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About Jane
Jane's expertise lies in organisational management and development, research and analysis, evaluation, grantmaking, and group facilitation. She has a long history working in and for the voluntary and community sector, as well as education, public and cross sector research experience.
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Jane's key skills and attributes
- Analytic ability, proven particularly by a first class honours degree in mathematics, and by consultancy work and employment
- Wide knowledge of the voluntary and community sector, particularly across Tyne & Wear and Northumberland, derived from experience as a funder of the sector and from consultancy
- Good understanding of community development and regeneration issues, both urban and rural
- Good academic and practical understanding of equality and diversity and the relationships between diversity, discrimination and disadvantage
- Knowledge and experience of the complex relationships between voluntary, community, public and private sector organisations
- Strong leadership capability
- Varied experience of volunteering, its management and development
- Group facilitation and training skills derived from teaching, and from working with staff and volunteers in voluntary organisations
- A range of primary and secondary research skills, including knowledge and experience of secondary data sources and statistical analysis software
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, including public relations, and ability to target a wide range of audiences
- Ability to absorb quickly the ethos and values of an unfamiliar organisation