020 - Apr. 2021In addition to managing all aspects of the Trust's non-teaching activities, I spent all of my time ensuring that Children, Staff and all visitors were kept safe during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Requiring high degrees of operational resilience, very high degrees of Health and Safety compliance and putting in place the operational logistics to deal with DfE Guidance (on a daily basis) while ensuring the well-being of my team was never off the radar. Anyone in schools during this period will know exactly what I am talking about - this school was a designated 'Key Worker' school, we never closed down because it was kept safe and that was my responsibility with support of all staff involved.
Inclusive BoardsDirector Of Operations
Aug. 2018 - May. 2020All aspects of Operations; Sales and Marketing; drafting business proposals; financial forecasting and budget planning; campaigns management; stakeholder management; youth services
West Green Primary SchoolSchool Business Manager
Oct. 2015 - Aug. 2016London, England, United KingdomHR, recruitment, contract management, single central record management, Safeguarding, Pupil Attendance
One HousingHead of Regional Housing Operations
Mar. 2013 - Apr. 2014London, England, United KingdomGeneral Housing Needs, Executive lead on two Regional Housing Boards, £5M Capital and Revenue budget, responsive housing management services, Customer contact Centre, anti-social behaviour
The Jazz Warriors International Director
Jun. 2012 - Nov. 2013London, England, United Kingdom• Advocating Diversity & Inclusion within Arts Council England and other not-for-profits supporting Jazz Uk
• Established and managed a not-for-profit Social Enterprise limited company
• Business development lead; Event design and management
• Sourced new business partners and establish working relationship with industry partners such as the Arts Council
Zambia National Women's LobbyGovernance and Elections Advisor
Feb. 2011 - Jun. 2012Lusaka, Zambia• Worked in the Secretariat, supporting the board around the Strategic Direction of ZNWL and Authored the only report in Zambia analysing the Zambia Tripartite Election 2011, from a female gender perspective
• Coaching Zambian staff and other key actors in methodologies and concepts i.e. project managements
• Successfully secured funding from major donors through writing proposals and networking to the total of US$150,000
• Delivered joint projects with other NGOs and major donors including United Nations and DFID
• Developed a training manual for women Members of Parliament, approved by UN Women – New York.
• Delivered community awareness programmes in isolated and very underprivileged communities relating to Zambia's 2011 Tripartite Elections
• Facilitated a Leadership and Decision Making Workshops to forty young school-girl leaders
Royal Borough of Kingston upon ThamesService Manager
Jan. 2009 - Nov. 2010London, England, United Kingdom• Successfully undertook a fundamental review and evaluation of performance management resulting in the production of a performance management framework and monitoring and evaluation programme
• Successfully embedded project management culture establishing regular project boards and Project/risk reports; delivery through middle management coaching
• Successfully embedded a new Risk Management policy within the department, including developing a reporting framework and process for escalation of risks to senior management team
• Undertook a health check of contract management within the department and made recommendations for improvements
• Led on the production of the departmental Team Business Planning guidance and production of the strategic departmental business plan, which influenced council wide team planning methodology
• Worked across the various council departmental working groups to give advice and support around areas relating to improving service efficiency and improvements, and to act as a key influencer of change in a corporate wide restructure
• Worked extensively with the Corporate Management Team to raise awareness about the climate change agenda, the impact on asset management and CO2 emissions and the global, national and local responsibilities around this
• Led on the drafting of a government level equalities peer inspection self-assessment report
• Delivered capacity building with senior managers on establishing targets and measuring outcomes, which increased awareness around progress compared to expenditure
• Established the first departmental equalities group, and arranged capacity building on Equalities Law and policies for the group
• Led a review of staff appraisal and sickness absence reporting within the department and put in place a monitoring process for the same
Various CompaniesConsulting Business Owner
Oct. 2008 - Dec. 2018London, England, United KingdomUndertaking business consulting/contract roles across a range of sectors.
London Borough of Barking and DagenhamHead of Housing Strategy; Group Manager
Sep. 2003 - Mar. 2008London, England, United KingdomLed on tackling far right extremism upon the election of BNP Opposition including: drafting revised Community Cohesion Strategy; working with Central Government on rolling out good practise nationally; delivering capacity building within communities and other stakeholder groups; cited as good practise in the then government’s commission for community cohesion see: https://modgov.lbbd.gov.uk/internet/documents/s15243/CommunityCohesionReport.pdf
• Developed a methodology for changing the departmental culture relating to performance, projects and risk management
• Driving up performance i.e. in areas of weakness resulting in 1* housing management moving to 2* and rising.
• Drafting the boroughs first Customer Services Strategy
• Managed house building programmes with partnered Registered Social Landlords
• Led on a Housing Funding/PFI bid and developed an innovative Asset Investment Vehicle as a model for retaining land for investment. Secured £18M grant funding for housing regeneration
• Changed UK Housing Finance Law resulting in the first Housing Vehicle Company
• Project led a multi-million pound social housing project, which included using the full range of Project management tools, developing a communication strategy to work with residents and other key stakeholders such as politicians and government departments
London Borough of NewhamVarious Roles
May. 1987 - Sep. 2003London, England, United KingdomOperational Manager in Statutory Homelessness; moved on in my career as the Chief Executive's Policy Advisor; Project managed two elections, including LBN's first Mayoral Election; managed the Chief Executive's Office and the Shadow Cabinet office. Ended my career being part of a small but highly functional Best Value team and personally led on cross departmental best value reviews and efficiency exercises and transformational leadership programmes.
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