You are currently viewing the web site for registered charities, showing discounted Seller rates.
Printer friendly ]Seller 249969 - Peterborough, Cambs, UK
| Rating: |
| |
| Hourly Rate: | £54.44 | |
| Available From: | Now | |
| Overview: | Prime focus on governance and management of charities, including strategy, fundraising, finance, EU projects, research, IT, EO, diversity and HRM. 17 yrs as senior strategic manager in major charity. | |
 : Hourly rate shown includes a discount of 30% for registered charities. |
CV | 
SkillsCV
| A professional strategic manager with 17 years experience in the voluntary sector. Latterly, leading a small national charity for deaf children through the adoption of professional standards in finance, fundraising, HR and service delivery. Significant research background based around user centred projects in information and knowledge technologies. Strong, empathetic leader with proven track record of managing team of 25 specialists and a natural communicator in both oral and written media. Committed to achieving quality objectives through clear vision, systematic planning and evaluating outcomes. |
Employment History
(Jan 2005 to Apr 2007)
Chief Executive
PeterboroughFull responsibility for all aspects of leading charity through a period of significant change.
• Led charity through period of significant change, establishing the first permanent office, introducing professional finance system, developing HR procedures and guiding process of incorporation.
• Handled delicate process around redundancy and recruitment of key staff whilst maintaining service delivery.
• Worked closely with staff and volunteers to deliver high quality services to families, ensuring that significant risks were identified and mitigated.
• Developed first strategic plan, starting from an analysis of stakeholder need and gaining acceptance from trustees.
• Instigated professional approach to fundraising, centred on strategic planning and aiming for long term stability by diversifying funding streams.
• Bought in print and finishing equipment to allow production of publications as required thereby slashing the previous £40k pa spend.
• Renegotiated £250k Government grant and guided subsequent project to satisfaction of fund-holder.
(Sep 1989 to Aug 2004)
Head of Technical Research
PeterboroughLeading team of 25 specialist research staff. £600k budget plus EU projects up to £1m pa. Member of divisional management.
• Analysed and fully restated all 1300 lines of the divisional budget in such a way that budget holders and service managers could understand their contribution to the divisional budget reduction of £1.2m.
• Developed a mature attitude towards quality amongst management team and laid the foundation from which the division gained ISO9000 accreditation.
• Promoted needs of disabled people within context of Disability Discrimination Act, particularly endorsing universal design.
• Motivated IT graduate staff through training and securing interesting projects and, thereby, increased average retention from about 2 years to over 5 years.
• Developed and used a sector job evaluation scheme to counteract difficulty in recruiting and retaining ICT staff across the organisation. This reduced failed recruitments by 60%.
• Successfully negotiated several EU funded research projects, each worth up to 3M€ and involving up to 12 partners from across Europe.
• Managed and conducted user centred research related to state of the art technologies, including voice interaction, semantic mark-up and web accessibility.
• Delivered 14 papers at international research conferences drawn from a programme of technical awareness and working with world leaders in several technologies linked to visual impairment.
• Established new research code that helped to protect £30M of voluntary funding by improving quality of high visibility research.
• Stood firm on the integrity of research results, even where they questioned the utility of the project outcomes, which gained the approbation of the EU expert reviewers on number of occasions.
• Acted as expert reviewer on public funded projects and helped to secure additional funding of £500k.
Education
(Sep 1991 to Jul 1994)
DeMontfort University
MBA
Thesis: Equality, Equity and Motivation
(Sep 1975 to Jul 1979)
University of Bath
PhD
Thesis: Computer Simulation of Fading in the Mobile Radio Environment
(Sep 1972 to Jul 1975)
University of Bath
BSc 1st Class Hons
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Categories & Skills
Administration Support
Categories
Skills
- Access (Microsoft)
- Adobe PageMaker
- Complaint Handling
- CRB (Security Clearance)
- Crystal Reports
- Customer Service
- Excel (Microsoft)
- Letter Writing
- Microsoft
- Outlook (Microsoft)
- PowerPoint (Microsoft)
- Publisher (Microsoft)
- Sage
- Telephony
- Word (Microsoft)
Education and Research
Categories
Skills
- Administration (Further Education)
- Business (Further Education)
- Business Development (Further Education)
- Computing (Further Education)
- CRB (Security Clearance)
- Data & Communication Systems (Further Education)
- eSystems Design & Technology (Further Education)
- Information Systems (Computing)
- Internet Technologies (Computing)
- IT (Further Education)
- Management (Research)
- Networked Systems (Computing)
- Questionnaire design (Research)
- Research (Research)
- Statistics
Finance & Accounting
Categories
Skills
- £1M to £5M (Project Value)
- £500K to £1M (Project Value)
- Accounting (Software Experience)
- BACS (Accountancy)
- Bookkeeping (Accountancy)
- Budgeting (Accountancy)
- Business Plan Creation (Financial Consulting)
- Cashflow Forecasting (Accountancy)
- Cashflow Management (Accountancy)
- Change (Processes)
- Change Management (Project Management)
- Charity & Not For Profit (Organisation Experience)
- Communication All Levels (Project Management)
- Cost Analysis (Financial Consulting)
- Cost Control (Accountancy)
- Cost Reduction (Accountancy)
- CRB (Security Clearance.)
- Design (Processes)
- E.C. Grant & Aid Packages (Financial Consulting)
- Excel (Microsoft)
- Exchange (Microsoft)
- Financial (Reporting)
- Financial Consulting
- Full Project Lifecycle (Project Management)
- General / Nominal Ledger (Accountancy)
- Invoicing/Billing (Accountancy)
- Job Level (Accountancy)
- Job Level (Project Management)
- Key Performance Indicators (Accountancy)
- Large Team (10+) (Management Skills)
- Leadership (Project Management)
- Line 50 (Sage)
- Man Management (Project Management)
- Management (Reporting)
- Management Skills (Accountancy)
- Managing Suppliers (Project Management)
- Medium Sized Team (5-9) (Management Skills)
- Mentoring (Project Management)
- Microsoft (Project Management)
- Multiple Projects (Project Management)
- Negotiation
- Organisation Experience (Project Management)
- Payroll (Sage)
- Powerpoint (Microsoft)
- Pricing and Profitability (Accountancy)
- Processes (Project Management)
- Project (Microsoft)
- Project Accounting (Accountancy)
- Project Director (Job Level)
- Project Initiation Document (Project Management)
- Project Leader (Job Level)
- Project Manager (Job Level)
- Project Office Management (Project Management)
- Project Support (Project Management)
- Project Value (Project Management)
- Purchase Ledger (Accountancy)
- Qualified By Experience (Job Level)
- Regulatory (Reporting)
- Reporting (Accountancy)
- Sage (Accounting)
- SLA's (Project Management)
- Small Team (0-5) (Management Skills)
- Software Experience
- Specialist (Job Level)
- Statutury (Reporting)
- Supplier Invoices (Accountancy)
- up to £500K (Project Value)
- Visio (Microsoft)
- Word (Microsoft)
HR/Training & Development
Categories
- Corporate/HR Strategy
- Employee Pay/Benefits
- Employee Relations
- Employment Law
- Equality & Diversity
- HR Administration
- Performance Management
- Recruitment
- Security Clearance
- Talent Management
- Training & Development
Skills
- Absence Management (Performance Management)
- Age Discrimination (Equality & Diversity)
- Analysis (Organisation)
- Annual Leave (Employee Pay/Benefits)
- Appointments (Recruitment)
- Appraisal Training (Performance Management)
- Appraising Performance (Performance Management)
- Business Performance (Corporate/HR Strategy)
- Career Management (Training & Development)
- Change Management (Corporate/HR Strategy)
- Coaching & Mentoring (Training & Development)
- Communication (Employee Relations)
- Communication Strategy (Corporate/HR Strategy)
- Consultation (Employee Relations)
- Corporate Governance (Corporate/HR Strategy)
- Course Material Development (Training & Development)
- CRB (Security Clearance)
- Culture Assessment (Corporate/HR Strategy)
- Data Protection (Employment Law)
- Design (Organisation)
- Development (Organisation)
- Disability (Equality & Diversity)
- Disciplinary Issues (Performance Management)
- Discipline & Grievances (Employment Law)
- Dismissal (Employment Law)
- Diversity Policy (Equality & Diversity)
- Employee Handbook (HR Administration)
- Employee Intranet (HR Administration)
- Employee Retention (Employee Relations)
- Employee Surveys (Corporate/HR Strategy)
- Employee Surveys (Employee Relations)
- Equal Opportunities (Equality & Diversity)
- Equal Pay (Equality & Diversity)
- Ethics (Corporate/HR Strategy)
- Ex-offenders (Equality & Diversity)
- Flexible Working (Employee Pay/Benefits)
- Graduate Recruitment (Recruitment)
- Harassment (Equality & Diversity)
- HR Operations (Corporate/HR Strategy)
- HR Strategy (Corporate/HR Strategy)
- Induction Process (Recruitment)
- Induction Training (Training & Development)
- Interviewing (Recruitment)
- Job Evaluation (Employee Pay/Benefits)
- Knowledge Management (Corporate/HR Strategy)
- Leadership (Corporate/HR Strategy)
- Leadership Development (Training & Development)
- Managerial Development (Training & Development)
- Managing Difficult People (Performance Management)
- Maternity/Paternity Leave (Employee Pay/Benefits)
- Maternity/Paternity Rights (Employment Law)
- Minimum Wage (Employee Pay/Benefits)
- Organisation (Corporate/HR Strategy)
- Pay Structures (Employee Pay/Benefits)
- Pensions (Employee Pay/Benefits)
- Policies & Procedures (HR Administration)
- Race Discrimination (Equality & Diversity)
- Redundancy (Employment Law)
- Religious Discrimination (Equality & Diversity)
- Restructuring (Organisation)
- Reward Strategy Development (Corporate/HR Strategy)
- Salary Negotiation (Employee Pay/Benefits)
- Sex Discrimination (Equality & Diversity)
- Sexual Orientation (Equality & Diversity)
- Social Responsibility (Corporate/HR Strategy)
- Staff Morale (Corporate/HR Strategy)
- Staff Morale (Performance Management)
- Staff Morale (Employee Pay/Benefits)
- Staff Morale (Talent Management)
- Staff Retention (Talent Management)
- Talent Recognition (Talent Management)
- Team Building (Performance Management)
- Team Building (Training & Development)
- Team Building (Talent Management)
- Terms & Conditions (Employment Law)
- Values Policy (Corporate/HR Strategy)
- Work/Life Balance (Employee Pay/Benefits)
IT & Internet
Categories
Skills
- Adobe (Web Design & Usability)
- Dreamweaver (Macromedia)
- Fireworks (Macromedia)
- Flash (Macromedia)
- GoLive (Adobe)
- HTML
- Illustrator (Adobe)
- Java
- JSP (Web Development/Prog)
- Macromedia (Web Design & Usability)
- MS Access
- Operations Management (IT Management)
- People Management (IT Management)
- Photoshop (Adobe)
- Senior Management (IT Management)
- Strategy Management (IT Management)
- Team Leadership (IT Management)
- Web Design (Web Design & Usability)
- Web Development (Web Development/Prog)
- Website Strategy
- XHTML (Web Development/Prog)
- XML
Management Consultancy
Categories
Skills
- £1M to £5M (Project Value)
- £500K to £1M (Project Value)
- 10 to 20 (Staff (numbers))
- 20 to 50 (Staff (numbers))
- 5 to 10 (Staff (numbers))
- Budget Control (Project Consultancy)
- Business Development (Business Consulting)
- Business Plan Creation (Business Consulting)
- Business Plan Creation (IT Consulting)
- Business Plan Creation (Project Consultancy)
- Business Planning (Business Consulting)
- Business Reengineering (Business Consulting)
- Change Management (Project Consultancy)
- Competitive Analysis
- Contract Management
- Corporate Governance
- Cost Reduction
- Course Delivery (Training)
- Course Design (Training)
- Customer Care (Business Consulting)
- e-Business Development
- Evaluation (Service development)
- Excel (Microsoft)
- Excel (Microsoft)
- Full Project Lifecycle (Project Consultancy)
- General Management (Business Consulting)
- Health & Safety (HR Consulting)
- HR Policies (HR Consulting)
- Interim IT Director (IT Consulting)
- Interim Managing Director (Business Consulting)
- Interim Operations Director (Business Consulting)
- IT Staff Development (IT Consulting)
- IT Staff Management/Motivation (IT Consulting)
- IT Strategy Development (IT Consulting)
- Job Evaluation (HR Consulting)
- Leadership (Project Consultancy)
- Man Management (Project Consultancy)
- Management Development (HR Consulting)
- Microsoft (Project Consultancy)
- Microsoft
- Monitoring (Service development)
- Motivation Strategy (HR Consulting)
- Multiple Projects (Project Consultancy)
- Needs Analysis (Training)
- Negotiation
- Operations Analysis (Business Consulting)
- Organisational Development
- Powerpoint (Microsoft)
- PowerPoint (Microsoft)
- Process Change (Project Consultancy)
- Process Design
- Process Mapping
- Product Development (Business Consulting)
- Programme Management (Project Consultancy)
- Project (Microsoft)
- Project (Microsoft)
- Project Initiation Document (Project Consultancy)
- Project Management (Project Consultancy)
- Project Office Mgmt (Project Consultancy)
- Project Strategy Development (IT Consulting)
- Project Support (Project Consultancy)
- Project Value (Project Consultancy)
- Recruitment - Staff (HR Consulting)
- Redundancy (HR Consulting)
- Remuneration Policy
- Risk Analysis
- Risk Management
- Service development (Charity & Not-for-profit)
- SLA's (Project Consultancy)
- Staff (numbers) (Project Consultancy)
- Strategic Analysis (Business Consulting)
- Systems Analysis
- Systems Planning/Design (IT Consulting)
- Team Building (HR Consulting)
- Test Planning (Project Consultancy)
- Training (HR Consulting)
- Training (Project Consultancy)
- Up to £500K (Project Value)
- up to 5 (Staff (numbers))
- Visio (Microsoft)
- Visio (Microsoft)
- Word (Microsoft)
- Word (Microsoft)
- Workshop Management (Project Consultancy)
Marketing/Advertising/PR
Categories
Skills
- Annual Reports (Publications)
- Annual Reports (Copywriting)
- B2C
- Brochures
- Case Studies (Copywriting)
- Contingency Implementation (Crisis Management)
- Contingency Planning (Crisis Management)
- Copywriting (Newsletters/In-house Journals)
- Copywriting (Publications)
- Copywriting (Public Relations)
- Corporate (Donor Care)
- Crisis Management (Public Relations)
- Customer Magazines (Publications)
- Database Analysis (Market Research)
- Database Management (Public Relations)
- Desktop Publishing (Design)
- Donor Care (Charity Fundraising)
- Editing
- Editorial Planning (Newsletters/In-house Journals)
- Editorial Supplements (Publications)
- Excel (Microsoft)
- External Communications
- Features (Copywriting)
- Individual (Donor Care)
- Internal Communications (Public Relations)
- Internal Communications
- Knowledge Management (Market Research)
- Legacy Management (Donor Care)
- Market Research (Market Research)
- Microsoft
- New Product Development (Product Management)
- Newsletters/In-house Journals (Public Relations)
- On Line (Design)
- Outlook (Microsoft)
- Posters (Design)
- PowerPoint (Microsoft)
- Presentation Delivery
- Presentation Preparation
- Press Releases (Copywriting)
- Product Research (Market Research)
- Production Liaison (Newsletters/In-house Journals)
- Promotional Material (Design)
- Proof Reading
- Publications (Public Relations)
- Publications
- Publicity Material (Copywriting)
- Qualitative Analysis (Market Research)
- Quantitative Analysis (Market Research)
- Scripts (Copywriting)
- Speeches (Copywriting)
- Staff Communications (Internal Communications)
- Strategy Development
- Survey Reports (Copywriting)
- Trust (Donor Care)
- Videos
- Word (Microsoft)
Media & Creative
Categories
Skills
- Academic (Writing)
- Acrobat (Adobe)
- Adobe
- After Effects (Adobe)
- Annual Reports
- Audition (Adobe)
- Books/Videos/CD's (Design)
- Brochures
- Business Writing (Writing)
- Copywriting (Writing)
- Corel
- Creative Writing (Writing)
- CVs (Writing)
- Draw (Corel)
- Encore (Adobe)
- Flash
- GoLive
- Graphic Design
- Icons (Design)
- Illustrator (Adobe)
- InDesign
- InDesign (Adobe)
- IT & Internet (Writing)
- Logos/Stationery (Design)
- Macromedia Flash MX
- Magazine Editing (Editing)
- Microsoft
- Newsletters (Writing)
- Office Suite (Microsoft)
- Page & Book Layout
- Paint Shop Pro
- PhotoDraw
- Photoshop (Adobe)
- PowerPoint (Microsoft)
- Premiere (Adobe)
- Pre-Press Management (Printing)
- Presentation Design (Design)
- Press Releases (Writing)
- Print Advertisements (Design)
- Product Design (Design)
- Production Management (Printing)
- Promotional Material
- Proof Reading (Editing)
- Proposals/RFPs (Writing)
- Publisher (Microsoft)
- Sub-editing (Editing)
- Technical
- Web Content (Writing)
- Web Sites
- Website Editing (Editing)
Sales/Account Management
Categories
Skills
- Account Management (Account/Client Management)
- Bid Management (Proposals/Bids & Tenders)
- Bid Preparation (Proposals/Bids & Tenders)
- Competitor Analysis (Sales Management/Strategy)
- Excel (Microsoft)
- Head of Department (Job Level)
- Job Level (Sales Management/Strategy)
- Microsoft
- Negotiation
- Outlook (Microsoft)
- PowerPoint (Microsoft)
- Presentation Delivery
- Presentation Preparation
- Product Sales
- RFI Responses (Proposals/Bids & Tenders)
- Tender Preparation (Proposals/Bids & Tenders)
- Word (Microsoft)
More Sellers...