Director of Clubs

• Jan 2021 - Present

Network Council Member

• Dec 2020 - Present

Network Development Consultant

• Nov 2019 - Dec 2020

Board Trustee

• May 2015 - May 2021

Head of Programme Delivery

• Apr 2017 - Dec 2020

* Key member of Senior Leadership team, overseeing youth programme UK-wide with Ireland collaboration. * Strategic approach to engaging and growing network of 8,000 film learning and making clubs, development and delivery of training and events, online and in person, and learning resources. * Leading a team of 20 staff based in seven offices across the UK, ensuring delivery is tailored to educational, political and cultural landscapes in the four UK nations and accessible to all young people.* Maintaining and developing complex partnerships and funder relationships: national, regional and local.* Budget development and management, including devolved regional budgets and cross-team negotiation.* Overseeing programme development including new funding and core work streams.* Ensuring KPIs and outcomes are achieved or exceeded and evaluated effectively. Additional responsibilities and achievements:* Formative member of Digital Product Steering Group, providing strategic direction and approval. * Tripled the size of Into Film’s youth and educator advisory groups, with relevant content per local group.* Pioneered structured approach to effective and consistent monitoring and evaluation, providing advice and support to staff across the organisation.* Strategic direction and change management during periods of programme evolution including COVID19 and fundamental organisational restructure.* Developed a new and transparent approach to organisation-wide operational planning at all levels.* Chair of Heads of Department cross-organisation group, reporting directly to CEO.

Programme Manager

• Jan 2015 - Apr 2017

Core role:* Leading and line managing a team of 6 Project Coordinators and Admin Assistants, ensuring targets and outcomes are met, including engaging with more than 4,000 film clubs across the Midlands and East region.* Task managing the wider Education team of 20+ staff for relevant work streams.* Strategic approach to programme development and delivery including film clubs, teacher training, resources/activities and engagement with the film industry.Additional responsibilities and achievements:* Leading the development of functionality for the implementation of Salesforce CRM, and leading staff training and support for the project across the Into Film team. * Facilitating cross-team middle managers' communication via a weekly meeting and briefing document. Lead manager for the process, ensuring the Exec team are informed of developments and issues that arise.* Developing and facilitating a structured approach to work planning for Into Film's Education team.* Leading practical improvements to communication within the Education team and with other Into Film teams, including establishing shared lists of responsibilities, a buddying system for staff based in regional offices and peer training.* Facilitating monitoring and evaluation across the Education team, ensuring relevant data is collated for reporting to funders and trustees.* Data management - developing and overseeing processes to increase the effectiveness of programme delivery.

Programme Coordinator

• Jul 2014 - Dec 2014

Core role as below for Schools Support Coordinator, with the addition of:* Delivering CPD training on film literacy and filmmaking for teachers and youth leaders.* Facilitating the smooth delivery of regional filmmaking programmes.Additional responsibilities:* Leading on monitoring and evaluation for Into Film's Education team.* Data analysis for film club engagement across the UK.* Ensuring Into Film's filmed content is useful for teachers and youth leaders.

Fellow

• Mar 2018 - Dec 2018

Career break - volunteering and travelling

• Jan 2014 - Jul 2014

Volunteering on organic dairy, grain and coffee farms through WOOF New Zealand and WOOF Nepal. Volunteering on organic dairy, grain and coffee farms through WOOF New Zealand and WOOF Nepal.

Schools Support Coordinator

• Dec 2012 - Dec 2013

Core role:* Developing and delivering a regional strategy for film club recruitment and retention, in schools and other youth settings, including meeting targets and facilitating events with film industry talent.* Providing high quality support and training to film club leaders - school and youth setting staff.* Partnership development with cinemas, arts venues, local authority staff, subject-based organisations and relevant charity sector organisations.Additional achievements and responsibilities:* Leading on monitoring and evaluation for projects in development, including filmmaking with PRUs.* Leading on resource/activity creation for specific strands of work including e-safety, mathematics/science and dance. * Coordination of Review of the Week, a national competition with 150,000 submissions per year and the reviewing competition for the National Youth Film Festival 2013 (now called the Into Film Festival).* Development and delivery of an animation pilot project for primary schools including school recruitment, partnership development, resource/activity creation, monitoring and evaluation.* Panel member for outreach grants programme - advising and making decisions about grants.* Chaperoning young reporters at film industry events - red carpet premieres and junkets.* Data analysis for film club engagement across the UK.* Mentor for new staff.

Programme Manager

• Nov 2010 - Nov 2012

* Leading a team of 6 Project Coordinators and 5 office volunteers, ensuring volunteering projects were delivered to target, achieving required outcomes on budget. Overseeing project budgets totalling approx. £1million, monitoring and evaluation, and providing written reports to a wide range of funders.* Managing projects on themes including community cohesion, social inclusion, digital inclusion, capacity building and mental health, and working with a diverse range of beneficiaries including young people aged 13-25, Muslim women, senior professionals, community leaders, older people and people recovering from mental health problems.* Also involved work on partnerships, project strategy and development, fundraising, volunteer training, policies and procedures.

Project Manager & Developer

• Sep 2009 - Nov 2010

* Leading a team of Project Coordinators and Officers. Setting and managing project budgets, writing reports for relevant funders, overseeing monitoring and evaluation, volunteer induction/training, and partnership development.* Overseeing the development and delivery of the Junction49 Facilitators Project, which supported young people from a wide variety of backgrounds to volunteer to develop events, campaigns and community projects and access funding.* Managing Digitall, an intergenerational mentoring project focused on increasing digital inclusion for older people, and a pilot project that supported unemployed parents through the same model.

Project Coordinator & Developer

• Jun 2008 - Sep 2009

Junction49 Coordinator June 2008 - Sept 2009* Coordinating the engagement and retention of volunteers aged 13-25 to run their own community projects including events and campaigns. Included planning and managing a presence at events.* Developing a support model, providing support to young people to develop community projects, and supporting the Junction49 Project Officer. Designing and delivering training sessions to young people involved with partner organisations. Responsible for maintaining and updating the website, www.junction49.co.uk.* Contributing to TimeBank’s youth involvement strategy, getting buy-in from TimeBank staff and supervising an intern who worked on this.* Also included partnership development, social media outreach, monitoring and evaluation.Spark Project Development: January – March 2009* Partnership development for a new corporate responsibility initiative which led to a long-term working partnership. Supporting Spark staff to work with Junction49.* Planning training, sourcing and booking speakers, visiting venues to assess suitability.

Volunteer Support Officer

• Apr 2007 - May 2008

* Inspiring, informing and guiding volunteers (young people aged 16-25 and T-Mobile employees) through helpdesk support and an online community.* Involvement with coordination of employee team challenges and bespoke opportunities.* Providing a high level of customer service, devising and maintaining systems to ensure this.

Volunteer Services Worker (temp placement)

• Jan 2007 - Mar 2007

Included interviewing potential volunteers, researching new volunteering opportunities, applying for CRBs and references, placing volunteers, liaising with volunteer centres and volunteer supervisors, maintaining accurate records on file and database.

Receptionist/Administrator (temp placement)

• Nov 2006 - Jan 2007