Develop and implement a fundraising strategy for the local groundwork trust. Develop bids for funding from Local Authorities, RDA, SSP, Lottery distributors and independent funding trusts. Contribution to strategy development through SMT and involvment in regular Board meetings. Facilitate and lead officer on implementation of work planned through funding and marketing sub-committee of the Board. Development of Marketing and Communications strategy for the trust. Development of key partnerships with local & regional organisations.

Manage relationship with clients and undertake work according to agreed work plans. Main areas of work to date have been fundraising support, organisational development including business planning and policy development, drafting of annual reports, research for a national refugee community project and writing a report on the English regions capacity building support availability within mainstream infrastructure organisations for refugee groups.

Coordinated updates on performance management for the community safety block of the LAA. Coordinated updates on equalities action plans for the community safety division of large metropolitan council. Organised peer review training for PAYP projects (VCS Organisations).

Manage Community Safety Partnership and its staff/resources, review of effectiveness and revision of structure of Community Safety Partnership to strengthen community engagement, service delivery responsiveness and improve performance management systems. Also manage community development coordinator and youth worker. Maintain work plans as part of implementation of Local Area Agreement and Community / Corporate plans and revision of such plans. Lead officer on developing neighbourhood management models for the district and for community consultation leading to refresh of community plan. Lead officer for children and young people for the district council and representative at county council forums. Leadership on strategy development for young people and play. Member of Local Strategic Partnership Board and theme group chair for young people. Performance Management through PBViews system and liaison with councillors over progress of the teams work.

Manage the staff and volunteer team. Manage premises ensuring sound health and safety for all service users and staff team. Undertake risk assessment for any additional out of office activities with service users. Undertake monitoring and evaluation of services and provide timely reports to funders. Facilitate multi-agency steering group for guidance of the project ensuring meeting funders, service users and stakeholders’ needs. Coordinate multi-agency action planning for support around racial harassment for service users. Work with two consultants around researching the gaps in services for clients in the city to inform project development and to offer independent evaluation of my project. Also represent my team within the Diversity Working Group of Refugee Action.

Work within the regional management team to business plan and report to trustees and funders against such plans. Duty manager as and when required for busy advice service. Lead on volunteer and interpreter recruitment, induction and support. Led on researching clients needs to inform fundraising staff and own fundraising initiatives to meet clients needs. Develop partnerships to support new initiatives to meet client group needs. Project management of an awareness raising project and a women’s support group. Also represented my team within the Policy Review Working Group of Refugee Action.

Engaging a multitude of agencies in developing a community liaison strategy for the east midlands for Refugee Housing Association and to deliver work priorities in conjunction with this and the regional management team. Assist Refugee Community Organisations in their development through consultancy advice and support with initiating constitutions, policy & procedures and fundraising support. Develop events to support awareness raising of other agencies and residents in areas which service users reside and to develop community celebrations & conferences to enable cohesion within communities. Development of new pilot projects and management of these projects in line with funders requirements. Involvement in community research projects through contacts and interviews.

Contract management with service commissioners (Social Services). Housing management and support service (empowerment based) to limited caseload of service users. Development of new initiatives to meet service users needs e.g. ESOL classes over the summer period and a women’s group.

Contract management with training agency for freelance work. Liaison with candidates and work places over visits and schedules of work. Completion of Health and Safety reports and progress reports to TEC (Commissioning Body). Motivational support to candidates to ensure progress against work plans when facing competing demands from employers. Designing unique work comprehension sheets to meet national qualifications against gaps in evidence generated by candidates. Assisting candidates in identifying work completed against national criteria.