Michael Gray
Head of Skills @Suffolk County Council
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WORK HISTORY
Head of Skills @Suffolk County Council
Ipswich, GB
Provides the strategic leadership for the development and delivery of Suffolk’s skills and employment strategies and the operational management of the Suffolk County Council skills team. The work of the team includes ensuring the effective development of work inspiration in Suffolk and the meeting of the Authority’s responsibilities for Raising Participation, ensuring that young people can achieve their full potential by making successful transitions into further and higher education, training and ultimately employment, the implementation of strategies to help unemployed adults and young people secure and sustain employment as well as strategies which encourage and support businesses to invest in the development of the local workforce, the development and delivery of Suffolk’s Adult Learning Service and ensuring that the benefits of growth and infrastructure development in the county are maximised and secured for the people of Suffolk.
EDUCATION
University of Warwick - Warwick Business School
PG Diploma, Local Government Management
University of Warwick
2:1 BA, History
SKILLS
ABOUT MICHAEL GRAY
A dynamic senior leader with an extensive range of experience across local government functions and a successful track record of creating and delivering on strategy, establishing and managing collaborative projects, building strategic relationships and applying policy. An effective leader of a high performing team with an ability to adapt to, and support others to navigate through, an ever-changing and complex environment. Specialist areas include skills, employment, external funding and economic development.Career path has included experience of skills and employment, economic development, trading standards, audit, internal control, local partnership working, waste, health and the environment as well as working for an Embassy and teaching English abroad in Japan. Particular professional interests include health, sustainable development (the circular economy), skills and education.
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