This document contains the CV of Sharron Baroudi. It summarizes her extensive experience in leadership, management, and administration roles for charitable organizations over the past 20 years. Her experience includes roles as Chief Executive, Director, Deputy Manager, and Coordinator. She has strong skills in strategic planning, financial management, partnership development, fundraising, and service delivery. References are provided from her last line manager and the treasurer of a former organization.

1. Sharron Baroudi
34 Mackinnon Avenue, Kiveton Park, Sheffield S26 6QB
Tel Home: 01909 770575 Mobile: 07500700687
E-mail: baroudisharron@gmail.com
• I am passionate and committed to leadership and good management practices, training,
development and empowerment of employees and volunteers.
• I have ample experience of recruiting, supporting and empowering trustees. Acting as
company secretary, ensuring the timely and accurate reporting of quarterly statistics,
organisational activities and financial information.
• I have a wealth of experience of partnership working and developing local services and
outreach.
• I have excellent strategic and operational planning skills.
• I enjoy financial budgeting and monitoring and have been responsible for developing
annual budgets from multiple funding sources, ensuring appropriate overhead
apportionment and funding for multiple projects.
• I have experience of funding applications and the commissioning process.
• I have successfully secured additional funding from a variety of sources including national
government, local government, trust funds and foundations.
• I have experience of the process of involved in the development of a social investment
fund.
• I have experience of developing a trading arm to support charitable purposes.
• I have very good interpersonal/communication skills across a broad range of disciplines
and am comfortable at delivering presentations and training courses.
• I have advanced IT skills across numerous packages including Microsoft applications
including Visio, Project and MS Dynamics CRM, web-design and a number of specialised
packages.
• I have experience of policy development and writing.
• I have experience of one to one work with individuals, offering support, advice and
guidance and delivering client intervention sessions for the Future Jobs Fund.
• I have excellent administrational and organisational skills.
• I am committed to the constant progress and development of organisations through
achievement of quality awards and have been actively involved in the achievement of
several including IIP Gold Champions Award, Health and Wellbeing, NAFIS Families First
Award, Two Ticks Disability Award and the Information Standard.
Employment History
Crafty Bee Chick
34 Mackinnon Avenue
Kiveton Park
Sheffield
S26 6QB
Owner, self employed
(October 2014 – present)
Specific Responsibilities:
Running my own handmade crafting business from home featuring a
wide range of skilled crafts including paper craft, jewellery making,
sewing, needle felting, knitting, crochet, embroidery and glass fusion
etc. I have a passion, knowledge and flair for crafting in all its forms
• Business planning
• Product development, manufacture, marketing and sales
• Financial planning
• Marketing and PR and sales through website and social
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2. media development as well as face to face at craft fairs
Sheffield Information Link &
SIGN Service
Floor 2
Alliance House
9 Leopold St
Sheffield
S1 2GY
This was an independent
charity which closed January
2014 and I have been made
redundant
Chief Executive
(November 2007 – January 2014)
Specific Responsibilities:
Providing leadership to Sheffield Information Link and SIGN,
directing and coordinating activities in accordance with SIL strategic
aims and objectives including:
• Strengthening the organisations position as a leading service
provider, recognised by funders, stakeholders and partners
as providing excellence in service delivery and value for
money
• Continuing the development of innovative, high quality
services to Sheffield Information Links existing and
prospective beneficiaries
• Development and enhancement of partnership working,
strategic planning and the pursuance of existing and new
funding opportunities.
• Developing and managing the financial and organisational
resources of SIL
• Developing policies and procedures to ensure compliance
with legislation
• Developing and disseminating the five core values of the
charity
• Negotiating contracts and fundraising
• Partnership working with public, private and third sector
organisations
• Managing change and organisational streamlining and
restructuring
• Motivation and leadership of a team of staff toward shared
goals
• Developing and maintaining clear organisational
communication channels
• Statistical analysis, monitoring, reporting and ensuring
targets are met
• Acting as company secretary
• Recruiting, training and supporting the organisations staff,
volunteers and trustees
• Promoting and ensuring equality and diversity in all the
organisations dealing
• Development of an organisational and Management ethos/
• Developing and monitoring budgets
• Developing and managing the senior management team
• Responsible for the organisations IT infrastructure including
CRM development, website and social media
• Responsible for the organisations external marketing and
communications
• Leading the organisation in the achievement of quality
awards including (NAFIS quality award (industry specific), IIP
gold champion and IIP health and wellbeing awards,
Information standard and two ticks disability award
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3. SIL Solutions
Floor 5
Alliance House
9 Leopold St
Sheffield
S1 2GY
SIL Solutions was the trading
arm of Sheffield Information
Link
Director
(May 2011 – March 2013)
Specific Responsibilities:
• Successful submission of a bid to the transitions fund to
enable the charity to set up a trading arm
• Strategically planning the development of the trading arm
• Recruitment, selection and induction of a team of
development staff
• Leading the development, marketing and sales of the trading
arms products including a childcare payment scheme,
electronic information pads, websites and consultancy
• Marketing and PR
• Promotional events and presentations
Sheffield Information Link
(contact details as above)
Deputy Manager
(December 2003 – November 2007)
Specific responsibilities:
Deputising for and supporting the Chief Executive, as required, in all
aspects of the day to day management of Children’s Information
Service and its staff - making efficient use of the resources available
- under the policy direction of the Management Committee and in
accordance with its Strategic Plan. Sustaining and developing the
work of the organisation, in particular:
• PR and Marketing, design and development of a marketing
and communication plan
• Design and development of the organisations website.
• Strategic and operational planning
• Responsibility for leading the organisation in its development
and maintenance of ICT i
• Maintenance and development of the organisations ICT
framework
• Purchase of new equipment
• Legal compliance with software licensing legislation and ICT
policy development.
• Project Management of the implementation of new database
solutions.
• Working with the Chief Executive and Management
Committee to develop the organisation’s aims and
objectives; policies; work and business planning; and
funding streams.
• Ensuring compliance with legal requirements, for
employment, health & safety, company and charity law.
• Overall responsibility for the implementation of the Health
and Safety Policy
• Overall management of the organisations 18 staff
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4. • Personal line management and supervision of designated
staff
• Supporting the Chief Executive in the retention of the
organisation’s IIP status
• Managing the quarterly monitoring and evaluation systems
• Statistical Analysis and Reporting
• Contract monitoring and compliance
• Deputising for the Chief Executive
• Budget holder for agreed CIS departmental budgets
• Fundraising
Sheffield Information Link
Contact details as above
Operations and Recruitment Co-ordinator
(August 2003 – December 2003)
Brief period covering elements of the Deputy Manager
post (above) and the Early Years Recruitment Co-
ordinator post (below) in the absence of a Deputy
Manager.
Sheffield Information Link
Contact details as above
Early Years Recruitment and Retention Co-ordinator
(July 2001 – August 2003)
Working on the government backed DfES recruitment
campaign to recruit more people into childcare as part of the
National Childcare Strategy introduced in 1999.
The post involved
• Marketing and promoting the Recruitment campaign
• Offering advice and guidance sessions
• Development and delivery of a Recruitment Roadshow
• Strategically targeting under-represented groups and
hard to reach areas.
• Organisation and delivery of seminars, workshops and
conferences
• Managing the recruitment budget, agreeing and
reviewing annual expenditure.
• Administering the annual grant allocation scheme
• Development of an access database to support the
recruitment campaign
• Statistical analysis and report writing
• Production of monitoring statistics
Sheffield Hallam University,
School of Computing and
Management Sciences
Senior Administrative Officer/Undergraduate Examinations
(November 1995 – July 2001)
Responsible for leading a team of staff in working towards meeting
School and University targets. Prioritising and managing not only
my own heavy workload, but also that of my team.
• Administering 200 examinations per year
• Overseeing the exam paper production.
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5. • Organising exam provision for special needs students
• Recruitment, selection and induction of staff
• Conducting an annual appraisal and training need
assessment
• Development of examination spreadsheets
• Training staff on use of examination spreadsheets
• Training staff on production of examination results letters
using mail merge from excel to word
Six months secondment to the technical staff supporting
users:
• Imaging machines,
• Installing hardware and software
• Dealing with network problems
• Acting as project manager to integrate an application
programming interface called OpenGL into Borland C++
Programming for visualisation and animated graphics
Sheffield Hallam University,
School of Financial Studies
and Law
Administrative Assistant – Postgraduate Office
(January 1995 – November 1995)
• Administering the Masters in Business Administration
courses in Financial Services Sector and Financial Studies
• Identifying and booking conference facilities
• Booking overseas flights and fulfilling travel insurance
requirements
• Receiving, logging and passing on course applications
• Supporting students with course, assignment and fee
enquiries
• Ensuring the timely despatch of course material
• Enrolling students
• Dealing with enquiries from student records and finance
department
• Monitoring course costs and checking invoices
• Servicing committees and producing pass/fail letters
• Arranging resits and resubmission dates
• Logging and passing on assignments and recording marks.
• Liaising with CMS in administering the International MBA in
Bahrain
• Assisting the research department with minute taking,
administration work, annual research student reviews and
research monitoring etc.
• Finding accommodation for and corresponding with overseas
research students and visiting lecturers
• Updating all academic staff CV’s
• Designing and implementing databases for ‘Course
Enquiries’ and ‘International Mail Shots’
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6. Sheffield Area Health
Authority, Training and
Development Dept.
Higher Clerical Officer
(1994-1995)
Working for three Management and Training Development
Advisors administering courses such as MHS and HSSM.
• Producing correspondence, publicity, newsletters and
course material
• Invoicing and updating statistical data for monthly
reports. Cataloguing books, literature and educational
videos and creating a library database
• Organising pilot launches of new NHS courses. Using
Microsoft Works, Microsoft Word for Windows v.2.0 and
Excel
• Organising an annual Management Club meeting
• Booking a speaker for the Seminar and arranging rooms
and buffet
• Sending out letters to a mailing list of 400 medical,
financial and professional staff and monitoring responses
• Reporting directly to the Training Department Director
• Managing a training budget of £40,000 for local hospital
Allied Bakeries Sheffield Personnel Assistant
(1993-1994)
• Administering in excess of 200 employees records
• Liaising with solicitors for industrial accident claims
• Producing reports for Management and Head Office
• Compiling statutory sick pay sheets for wages dept.
• Designing and creating databases and spreadsheets for
specific functions (periodic absenteeism by dept., employee
training records etc.)
• Providing tuition and backup in Information technology to all
departments
• Booking training courses and producing statistical data
• Advertising vacancies and organising
interviews/Psychometric testing
• Setting up new computerised system and staff training.
Ensuring data protection act adhered to.
Black Horse Agencies,
Sheffield
PA to Residential Manager
(1992 - 1993)
• Organising a busy diary including booking valuations
• Audio Typing House descriptions for inclusion in
brochures/advertising
• Designing display advertisements for use in house
• Organising advertising and liaising with customers
• Typing fee agreements
• Debt collection. Banking
• Liaising with board erection company to ensure sale boards
in place
• Providing two property files for each property
• Covering reception at busy periods and during holidays
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7. GA Property Services,
Sheffield
Receptionist
(1991-1992)
• Booking valuations
• Staffing reception
• Liaising with vendors regarding fees/advertising
Blundell’s Estate Agency,
Sheffield
Receptionist
(1990-1991)
• Floating receptionist
• Emergency holiday cover and stand-by
• Answering phones
• Booking valuations/surveys
• Liaising with advertising agents and vendors
• Billing
• Window displays
• Debt collection
Foxhill Neighbourhood
Project
Festival Organiser/Youth and Community Worker
(1987-1988)
• Organising Foxhill Summer Fayre
• Running a weekly contact club for the elderly
• Involvement in local groups, mother and baby, parent and
toddler etc.
• Design, printing and delivery of a monthly newsletter
• Organising and running a local volunteer bureau
• Assisting social workers in the projects daily running
• Visiting the elderly at home and assisting with form filling
• Bereavement counselling
• Welfare benefits advice at local CAB
Voluntary Experience
Committee Member
and Editor for
Sheffield Beekeepers
Association
(3 years)
Current
Attending committee meetings.
Designing a monthly newsletter using mail chimp and
administering the associations Facebook page. Staffing
events and promotion of beekeeping to the wider
community.
Committee Member
and of Kiveton Park
and Wales
Community
Development Trust
(1 year)
Previous
Acting as committee member to a small local charity,
providing expertise in the review and development of policies
and procedures and undertaking staff annual reviews.
Parent and Toddler
Group
(1 year)
Working with the under 5’s.
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8. Previous
SAVTE
Previous
Delivered ESOL to Bengali and Pakistani women in their
home.
Education, Job Related Qualifications and Specialised Training
Course Title and qualification achieved Grade
Prince 2 Project Management
Management NVQ Level 4
Advice and Guidance NVQ Level 3
Health and Safety IOSH Certificate
Passed
Passed
Passed
Passed
Subjects Qualification gained
Grade
Applied Social Studies
English Language
Sociology
English Literature
History
Typing
Preliminary Urdu
BA (Hons) studied 2 years of a three year course
GCE ‘O’ Level
GCE ‘O’ Level
GCE ‘O’ Level
GCE ‘O’ Level
RSA Level 3
LCC
A
A
B
A
PASS/DISTINCTION
PASS/DISTINCTION
Other Training undertaken in the past 5 years
• Neuro Linguistic Programming
• Solution Focussed Therapy Skills for non-therapists
• Safeguarding
• Data Protection
• Child Poverty
• Achieving IIP
• Change Management
• Advanced MS Office 2010
• WordPress
• MS Project
• Manual Handling
• Disability Law
• Equal Opportunities in practice
Referees
Last Line Manager:
Tracy Watterson
Chair of SIL Management Committee
Ged Warren
Treasurer of SIL Management Committee
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9. 34 Upper Albert Road
Sheffield
S8 9HS
Phone No.
0114 220 8487 (h)
O781 382270 (m)
Email: tracy.watterson@btinternet.com
106 Kent Road
Sheffield
S8 9RL
Phone No.
0114 250 8618 (h)
07779 312419 (m)
Email: gedediah@gmail.com
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10. 34 Upper Albert Road
Sheffield
S8 9HS
Phone No.
0114 220 8487 (h)
O781 382270 (m)
Email: tracy.watterson@btinternet.com
106 Kent Road
Sheffield
S8 9RL
Phone No.
0114 250 8618 (h)
07779 312419 (m)
Email: gedediah@gmail.com
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