Experience

Salford CVS

• United Kingdom
• Civic and Social Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Answer Cancer Programme Manager

  • Sep 2021 - Present



Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

• United Kingdom
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Programme Manager - Informatics

  • Feb 2021 - Sep 2021



Greater Manchester Cancer

• Colorectal Best Timed Pathway Project Lead

  • Oct 2018 - Feb 2021

  My role is to lead the development of new colorectal best timed pathways across all NHS Trusts in Greater Manchester. This will help diagnose bowel cancer faster, treat patients quicker and result in better outcomes for those with a cancer diagnosis. My role is to lead the development of new colorectal best timed pathways across all NHS Trusts in Greater Manchester. This will help diagnose bowel cancer faster, treat patients quicker and result in better outcomes for those with a cancer diagnosis.



Bowel Cancer UK

• United Kingdom
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Regional Manager (North West)

  • Sep 2015 - Sep 2018

  My role as Regional Manager improves bowel cancer outcomes across the North West, working in partnership with health and care services, community and third sector organizations.• Creating and defining an entirely new role and area of work for the charity, including developing the strategy for further regional expansion• Influencing and supporting NHS commissioners, hospitals, Public Health and other charities to ensure investment, best practice and highest impact for all those affected by bowel cancer, resulting in 12 Clinical Commissioning Groups investing in new bowel cancer screening plans• Pioneering and managing a new project that trains volunteers to partner within GP practices to increase screening rates. After a highly successful pilot period and evaluation, NHS commissioners across the country are looking to replicate it• Leading on the charity’s involvement in national research projects• Representing the charity at regional and national NHS cancer group meetings, specialist advisory groups and regularly presenting at conferences and training events, including leading and chairing an annual bowel screening conference• Leading on a project partnering with Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership and GP practices that focuses on increasing bowel screening rates and bowel cancer outcomes in central Manchester. This includes campaigning, policy work, media and communications, research and volunteer involvement



Village by Village

• United Kingdom
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Trustee / Non-executive director

  • May 2012 - May 2016

  Village by Village provides clean water to villages across Ghana, builds toilets and educates families. This reduces preventable diseases like diarrhoea and saves lives.• Led a strategic review of the charity, producing a 3 year strategic plan with clear aims, objectives and indicators, with wide stakeholder engagement• Produced a balanced scorecard, with KPIs, objectives, theory of change and financial planning• Worked closely with the CEO to implement strategic plan and hold staff to account• Played an active role in helping the annual turnover to double in 2015



Ambition School Leadership

• United Kingdom
• Primary and Secondary Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior School Relations Manager

  • Dec 2013 - Sep 2015

  Relocating from London to Manchester, I worked to achieve Teaching Leader’s mission of creating networks of outstanding middle leaders in schools in challenging contexts by building and maintaining school partnerships across the North region. • Lead school relations for the Yorkshire and Humber regions – new areas for Teaching Leaders when I started and now both established areas of partnership and delivery• Recruit, train and lead a high-performing team of four Programme Experience Managers• In 2014 and 2015 my team were the highest performing team nationally and were the only regional team to exceed our targets for recruitment of middle leaders to all our programmes• National Operational Lead role for Achieve Together (collaborative partnership with other education charities)• Plan and implement communications strategies to engage new schools who are eligible for our programmes, based on data analysis and in-depth marketing review• Build partnerships with headteachers and key influencers• Plan and manage high profile events for headteachers and leaders in education



ActionAid

• Non-profit Organizations
• 700 & Above Employee

• IF Campaign Project Manager

  • Oct 2012 - Nov 2013

  The IF Campaign was a national campaign running throughout 2013 which brought together over 200 international charities to campaign in coalition. My responsibilities included:• Project management of ActionAid’s involvement in the IF Campaign• Managing the activities, communications and production lines within ActionAid• Chairing the coalition’s Creative Activity Group, playing an active role in the IF coalition’s Public Engagement Group and the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning group• Presenting and communicating regularly to ActionAid staff about the IF Campaign, inspiring them integrate their own work with the campaign• Leading and organising ActionAid’s IF Campaign Project Group, Board and Reference Group• Writing external communications, blogs, letters and e-mails to our supporters and planning the supporter journeys, including segmentation and analysis



Missing People

• United Kingdom
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Campaigns Manager

  • Nov 2009 - Oct 2012

  I led the new ‘Join the Search’ campaign, which extended Missing People’s work into local communities across the country for the first time. I recruited Regional Coordinators to campaign locally for the rights of missing people and their families, establish local support groups for families, recruit new individual supporters and build local volunteer networks. I was also the police partnerships lead.Local development / change management achievements:• Successfully led the change management process that introduced local volunteering structures• Designed new reporting structures, monitoring and evaluation processes, strategic planning and infrastructure to give the pilot year direction and focus and encourage continuous learning• Recruited and managed 4 Local Coordinators in London, Yorkshire and West Midlands• Surpassed targets in first year and created basis for sustainable ongoing developmentAdditional responsibilities and achievements:• The Reconnect Network: I led on the development of the Department of Health endorsed Reconnect Network, an information sharing protocol between mental health services, police, local authorities, charities and homeless shelters in London, with later national expansion• The Turn2 Directory: I project managed the development of a government funded national online database; including design, service user consultation, budget management of £120,000 and engaging with over 600 charities nationwide• 116000: I project managed the introduction of the 116000 pan-European helpline number for missing children in the UK; built lasting partnerships with European partners, developed a sustainable business plan, established joint working between Samaritans and ChildLine• TextSafe©: Developed and promoted a new text service sending a message to a missing person’s phone, in partnership with police forces. Winner of the West Midlands Police Safeguarding Award. 15 police forces signed up to use TextSafe.



Emmaus

• Trustee / Non-executive director

  • Mar 2009 - Oct 2010

  Emmaus communities offer homeless people a home, work and the chance to rebuild their lives in a supportive environment. St. Albans Emmaus had a £500,000 annual turnover and employed 7 staff. Emmaus communities offer homeless people a home, work and the chance to rebuild their lives in a supportive environment. St. Albans Emmaus had a £500,000 annual turnover and employed 7 staff.