Hannah Weir

• Designing HMRC's Sustainability Strategy and horizon scanning across government and industry to keep abreast of best practice, legislative and policy changes, and the impact of future trends.
• Ensuring Sustainability Strategy documents are kept up to date and reflect any changes, including but not limited to, governance; annual targets; sustainability objectives and priorities.
• Developing and maintaining strong stakeholder relationships, managing multiple stakeholders including SCS and subject matter experts, and acting as lead contact for briefing requests and external FOIs and PQs.
• Collaborating with senior management and other stakeholders to understand priorities and messaging to prepare sustainability-related briefing materials that meet stakeholder requirements.
• Sourcing, collating and writing new, accessible briefing material. Creating and maintaining a ‘library' of previous briefings and commission responses.
• Presenting briefings to senior management, board-level leadership including non-executive directors and other stakeholders in a clear, concise and professional manner, using appropriate presentation tools.
• Contributing to wider corporate Communications including HMRC's Annual Report and Accounts, drafting TCFD reporting for the organisation and drafting the Outline Delivery Plan.
• Leading key strands of policy evaluation work, including impact evaluation, process evaluation and value for money.

Key Achievement: Pioneering the first holistic policy evaluation for the organisation-wide sustainability strategy and providing evaluation recommendations that allowed my team to refine our strategic objectives to be more specific and measurable.

• Leading engagement with business areas and risk colleagues, and working closely with Sustainability governance team, to meet Taskforce for Climate Related Financial Disclosure requirements.
• Horizon-scanning and keeping up to date with relevant news, legislation, policy/governance changes and international events to accurately inform decision making for the wider team.
• Designing, developing and drafting strategy and policy to problem solve and improve outcomes.
• Leading Sustainability contributions to HMRC's annual plans and collating relevant information from high-level internal stakeholders in a time-pressured environment.
• Evaluating impact of qualitative and quantitative sustainability and communications data.
• Developing and implementing a new regional sustainability communications strategy, designed to influence culture change and inform wider staff on complex environmental issues.
• Using Learning Needs Analysis to inform and develop a prioritised plan for ‘Green Skills' learning across HMRC, including senior leadership learning.
• Writing high-level briefings for directors, condensing scientific information and data into clear and concise advisory submissions and guidance documents.
• Overseeing internal Sustainability communications and engagement strategies.
• Representing HMRC at cross-government forums and contributing to discussions to ensure the alignment of sustainability strategies across Whitehall, including leading the development of a cross-government Sustainability Learning Toolkit.
• Leading a small, geographically dispersed team of 2 x SEO and 2 x HEO; including line management tasks and providing support for career development.

Key Achievement: developing and implementing a new regional sustainability communications strategy. This involved a complete overhaul of the previous methods, setting up a new Regional Green Champions network using regional stakeholders across a wide section of our business areas. This has been a successful forum which is now used to disseminate important information and as an additional arm of our corporate communications, allowing us to reach staff in all regions.

• Enhancing the strategic impact of the EdTech Hub by ensuring strong links and coherence with FCDO's wider education policy priorities, strategic partnerships and campaign activities.
• Providing briefing language and advice on policy initiatives relating to EdTech, Foundational Learning, AI and, more broadly, girls' education and gender-specific issues. Writing briefing notes, PQs, readouts, ministerial remarks and other policy language around my thematic areas.
• Building and sustaining relationships with the other programme donors of my programmes and exploring and shaping collaboration with other strategic partners, working in the Girls' Education space.
• Managing the financing and contracting of the EdTech Hub and Data for Foundational Learning programmes, which includes two c. £25m contracts, a WB trust fund, and several new accountable grants.
• Managing programme delivery with external implementers, overseeing specific programme improvements recommended in the Annual Review, and ensuring value for money across both programmes.
• Working closely with contractors to support and strengthen the EdTech Hub's programme governance, compliance, supply chain mapping and monitoring, evaluation, learning, adaptation (MELA).
• Engaging with delivery partners, government partners, communities and other stakeholders to ensure changing local context drives delivery decisions. Collecting feedback from delivery partners and constituents and welcoming challenges and scrutiny to implement continuous improvements to maximise impact.
• Ownership of the business cases, results frameworks and risk registers for my programmes, ensuring alignment with team, directorate and wider government objectives.

Key Achievement: Putting a robust governance structure in place with one of our key charity partners, which allowed us to anticipate funding reductions during the ODA pause and plan ahead to ensure that all of our programme activities were sufficiently funded without cancellations.

• Providing day to day operational oversight to country teams.
• Logistical management in the planning and organising of various events, workshops, conferences, field visits, etc.
• Supporting country teams with finance, Business Development, Monitoring Evaluation and Learning (MEL).
• Collecting monitoring and evaluation data, developing case studies in connection with MEL.
• Designing programme activities for new programmes, guiding teams through reporting cycles and deadlines. Preparing and disseminating project documentation and preparing narrative, financial, and other programme reports.
• Leading in-country recruitment processes.
• Communicating project successes and achievements, through newsletters, live presentations, and social media updates, liaising with programme suppliers and service providers.
• Financial administration, budget design and compliance.
• Undertaking desk-based and field-based research, developing comparative studies, ‘how to' guides, manuals, submissions to academic journals.
• Preparing bids, including background research on thematic areas, political context, existing programmes, anticipated costs, and potential international and local partners.

Key Achievement: Opening a new exploratory programme on democratic resilience in Taiwan, a country in which our organisation had never worked before. My planned activities for our scoping year were successful, allowing us to secure continued funding for a further 5-year programme extension.

• Preparing tax computations and returns for electronic submission to HMRC.
• Ensuring regular updates and management of client files and maintaining compliance checks on a regular basis.
• Carrying out ad hoc assignments/presentations as requested by the manager.
• Communicating with clients and explaining laws and regulation compliance to them in respect to their tailored personal situation.
• Taking ownership and responsibility of client liaison and managing own client portfolio.
• Active adherence to budget constraints and time pressures, working within guidelines to adhere to deadlines and produce analysis reports.
• Preparation of engagement letters and client acceptance documentation.
• Preparation of admin letters to various government bodies.
• Ensuring the maintenance of professional standards.
• Liaising with HMRC and businesses to discuss corporation tax matters.
• Producing excel spreadsheets for tax analysis.