Janice Needham - Charity Consultant

CAREER SUMMARY

February 2003 to date Independent consultant working in the not for profit sector. Clients include Big Lottery Fund, NCVO, Comic Relief and British Red Cross.

March 1998 to February 2003 Community Fund, London Regional Manager

Community Fund (now part of Big Lottery Fund) distributed money to support charities and voluntary groups. It gave grants mainly to help meet the needs of those at greatest disadvantage and also to improve the quality of life in the community.

1995 - 1998 Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) Director of Eastern European Partnership

VSO is Europe’s largest volunteer-sending development agency. It has well developed systems for managing a complex range of activities in recruitment, training and assignment of volunteers, planning and administration of development programmes, monitoring, evaluation and fundraising. East European Partnership was a self-financing division, working in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

1991 – 1995 VSO Deputy Overseas Director

1990 - 1991 Department of Health Principal (Grade 7) in Medical Staffing

1989 International Labour Organisation (Indonesia) Consultant in Statistics and Accounting on UNDP Health Insurance Project.

1984- 1989 Department of Health Various roles, including:

1982 – 1984 Department of Transport Assistant Statistician on National Travel Survey.

1980 – 1982 London Borough of Haringey Senior Administrative Officer (Statistics) in Education Service.


Education

Sheffield University 1976-1979 B Sc Pure Mathematics (1st class)

Imperial College, London 1980-1981 M Sc Statistics