Experience

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  United Purpose

  • Cardiff

  • Board member / Chair

    • Jun 2018 - Present
    • Cardiff

    Board member and trustee of charity. Chair since September 2021.

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  Management and evaluation consultancy

  • Freelance

    • Apr 2000 - Present

    Mary has extensive experience of NGO management, monitoring and evaluation of NGO programmes. She works as an independent consultant in the NGO and voluntary sector, specialising in strategy, management and evaluation projects.

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  Judicial Appointments Commission

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Independent Panel Member & Chair

    • Mar 2017 - Jul 2022
    • London, United Kingdom

    Chair and panel member for recruitment to judicial appointments in England and Wales

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  Gloucestershire Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre

  • Gloucester

  • Co-Chair

    • Apr 2016 - Jul 2022
    • Gloucester

    Board member/trustee and Co-Chair of charity

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  GCPS Consulting

  • Director & Senior Consultant

    • Jun 2014 - Jun 2022

    GCPS is a consulting firm that specialises in helping organisations ensure the safety and protection of children and other vulnerable groups, working with a wide range of clients to identify and address safeguarding risks. GCPS has extensive experience and expertise in strategy and policy development, review, evaluation, audit and investigations. Mary has conducted safeguarding reviews and investigations for a number of organisations in the international development sector and run training workshops in various countries including Mail, Cameroon and Nepal. Through GCPS Mary has worked previously with Plan International on a number of child protection projects, including reviewing their work on community-based child protection, with field visits to Benin, Niger and Senegal. She developed good practice guidelines on community based child protection, as well as running consultation workshops and training events in West Africa, using materials developed by GCPS. In 2016 she supported ISPCAN on the development of their strategic plan and co-facilitated an international members' workshop in Switzerland. In 2017 Mary carried out an evaluation of the "Protection and Education of Children" in Uganda for the Africa Educational Trust, with a focus on street children. She also worked with GCPS colleagues to develop safe programming guidelines for clients including Save the Children and delivered pilot workshops in West Africa. In 2021 she co-authored a study on research into how partnership relations influence responses to sexual exploitation and abuse by humanitarian workers for the International Council for Voluntary Agencies (ICVA) and the Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response (SCHR). Most recently she led a project to develop a harmonised approach to data collection and reporting of incidents of sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment in the humanitarian sector, working with the CHS Alliance and SCHR.

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  Eastwood Park prison

  • Gloucestershire

  • Independent Monitoring Board member

    • Apr 2012 - Dec 2016
    • Gloucestershire

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  Welsh Assembly Government

  • Independent Public Appointments Assessor

    • 2003 - Mar 2012

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  Gloucester Prison

  • Independent Monitoring Board member & Chair

    • Jan 2002 - Mar 2012

    Chair of IMB from Jan 2007-Dec 2009

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  Amnesty International UK

  • Director

    • Jul 1999 - Apr 2000

    Interim CEO of human rights campaigning organisation

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  Amnesty International International Secretariat

  • Deputy Secretary General

    • Oct 1993 - Mar 1999

  • Head of Information Services

    • Oct 1988 - Oct 1993

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  Local Government Training Board

  • Information Manager

    • Mar 1985 - Oct 1988