• Responsible for planning, facilitating and managing an integrated Leisure and Cultural service, incorporating; three leisure centres, four community centres, Leisure and Youth Development Departments, Arts Development, Children & Young peoples’ initiatives, Healthy Living, Events and Services for Older People. Equality & Diversity, Social Inclusion, & Community Liaison.
• Formulation of a leisure procurement strategy; needs analysis, contract specification, consultation, advising Members, and their respective Committees.
• Project Manager for £15.25m leisure review and refurbishment project. Project includes regeneration of area of relative deprivation in a Surrey Borough.
• Assisting council to develop employment equality plans on disability, gender and race.
• Assisting council to work together with neighbouring boroughs to implement their equality schemes in the light of the five-year reviews.
• Health & Well-being agenda
• Budgetary responsibility of £5.5million. Full control of this budget including financial planning, budget management and monitoring.
• Managing 60 FTE employees.
• Managing and monitoring the Leisure Centre contracts, and the Community Centres service.
• Developing relationships with Partner Consultees.
• Continuing to review and develop equality standard in conjunction with Personnel
• Presenting and facilitating to a wide range of audiences on subjects which include; leisure, health & wellbeing agendas, Child Protection, Social Policy, and Business Planning.
• Formulation and implementation of new structure within a large department
• Project management of Leisure Procurement Strategy
• Strategies for cultural change, conception of a joint Local Cultural Strategy with a neighbouring borough.
• Formulation of draft Physical Activity Strategy & Leisure Strategy.

• Liaise with external consultants to carry out a leisure review
• Consult with stakeholders and a wide range of stakeholder groups and report findings to the Council
• Formulate a contract specification in a quick turn around time in order to ensure continuation of a leisure service- this consisted of bringing trust back in house, then out to tender within a short timescale, getting legal, financial, and council sign off.
• Formulate street surveys, online questionnaires and publish results.

• Devise and implement a robust monitoring system to ensure the effective delivery of contracted out services- looking at suitable default mechanism
• Produce, analyse, and collate all performance indicators relating to the provision, management, and usage of facilities.
• Develop strategies and pro-active approaches to enable participation in sport and recreation in order to identify, tackle, and break through existing barriers.
• Identify demographic breakdown of borough and produce KPIs for individual areas.
• Work to process map mechanical and electrical requirements in a large leisure centre
• Produce detailed knowledge of the issues and priorities of commercial, voluntary, and statutory agencies in relation to sport and recreation service provision and prioritise team workload accordingly.
• Assist with planning, consultation, specification for popular climbing wall - £40k project
• Produce detailed mapping analysis by postcode breakdown of current usage within borough.