Strategic Advisory - Independent Advisory Services
(2025-07)
Provide governance, operational leadership and organisational development support to mission-driven organisations, including clients Shaker Wholesale and Cotswold Energy.
COO - Homeopathy UK - Health Charity
(2021-11 - 2025)
Supported managers and teams to achieve organisational objectives through clearer systems, reporting and operational guidance.
- Held operational responsibility for the charity's annual budget, maximising resource allocation to direct funding straight into core charitable activities and clinical delivery.
- Acted as the primary advisor to the CEO and Board of Trustees on statutory compliance, safeguarding and data protection regulations, ensuring compliance with Charity Commission requirements and organisational policies.
- Supported departments to achieve goals and align with Board outcomes through strategic translation and delivery.
- Led the strategic selection, data migration, and rollout of a centralised CRM database system, improving donor management, reporting accuracy and data security.
- Oversaw operations across 11 regional charitable clinics and multiple volunteers.
- Coordinated cross-functional teams to produce compliant Annual Reports and regulatory filings, working in direct partnership with external accountants, auditors, and finance committees.
Founder and Managing Director - Dizzy Rhino STEM Activity Kits
(2018 - 2022)
Held full operational accountability for finance, compliance, governance, systems and delivery.
- Managed budgets, forecasting, procurement and supplier contracts.
- Introduced structured operational processes and performance oversight frameworks to support growth and financial discipline.
- Led teams through uncertainty while maintaining service continuity and stakeholder confidence.
Senior International Project Manager - ENN Charity (Emergency Nutrition Network)
(2018 - 2019)
Accountable to DFID
- Managed delivery of a £1.2m DFID-funded international programme: Providing end-to-end oversight on milestone delivery, financial risk mitigation, and budget alignment.
- Led financial reporting integrity and technical compliance frameworks, ensuring all activities met stringent international institutional donor regulations.
- Coordinated international stakeholders and delivery partners with complex communications and project timelines across international boundaries.
- Used international research findings and programme data to inform delivery decisions.
Alumni & Development Director - The Wycliffian Society (Charity)
(2016 - 2018)
- Led CRM migration and strengthened data governance, reporting and operational effectiveness.
- Increased alumni engagement through events, communications and stakeholder initiatives.
- Supported fundraising, volunteer programmes and bursary development activities.
- Reported to trustees and committees, aligning delivery with strategic priorities.
Founder & Managing Director - Jason Dean Estate Agency - Brighton & Hove
(2011 - 2016)
Founded and grew an independent estate and letting agency providing independent residential sales and lettings services across Brighton & Hove.
- Led end-to-end business operations across residential sales and complex lettings portfolios, expanding the brand's market reach across a continuous 5-mile regional radius.
- Navigated highly regulated coastal property frameworks, overseeing compliant portfolio expansions that included complex Houses of Multiple Occupation (HMO) property management structures.
- Built a strong local reputation through professional service, community engagement and media contributions.
Senior Global Bid Writer / Business Development Specialist - Mott MacDonald Global Engineering Consultancy
(2008 - 2012)
- Distilled complex thermal thermodynamics, environmental impact assessments, and grid code compliance data into clear, persuasive and value-driven executive summaries for C-suite client review.
- Authored and coordinated winning technical tenders for utility-scale Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT) and Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) projects across EAME and Asia-Pacific, maintaining a 75% win-rate on multi-disciplinary bids and contributing to successful bids securing over £30m of international infrastructure work.
- Created a centralised, high-quality bid library and compliance matrix system used by cross-border engineering teams, reducing executive-level content assembly time by 30% while safeguarding commercial rigor, improving governance and increasing bid success rates by 125%.
- Facilitated alignment between international engineering leads, legal teams and commercial directors to draft precise Owner's Engineer and EPC-side proposals for global independent power producers (IPPs).
