Stephen Bridgwater

Experience

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  Sandwell Council

  Jul 2005 - May 2010

  Senior Research Officer

  Produced high quality written reports and consultation papers including children and young people's index of need, joint strategic needs assessment, neighbourhood profiles, bids and grant proposal documents, evidence to support audits, baseline data for urban regeneration programmes, educational attainment briefing notes, social trends, budget reports and management information dashboards.Conducted primary research of local communities, organisations, members, stakeholders, businesses and wider, including postal surveys, community panels, focus groups, electronic surveys and social networking polls.Significantly contributed to developing and launching a web based knowledge management system 'Sandwell Trends'. Produced interactive maps, thematic topic pages, blogs, frameworks, interfaces and navigation tools. Wrote MySQL queries, prepared XML reports, updated metadata directory, write research briefing notes and data reports (Educational Attainment Report, Anti-Poverty Research Paper, Health & Well Being of Children and Young People, Summary of Index of Deprivation) relating to children and young people's themes of Local Area Plans.Coordinated projects teams of managers and staff at all levels of the organisation and wider, to collate survey statistics, record consultation activities, promote local implementation of electronic local intelligence knowledge management system 'Sandwell Trends' and coach staff and managers at all levels how to collect, understand, interpret and communicate statistics.Worked closely with school information managers and health partner agencies to collate databases and write reports featuring key statistics on behalf of Sandwell partnership. Provided expert knowledge and datasets to aid policy work, operational effectiveness projects and publications on behalf of Research Sandwell, particularly for Scruitiny Committees and for Children and Young People's Plan. Show less

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  Dudley Council

  May 2010 - Nov 2016

  Senior Information Analyst

  Coordinated local authority mandatory data submissions/statutory returns (Children in Need Census, SSDA 903 Looked After Children, Adoptions and Fostering Datasets, Missing Children's Report) to the Department for Education, Department for Health and other government departments. Developed, designed, wrote, tested and implemented management information systems and data reports using various tools including Business Objects, MySql and Microsoft Office Suite.Informed and influenced key decision-makers relating to policy, projects and programmes though the provision of products and high-level statistical analysis. This included major strategic decisions relating to funding and budget setting.Designed, created and developed multi-functional models, reports and processes and produced high-level analysis to enable Dudley Council, leaders, executives, directors, senior managers, staff, partners and wider to continuously make improvements to quality of service provision and better outcomes for children and young people and their families.Prepared Annex A and a suite of performance datasets for inspection and audit, including planned and unplanned Ofsted inspections of safeguarding and looked after children's services. Show less

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  Oxjam Black Country

  Jul 2016 - Jan 2018

  Music Festival Director and Founder

  Charity fundraising gig maker for Oxfam

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  Black Country Bands

  Feb 2017 - now

  Founder and Owner

  "Black Country Bands" is an independent live music promotions, marketing, management and PR agency. My clients range from young amateur musicians to professional artists across the whole of the United Kingdom!

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  Green Gorilla Theatre

  Jul 2019 - now

  Marketing Executive and Technical Director

  Senior level expertise in all areas of technical development, business planning, statistical forecasting, social media marketing and event management.