Vanessa Lendzionowski

• Oversee strategic leadership for regional projects, enhancing migration outcomes, in Yorkshire & Humber,
• Lead delivery of place-based programmes, focusing on integration, service design, quality, evaluation, budget management and partnership engagement .
• Contribute to Migration Yorkshire's organisational development via growth planning, income generation, bid writing and horizon scanning.
• Enhance understanding of migrant experiences by evaluating programmes, utilising participation methods and collaborating with Migration Yorkshires' Policy & Research team.
• Establish trust and positive working relationships with multiple stakeholders, including local authorities, the voluntary community sector and civil society.
• Manage transformation and change by sharing insights and implementing responsive programmes across varying contexts. This includes commissioning of independent external reviews of projects.
• Manage staff and teams, ensuring up to date understanding of risks and issues, on latest approaches to integration, participation, economic and health integration and emerging developments.
• Simultaneously coordinate complex programmes and partnerships alongside effective relationships with funding bodies, for example, Home Office, MHCLG, Integrated Care Boards, National Lottery.
• Continually be mindful of impacts and implications of working in a politically sensitive environment.

• Volunteer Bereavement Counsellor, Cruse Bereavement Care.
• Volunteer Advice Worker , Leeds Citizens Advice Bureau.
• Currently, Trustee & Secretary - Angels for Children Foundation (Registered Charity 1168342)

• Managed operational and strategic development of diverse services, in a mental health charity.
• Led teams to ensure safe service delivery, streamlining processes for better performance.
• Developed a specialist employment and job retention service for individuals, with mental health issues.
• Authored successful bids, expanding service capacity five-fold in ten years.
• Shared good practice and learning with employers on their well-being practices, initiating the Mindful Employer Charter in Leeds.
• Oversaw staff development through meetings, training sessions, appraisals and team away days.
• Produced and presented Board reports, quarterly evaluations and progress updates.
• Raised the profile of the service by presenting at conferences, developing regional networks and facilitating high profile visits from Ministers.
• Embedded service user- engagement and co-production into all service developments
• Campaigned for better mental health for all by actively promoting the values of inclusion and equality of opportunity for all.

• Served as Consultant and Mental Health Employment subject matter specialist for Bristol CCG, facilitating re-commissioning of mental health services.
• Conducted scoring, panel moderation, and interviews of bidders to ensure quality selection.

• Oversaw operational functions for a Family Learning Centre and two Community Jobshops.
• Delivered training and employment support services to unemployed individuals, including lone parents and those with disabilities.
• Managed five staff teams, while developing new initiatives and services.
• Administered contracts from multiple funding sources to ensure service sustainability.
• Collaborated with three local colleges and employers to create training and employment opportunities.

• Managed ESF-funded Redundancy Support Service and team of six Redundancy Advisors.
• Delivered comprehensive on-site redundancy support services to over thirty-five companies and their workers in Leeds.
• Negotiated with employers, Trade Unions, and agencies to tailor support services for workers' needs.
• Facilitated knowledge sharing with European partners by visiting Germany and Holland, hosting conferences and a civic reception.

• Delivered 1:1 and group employment and redundancy rights, careers, and job search support to redundant workers on employer sites.

• Collected, organised and deployed a variety of materials to deliver Jobs & Training Information service at a Council One-stop-shop

Assistant Policy & Information Officer, Planning Assistant , Registrar of Births, Deaths & Marriages and Finance Assistant.