Programme Management
ECOTEC's research, consulting and management experience can help you develop your programme strategy, maximise impact, ensure spend targets are met and minimise risk.
We can deliver flexible services ranging from ad hoc advice, regular technical assistance or running an entire programme, including EU Structual Funds. In the last 5 years our UK clients have included central government departments like the Home Office, Cabinet Office and Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) as well as the New Opportunities Fund, Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) and Local Authorities.
Our management experience in this regional as well as national context means we can offer a range of benefits which include:
- full range of expertise in-house
- access to the policy expertise of over 250 team members
- tried and tested systems that can be adapted to suit any programme
- cost effective, fast set-up
We can help you:
Maximise visibility and impact
We invest time to understand the support needs of Managing Authorities and projects, working at all levels to support communication, dissemination and the 'mainstreaming' of outcomes into wider policy and practice.
Achieve targets
The pressure to achieve expenditure targets can be immense and tends to peak toward year ends. Our approach is to continually assess individual projects' capability to contribute toward targets - from pre-application support through to assessment and on-going monitoring and audit.
Our custom-built IT systems provide detailed analysis of expenditure profiles, allowing us to target support where it's needed most, through dedicated case-officers who develop a real understanding of individual projects.
Manage risk
Risk analysis is fundamental to our approach at all stages of programme management, in particular with regard to expenditure targets and eligibility rules. Our dedicated Assurance Team is on hand to conduct regular monitoring and audits that give peace of mind by addressing potential problems early on.
Ecotec does not do 'off-the-peg'. Our service will be developed to your precise needs and specifications. We can 'mix and match' programme management elements with other ECOTEC services, e.g. evaluations (ex-ante, interim, ex-post), surveys and consultancy.
Service Portfolio: Implementation of the LSC Race Equality in Employment Standard
ECOTEC was commissioned by the LSC West Midlands to manage and deliver the launch and dissemination of its Race Equality Employment Standard (REES) across it's five local LSC areas - Birmingham and Solihull, The Black Country, Coventry and Warwickshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire, Shropshire and Staffordshire. The REES was developed by the Commission for Black Staff in Further Education in the West Midlands as a practical support tool for learning providers to improve race equality practice in recruitment.
Our work involved a web survey to benchmark current practice among providers, two launch events and support workshops - one in Birmingham and another in Wolverhampton - to support providers in understanding how the Standard should be implemented. We also developed a handbook and training material to allow for follow up support.
Our work supported West Midlands learning providers to understand the issues concerning race equality and employment and to think through practical examples of how they could make race equality a reality in their organisation.
sajda.khan@ecotec.com
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