Geraldine Magee

• Managed conflict resolution within teams, ensuring smooth workflow.
• Ensured regulatory compliance through meticulous auditing procedures.
• Built strong partnerships with stakeholders for mutual benefit.
• Mentored junior managers, fostering a culture of continuous learning.
• Driven change management initiatives resulting in organisational agility.
• Led strategic planning meetings, resulting in clear objectives.
• Directed project management activities for timely delivery of projects.
• Oversaw budget preparation and control, ensuring financial discipline within the team.
• Enhanced team performance with regular coaching and feedback sessions.
• Fostered a positive work environment that encouraged creativity and innovation.
• Successfully managed risk assessment procedures by adopting best practices.
• Forecasted operational needs and allocated resources to meet demands.
• Monitored team performance and provided constructive feedback to address challenges.
• Trained and mentored teams in company policies and best practices to support seamless service delivery.
• Assisted HR personnel with recruitment, hiring and training highly effective teams.
• Coordinated employee schedules to facilitate adequate staff coverage and task completion.
• Liaised with board members to discuss operational strategy and review budgetary requirements.
• Led with empowering and empathetic leadership style, leveraging emotional intelligence and proactive communication to defuse conflict.
• Handled negotiations with outside service agencies to meet group needs.
• Established clear budgets and cost controls strategies to meet objectives.
• Translated senior management directives into actionable front-line policies and implemented changes with staff.
• Investigated issues affecting operations, prepared reports and helped correct problems.
• Streamlined processes to improve and optimise office operations.
• Designed and implemented training to further develop staff based on goals.
• Monitored health and safety measures for guaranteed compliance.
• Represented organisations at seminars, conferences and events.

• DUTIES: Direct line management of Team Leaders funded through Dublin and Dun Laoghaire Education & Training Board (formerly Co

Dublin VEC);

* Performance management of Team Leaders;

* Supporting and liaising regularly with Youth Work Officers

• Overseeing Co Dublin regional budgets; Securing new and additional funding resources;
• Co-Operating and working closely with Co Dublin V.E.C.; Representing CYC on relevant committees e.g: Children First; Dublin and Dun Laoghaire ETB Grants Committee; Developing training responses which meet the needs of staff and volunteers; developing and writing policies for child protection and garda vetting; dealing with all child protection concerns.

• Based in Swords
• Managed a team of 12 staff; Day to day responsibility for support and supervision of staff; setting team and staff objectives
• Training of volunteers and child protection training
• Direct work with young people
• Ensuring the team worked within the ethos and code of good practice of the organisation
• Grant applications; programme planning
• Representing the organisation on various committees
• Managing voluntary clubs and Summer programmes.
• Ensuring staff complied with organisation policies and linked with strategic plan.

• Setting up and working with youth groups in the Swords area
• Delivering drug education programmes in schools
• Training volunteers
• Working with voluntary clubs and Summer programmes
• Evaluation of groups.
• Direct work with young people
• Report writing
• Grant Applications

• Based in Blanchardstown working with a Traveller project in Ballycoolin
• Providing activities for young people on site
• Training C.E Participants
• Managing Centre
• Liaising with other organisations, e.g: FAS; Foroige.

• Based in Galway office
• Responsible for North County area
• Developed a new office base
• Organised and planned activities for young people in consultation with volunteers
• Worked with the Travelling community
• Set up an information centre for the community based in the Travellers Centre
• Support to voluntary youth clubs and Summer Projects.

• Administration; Accounts; Filing; Reception; Wages.

• Responsible for club programmes which included ‘Tops of the Clubs'; National Youth Games
• Support to voluntary youth clubs
• Attended national seminars.