Experience

London Design and Engineering UTC

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

• Head of Apprenticeships

  • Sep 2021 - Present

• Apprenticeship Manager

  • Mar 2021 - Sep 2021



East London Business Alliance/LEAN East Mayor’s Project

• Enterprise Coordinator

  • Sep 2020 - Feb 2021

  Building and maintaining effective relationships with senior leaders in 23 schools, Colleges and Pupil Referral Units in Newham and understanding their development needs and support required to achieve the Gatsby Benchmarks Building and maintaining effective relationships with senior leaders in 23 schools, Colleges and Pupil Referral Units in Newham and understanding their development needs and support required to achieve the Gatsby Benchmarks



London & Quadrant Housing Group

• Academy Project Manager

  • Jul 2017 - Apr 2020

  • Manage a small team of project officers working closely with them to deliver a high standard apprenticeship programme• Operationally support the training, progression and end point assessments of 70 construction/direct maintenance apprentices on site and 115 staff upskillers across business• Work closely with host departments, identifying core business opportunities and ensuring that levy funds are utilised to maximise the number of apprenticeships between levels 1 to 7• Support our in-house development team to deliver S106 obligations and the commitment to CSR and community activities linked to site• Independently work in partnership with FE colleges, universities and commercial and not for profit training providers to identify good quality delivery of training and end point assessors• Carry out thorough due diligence on all providers and review and agree SLA’s• Manage and deliver a range of high class training and support interventions for apprentices and facilitate events including awareness events, orientation events, apprentice inductions, professional skills training and team building exercises



East Thames Limited

• Construction Project Manager

  • May 2012 - Jun 2017

  Promoted to this position after excelling as a Construction Coordinator Responsibilities:• Oversee the entire employment and skills activities for the largest schemes with extensive obligations within the S106 agreements including a strong focus on CSR• Collaborate with internal development teams to maximise the local labour and employment prospects for residents• Effectively create strategic partnerships with local authorities, discussing and confirming the definition of local labour and targets for developments, trainees and apprentices on site• Actively attended regularly site meetings, encouraging contractors to offer tool box talks, engagement with the local supply chain and when necessary, reinforcing their obligations of providing adequate opportunities and supervision• Excellent written and verbal communication skills proving essential whilst maintaining records for all site activity and producing End of Scheme, Quarterly and End of Year reports for Local Authorities and partner HA’s



East Thames Limited & Newham Council

• Construction Coordinator

  • Apr 2008 - Apr 2012

  This was initially a two-year fixed term contract funded by East Thames and Newham Council which was to help build a robust referral partnership between the local borough’s job shop (Workplace) and East Thames Employment Services.Responsibilities:• Responsible for developing, managing and delivering a range of high-quality construction training schemes in conjunction with the local colleges to support East London residents into the construction industry• Devise and deliver information sessions to recruit trainees for a number of construction related courses, including plant, H&S, CSCS, IPAF, PASMA• Accurately monitor progress whilst in training• Delivered over 8 Level 1 Multi-skilled courses consisting of 15 residents per a cohort with a 98% retention rate.• Meticulous eye for reviewing pipeline reports and S106’s with project managers• Act as the primary source for engagement with framework contractors and those on the Olympic site and Athletes Village offering skilled opportunities i.e. Bovis Lend Lease, Mullaley’s, Carey’s and more.



Notting Hill Housing Trust

• United Kingdom
• Retail

• Construction Training Advisor

  • Jul 2006 - Mar 2008

  • Collaborate with colleges, contractors, employers, trainees and external partners to negotiate and arrange skilled placements• Maintain detailed records of each trainee currently on the programme• Successfully managing 13 sites across greater London• Responsible for evaluating trainee performances by conducting monthly reviews on site and feeding back to the colleges• Consistently monitoring and supporting trainees as well as providing comprehensive progress/end of site reports, written and oral



Reed in Partnership

• United Kingdom
• Individual and Family Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Project Advisor & Leader

  • May 2003 - Apr 2006

  This was a multi faceted role in which I was responsible for placing socially excluded members of the local area into sustainable employment. I continuously managed a case- load of over 50 members and carried out registration of members on a daily basis. I used Discovery methods to identify and overcome barriers to employment. I consistently exceeded targets for placement for these members within suitable and sustainable employment and this was achieved by employing a wide range of methods, which included comprehensive candidate preparation, action planning, life skills coaching and barrier to employment addressing. Other facets of this role included:• Cold calling prospective employers to facilitate members’ entry into employment• Contacting organisations Breakfree (ex-offenders) Connexions (Young unemployed) Jobcentre (unemployed) to create strategic partnerships• Member weekly action plans• Adhering to the data protection act I was promoted to this position after excelling as a Personal advisor. I was responsible for the tendering and implementation and management of 2 programmes. In addition to this I inducted, trained, motivated and managed 2 teams of 5 consultants on these programmes. I was required to evaluate individual performances via monthly caseload reviews looking for weaknesses and addressing these issues with training and mentoring. I also developed staff productivity and trained staff on new procedures.