Section A
Leadership in Education
PeoplePlus
HMP Pentonville
Jun 2025 – Present
Committed to social change and enabling people to transform their lives, my leadership journey brought me to the education provision in one of the UK’s most demanding prisons — HMP Pentonville — enhancing the quality of education and learner outcomes while enabling teachers to lead learners toward a fulfilling life and away from reoffending.
JUL 2025 — PRESENT
Education Manager
- Leading the strategic and day-to-day management of education in HMP Pentonville, a high-pressure Category B prison, ensuring a stable, high-quality learning environment.
- Overseeing a multidisciplinary team delivering tailored learning plans, functional skills, and vocational pathways.
- Refreshing curriculum design to remain responsive to learner profiles, employer expectations, and Ofsted requirements.
- Driving quality improvement through the SAR/QIP cycle, structured learning walks, and learner voice activity.
- Building partnerships with Prison Governors, Industries, and external agencies to integrate education into wider rehabilitative pathways.
- Enhancing staff capability through CPD focused on trauma-informed practice, behaviour management, and adaptive teaching.
- Ensuring robust contract delivery and responsible management of the site’s education budget.
Secure Facility Leadership
Budget Management
Justice System
Strategic Direction
Reduction of Reoffending
Capel Manor College
Enfield, Brooks Farm, Crystal Palace, Gunnersbury Park, Regent’s Park, Mottingham
Sep 2017 – Feb 2025
London’s only specialist environmental college. My journey in leadership began here, gaining experience in Further and Higher Education and in managing animal collections across zoos and farms — leading the transformation of the School of Animal Management and Saddlery through the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond.
APR 2022 — MAR 2025
Director of Studies, Land-Based (Animal Management and Saddlery)
- Leading a team of 100+ across five campuses, implementing a cloud-based governance system adopted college-wide.
- Improved achievement from a −4.5% shortfall against the national average to exceeding it by 2%.
- Driving the strategy for an intranet and digital governance platform, standardising processes and resource sharing.
- Restructured educational offerings and animal collections across four campuses, delivering 12% in cost savings.
- Driving the Attendance Working Group, improving attendance to exceed 5% over the national average.
- Contributing to national EdTech efforts via the Landex Learning Materials and Technology Committee and JISC T&L Forum.
- Collaborating with Worshipful Companies to reinvigorate saddlery, shoemaking, and leathercraft training, with a £150k growth in budget.
- Saw 20+ new teachers through CET and DET programmes.
Large Team Leadership
Microsoft SharePoint & Teams
Zoo & Farm Management
Business Development
Sponsorship & Partnerships
APR 2020 — MAY 2022
Curriculum Leader, then Head of Animal Management and Saddlery
- Spearheaded a culture of self-assessment leading to an 88% achievement rate, above the national benchmark.
- Personally moved the digital infrastructure to cloud services and workflows via Microsoft 365, college-wide.
- Mentored and trained four new Team Leaders across the School’s largest team of Higher and Further lecturers.
SEP 2019 — MAR 2020
Team Leader
- Led a team of lecturers delivering a wide portfolio of animal-focused courses.
- Collaborated with three major national awarding bodies to ascertain fulfilment of educational standards.
SEP 2017 — AUG 2019
Higher and Further Education Course Manager
- Accomplished over 95% achievement rates across all courses of responsibility.
- Reached 100% satisfaction rates in HE courses as measured in the NSS.
