Experience

Wade Deacon Trust

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

• Business Manager

  • May 2022 - Present

  A member of the Executive Senior Leadership Team, with responsibility for all school support service functions including; Finance, HR and Estates Management. A member of the Executive Senior Leadership Team, with responsibility for all school support service functions including; Finance, HR and Estates Management.



THE DEAN TRUST

• United Kingdom
• Education Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Trust Governance Manager

  • Oct 2020 - May 2022

  Providing professional advice and guidance to the CEO, Executive Team, Headteachers, Trustees, Members, Local Governors and Governance Professionals of a Multi Academy Trust with 10 academies across the North West. Ensuring that the Trust has in place sound integrated policies, procedures and structures in order to comply with all of its legal, constitutional and regulatory requirements. Undertaking the duties of a Company Secretary in relation to board procedures and Companies House filings. As the Trust’s Data Protection Officer ensuring that over 800 employees are trained in relation to GDPR and responsible data handling. Coordinating all information requests submitted to the Trust and implementing sound processes in relation to Subject Access, Freedom of Information and Data Exemption requests. Responsible for all data breach management and ICO reporting. Show less



Study Group

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Head of Professional Services

  • Oct 2017 - Oct 2020

  Responsible for articulating, implementing and managing a clear vision for the development of Professional Services (Finance, HR, Health & Safety, Admissions, Student Experience, Welfare, Assessments and Visa Compliance) with an FE and HE environment for international students. Management of the student data life-cycle including all admissions, assessment, attendance, welfare and progression related data through a range of Management Information Systems. Managing the delivery of day to day operations throughout the ISC - addressing any issues which arise and ensuring that solutions are sought and problems resolved effectively and efficiently. Deputising for the Head of Centre as required. Accountable for ensuring that the ISC is fully compliant with UKVI regulations in relation to Tier 4 Visas and Sponsorship Licenses. Overseeing the customer service operations, ensuring consistently high levels of student satisfaction and implementing new developments to continuously improve the student experience. Responsible for the maintenance and development of the Estate, ensuring that facilities are contributing to and enhancing the student learning experience. Influencing strategic planning and policy development in areas such as human resources; financial management; academic development; learning, teaching and assessment and academic quality assurance and enhancement. Show less



Liverpool John Moores University

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• • May 2016 - Jan 2017

  Secondment to cover maternity leave Responsible for ensuring the policies and procedures for the admission of all undergraduate and postgraduate students; Home, EU and International, are adopted and implemented consistently across the University's four faculties. Utilising Management Information Systems to produce relevant and timely reporting. Managing the University's centralised International Admissions Team and ensuring that applications are processed in accordance with University policy and UKVI guidelines.Managing the organisation and delivery of university wide Open Days and Applicant Days through managing the Student Recruitment & Admissions Events Team.Management of the University's Sports Scholarship Team, responsible for the promotion and management of the University’s Sports Scholarship programme.Preparing regular progress reports on the status of both home and international applications for distribution to the University's Senior Management Team. Show less

• • Jun 2009 - May 2016

  My role is extremely diverse and broadly involves elements of project management, financial accountability and people management. Highlights to date so far include:- Management of the Aimhigher Programme at LJMU (2009-2011); responsible for £250K budget and line management of two full time members of staff. I worked closely with senior management in local schools as well as within the university to ensure that the strategic aims and outcomes of the programme were being met. I was also tasked with relationship building to encourage more schools to engage with the programme; which resulted in a 100% increase over two years. - Management of the LJMU Widening Participation Programme (2011 - 2013); responsible for the planning, delivery and budgeting of a new institutional programme of activities. Recruited, trained and managed a team of 75 Student Advocates who worked across the programme to support over 3000 young people and their influencers.- Management of LJMU's Summer University Programme (2011 - present) which enables hundreds of prospective students to experience university life, staying residentially at LJMU each year. I am responsible for the budgeting, staffing, delivery and health and safety of all participants during the event. - Account Manager for Year 12/13 recruitment activities (2013 - present); responsible for planning day-to-day recruitment activities and strategies to ensure that recruitment targets are met on an annual basis.- Working successfully with academic colleagues to write a bid and attend an interview for £150K of external funding from the Royal Society of Chemistry to enable LJMU to develop and deliver a five year programme of activity to promote the study of Chemistry at university level. (April 2014)- Working closely with the Faculty of Science, particularly academic staff, to enable them to engage effectively with recruitment activities and to increase high quality applications to undergraduate programmes. Show less



HELOA

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Marketing Officer (External Relations & Partnerships)

  • Feb 2012 - Feb 2015

  I was appointed to serve a three year term as a member of the HELOA UK Committee. The role of Marketing Officer for a national association had a range of responsibilities; - Compiling and editing the weekly members'​ digest which is distributed to over 1000 members at 130+ HEI's across the UK (approx. 50 editions per year) - Sourcing and maintaining partnerships with other professional bodies, companies and charities who share a similar vision to HELOA with regards to promotion of Higher Education - Ensuring that the HELOA brand is represented clearly and professionally both in written media and also on any merchandising or promotional literature that is distributed across the UK - Keeping HELOA printed literature up to date and relevant to the target audiences - Copywriting any HELOA contributions for external literature and webpages such as UCAS, SLC, Which? etc - Promoting and disseminating the nominations for the annual Innovation & Best Practice Awards - Supporting the work of the Vice Chair (External Relations, Communications and Partnerships) and assisting in their role when requested - Representing HELOA at a national level Show less



Liverpool Hope University

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Project Officer (Centre for Student Recruitment & Widening Participation)

  • Sep 2008 - Jun 2009

  I was approached to join the university to work on a new school engagement and mentoring scheme (STARS) which aimed to engage local secondary school pupils who had no family history of Higher Education. My main roles were; - Line management of one full time member of staff - Building new relationships with local secondary school senior management - Being financially accountable for the project budget - Developing strategies and activities to engage with pupils, parents/carers and schools - Creating promotional materials to meet the aims of the project - Reporting back to senior management on the progress of the project Show less



University of Liverpool

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Project Officer

  • Jun 2008 - Sep 2008

  I was seconded to The University of Liverpool to assist with the research and writing of the Aimhigher Associates mentoring bid for Greater Merseyside. This involved collecting and analysing data from established mentoring projects as well as producing workbooks and schemes of work to be used by mentors, mentees and teachers. The bid was successful and the scheme ran for three years, working with thousands of young people and hundreds of undergraduate students across four local universities. I was seconded to The University of Liverpool to assist with the research and writing of the Aimhigher Associates mentoring bid for Greater Merseyside. This involved collecting and analysing data from established mentoring projects as well as producing workbooks and schemes of work to be used by mentors, mentees and teachers. The bid was successful and the scheme ran for three years, working with thousands of young people and hundreds of undergraduate students across four local universities.



Liverpool City Council, Merseyside

• Liverpool, United Kingdom

• Graduate Mentor

  • Jan 2007 - Jun 2008

  I worked with a collaborative of six secondary schools and one Special Educational Needs school across East Liverpool. My role was to support pupils from Years 9 - 13 both academically and pastorally on a daily basis. This could range from running workshops in time management, planning or presentation skills to assisting with lower achieving students in Maths, English or Science classes. I also led an accredited qualification called 'Skills for Working Life' which looked at the sometimes forgotten skills needed to be successful in the workplace, such as Health & Safety, CV Writing, Budgeting, Workplace Etiquette etc. I was often asked to accompany pupils on educational visits away from their school, including residentially. Show less



University of Nottingham

• United Kingdom
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Student Ambassador (Student Recruitment, Events & Widening Participation)

  • Jun 2004 - Aug 2006

  Whilst studying for my degree, I also spent over 1000 hours working with groups of young people, in secondary schools, colleges, on-campus and residentially, leading and planning activities, presentations and workshops to explain and promote Higher Education. My role also involved marketing and administration, including representing the university at UCAS fairs across the UK and working on university and faculty open days throughout the year. Whilst studying for my degree, I also spent over 1000 hours working with groups of young people, in secondary schools, colleges, on-campus and residentially, leading and planning activities, presentations and workshops to explain and promote Higher Education. My role also involved marketing and administration, including representing the university at UCAS fairs across the UK and working on university and faculty open days throughout the year.