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Sarah Tanburn is an experienced senior manager, with over 20 years experience in strategic management, service delivery and large scale projects.
She offers support as an advisor or interim manager through:
* hands-on leadership of services, driving up performance and efficiency
* corporate transformation, re-engineering functions such as procurement
* strategic development and direction to adapt to financial pressures, changing political expectations or new legislation
Sarah has been a Director in four authorities, and her experience covers a wide range of public functions, with a particular focus on corporate transformation and regeneration, cultural and environmental services. She has managed large scale resources of all kinds, with accountability for operations, maintenance, costs and performance. Her responsibilities have encompassed turnover in excess of £100m, assets over £200m, programmes over £500m and over 1000 staff.
Recent interim roles include Director level assignments in LB Merton and Southend on Sea. Her achievements include innovative strategic development, radical improvements in performance, introduction of effective management, major project delivery and rescuing failing services and functions from sports centres and recycling to national campaigns. Sarah's wide-ranging expertise and excellent problem solving and negotiating skills illustrate her strong presentation and inter-personal abilities. Her flexibility and experience enable her to operate in a variety of roles, including management, advisory and troubleshooting contexts.
Sarah's consultancy work covers a wide range of specialist advice and organisational development. She is a skilled fundraiser, and has wide experience of writing strategic organisational documents. Sarah has also acted as 'trusted client' on behalf of public sector bodies and partnerships, overseeing contracts for masterplanning, regeneration and related activity. Recent projects include restructuring procurement for a London Borough, writing the strategic cultural and creative industries plan for the three regional development agencies in the London Thames Gateway, lecturing at the Cambridge University School of Architecture and successful fundraising for third sector arts, recycling and housing projects
Sarah's track record in managing large front-line services as part of the corporate management of major unitary authorities makes her a valuable asset to organisations facing challenges and change.
