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Ben Dance

Senior Executive Officer - Policy and Project Manager
London

Summary

I am a conscientious and professional Policy and Project Manager with predominately public sector and education capital development experience. I am an organised and diligent individual who has been involved in various, high profile policy areas within Government, including the delivery of a complex large scale multi-million-pound capital investment programme.

Work History

Senior Executive Officer - Project Manager

Department for Education - Civil Service
London, London
2017.06 - Current

Project Manager for five of Governments new Institutes of Technology in England, including multimillion pound capital projects.

Head of Institutes of Technology performance management and Key Performance Indicators.

Lead policy official and Ministerial briefing lead for Institutes of Technology data.

Senior Executive Officer - EU Relationship Manager

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Civil Service
London, London
2019.10 - 2020.01

Led the communication with all internal and external stakeholders to gather updates on the development of EU Exit negotiations to create a situation report for a Senior Ministerial Group.

Developed and led the review of the EU Exit planning in the Department to produce a lessons learned report for Ministers and recommendations to improve the Departments current report processes.

Executive Officer - Parliamentary Bill Assistant

Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy - Civil Service
London, London
2015.09 - 2017.06

Assisted in the management of the Technical and Further Education Bill through Parliament to implement an insolvency regime to all FE Colleges in England.

In addition to this role, I was part of the FE College funding approval board and assisted the Director of Technical Education at funding committee meetings.

In an additional voluntary role, I led the correspondence team for the Secretary of State and Junior Ministers for three months during a period in change within Government.

Education

Level 4 Higher National Certificate Diploma - Business Studies

Civil Service Fast Track Apprenticeship
London
2015.09 - 2017.07

Level 4 National Vocational Qualification Diploma - Business Administration

Civil Service Fast Track Apprenticeship
London
2015.09 - 2017.07

A-Level - Business Studies

St. Martins Sixth Form College
Essex
2013.09 - 2015.06

A-level - Geography

St. Martins Sixth Form College
Essex
2013.09 - 2015.06

A-level - ICT

St. Martins Sixth Form College
Essex
2013.09 - 2015.06

GCSEs - 10 GCSE qualifications, grade A-C, including Mathematics and English (Literature & Language)

Hall Mead Secondary School
Essex
2008.09 - 2013.06

Skills

Multiple project coordination

Project manager supervision

Problem-solver

Commercially aware

Budgeting and funding management

Timeline

Senior Executive Officer - EU Relationship Manager

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Civil Service
2019.10 - 2020.01

Senior Executive Officer - Project Manager

Department for Education - Civil Service
2017.06 - Current

Executive Officer - Parliamentary Bill Assistant

Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy - Civil Service
2015.09 - 2017.06

Level 4 Higher National Certificate Diploma - Business Studies

Civil Service Fast Track Apprenticeship
2015.09 - 2017.07

Level 4 National Vocational Qualification Diploma - Business Administration

Civil Service Fast Track Apprenticeship
2015.09 - 2017.07

A-Level - Business Studies

St. Martins Sixth Form College
2013.09 - 2015.06

A-level - Geography

St. Martins Sixth Form College
2013.09 - 2015.06

A-level - ICT

St. Martins Sixth Form College
2013.09 - 2015.06

GCSEs - 10 GCSE qualifications, grade A-C, including Mathematics and English (Literature & Language)

Hall Mead Secondary School
2008.09 - 2013.06
Ben DanceSenior Executive Officer - Policy and Project Manager