Director: Consultancy and Training Services (CTS)

Established and manage a consultancy and training service focusing on gender, education, social and community development   CTS has undertaken work for the Department for International Development, The World Bank, the EU, The British Council, UNAIS, Education for Development, the University of Warwick and CfBT

Deputy Chair: Children, Families and Schools, Brighton and Hove, Unitary Authority

Elected  member with specific responsibility for schools, children in care, adult education, community education, life long learning in the context of urban regeneration 

 Lead Councillor for Equalities and Social Justice: Brighton and Hove Unitary Authority      

Elected member responsible for the strategic implementation of the Authority’s equalities policy.  

Chair of Governors, Varndean High School

School governance and management: leadership, staff appraisal, delegated budgets

 Course Director “Literacy in Theory and Practice”

Three month courses for Egyptian Adult Literacy Organisers at the Institute for Development Studies, the University of Sussex and the University of Brighton under the technical co-operation training programme.

Gender Planning training workshops

British Association for Literacy in Development course ‘Women, Literacy and   Development’  1992–99, Primary Health Care Project Pakistan,1995; International Council for Adult Education, Fifth World Assembly, Cairo 1994; Dunford Seminar, The British Council, 1994; National Institute for Adult and Continuing Education Women’s Conference, 1993 

          Developed and integrated gender policy into the British Council’s global operations. 

 Deputy Head of Adult Education: Curriculum

London Borough of Lambeth, Community Education Service. Responsible for development and management of the curriculum, equal opportunities and design and management of staff training.

Head of Faculty of Foundation Studies

(Literacy, ESOL, Women’s Return to Learning, Family and Childcare, Community and  Modern Languages, Office Skills).  ILEA / London Borough of Lambeth.

              ‘Learning and Change: Women, Literacy and Development’, short course         sponsored by the ODA/DFID  and organised by the British Association for Literacy and Development.    

REPLAN Co-ordinator, East Sussex County Council

Formulating policy and implementation strategies to meet the educational needs of unemployed adults as part of the strategic planning process. 

 Basic Education/Literacy Organiser, Friends Centre, Brighton

Developed a comprehensive programme of socially and vocationally related literacy, basic education and learning opportunities for adults.

        Secretary, British Association for Literacy in Development

          Chair, British Association for Literacy in Development