Sarah Powell-Pisareva

Project Support Manager RNLI Portfolio Office

July 2015 – February 2016

Trainer, coach and mentor in RNLI Programme Management and reporting.

Co-designer of new RNLI Project Management methodology, templates and training

PRINCE2 Practitioner and MSP Practitioner

DELIVERY CLOSEDOWN

IDEA EVALUATION SCOPING S

SCOPING

Intelligence analyst for 31 major RNLI programmes.

COVENTINA PROJECT MANAGER SEPTEMBER 2014 – JUNE 2015

Association of Project Managers (APM) – Practitioner qualified

Microsoft Project and Project Server trained

Skilled Internal, X-stream and External Stakeholder Manager

Advanced engager, negotiator, trouble-shooter and resolver

The All-Weather Lifeboat Centre was achieved on cost, on quality and on time through a clear vision,

hard work …

… and team work

… and 2 Project Managers, 13 RNLI Workstreams, over 1,000 individual work packages, 4 main external contractors, over 100 sub-contractors (and not forgetting 350,000 paving blocks)

RNLI CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT METHODOLOGY

Lean Continuous Improvement (CI) Gold accredited Facilitator and Bronze level trainer

Always asking the ‘why’ and ‘so what’ questions

Visual Management expert (and unable to work without

post-it notes and Sharpie pens)

Core CI team 2010 - 2014

WORKING WITH COMMUNITIES – MANAGING REMOTE TEAMS

ARGENTINA

UKRAINE

RUSSIA

MALAWI

ME

Project Manager for the Big Issue in Scotland and the International Network of Street Papers (INSP) 1999 -2007

- Weekly Skype catch-ups

- Standard real-time documents (e.g. RAID log) and escalation process

- Shared information site

- Skilled project managers on the ground with local knowledge

POLAND