Chief Executive Officer

• Nov 2016 - Present

Business Development Manager

• Oct 2010 - Mar 2015

A time framed, senior management position within a large social care charity with key responsibility for business development, product design and development, fundraising, business strategy, communications and marketing: - Product development, project and business planning - Budget setting and management - Business diversification - New business development - Partnership working - Line management - Project monitoring and evaluation - Programme support, monitoring and evaluation - Board level reporting - Service design and set up - HR recruitment and disciplinary process - Consultancy support to partner VSO’s - Customer and stakeholder involvement initiatives - Branding and marketing - SMT responsibility for projects and services - The production of manuals, resources and marketing Show less

Advisor

• Jan 2014 - Mar 2014

A time-limited voluntary post in Ghana, West Africa where I advised the set up of the Kwahu Tourism Initiative, designed poverty reduction programmes and supported the development of tourism tools including a website and marketing materials. A time-limited voluntary post in Ghana, West Africa where I advised the set up of the Kwahu Tourism Initiative, designed poverty reduction programmes and supported the development of tourism tools including a website and marketing materials.

Director of Programmes

• Jan 2000 - Oct 2010

Co-founder of a charity set up at the request of the London Borough of Westminster to continue pioneering work undertaken in previous role. Managing the growth of Newlon Fusion (formerly Freshstart) to become a significant, high profile provider of community, vocational and educational projects for excluded pupils, young people in care, refugees, asylum seekers and unemployed adults. - Business strategy and planning - Product development - Marketing - Presenting and public speaking - Project Fundraising (Direct funding, bids, grants) - Contract negotiation and management - Staff recruitment, development and management - Board reporting - Project design and delivery (SRB, NRF, LSC, SC etc) - Operational and project monitoring - Training design and delivery - Workshop, seminar and conference design and set up - Partnership development - Consultancy Support to VSO’s Show less

Business Manager - ESF

• Jan 1998 - Dec 1999

Manager of an extensive ESF funded programme tackling social exclusion among young people. Responsible for turning around a failing project and pioneering a training methodology that was featured via TV documentary and conferences in London, Rome, Orleans and Milan and mainstreamed via the set-up of Newlon Fusion - Programme scheduling - Training programme development and delivery - Staff recruitment, development and management - Beneficiary consultation and 1-1 support - Project marketing and beneficiary recruitment - Job Brokerage and employer negotiation - Multi-agency partnership working - Seminar and conference set up/speaking Show less