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The document is a job application for a role involving 45% project management, 30% visits and events coordination, and other duties including policy support and protocol lead. The applicant outlines their relevant experience overseeing and coordinating visit programs for government officials as head of service for Prince's Trust, including liaising across organizations. They also describe managing a £150M budget for skills training as strategic lead for a regional government, supporting political figures and developing stakeholder relations. Further experience includes coordinating events and visits for diplomatic partners as part of work for the Dutch UN mission.

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Application Foreign & Commonwealth Office

The document is a job application for a role involving 45% project management, 30% visits and events coordination, and other duties including policy support and protocol lead. The applicant outlines their relevant experience overseeing and coordinating visit programs for government officials as head of service for Prince's Trust, including liaising across organizations. They also describe managing a £150M budget for skills training as strategic lead for a regional government, supporting political figures and developing stakeholder relations. Further experience includes coordinating events and visits for diplomatic partners as part of work for the Dutch UN mission.

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Why are you applying for role and how you demonstrate the experience outlined in job

description? (300 words)

Project management: 45%

 Programme delivery board, monitoring progress and coordinate across teams


 Budget forecasting, project and grant agreements, project partners awareness of UK rules
 Monitoring & Eval reports
 Future funding and bid development
 Stakeholder/partner relationship management, risk management

Visits & Events: 30%

 Ministers & senior officials visits, oversee, design and coordinate programme of events for political section
 Understanding UK strategic objectives in Thailand
 Identifying key stakeholders
 Owning & managing visit programmes
 Programme coordination, setting up meetings and events
 Contacts database
 Design events plans to maximise influence

As Head of Service for the Prince’s Trust I have extensive experience in overseeing, designing and
coordinating visit programmes for government officials including Ministers, MP’s and Mayors. This
includes collaborating across the wider organisation and liaising with the appropriate government
office to agree on programme content and leading briefings. Managing the £150m skills budgets for
the combined authority (regional government) I have managed and developed stakeholder relations
with government, employer and third sector organisations. As strategic lead I supported senior
political figures with policy reports, briefing notes and liaising with the political teams on visits to
senior stakeholders. Working for the Dutch Permanent Representation to the UNHRC in Geneva I
managed the Asia & the Pacific … , being responsible for ……

I arranged events and visit programmes for diplomatic partners, NGO’s and ministerial visits to the
Permanent Representation.
Policy support: research, analysis and reporting policy issues. Supporting policy leads

Protocol lead: drafting notes verbale, liaising with thai government on protocol matters

Seeing the big picture: tell us about a time where you had to analyse long-term trends about a
particular issue, and then plan activity designed to impact on the issue. How did you go about this
and what was the outcome?

As part of managing the devolved Adult Education Budget I have developed the 2022-2025 West
Midlands Adult Education Strategy. To develop the strategy, long term employment, vacancy and
skills data for the region needed to be analysed to determine the skills needs per industry/sector, the
skills gaps of the working population which prevented them from successfully filling vacancies and
the education gaps in the adult education sector. This led to a clear picture on the sector skills gaps in
the region which fed into the regional priorities for skills funding and the updated Regional Skills
Plan. This led to an increase in funding for priority sectors (including Health, Construction and Digital)
and for higher level adult education (Level 3/4), increasing the sustainable job outcome levels for
adults on Adult Education Budget funded skills programmes.
Making effective decisions: tell us about a time you made a decision that led to a change in the way
you or your team approached a particular task or issue. What factors did you take into account and
why did you make that decision? What was the outcome?

Managing a quality service: tell us about a time where you had to build a relationship with a new
customer or partner. How did you build the relationship to ensure both you and their needs were
met, and how did you measure the impact of your engagement and interaction?

Delivering at pace: describe a situation that required you to manage several pieces of work at the
same time. How did you manage, organise and prioritise your work? What lessons did you learn from
that experience?

Programme management: please outline what programme management training you have
undertaken or your previous experience managing projects or programmes.

Delivery of European Union funding programmes & projects

delivery of £150m in devolved government skills programmes

Delivery of change project Prince’s Trust

delivery of UN Human Rights Project

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