Skills & Experience

Charity Leadership

• Charity CEO and management - Setting up, developing and running an award-winning charity supporting over 7000 unemployed people, also managing several community initiatives ranging in size for over 15 years.

• Developing and leading a number of social value CSR partnership initiatives working with local and global businesses, including PwC, HSBC and HS2 Ltd. 

• Recruiting and managing a dedicated team of staff and volunteers, fostering a culture of collaboration, inclusivity, and values-driven leadership

• Bid writing and fundraising

Leadership and Innovation

• Identifying opportunities for growth and development

• Managing multiple projects and engaging with a wide variety of stakeholders

• Empowering, motivating and inspiring project team members.

• Building of collaborative relationships with project stakeholders, with an ability to take account of their levels of influence.

Social Value Impact

• Developing CSR/ ESG projects and community engagement, with a track record of promoting a social value culture within stakeholder business organisations.

• Implementing and delivering client-group-focused social value initiatives with business partners, including assisting with planning, coordinating, and tracking social value impact.

Public Speaking and Communication

• Keynote and panel speaking at conferences, business presentations and fundraising events ranging in size from 50 – 800 people

• Media interviews on TV, radio, print and online media features with local and national media, including BBC News, ITV news, Channel 4, National and local newspapers, also podcast interviews.

• Managing media relationships, social media platforms, and website content.

Teaching and Workshop Facilitation

• Delivering workshops at colleges, universities and community venues 

• Digital skills IT trainer 

• BBC Media trainer for two years before becoming a digital journalist

Collaboration and Strategic Partnerships

• Building active relationships between nonprofit and business partners to deliver strategic social impact projects also mobilising CSR volunteer teams

• Identifying opportunities to explore innovative ideas for strategic partnerships to drive meaningful change

 

Project Management

• Preparing business plans, budgets and projects. 

• Managing and leading on social value/ community engagement projects to ensure successful completions.

• Monitoring and reporting on the projects progress, finances and outputs performance.

• Maintain effective communications with key programme stakeholders.

 

Volunteer Management 

• Over 15 years’ experience of volunteer management in the third sector

• Cultivating and maintaining partnerships with CSR volunteering stakeholders

Community Engagement

• Networking within communities identifying and explore partnership working opportunities

• Maintaining relationships with a wide range of organisations, including health, social care, local Government, and voluntary sector, to identify and explore strategic partnerships  working to tackle poverty, worklessness and social mobility issues.