Matthew Henley

Experienced Leader, Manager and Tutor, with a proven track record of setting up and running a variety of successful community learning projects. Highly committed, motivated and enthusiastic individual confident in the coordination, motivation, and operational management of a team, while exercising exceptional technical and tutoring abilities with creative approaches to problem solving.

Qualifications

2009-2010         Postgraduate Certificate in Education (Advanced); PTLLS.

2006-Date        Member of the Institute for Learning

2005                 V1 Qualified Internal Moderator

2004-2005         OCR NVQ Level 4 Coordination of Learning and Development Provision

2004                 IOSH Managing Safely: Health & Safety

2001                 C&G 7307 Teaching Certificate (Stage 1&2)

1994-1997         BA (Hons.) Popular Music Studies

1992-1994         BTEC National Diploma in Performing Arts

1994-1996         9 GCSEs (Including Maths and English)

2001-date        Other qualifications, including 1st Aid (Appointed Person), Child Protection, Project Management, Administration Skills, Role of the Course Team Leader, Peer Observation, Peer Mentoring, Accrediting Wider Key skills, Ensuring Learner Progression, Impact and progression in Learning.

Career History

2006-Date        Freelance Learning & Development Consultant / Interactive Media Tutor

Working with clients such as Sheffield Independent Film and Television and Red Tape Studios to develop curricula and embed Key Skills and Skills for Life. Also training in all aspects of interactive media

2006-Date        The Sheffield College

Music Technology Lecturer

Teaching AS and A2 music technology

2003-2006         Kelvin Media Productions

Project Leader & Acting Manager

Leading a group of tutors in delivering, managing and assessing multimedia and IT based learning opportunities. Responsible for tutor and learner supervision, course development, recruitment and retention of learners and the implementation of learning strategies. Managed performance targets, negotiating and managing contracts, business development and sustainability.

2000-2003                  Roundhouse Community Partnership

Project Worker / Youth Worker

Responsible for developing, designing and delivering creative IT programmes in music, digital video, digital photography, publishing and website design.

1998-2002                  Worsbrough Community Link

Assistant Project Manager

Operationally managing an advice centre servicing the local community. Held responsibility for team supervision, training and development, networking and developing relationships with external agencies, monitoring and evaluating, planning, budgeting and liaison with a wide range of funding organisations.

1997-date        The Exodus Project

Youth Group Leader

Initiated and set up a project to lead a team of youth workers providing a service to young people aged 10-16.

Early Career    
Piano/keyboard tutor (Self Employed),
Lobby Host (customer services) BurgerKing

Skills and Achievements

Project Management and Team Leadership

Initiated and operationally managed four voluntary and community projects meeting the needs of the local community. Projects include two youth centres, a youth workers network forum and a community advice and information centre. Currently serving on the Executive Committee developing a children’s theatre company ‘Xpressions’. This work has developed skills in:

• Devising strategies to achieve targets, including business plans
• Recruiting, training and providing supervision for workers
• Developing policies and procedures
• Managing budgets and applying for funds
• Meeting targets, prioritising workloads and working to
• Problem solving and making informed decisions.

Communication

Confident in ability to create rapport with all age groups and backgrounds with excellent oral and written communication skills supported by the ability to listen. Experienced in:

• Creating and delivering reports and ongoing evaluations of projects and resultant aims and objectives.
• Setting up and running service users’ forums to seek strategic feedback to ensure that the strategies in place remained feasible.
• Building strong relationships with funders, stakeholders and other agencies.

Tutoring

A skilled educator, able to train in a variety of ways to all age groups in areas of IT, multimedia, music and performing arts. I have been heavily involved in:

• Devising schemes of work, lesson plans and assessment learning tools
• Planning, delivering, assessing and evaluating courses and workshops to a variety of learners
• Accreditation work, including Youth Achievement Awards, OCN, ASDAN EDEXCEL and NCFE.
  
  

Technical Expertise

I am highly competent in all areas of information and communication technology, in multimedia and in creative technologies. Specifically:

• Network Administration, with experience in managing a network of over thirty computers
• Creative software applications, such as Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, Cubase and Dreamweaver
• All aspects of digital video and editing, digital and analogue photography, music technology, image manipulation, desktop publishing and DJing skills.

Personal Achievements

Transformed the original concept of a local advice and information centre into a real and tangible facility. Implemented and oversaw the project planning, recruitment and training of volunteers and committee members, seeking funding, building refurbishment and policies and procedures and staff training.

Organised a very successful outdoors music concert in Locke Park, Barnsley, as part of a weekend of activities. Work involved recruiting volunteers, managing logistics (including the booking bands, marquees, outdoor staging, PA and lighting, security) liaison with local authorities and licensing agencies as well as supervising the event.

Personal Information

Matt Henley BA(Hons.) DipOCR, PGCE, MIfL

6 Napier Mount, Ward Green, Barnsley, South Yorkshire. S70 6SF
07870 990461
matt(at)iconworks[deletethis].co.uk