Qualifications:
BA (Hons) Business Studies
Member of the International Association of Facilitators
Career History:
2002 - date
2001 - 2002
1997 - 2000
1994 - 1997
1993 - 1994
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Inspira
Vantagepoint
Redditch Borough Council
Ashfield District Council
Nottinghamshire County Council
Ministry of Industry, Beira Mozambique
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Skills and Experience:
Before setting up Inspira, Dawn was a principal consultant with Vantagepoint Management Consultants. Prior to this, she was Director of Policy at Redditch Borough Council with a wide range of responsibilities including Community Planning, Regeneration, Housing Strategy, Corporate Policy, Consultation and Communications. Dawn was appointed in August 2002 as a Neighbourhood Renewal Advisor to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. She has strong and varied local government experience of both corporate and direct services and specialises in:
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• Partnership development
• Regeneration
• Corporate Policy
• Managing Change
• Performance Planning
• Facilitation |
Dawn has worked on a number of major consultancy projects
including:
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Birmingham Local Area Agreement – major assignment to support City Council partners and the strategic partnership to develop the agreement |
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Northamptonshire Local Area Agreement – support and development of agreement content and facilitation of partners engagement |
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Leeds Initiative and Leeds City Council - developing, facilitating, partner negotiation and writing the new Regeneration Plan for Leeds plus 5 District Partnership Implementation Plans |
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Birmingham Strategic Partnership - support for the development of District Partnerships across the City, development of community plans, partnership working arrangements, central support for Councillors and key partner agencies |
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Government Office for the East Midlands Neighbourhood Management Network co-ordinators and facilitators |
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Wolverhampton Strategic Partnership – Assignment Manager, strategic support for the new Local Area Agreement pilot |
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Ovenden Initiaitive, Halifax – Lead Adviser for Neighbourhood Management Pilot |
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One City Partnership Nottingham – National Places Initiative collaboration between ODPM, NRU and the Cabinet Office providing advice and guidance on Performance Management, Floor target action planning and trajectory analysis |
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Northamptonshire County Council development of Neighbourhood Renewal Strategy for the County |
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Government Office for West Midlands – Facilitation of Annual Review case conferences for all LSPs in the region, review of design and deliver of training programme for Neighbourhood Renewal including performance management, mainstreaming, worklessness and education |
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3 Regions Development for Government Offices for East of England, East Midlands and West Midlands facilitation event on Neighbourhood Renewal and Education |
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Review and forward planning events for Broxtowe LSP, North Kesteven LSP, Northamptonshire Partnership – Community Strategy development, Rutland County Council |
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Mansfield Area Strategic Partnership – assignment to review neighbourhood management approach |
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Derby City Partnership – Neighbourhood Renewal Learning Plan, Mainstreaming support and Equalities framework |
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Dudley Strategic Partnership – review of area working and priority neighbourhood approach, major performance management review |
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Bristol LSP – partnership development of working structures for Neighbourhood Renewal |
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Facilitation events for Sandwell LSP, Wolverhampton LSP Board and Neighbourhood Partnerships, Stratford LSP Visioning Conference |
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Neighbourhood Renewal Unit and Government Offices – Review of Community Participation and facilitation of residential |
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Dudley Community Partnership – review of Neighbourhood Renewal, evaluation of projects and review of partnership systems and learning needs |
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Lincoln LSP Partnership development including partnership agreement, new structures, conflict resolution and accreditation support, further assignment includes mainstreaming and further partnership development; |
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Review of SRB Partnership Health Theme for Finsbury Park Partnership with major £1m project – development of appraisal and action plan |
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Regeneration Zone Implementation Plan for the Wolverhampton/Walsall North Black Country Sub-Regional Partnership/AWM, development of a programme for a Diverse and Dynamic Economy Pillar 1 strategy and operational support, chairing Scrutiny panels and appraisal training for Regeneration Zone project managers |
At Redditch Borough Council, Dawn designed and delivered a regeneration strategy and Chaired the Redditch Partnership (LSP), also representing the Council at the Worcestershire Sub-Regional level. She also had extensive corporate responsibilities for a change management programme re-organising mainstream services on an area basis,  implementation of a budget reduction strategy, and introducing strategies on social exclusion and community participation. At Ashfield District Council as Head of Regeneration, Dawn was responsible for delivering 2 major SRB programmes, ERDF programme and other funding programmes in the East Midlands. Her responsibilities also included the development of the Engineering Forum a separate company for supporting Engineering Companies in the area and was a member of the Board.
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