Jaspal Dhani

Directing all aspects of service delivery whilst seeking out opportunities for growth and improvement. Required to provide direct support to the Board, Finance Subgroup, Governance Subgroup and Communications/Marketing Subgroup, with timely reports ensuring that the Board fulfils its constitutional, regulatory and legal requirements. Managing a portfolio of services and leading a team of 11 staff and 40 volunteers, with direct line management of 5. • Driving the organisational mission of affording children in the community opportunities to learn, develop and thrive; working with the Board to initiate and implement change. • Strengthened the Board with skilled trustees, improved the ICT infrastructure and executed strategies for income generation and deficit reduction. • Improving operational efficiency of the organisation, notably updating policies/procedures and maintaining stakeholder participation. • Reducing the annual deficit by 74%, from financial year 2017/18 to 2019/20, improving EPC’s financial health, primarily by strengthening financial controls/investments. • Building and maintaining a strong team culture with an organisation wide focus on mission; key to this has been staff and volunteer development. • Successfully renegotiating existing service contracts whilst securing c. £300k (over 3 years) funding from Reaching Communities for a young people’s personal development project. • Embedding and maintaining best practice safeguarding processes and procedures, with strong safeguarding awareness at all levels of the organisation, as Designated Safeguarding Lead. • Navigating challenging times, by evolving the organisation and its operations, including implementing new processes for service delivery.