London, England, United Kingdom
Experienced Diversity and Inclusion strategist and facilitator, passionate about creating equitable environments, cultures and opportunities and embedding long-term sustainable change.
Responsible for delivering training and consultancy services to external organisations - supporting them to understand and adopt a best practice approach to disability. Key areas include research and insight, inclusive management, employment, customer service and policy and process development.
Managed the delivery of the Change 100 programme - a youth employment programme providing summer internships for talented students and graduates with a disability or long term condition. Led on all candidate-facing activity including recruitment, selection and matching in addition to providing support and training to partner employers on disability, employment and removing barriers. Responsible for bringing the programme in-house whilst maintaining targets and performance.
Managed Leonard Cheshire's programme support team - tasked with supporting all national programmes with administration, event management and impact measurement. Responsible for reviewing and developing processes and organising all department development events.
- Responsible for the co-ordination of service reviews and resident consultation regarding service delivery. - Responsible for managing, producing and developing all communications materials, from print to digital channels. - Also responsible for the monitoring and review of the organisation's policy library, assisting departments on the review of their policies and maintaining best practice across the organisation.
Placed at Mount Green Housing Association as a part of the Charityworks Graduate Scheme. As Business Support Officer, responsible for the coordination and project management of a number of service reviews, the management of the organisation's policy bank and assisting the Communications and Engagement Manager in the production of all communications materials.
Member of a national graduate scheme and professional development programme accredited by the Institute of Leadership and Management, dedicated to finding and developing future leaders of the non-profit sector in the UK. - Participated in learning session workshops regarding first level management skills, the political context of the sector, operational management, campaigning and communication. - Conducted two pieces of original research regarding sector-specific topics involving both qualitative and quantitative research and analysis. One topic explored the effect of an ageing population upon the UK Housing sector, specifically sheltered housing, and best-practice regarding the futureproofing of these services.