Specialisms
I specialise in the following areas:
- LGR Hub
- Programme Management
- Project Management
- The Green Agenda and Environmental Services
Angela is a motivational PRINCE2 senior project management specialist, with a highly successful record in implementing transformational change and tailored professional business services to the highest standards.
She offers project management within a Green/Climate Change Offer focusing on delivering innovative sustainable development and climate change solutions, underpinned by a Masters Degree in this field.
Angela possesses extensive experience in delivering a range of complex high risk and high value projects, achieving significant cost and non financial benefits through leading business redesign and service improvement processes.
Her strengths include excellent project leadership, supported by strong interpersonal, communication, influencing, negotiation and problem solving skills with the ability to develop and maintains strong mutually beneficial and effective relationships.
Angela is fully committed to understanding the client’s needs to be able to add value and drive forward what is required to exceed expectations.
Key Strengths/Area of Expertise
- Programme and project management – across all local authority service areas
- Supporting transformational change – improvement, efficiencies and behavioural change
- Restructuring and service redesign, including whole council
- Inspection support – preparation, delivery and improvement
- Supporting the ‘green’ agenda – strategies, policies and projects
- Implementing new systems, processes and procedures, for example new HR and payroll platform and CRM system
- Specialist professional business support – creating tailored PM tools, templates, guidance, quality assurance etc.
Professional Qualifications
- MSc Sustainable Development and Climate Change
- PRINCE2
Testimonials/Case Studies
“Angela, and her company, have consistently demonstrated dedication and enthusiasm to
support the delivery of the Forum’s regional net zero ambitions.
Meticulous project planning, the ability to build positive relationships, highly effective
communication and delivering what is needed regardless of the challenge, are attributes that
sets Angela apart.
Angela’s academic and working knowledge of the climate change and sustainable development
agenda, coupled with her professionalism, integrity and collaborative spirit have been key
factors in helping what the Forum has achieved to date, including the establishment of clear
regional priorities following the completion of a thorough benchmarking exercise.
With an extensive track record in successfully delivering what the client needs – from achieving
transformation, cultural change or improvement outcomes, to being inspection ready, carrying
out service reviews, developing new strategies/policies, supporting the green/environmental
agenda or delivering a priority piece of work – whatever your project management requirements,
I cannot recommend Angela and AURUM Business Solutions Ltd highly enough.”
Matthew Partridge, East of England Regional Climate Change Forum Lead CEO & Chief Executive of Stevenage Borough Council.
Notable Achievements/Value Added
Feedback on ‘value added’ from Angela Hutchings, CEO Castle Point Borough Council, following successful delivery of a bespoke project –
- Ability to understand the business outcome I was looking to achieve but without me having to be prescriptive or specify in detail what I wanted – I just said “dashboard” and you did the rest
- Ability to organise complex muddled information into a comprehensive but simple to navigate tool – leaving me with a product that I can now work with
- Ability to flag what needs to happen next in terms of moving the business forward and provide the audit trail/governance framework – proper value added stuff here
Relevant Sector Knowledge
- Education and schools
- Children’s services, including SEN
- Energy and climate change
- Housing and Building Control
- Asset Management
- Core council functions, such as HR and Payroll
LGR Experience & Expertise
Transferrable transformational change PM skills to support LGR, including a core team offer of support via LGE for PM, HR and Comms project support