Jan Fishwick

Chief Executive @Parents And Children Together Pact Uk

GB

With my strategic leadership team and the Trustees, I have led the agency’s delivery from good to great. Achievements include:• Provided strong, credible leadership to the senior team and ensured strategic direction during investment into whole organisation transformation in response to a changing work plan, whilst maintaining and strengthening brand and reputation.Managed a budget of £5m, a workforce of 100 salaried staff and 50 volunteers, delivering services to beneficiaries.• Created a learning environment, contributing to a reflective, self-evaluating organisation which is able to respond to change and improve its services.• Integrated stretching KPIs to measure and report on business performance and outcomes, linked to the business plan and underpinned by the budget.• Demonstrated commercial acumen and entrepreneurial flair through experience in mergers and acquisitions. • Adept at cultivating working relationships and alignments with service users, stakeholders, politicians, staff and volunteers including Trustees.• Member of the Department for Education’s Expert Working Group making proposals to Government for adoption policy reform, employing influencing and negotiating skills.• Chair of the Consortium for Voluntary Adoption Agencies (CVAA) for 3 years, currently a Board member, leading the voluntary adoption sector.• In conjunction with Baker Tilly, created the innovative ‘It’s All About Me’,(IAAM) service to increase adoption opportunities for children with complex needs using Social Investment Bonds as a vehicle to share risks and costs, a collaboration between the private, public and voluntary sectors.Created an online adoption support service for PACT, rolling out to whole sector.in partnership with Reading Police, developed Enrich, a programme delivered via Alana House, to support and divert vulnerable women from dpmextic abuse, exploitation and criminality.Health and Social Care Registered Professional

University of Warwick

Masters in Public Administration (MPA), leadership, strategy, policy-making, and management

Trent Polytechnic

CQSW, Social Work