A skilled professional with expertise in team leadership, strategy development, and programme management. Demonstrates exceptional communication abilities and excels as a facilitator and chair of meetings both online and offline. Proficient in Salesforce, Power BI, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Teams, with a strong focus on safeguarding practices, diversity, equity, and inclusion. Adept at trauma-informed approaches and child-centred methodologies while maintaining excellence in expenditure reporting and networking. Committed to driving impactful initiatives that align with organisational goals.
· Programme manage Tender North's Children and Young People's work in the North of England.
- Reached 3000 young people in 2024-2025 and over 10,000 young people in the North of England since starting the work in the region in 2017.
·Responsible for the management of the Tender North Budget which involves managing multiple funding streams and reporting against expenditure.
· Develop and implement the Tender North Programme’s operational delivery plan in line with Tender’s national strategy.
· Work closely with the development team to fundraise for Tender North supporting with prospecting, bid writing and report writing.
· Building relationships (often from scratch) with schools, councils, multi-agencies and funders to promote and grow Tender’s work in the North of England.
· Recruit, train and manage a pool of freelance workshop leaders.
· Line manage Tender North Senior Coordinator.
· Deliver CPD accredited external and internal staff training in person and online such as 'Domestic Abuse Awareness', Impact of DA on Children and Young People', 'Managing Emotions' and 'Change and Transitions'.
· Represent Tender at external and internal events and meetings.
· Work closely with the communications team to raise the profile of Tender’s work locally and nationally.
· Recruit and coordinate the Tender North Advisory Group made up of local experts.
· Manage the the MEL processes for Tender North using PBI and oversee the writing of Impact Reports.
· Work closely with Tender’s MEL manager to develop Tender’s MEL system and ensure it is fit for purpose ie child centred, accessible and delivery is linked to desired outcomes.
· Act as Tender Mentor to RESET schools in the North, working closely with school senior leadership team, embedding Healthy Relationships and quality safeguarding within policy reviews, procedures, curriculum and community . I recruited and mentored the first two schools in North of England to achieve RESET Healthy Relationship Champion Setting.
Grew Tender's work in West Yorkshire from 6 projects a year to 25 projects a year.
Successfully worked with the development team to grow the budget for the region from £24,000 to £80,000.
Worked closely with the CEO, COO and Finance Director to create an operational plan for growth in the region in line with Tender's National Strategic aims and objectives.
Delivered internal Safeguarding training
Trained over 700 adults with safeguarding responsibility in 'Awareness of Domestic Abuse'.
Having identified a gap in Healthy Relationships provision in the region, with the support of Tender's CEO based in London, I successfully established Tender's first West Yorkshire Hub and began to deliver
Tender's replicable, age appropriate, drama based, domestic abuse prevention workshops in West Yorkshire.
Provide administrative, organisational and policy support to the National Volunteer Support Team based in different regions of the UK. The team consisted of the Head of Volunteer Support, 10 Regional Volunteer Support Managers, 80 Volunteer Coordinators and 3,000 Volunteers.
· Produce and develop volunteer support resources and internal and external publicity, liaising with fundraising, communications and media departments.
· Recruit and manage regular volunteers at Central Office, providing training, supervision, and personal development as well as recruiting and managing volunteers at fundraising events such as the St Paul’s Concert and the London Marathon.
· To represent Leonard Cheshire Disability at volunteering events held by external organisations such as Volunteering England and Volunteer Bureau’s.
· To recruit and line manage the International Internships Coordinator.
April 2025 Supporting the Transition to Adulthood by National Children's Bureau
April 2025 Safeguarding against Violent Extremism by Connect Futures
March 2025 LGBT+ Domestic Abuse Awareness Training by Gallop
February 2025 Trauma informed Training by Kazuum Arts
December 2025 Safeguarding Training for DSL's by London Youth
September 2024 Understanding and Challenging Honour Based Abuse by Karma Nirvana
July 2024 Gypsy, Roma Traveller awareness training by London Youth