Jake Huggett

Experience

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  Kent County Council

  Jul 2013 - now

  Be an ambassador; promoting and championing the importance of digital inclusion, innovation and/or capabilities with internal and external stakeholders and partners.Build positive and collaborative relationships with colleagues, stakeholders, and partners, to support the delivery of improved digital inclusion, capabilities and innovation projects and schemes, and strengthening transformation and change. Deliver, manage, and support a range of projects and schemes, within a multi-agency context, at all stages of the project cycle, as directed. Including project concept, definition, deployment, and transition. Develop and progress proposals, business cases, options appraisals, benefit realisations and handover and closure documentation and reports. Manage and maintain stakeholder engagement, risk management and dependency management. Accountable for the performance of designated projects and schemes, preparing papers, reports, analysis, mapping, evaluation, communication, and stakeholder engagement plans. Manage tight financial controls on budgeted projects and schemes. Record, monitor and evaluate the impact of our activities, projects, and schemes. Collate, analyse and interpret evidence, data and information to improve practice and provision, identifying trends, gaps and solutions. Maintain an awareness of developments in legislation, policy, and practice, as well as emerging research findings; Contributing to the formulation, monitoring and review of local policies and procedures that underpin effective practice. Develop specialist knowledge of relevant services and initiatives related to the relevant areas of work to enable informed decision-making throughout the various stages of the project/scheme.Manage, develop, and direct resources to ensure that they are effectively used for the benefit of the work and in accordance with funding guidance and rules. Manage, support and develop team members and volunteers. Show less Engage, inspire and motivate residents and businesses to be more socially and digitally inclusive, by delivering group and one-to-one sessions within the community, building partnerships and networks of organisations that share Digital Kent’s vision and purpose, and recruit volunteers to join our Digital Champions Network. Build, maintain and manage stakeholder and agency relationships in relation to the relevant programmes and projects. These stakeholder relationships, include, council colleagues, city/district/borough councils, parish/town councils, education and training establishments, third-sector organisations and businesses. Prepare, coordinate and deliver accessible, high-quality and engaging sessions and interventions to promote digital inclusion. Record, monitor and evaluate interventions and targeted support, using this information to improve practice and provision, identifying trends, gaps and solutions. Maintaining records to a high and consistent standard. Induct identification checks for DBS applications of volunteers to champion social and digital inclusion. Build and understand the local context of social and digital exclusion, the barriers and support exploring solutions to overcome these barriers to improve digital exclusion.Line managing and supporting one of Digital Kent's Project Support Coordinators. Show less My duties include leading on Kent based community broadband projects utilising public funding to obtain full fibre broadband and responding to complex broadband queries from members of the public, MP's and KCC members. I take a lead role in financially monitoring our current contract with Openreach to build Fibre to the premise infrastructure which requires Openreach to build to over 5000 premises in Kent. I alongside the team monitor Openreach's build on our contract and provide updates to our residence as well as KCC members. I provide support to our Broadband lead and Broadband project manager as well as attend meetings with external suppliers as well as internal senior management meetings. Show less I project coordinated an EU funded project which allowed our service provider to offer free business consultancy support to Kent business to enhance their services and increase Kent Employment. I was the main point of contact for the project from all internal and external partners and provide administrational support to the project lead. On a quarterly basis I had to prepare, write and send quarterly claim reports to European Union to obtain their match funding and liaise with the contract manager to rectify issues as well as provide the evidence documentation which was requested. I would maintain all project files and keep all documentation both paper and electronic base in line with the EU guidelines. I maintained and used the CRM system to store company information daily and managed all meetings that took place with our contractor, Match funders and individual clients. Show less My main duties included providing support to the Head of Quality within the Public health team, project manage the forward planning for quality and safeguarding within the team and prove administration support to all meetings. I developed and maintained confidential databases which highlighted were our service providers had quality or safeguarding issues and I would help find solutions to improve the situation as well as minimise the risk of the issue re-occurring. I had to communicate with several external providers on a daily basis and trained them to use our quality tracking and serious incident tool which were then discussed at the monthly meetings. I also was heavily involved in the producing of quarterly quality and safeguarding reports which were taken to DMT and Quality committee meetings. Show less I completed my NVQ Level 3 Business and Administration Apprenticeship alongside working full time for the Public Health Workforce Development Team. My main duties included being the main administrational support to the team, helped organise event days/training and maintain the project databases. I also as part of my course needed to project manage an event, so I organised and delivered the Introduction to Public Health day. This was attended by 100 public health professionals and gave an insight into what the Public Health team at KCC do on a day-to-day basis as well as the opportunities available. Show less

  • Project Manager

    Aug 2024 - now

  • Senior Project Officer

    Jun 2023 - Aug 2024

  • Area Partnerships Officer

    Jan 2023 - Jun 2023

  • Engagement officer, Digital Inclusion and Capability team

    Nov 2021 - Jan 2023

  • Project Officer, Kent Broadband Team

    Feb 2019 - Nov 2021

  • Project Officer/ ERDF funded Project

    Nov 2016 - Feb 2019

  • Quality and Safeguarding Officer

    May 2016 - Nov 2016

  • Finance Officer

    Jun 2014 - Apr 2016

  • NVQ Level 3 Aprenticeship

    Jul 2013 - Jun 2014