My role as Head of Professional Institutions and Partnerships sits within EngineeringUK’s Business and Industry team. It is focused on initiating, nurturing and leveraging relationships with Professional Engineering Institutions (PEIs), other organisational stakeholders (local and regional authorities, universities, further education colleges) and offering bespoke support to businesses, including SMEs, through our corporate membership programme. This supports companies of all sizes to attract talent into their business, helping them to engage with young people in the most effective, impactful ways and improving the quality of engineering engagement activity.
Working closely with representatives of the PEIs, I chair a PEI collective named the North East Community of Professional Engineers. I am also a Non-Executive Director of Bring it On Ltd, a not-for-profit charity set-up to promote the amazing world of North East engineering to young people and teachers - educating, inspiring and informing them about exciting engineering career opportunities available across the region.
I am a STEM Ambassador, an honorary Apprenticeship Ambassador – actively engaged in supporting the North East Apprenticeship Ambassador Network – and recently signed up as an Enterprise Advisor with the Careers and Enterprise Company, providing support to a secondary school in Easington, East Durham.
Specialisms:
Impactful STEM outreach, equality, diversity and inclusion, collaboration, skills across North East region, Tomorrow's Engineers, The Tomorrow's Engineers Code, partnership working.
Prior to joining EngineeringUK, I worked in educational project management leading a variety of exciting programmes including South Tyneside Manufacturing Forum’s ‘Made in South Tyneside’ Education Initiative and TDR Trust STEM Education Outreach Programme.
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