Karen Adderley
Head of Partnerships & Commissioning
- Location
- Walsall, United Kingdom
- Industry
- Government Administration
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Karen Adderley's Overview
- Current
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- Head of Partnerships and Commissioning at Tamworth Borough Council
- Past
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- Project Lead at Staffordshire County Council
- BSF Project Manager at Walsall Council
- Children's Services Project Manager at Walsall Council
- Head of Corporate Support at Walsall Council
- Re-Inventing Walsall Project Manager at Walsall Council
- Education
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- Wolverhampton University
- Royal Holloway, U. of London
- Nether Stowe High School
- Recommendations
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6 people have recommended Karen
- Connections
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136 connections
Karen Adderley's Summary
Experienced local government senior manager with experience of both programme and project management of transformation/business change projects.
Effective professional manager with excellent interpersonal skills with extensive experience of working within the partnership arena.
I have a track record of facilitating major improvements to services and delivering results.
Knowledge of key corporate functions, Local Strategic Partnerships, policy development, community engagement, equalities, voluntary sector liaison, communications, commissioning of services.
Skilled in building consensus on strategy and getting support and involvement from internal and external partners.
I have a reputation as being someone who delivers quality work to time and on budget. I get things done and have a facilitative approach to resolving complex problems. I build high performing teams and have a supportive approach to staff management
Specialties: Change management, project management, strategy development, commissioning, partnership working and driving through solutions to complex problems.
Karen Adderley's Experience
Head of Partnerships and Commissioning
Tamworth Borough Council
Government Agency; 501-1000 employees; Government Administration industry
May 2010 – Present (3 years 2 months) Tamworth
Developed an Education and Skills Board with secondary, primary, special school head teachers, academy sponsors, and governors to enhance collaborative working to improve educational attainment and skills levels.
Leading Total Place project to reduce harm from alcohol misuse in Tamworth. Using systems thinking to review effectiveness of client pathways. Prevention agenda focused on young people in educational settings through engagement with PSHEe curriculum leads. Tamworth lead for wider county work on commissioning drug and alcohol prevention and treatment services.
Working on a public sector commissioning framework within Tamworth's Strategic Partnership to deliver strategic outcomes through joint commissioning with key partners (health, County Council). Mapping commissioning intentions to seek synergies and clear understanding of public sector investment in Tamworth.
Applying the Commissioning Academy framework to partnership commissioning of health services.
Overall lead for partnership working including the voluntary and community sector.
Project management of task and finish groups to deliver improved educational attainment and aspiration, job creation and enterprise and improved parenting skills.
Led on the council's response to the Community Right to Challenge and Assets of Community Value elements of the Localism Act.
Part of the Troubled Families team - project lead for co-location of key workers.
Project Lead
Staffordshire County Council
Government Agency; 10,001+ employees; Government Administration industry
March 2012 – September 2012 (7 months) Stafford
Project lead for Staffordshire County Council's Hidden Harm Strategy reporting to the County Commissioner for Substance Misuse. Deliverables include: establishing the Hidden Harm working group reporting to the County Children's Safeguarding Board; developing an action plan to support the delivery of the outcomes in the strategy and supporting interdependencies with substance misuse commissioning, alcohol prevention and early intervention and the commissioning of services for children, young people and families.
BSF Project Manager
Walsall Council
Government Agency; 10,001+ employees; Government Administration industry
September 2008 – February 2010 (1 year 6 months)
Key responsibilities:
• Led on the production of the Council's Strategy for Change document submitted to PfS
• Produced Project Initiation Document and risk management
• Established and managed governance structure - Project Board, Stakeholder Boards, Head Teacher meetings and cross party consultative group
• Secured successful Remit meeting Delivery of an effective consultation and engagement strategy including stakeholder groups, website, community and school events, pupil voice
• Engagement with CDA and TAs to translate education vision into design brief and plans
Children's Services Project Manager
Walsall Council
Government Agency; 10,001+ employees; Government Administration industry
August 2007 – September 2008 (1 year 2 months)
Co-ordinated the procurement of £345m Education Contract, including stakeholder management, clarification, evaluation process. Production of Cabinet and Scrutiny reports
Head of Corporate Support
Walsall Council
Government Agency; 10,001+ employees; Government Administration industry
April 2004 – August 2007 (3 years 5 months)
Key responsibilities:
• Leadership of Corporate Policy Unit, Emergency Planning, Equalities, Communications
• Development of Sustainable Community Strategy, Corporate Performance Assessment (CPA)
• Implementation of council’s community engagement strategy to address localism agenda
Re-Inventing Walsall Project Manager
Walsall Council
Government Agency; 10,001+ employees; Government Administration industry
2001 – 2004 (3 years)
Key responsibilities:
Project managed the Council's recovery plan reporting to the senior management team and Government programme board
Regular liaison with Councillors, Government officers, District Audit
Implemented the Council's first integrated planning and performance management framework
Managed an employee, stakeholder and public communications strategy
Karen Adderley's Skills & Expertise
Karen Adderley's Education
Wolverhampton University
ITD Diploma in Training Management
1989 – 1990
Royal Holloway, U. of London
BA Hons 2:1, History
1976 – 1979
Activities and Societies: Cycling, Gym, Geneology
Nether Stowe High School
1969 – 1976
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