Charlie Frew

• Assisting in risk and issue assessment and management to mitigate potential issues and risks (i.e legal, financial and reputational). This includes supporting with issues, risks and action logs. Attending risk maintenance, programme board, and where applicable, project and product meetings.
• Liaising with relevant stakeholders to source and compile project data and information.
• Supporting with the maintenance of procedures, with a strategic forward look to ensure effective arrangement and planning.
• Managing project documentation and facilitating key project meetings providing secretariat assistance, which includes drafting agendas and minutes and liaising with senior leadership on key items for discussion.
• Supporting with maintenance of a stakeholder log for both external and internal stakeholders and engaging with these stakeholders when appropriate.
• Liaising as the central point for project and product queries, through the joint monitoring of an inbox.
• Supporting on additional information gathering and stakeholder engagement tasks to enhance the businesses understanding of project work and licenses. Including sourcing and reviewing information regarding current licences spending and renewal dates. Through this engaging with senior stakeholders, in meetings and via correspondence, on the details of there projects and licenses.
• Following up on issues, risks and actions when required, including monitoring actions alongside deadlines and liaising with action holders on the development of action completion.
• Commissioning for Programme Boards to stakeholders, managing strict deadlines and competing priorities.
• Managing meeting schedule conflicts efficiently ensuring smooth running of the project.
• Facilitating All Staff Calls, including managing monthly team member awards and coordinating staff training.
• Continually seeking to streamline administrative processes, leading to enhanced workflow efficiency.
• Compiling with Home Office Project Management regulations whilst executing tasks, in order to ensure complete compliance and accuracy in my work.

• Communicating with vacancy holders to produce job criteria and adverts to attract targeted talent pools.
• Supporting the business in coordinating campaigns that involve significant marketing and communications, liaising with 3rd Party Suppliers, Job Boards and Online Candidate events.
• Developed strong candidate pipelines for diverse positions.
• Analysing data and recruitment demands to prioritise and strategically deliver recruitment and workforce planning requests, in line with business objectives and finances.
• Supported with the coordination and delivery of online job fairs, expanding candidate reach.
• Ensured compliance with Civil Service recruitment procedures.
• Maintaining relationships with stakeholders, both external and internal, in an endeavour to deliver an effective recruitment process.
• Worked closely with stakeholders, promoting cohesive approach to recruitment strategies, processes and compliance.
• Coordinating with candidates to schedule training events and there start dates, whilst providing information on their new role.
• Provided guidelines and interviewing techniques to hiring managers to streamline process.
• Interpreting data to foreshadow recruitment numbers, either on a monthly basis or over period of time, to advise on capacity need for training.
• Providing excellent customer service to enhance team and business reputation.
• Handled high-volumes of recruitment requests at peak levels without compromising of campaigns.
• Nominated for ‘New Starter of the Year’ in 2024 for Operational Capabilities Command by colleagues and my team also won ‘Team of the Year’ for Operational Capabilities Command in 2024.

• Suported residents within my ward through addressing casework and signposting residents to the appropriate department or officers within the council to establish resolutions to their concerns.
• Experience of drafting policy legislation through a motions. Including on District wide ban on the release of Sky Lanterns and Balloons on Council owned property, in order to safeguard the safety of residents, wildlife and the wider environment, and regarding Alcoholism Awareness, calling on Cannock Chase District Council to participate in the Alcoholism Awareness week organised by Alcohol Change UK, and to ask the council to further develop the Cannock Chase App to track their alcohol intake and water intake on the app and to include details both local and national contact details of charities and support networks which can offer support to individuals suffering, to offer further support to individuals suffering from Alcohol addiction.
• Completed a variety of training sessions during my time as a District Councillor including Carbon Literacy Training and also a training session through the Local Government association on Chairing Skills.
• Other additional responsibilities I have held within a council capacity are outlined below:

• Responsible for holding the current administration at the District Council to account on the policies and plans they implement and to also, where applicable, offer alternative policies and suggestions.
• Responsible in holding the portfolio holder for the environment and Climate Change and the administration to account upon the policies and strategies that they develop within this remit, including services such as waste management, and recycling, land drainage, watercourses and climate change.

• Chaired a forum made up of cross party Councillors in order to discuss ways in which Amazon, which has a large depo in Rugeley, can support events and projects in Rugeley and the wider District.

• Oversaw a committee, of thirteen members, which primary role was to review and scrutinise decisions made by the Executive within the remit of the committee, and to also review and scrutinise current Council policies and consider future policy development within the remit of the committee.
• The committee oversaw a variety of matters including: finance, budget consultations and civic support.

• Chaired and oversaw a cross party working group which seeks to put together a collective council submission, which has been submitted to the Local Boundary Review Commission for England, for the District Council electoral wards of Cannock Chase.
• As Chair of this group, during the first phase, required, to provide recommendations to council on boundary changes and had to provide information for relevant documentation and presentation of these recommendations. The working group then reconvened, for the second phase, to establish potential changes which could be made to the commissions in regards to their initial proposals for the Cannock Chase District Council electoral wards.
• The working group had established potential cross party changes which could be submitted to the Local Boundary Review Commission for England, and hence following a presentation as chair to full council on the 18th January 2023 of the working groups final recommendations for changes, the working group had completed its purpose in January 2023

• Chaired a committee which is made up of cross party Councillors and Council officers which has the intention of providing joint consultation between representatives of all employees of the Council and members of the council.
• The forum focuses on matters such as: industrial relations, matters of common interest, to act as a committee which provides communication between councillors and councillor employees and to carry out procedures to look after the safety, health and wellbeing of employees

• Drafted campaign literature to be delivered to the public and used Mailchimp as a communication tool to develop outreach with members on our activities and to increase participation.
• Organised selection process events and Annual General Meetings.
• Provided briefings on campaigns and communication activities.
• Delivering marketing through social media and produced social media posts to drive engagement with our association and an understanding of our activities.

• Worked within a sales team and worked towards both individual and team sales targets.
• Built solid foundations with customers in order to sell high quality clothing and additional items.
• Developed an understanding of marketing, communications and branding initiatives and how these could be integrated into sales and communications.
• Reason for leaving: After being elected as a District Councillor, and also having my university studies in addition to this role at Hugo Boss, I decided to leave my position at Hugo Boss to ensure I had sufficient time to focus on my university studies.

• Working as part of a small team undertaking daily administration tasks, taking telephone calls, sales orders, assisting in the showroom with sales, meeting and greeting customers

• This was a unpaid role.
• Chaired Academy Council meetings, made speeches at school Open Evenings, and at public events such as annual presentation awards.
• Participated in a variety of public outreach and charitable schemes including fundraising for and organising the schools involvement in the "Hello Yellow" campaign for World Mental Health day, which fundraised £520 for the charity.

• Volunteered at the Live at Home Scheme which supported individuals who suffered with dementia and their families through providing a day of activities giving there carers much needed respite
• Had responsibility of delivering events and socialising with members of the group.