Staff
The Programmes Team
The programmes Team is led by the Head of Programmes, who oversees a team including the Grant Development Manager, five Grant Officers and one Grant Administrator.
The Programme Manager for the National Support Services programme also sits within this team.
The principal roles of the Programmes Team is to develop, manage, monitor and administer Capacitybuilders' grants programmes; and in doing so to build and maintain a good working relationship with grant-holders.
This involves:
- processing of assessments for competitive programmes
- generating offer letters
- processing payments
- reviewing quarterly monitoring forms
- answering queries
- undertaking monitoring and verification visits
- contributing to events for grant-holders
- maintaining up to date and accurate records relating to all grant activities.
Liz Daw – Head of Programmes
Jennie Bryce – Grants Development Manager
Derval O'Brien - Grants Officer
Gurjinder Kaur Sahota - Grants Officer
Graham Anderson - Temporary Grants Officer
Tom Carter - Temporary Grants Officer
Hayley Gresswell - Grants Administrator
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The Policy Team
The Policy Team has been established to lead our corporate objectives around learning and influence. Led by the Head of Policy, the small team includes a Policy Officer and Learning and Research Officer.
Key areas of work include:
- oversight of evaluation
- commissioning research
- supporting learning events and activities
- policy briefings and support to SMT
- developing close and influential working relationships across government and funders of the Third Sector.
Jon Fox – Director of Policy and Strategy
Jessica Ellis – Head of Policy
Richard Davey – Policy Officer
Sian Lewis – Learning and Research Officer
Raj Singh - Contracts and Projects Advisor
Richard Jenkins - Policy and Programmes Advisor
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The Finance Team
The Finance Team, lead by the Acting Director of Finance and Resources, is responsible for statutory accounts and internal reporting and ensuring that the grant payments reach recipients accurately and on time.
Janice Smith - Acting Director of Finance and Resources
Mark Rowe - Finance and Planning Manager
Fran Borton - Finance Officer
Lucy Chamberlain - Finance Assistant
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The Communications Team
The Communications Team is lead by Head of Communications and is the principle point of contact for all press enquiries, newsletter or website content requests and are able to provide help and guidance to recipients of funding on how to use the Capacitybuilders and ChangeUp logos.
Jane Fewkes - Head of Communications
Kate Endacott - Communications and Information Officer
Rachael Lawrence - Communications and Information Officer
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Administration and Office Management Team
Dawn Groves - Office Manager / Executive Assistant to Acting Chief Executive
Anita Hanks - Policy and Administrative Assistant / PA to Director of Policy and Strategy
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Regional Managers
Capacitybuilders’ Regional Managers play a pivotal role as the communication link between Capacitybuilders and our stakeholders across England.
The team is led by two Senior Regional Managers, reporting to the Director of Policy and Programmes.
Regional Managers are responsible for establishing and managing relationships with a range of stakeholders.
They recognise and understand the needs of the sector across their region, identifying gaps and encouraging partnership working with a range of funders and public sector bodies.
They provide an essential two-way channel for communication and intelligence between Capacitybuidlers and stakeholders across England.
The Regional Managers work across the Government Office (GO) regions in England.
For further details about our nine Regional Managers, please visit the 'In your region' pages.
