Maggie Ure

Experience

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  Sharnbrook Academy Federation

  Apr 2007 - Apr 2013

  Careers Manager

  - Plan, organise, schedule and facilitate at careers events, procure external training and liaise with finance regarding budgets and payments.- Arrange and deliver careers advice appointments, monitor attendance and associated records. Use of Excel, analysis of interview results, emailing tutors and meeting parents and carers. Managing challenging conversations with parents and tutors regarding future plans of students and student’s achievements.- Interviewing students, giving information, advice and guidance whilst adhering to strict legislative requirements. Meeting with students to help them make important decisions about their future choices for qualifications, university, college or apprenticeship applications. Providing detailed reports to tutors, parents and students.- Managing applications for student’s university choices through UCAS. Ensuring the students have completed the application process successfully, they have collated their references and dealing with the clearing process if the grades required are not achieved.- Managing a busy, complex and changing work load, using Microsoft applications and school software packages to a high standard in administrative tasks.- Meeting, liaising and presenting to senior managers, parents and students to progress training and events accordingly. Show less

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  Network Rail

  Apr 2013 - now

  Project Manager

  • Excellent stakeholder management skills, strong written and verbal communication skills, resulting in the ability to form excellent stakeholder relationships.• Effective class-based trainer and NVQ assessor with experience in different industries.• Proven ability to re-build stakeholder relationships in recovery projects enabling delivery to time, cost and quality• Experience in change project management with a strong ability to deliver and follow through implementation of behavioural change programmes. • Highly capable when training, motivating and influencing at all levels.• Strong analytical ability, particularly to absorb detailed information and bring clarity and insight, experienced in planning and prioritising work. • Experience of planning for client workshops, preparing relevant materials, presenting to all management levels, facilitating effective meetings and creating reports or other follow up deliverables. • Experience of PMO, finance, human resources, customer service, education, transport and administration. Show less