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ROSE GRANT

ROSE GRANT

LONDON,Merton

Summary

I am a strong, authentic communicator, I strive to build inclusive working environments/teams. I have experience of working with a diverse range of high level ministerial/Senior Civil Servant I am adaptable, and a responsible negotiator. I thrive on being a visionary team player and role modelling good work ethics in partnership with others. In my current role, I am continuously on a personal development journey to develop my multi- disciplinary skillsets with a short-term goal of achieving my Associate Project Management L4 accreditation as part of my Multiverse Apprenticeship 18month programme. I have recently completed a variety of in-house/on the job learning in this environment along with webinars hosted Project Manager versed in all aspects of project and personnel management. Results-oriented and high-energy professional with talent for leading by example and inspiring peak performance. Results-orientated and high-energy project manager with a talent for leading by example and inspiring peak performance. Recognised for assessing operational needs and developing solutions to save costs, improve revenues and drive customer satisfaction. Resourceful and well-organised with excellent leadership and team-building record. High-achieving management professional possessing excellent communication, organisational and analytical capabilities. Devises innovative solutions to resolve business and technology challenges. Hardworking [Job Title] brings proven success in overseeing administrative areas. Knowledgeable about best methods for managing resources, schedules and personnel to achieve objectives. Tech-savvy and always looking for improvement opportunities. Professional project management specialist with experience working with teams to accomplish short- and long-term project goals. Managed budgets and monitored project costs. Administrative leader experienced in business operations and team oversight. Seeks opportunities to improve processes, procedures and practices. Excels with minimal supervision and decisively approaches problems. Detailed orientated individual experienced in administrative procedures. Oversees day-to-day duties with strong planning and organisation skills to delivers projects in timely manner. Focused [Job Title] with [Number] years of experience documenting project processes, completing [Type] deliverables and contributing to project objectives. Hardworking individual with world-class technical skills and skill working independently or as part of team. Determined [Job Title] adept at assigning tasks to team members based on individual strengths. Communicated with key project stakeholders to ascertain project requirements. Professional Project Management Specialist with experience working with teams to accomplish short- and long-term project goals. Managed budgets and monitored project costs. Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy. Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals. Hardworking and passionate job seeker with strong organizational skills eager to secure entry-level [Job Title] position. Ready to help team achieve company goals. To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.

Overview

43
43
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work history

Defra/Multiverse Associate Project Management Apprentice

03.2022 - Current
  • By the Collaboration Information Technology Forum, Practical Agile training
  • I have been commended on demonstrating authentic, emotional intelligence in my delivery of key corporate goals and objectives; for example, driving diversity and inclusion across the organisation, which is evidence in my proactiveness as a long-standing staff member and now Vice Chair on one of the internal staff networks
  • I was recognised and nominated, by two independent managers, from across the Digital Data
  • Services portfolio for an In-Year Bonus 2020 for my influential, visionary delivery of a successful HEO cross central government campaign
  • I continuously strive to align this opportunity to my ongoing career development journey as a successful graduate of the REACH Talent Management Scheme (RTMS) development scheme
  • My top 3 Why(s) I have chosen to do the APMA: To gain recognised qualification/accreditation in the PPM environment To gain on the job real-time experience/confidence of working on real life projects contributing to modules/persona continuous development To be an APMA Ambassador and lead by example to others that maturity is not a barrier to continuous development/applying your transferrable skills/knowledge in the PPM environment.

Executive Assistant/Project Support

DEFRA Future Farming and Countryside
07.2021 - Current
  • Scheduling/triaging (two) Deputy Directors diary/mailboxes
  • Shared mailbox triage - across the team
  • Training events/logistics/media
  • Co-ordinate - travel/facilities for team meetings/events
  • Project Support - across Service Team - delivering in an Agile working environment +44 7464266793
  • RosiePedles16@gmail.com

Co-Chair/Secretariat Lead

ROSE GRANT DEFRA EDI Ethnic Minority Network
01.2017 - Current
  • Provide leadership, be an effective strategist and a good networker
  • Work collaboratively directly with the Network Chair and EMN Committee/EDI/Civil Service Race Forum
  • SCS Race Champions and others across pan Defra group
  • Ensure the EMN Committee strategically functions in alignment with EDI Strategy

Stakeholder

DEFRA EU
01.2020 - 01.2024
  • Engagement - build professional relationships - members; committee members and others championing Equality across the organisation
  • Reviewing the Committee's performance and identifying and managing the process for renewal of the
  • Committee through recruitment of new members
  • To ensure that appropriate procedures are in place for the effective management of the EMN
  • Represent the EMN and act as spokesperson at, for example, functions/events/meetings - in conjunction with the network strategy & outreach leads
  • Exit - DDTS Chief Technology Office - Governance Assurance & Risk

Project Support Officer

01.2017 - 11.2020
  • Single Operating Platform (SOP/Oracle) monitoring/processing of ICT suite of tools for contingent labour/permanent staff
  • Researching customer centric demands on required IT resources
  • Key point of contact for Resourcing Digital Data and Technology workstream leads
  • Project support for IT resources EU Exit hub Bristol located; feedback on of kit resources at weekly checkpoint meetings
  • Corporate contribution elected Secretary/Secretariat Lead - BAME staff network (210 internal staff and steadily increasing)
  • Mentoring Lead for staff network Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and BAME panel members for internal organisation recruitment campaigns
  • Honours Ambassador for staff network - reviewing submission of citations to departmental
  • Honours team inputting into the departmental objective of increasing the diversity in citations from under-represented group put forward to Cabinet Office Honours Committee.

Resourcing and Reporting Support Officer

DEFRA Digital Data Technology Services
12.2019 - 01.2020
  • Managing a quality service; advise DDTS stakeholders in increasing professional permanent staff resource following diverse and inclusive recruitment campaigns
  • Ensure consistent adherence to procedures; regulations and legislation to maintain GDPR compliance for successful candidates end to end onboarding journey
  • Implemented new team onboarding program, deliver on the job in-house training to new team members on the end to end onboarding process
  • Build professional relationships with a range of stakeholders; for example: Government
  • Recruitment Services (GRS); Shared Services (SSCL); Internal Hiring managers; Line managers;
  • Internal Comms on the commission of live cross government campaigns and OGDs on cross government transfer and organisation's Security team
  • Collate and upload candidate ID documents, successfully candidates using, Applicant Tracker
  • Systems (Oleeo; Eploy and VX) in alignment with Government Recruitment Services guidelines
  • Extrapolating Onboarding data utilising SharePoint Online internal Excel database - producing weekly Onboarding reports of successful candidates being processed through the Resourcing and
  • Reporting hub
  • Process end to end deliverable of organisations new user bundles (IT Kit resources) +44 7464266793
  • RosiePedles16@gmail.com
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  • Monitor and track updates received into Hub shared mailbox; proactively track and monitor status of incoming onboard cases; sharing feedback at daily huddle team checkpoint meetings and weekly wider hub meetings hosted by G7 hub lead
  • Notetaking actions and following up on progress
  • Strategically working together with members of the Recruitment Hub to ensure a continuous improvement approach in all areas or resourcing.

Professional Assistant

Defra
01.2014 - 01.2016
  • DDTS Chief Information Office | Deputy Director's Private Office Team, Diary management, secretarial support two Deputy Directors and reporting directly to G7
  • OP/Oracle monitoring/processing of Travel & Subsistence/I-Expenses /Training
  • Extensive diary management/mailbox tracking/monitoring
  • Notetaking at team meetings - tracking/producing status reports on action points and outcomes of meetings.

Project Support Officer

Defra Thames Tideway
01.2013 - 01.2014
  • Tunnel Project Project Management Office, Scoping; planning Project Assessment Reviews (PARs)
  • Organising high level governance meetings and internal workshops
  • Monitoring and updating weekly GANTT charts collating progress reports from workstream leads
  • Leading on facilitating pre-brief sessions with SCS staff - monitoring/tracking using electronic calendars
  • Support Project workstream leads and feedback at daily PMO checkpoint meetings; taking forward action points

Defra Private Office Secretary

State
01.2011 - 01.2012
  • Deliver quality service in collaboration with others on priotising essential ministerial incoming invitations and correspondence to improve day-to-day workflow of operations in the Private Office
  • Brief at weekly ministerial checkpoint meetings on logistics/invitations
  • Managed the coordination of incoming invitations to ensure consistent smooth running of reassigned invitations to other ministerial private office
  • Tracking/monitoring/responding to incoming/outgoing ministerial invitations Commissioning background briefings from policy officials
  • Support logistic lead in improving operations and resolving issues to deliver top-notch service for private office team
  • Defra Ministerial Business Support Unit

Personal Assistant

01.2008 - 01.2010
  • Central point of contact, providing a quality service across four ministerial Private Offices
  • Knowledge Record management - Freedom of Information Requests (FOIs)
  • Management Team -Training Co-Ordinator
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Co-ordinate end user Team Site upgrade to Share Point in-house Training sessions
  • Track/monitor evaluate end-user responses
  • Provide weekly status outcome reports to external training supplier
  • Defra - Secretariat/Business Support Unit

01.2005 - 12.2008
  • Financial control - ministerial Private office resources
  • Facilitate inhouse training courses for Private office teams
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  • RosiePedles16@gmail.com
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  • Track cross Private Office travel expenses and monitor report on overtime weekly returns
  • Co-ordinate ministerial 6th floor private office refurbishment project

MAFF/DEFRA
01.1999 - 01.2004
  • Ministerial Secretariat, House of Lords Private Office Team
  • Personnel, Horticultural Marketing Inspectorate
  • Floods Management.

Medical Secretary

Medicines Control Agency
09.1995 - 12.1999
  • Pharmacovigilance Directorate - delivery full secretariat support to three senior pharmacovigilance consultants
  • Office of National Statistics: London Field Interviewer (substantive EO), ;
  • Planning and interviewing selected members of the public in their homes collecting data for a wide variety of national surveys commissioned by government departments.

Chief Executive

Property Services Agency
07.1989 - 08.1995

Secretarial Support, Private Secretary

Property Service Agency
09.1985 - 06.1989
  • Deputising for Private Secretary in her absence and tracking and monitoring all private office expenses and drafting responses to incoming correspondence.

Director Personnel Personal Secretary

Depart Education & Science, University Grants Committee
08.1980 - 08.1985
  • Diary/mailbox management
  • Notetaking at personal cases
  • Drafting and responding to correspondence
  • Management of one allocated typist, typing manager - (managing a pool of four word-processing operators - deputising for Senior Typing manager)
  • Allocated Typist - supporting Senior Personal Secretary
  • Audio/word processing Pool - Typist +44 7464266793

Education

Certificate of Higher Education: TUC -

Diploma - undefined

Skills

  • Skills/Knowledge
  • IT skills
  • Project management/Agile
  • Data analytics
  • Business Administration
  • Conflict resolution
  • Employment Law
  • Logistics
  • Meetings/Scheduling
  • Mentoring
  • Network
  • Compiling Sift and Interview Packs
  • Applicant Tracker Systems (ATS) VX/Eploy
  • Prince2 Foundation
  • Researching
  • Ministerial Private Offices
  • Single Operating Platform (SOP)
  • Interpersonal communication
  • Self-motivated
  • Excellent communication
  • Subject matter expertise
  • Onboarding/Resourcing
  • Diary Management
  • Project support
  • Data handling
  • Academic
  • Project budget assistance
  • Project document control
  • Database management
  • Detailed status reporting
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Project feasibility studies
  • Project risk management
  • Agile project coordination
  • SMART project goal setting
  • High-value project management
  • Cost control
  • Purchasing and procurement
  • Customer relations specialist
  • Kanban methodology
  • Organised and efficient
  • Quality management
  • Budgeting and forecasting
  • Agile project management
  • Relationship building
  • Process improvement
  • Sprint planning
  • Key stakeholder engagement
  • Waterfall project management
  • Risk management
  • Excel expertise
  • KPI review and management
  • PRINCE2
  • Workforce training
  • Productivity improvement
  • Client rapport
  • Portfolio management
  • Detail-orientated

Certification

APM Project Management - Multiverse/Defra Apprentice Collaborative Information Technology Forum: Practical Agile Methodology Civil Service Learning Success Profiles and Unconscious Bias Professional Mentoring Certificate (UEL accredited) Awarded certificate in Professional Mentoring of postgraduate students (EMN 90day pilot programme) REACH Talent Management Scheme Rural Payment Agency/DEFRA Joint development scheme for administrative staff

Languages

English
Native

Timeline

Defra/Multiverse Associate Project Management Apprentice

03.2022 - Current

Executive Assistant/Project Support

DEFRA Future Farming and Countryside
07.2021 - Current

Stakeholder

DEFRA EU
01.2020 - 01.2024

Resourcing and Reporting Support Officer

DEFRA Digital Data Technology Services
12.2019 - 01.2020

Co-Chair/Secretariat Lead

ROSE GRANT DEFRA EDI Ethnic Minority Network
01.2017 - Current

Project Support Officer

01.2017 - 11.2020

Professional Assistant

Defra
01.2014 - 01.2016

Project Support Officer

Defra Thames Tideway
01.2013 - 01.2014

Defra Private Office Secretary

State
01.2011 - 01.2012

Personal Assistant

01.2008 - 01.2010

01.2005 - 12.2008

MAFF/DEFRA
01.1999 - 01.2004

Medical Secretary

Medicines Control Agency
09.1995 - 12.1999

Chief Executive

Property Services Agency
07.1989 - 08.1995

Secretarial Support, Private Secretary

Property Service Agency
09.1985 - 06.1989

Director Personnel Personal Secretary

Depart Education & Science, University Grants Committee
08.1980 - 08.1985

Certificate of Higher Education: TUC -

Diploma - undefined

ROSE GRANT