TEAM Members
Stuart Ayres
Member
Stuart has worked within the civil aerospace industry at Rolls-Royce for over 7 years with a range of experiences in business and project management, this includes analysing project financial health, dealing with enterprise resource planning systems and providing guidance on budget management and load capacity planning. This is supported by a BA Hons Degree in Business Management and more recently the Project Management Qualification (PMQ) (IPMA Level D, SCQF Level 7) awarded by the Association for Project Managers (APM), which he will be shortly formally associated with.
Stuart has recently started working as an integrated project team lead responsible for delivering tools in time for building a development engine. This involves ensuring adequate design definition is provided to a team of tool designers and manufacturing engineers, enabling tool specifications to be written for releasing to an external design and make supply chain. Managing a cross-functional team from various parts of the organisation requires effective communication and sufficient key performance indicators to keep on plan.
Prior to this role he was a business controller for numerous civil aerospace engine projects, providing financial analysis and management information to the projects executive teams to aid decision making. This included forecasting with comparisons to business case, managing financial accruals, consolidating resource request for load capacity planning and general guidance and support to multiple layers of the organisation. Combined with his project management experiences he has a vast array of experience in how to effectively forecast and manage projects to ensure objectives are achieved.
Stuart has also been involved in volunteering activities supporting local communities including being a group leader for Derby Toc-H Children’s Camp which provides a summer holiday for children that need it most. He has also been involved with some STEM (Science Technology Education & Maths) activities whilst part of a graduate community project team which provided oversight to the generation of a standard school syllabus for horticultural modules. These experiences have given him a better appreciation of how catering for individual needs can support children progressing through their education and aid in socialising to build important friendships.
Su Kinney
Member
Su Kinney has worked in the Education Recruitment industry for over 20 years. Specialising in the SEND Sector for the last 10 years. Working within the private sector whilst providing to the public sector gives her a unique and rounded approach to providing services to schools and education provisions.
Currently Su heads up a Regional branch network, managing and developing business, implementing strategic business plans and managing internal staff. Su has strong management & people skills. Delivering business outcomes within a dynamic fast paced environment.
Through this work Su has developed Partnerships with Multi Academy Trusts, schools and alternative provisions across the UK. Creating and implementing cost effective HR solutions. Supporting schools and provisions with bespoke pupil centric staffing.
Over Su’s career she has developed and implemented strategic direction & delivery of SEN implementation plans. Initiated change through performance management over a branch network covering 26 locations across the UK.
Recently she has re-marketed a brand and has developed a training package for SEND & Intervention within the mainstream sector. Providing internal staff with critical understanding and knowledge around funding, revenue streams and client demands.
Alicia Hill
Member
As an experienced leader “Headteacher”, I am passionate about raising achievement at individual, class, team and whole school level. Insistent that all teaching is based a passion of love for learning; meeting all differentiated individual learning needs. Having robust and healthily deep rooted knowledge of data analysis, provides one with the depth and breadth of how to strategically improve and move forward within a given educational setting. My experiences stems from working with in private, special and state education schools; delivering high level of professional services and embedding and offering strategic solutions to the requirements of each educational needs.
Having worked in various educational settings as a senior leader for many years- transforming education at all levels. Drawing upon my previous experience within corporate and educational environment, knowing the importance of relationships between educators, students, carers and other professional bodies, so as to find the best fit for each education setting. Aiding educational professionals and providers to achieve their ambition of becoming good and outstanding.