ANDREW MALIPHANT

B.A. (Hons), Dipl. Soc. Sci.

Telephone01594 544456

07772 053778

Email

CONSULTANCY SERVICES

I have worked in the public, private and voluntary sectors, and can offer a range of consultancy services:

  • Regeneration management
  • Project management (Prince 2 practitioner)
  • Community development incl. setting up new social enterprises
  • Programme management of multi-agency projects
  • Town centre development & management

Related skills include:

  • Business & delivery planning
  • Community consultation
  • Economic development
  • Fundraising
  • Marketing & communication
  • Partnership working with local authorities, businesses, voluntary groups
  • Performance management
  • Policy & framework development
  • Project appraisal & development
  • Staff supervision & team building
  • Training incl. project & contract management

I have nearly twenty years’ experience in programme and project management, and also policy work, in both rural and urban areas. I have successfully led teams in community-based regeneration in market towns, city centre and the urban fringe, in all of which I developed and delivered partnership projects with outside organisations and community groups. My networking strengths and varied work experience make me very comfortable working with new groups and individuals.

OTHER SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

  • French language (spoken & written)
  • Full British driving licence
  • First Aid training
  • Published articles on sustaining community projects

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

Team Leading

Level 2 Certificate from Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM) June 2007

Prince 2 Project Management

Registered practitioner, APM Group Ltd, June 2006

Working with Communities

British Urban Regeneration Association (BURA) January 2005

Postgraduate Diploma in Heritage Management

Ironbridge Institute (validated by Birmingham University), May 1989

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

One of many founding members of the Development Trusts Association (1993)

WORK EXPERIENCE

Contract work

  • Programme Manager, Oxfordshire Primary Care Trust 2010 - 11
  • Project Manager, Age Concern Gloucestershire 2009 - 10
  • Regeneration Partnership Manager, Cinderford 1996 – 99
  • Regeneration Project Leader, Ulverston 1990 – 92

Public sector

  • Community Strategy & Regeneration Officer, Gloucester City Council 2004 - 2009

Policy Adviser, Countryside Agency 1999 – 2004

Voluntary sector

  • Community Council for Somerset 1996
  • Community Environment Officer, Hampshire 1992 – 95

Private sector

  • Book publisher’s representative 1981- 1988
  • Computer systems sales executive 1979 – 1980
  • Computer programmer 1978-1979

REFERENCES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST

CURRENT ADDRESS: MITCHELDEAN, GLOUCESTERSHIRE

TRACK RECORD

Business & delivery planning

  • Business plan for Ulverston Heritage Centre, Cumbria
  • Business plan for Four Gates Centre, Gloucester
  • Community Regeneration service plan, Gloucester

Community development

  • Set up charity to run Ulverston Heritage Centre
  • Doubled number of community environment projects in Hampshire’s urban fringe from twenty to forty
  • Established Westgate Community Trust in Gloucester
  • Set up Community Forum for Gloucester’s Local Development Framework
  • Developing community management of Mitcheldean library

Economic development

  • Shopfront painting schemes in Ulverston and Cinderford
  • Industrial estate marketing and signposting, Cinderford
  • New Enterprise Centre, Cinderford
  • “Foyer” training & housing scheme, Cinderford
  • Developed pilot for work-based training, Gloucester
  • Developed suite of pathways to employment in Oxfordshire, including a social recruitment agency and a local learning partnership

Fundraising

  • Museum service funding for Ulverston Heritage Centre
  • Local government funding for community environment work
  • European Social Funding for Cinderford “foyer”
  • Government “Workplace Nursery” funding for Gloucester
  • Member of two European “Interreg” bids and two UK Lottery

Marketing & communication

  • Marketing leaflets and signposting in Ulverston and Cinderford
  • Press releases and media interviews for all regeneration work
  • Website and email network in Gloucester
  • Web page development for Oxfordshire programme

Partnership working

  • Supported partnership boards in Ulverston and Cinderford
  • Multi-agency partnership for neighbourhood centre, Gloucester
  • Developed network of organisations for joined-up regeneration in Gloucester, linking Local Strategic Partnership members to the work of the Gloucester Heritage Urban Regeneration Company
  • Developed and supported “theme leads” in creating topic-based action plans and sub-groups, reporting to regeneration steering groups of partners in Banbury and in Oxford

Policy development

  • National policy on creation of National Parks
  • Policy lead on cycling & horse riding in the English countryside
  • Rights of way team addressing policy issues around reopening the countryside after the 2001 Foot & Mouth epidemic
  • Developed approach to breaking cycles of deprivation – “reducing poverty, improving neighbourhoods” – in Oxfordshire, based on the experience of area-based initiatives elsewhere in the UK

Programme management

  • Developed community-based regeneration programme in Ulverston
  • Delivery Plan for £6.8M regeneration programme for Cinderford
  • Developed and managed joined-up regeneration programme in Gloucester as part of delivering the Community Strategy
  • Developed and managed multi-agency partnership programme in Oxfordshire to break cycles of deprivation, including creating a performance management framework and grant funding process

Project development and management (Prince 2 practitioner)

  • Developed project to deliver heritage centre in Ulverston
  • Developed and delivered programme of 50 projects in Cinderford, including Linear Park improvements, town centre hanging baskets, and outdoor covered market
  • Project manager for £6M neighbourhood resource centre in Gloucester
  • Chaired regeneration project appraisal group in Gloucester
  • Managed head office project for Age Concern Gloucestershire 2009

Staff supervision & team building

  • Nearly 20 years’ line management experience
  • Built staff teams in Ulverston, Hampshire and Cinderford
  • Developed staff appraisal system when part of management team for Community Action Hampshire

Town centre management & regeneration

  • Town centre regeneration in Ulverston and Cinderford
  • On steering group for Gloucester’s Regeneration Framework
  • Subsequent joined-up regeneration work in Gloucester city centre
  • Past member of Association of Town Centre Management

Training

  • Developed introductory course in project management
  • Developed introductory course for members of new project boards, following Prince 2 principles
  • Developed course in managingcontractors
  • Developed community enterprise training within Oxfordshire