Jana Ridegova

• Led a specialist Bright Choices service providing emotional and practical support to individuals affected by honour-based violence, such as forced marriage, and FGM.
• Oversaw case management, risk assessments, and safeguarding planning in collaboration with the police, social services, and community organisations.
• Delivered trauma-informed support to survivors, ensuring service users' safety, confidentiality, and empowerment through a person-centered approach.
• Provided supervision and guidance to staff and Social Work students on placement, fostering reflective practice, and emotional resilience within the team.
• Developed partnerships with local and national agencies to improve referral pathways and awareness of honour-based abuse.
• Contributed to policy development, staff training, and service evaluation to ensure high-quality, culturally competent service delivery.
• Delivered staff training in cultural competency, safeguarding, and trauma-informed responses.

· • Managed budgets, data reporting, annual and quartely report writing and continuous continuous collaboration with funders.

• Developed project timelines and managed resource allocation for multicultural initiatives, ensuring timely delivery.
• Facilitated training sessions for staff on cultural competency, improving service quality and team effectiveness.
• Established partnerships with local organizations to expand resources available to individuals in need of our service, increasing program reach.
• Analysed feedback from stakeholders to refine strategies and improve overall program impact on community well-being.
• Oversaw budgeting processes for project, optimising financial resources while maintaining high standards of service delivery.
• Coordinated evaluation matrix developed for our service to monitor how our service users were doing.
• Mentored project workers, fostering professional growth and promoting best practices within project execution team.
• Established strong relationships with service users, fostering trust and open communication throughout the entire project lifecycle.
• Conducted thorough post-project evaluations to identify areas for future improvement in both processes and performance metrics.
• Achieved project success by efficiently allocating resources and managing schedules.
• Developed comprehensive project plans that outlined clear goals, timelines, and milestones for all stakeholders involved.
• Defined responsibilities, duties and roles of each team member.
• Maintained strict adherence to quality standards, ensuring the delivery of high standart results to service users
• Partnered with project team members to identify and quickly address issues arising.
• By regular reviews and reports I analysed project performance data to identify areas of improvement.

· Working with individuals and groups who have settled in the Govanhill area originating from EU accession countries, primarily with people from the Roma/Gypsy community.

· From April 2014 to December 2014 working as a Community Engagement Co-ordinator for the Roma & Scottish Music Project: https://www.facebook.com/ekarikaedjal

· Project development, establishment and development of new initiatives in order to support and build the capacity of the Local Community.

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· Strategic planning and evaluation. Providing opportunities for the integration of the communities and individuals coming to settle down in Scotland.

· Identifying, understanding, prioritising and developing responses to community needs and issues. Researching and gathering information and statistics relating to these needs as well as planing appropriate strategies to address them.

· Providing one-to-one support to people from the community. Encouraging and supporting personal independence and self reliance of the people I work with.

· Organising community awareness raising events, building networks and partnerships to further impact. Co-running Understanding Each Other Project, cultural/migration awareness project rolled out in local primary schools, particularly aimed at P5 and P6 pupils.

· Running Roma Drop-in for nearly three years.

· Human Resource Duties, including recruitment, delegation of work, staff support and supervision for sessional workers. Responsible for quality assurance.

· Actively involved in fundraising and securing grant aid.

· As part of Crossroads community work team I was involved with two year project: Prevention of Human Trafficking in Roma Communities in collaboration with ministry of Interior Affairs in Slovakia. Crossroads YCA was the sole UK partner in this project.

· Preparing written reports and review/evaluation material for Management and the funding body.

· Promoting positive images of migrants through collective work that portrays the individuals or/and the community in a positive way.

· Responsible for evaluation of the project work and practice development. Engaging and involving Slovak & Czech speaking people in community development work in Govanhill through Street work, Drop-in sessions, 1:1, Consultation hours and other projects and activities.

· Building capacity of the participants, negating the negative stereotypes and demystifying the common myths about the migrants coming to Scotland from Eastern Europe.

· Information Provision and Communication with Media.

· Networking with relevant community, statutory and voluntary agencies, at local, regional, national and international levels and supporting collaboration wherever possible.