james phillips

* The RFU National Youth Council is a voluntary consultative body made up of 12 people from across the game aged 16 – 25 years old. The first members were recruited in 2014, with the most recent members joining in September 2017. The Council focuses on a variety of projects and issues across the game, including: * The recruitment and retention of young volunteers and players in the game * Leading the Young Rugby Ambassador programme * Being ambassadors for the sport through a series of conferences and events * Consulting and advising across the RFU on programmes and projects affecting young people in the game

* Key responsibilities: * Develop a strategy for the recruitment, retention and recognition of volunteers in Eastern Counties * Promote the Club Volunteer Co-ordinator (CVC) role and develop current CVCs * Identify and share good practice for volunteer recruitment, retention and recognition with clubs. * Identify means of recognising and rewarding club volunteers including nominating volunteers through the RFU and ECRU Volunteer Recognition Awards * Work with the Community Rugby Chairman and RDOs to: run workshops for new and existing CVCs, promote young volunteer placements in clubs and organise Eastern Counties recognition events * Chair regular meeting of the Volunteering sub-committee, membership to include County VCs, Community Rugby Chair, RDO and others as deemed necessary or desirable * Attend quarterly meetings of the Community Rugby committee * Contribute to the annual CB Action Plan * Contribute to the planning, running and recruitment of candidates and mentors for the RFU Leadership Academy to be run every other year in Eastern Counties

This role sits within the Savings team in Consumer Banking. This covers all of the LBG relationship brands (Halifax, Bank of Scotland and Lloyds) as well as the UK Wealth brands (Lloyds, Bank of Scotland and Mayfair Private Banking) Responsibilities include: Supporting the business in the design and enhancement of the Savings product proposition across our Relationship brands (Halifax, Bank of Scotland, Lloyds). Leading and supporting on assignments and projects, researching and analysing business issues and opportunities, defining, developing and implementing solutions to support our strategic priorities. Leading and supporting with the development of business cases and providing recommendations to senior management. Ensuring compliance with the group policies and practices together with all relevant regulatory and statutory requirements. Skills acquired and developed: New product development, development of a strategic plans, project management, commercial thinking and stakeholder engagement.

* Key responsibilities include: * Positively influence others by demonstrating core LBG values and behaviours. * Implement agreed plans taking into account the business, customer advocacy and regulatory context. * Act as a source of professional expertise and have principal accountability for the management and/or development of a product/channel or significant segment thereof. * Develop, manage and implement robust processes aligned to business objectives. * Identify and escalate operational risks. * Establish and build relationships with stakeholders to support the provision of quality and timely information and analysis to deliver customer focussed products. * Effectively work within and maintain internal network for the purpose of optimising business results. * Support agreed change initiatives to deliver continuous improvement. * Direct reports. * Stakeholder influence typically up to head of / director level, scope of influence external to own function. * Complex activities in terms of scale, scope and specialism with a cross-divisional impact; recognised subject matter expert.

The role is based in the Retail Transformation team and supports the mobilisation of the Motor Finance Value Stream which is the key Group Strategic Programme which spans across Black Horse and Lex Autolease. The team oversees the delivery of the motor customer journey transformation across both these businesses, by creating an empowered team of Labs, who are motivated to take on business problems and build the right things for the future of our customers. This role involves the mobilisation of the new Motor Finance labs across Black Horse and Lex Autolease, implementing new ways of working and supporting the governance, communication and activities surrounding the new lab structures.

The emerging leader graduate scheme at Lloyds Banking group is split up into 3, 8 month placements allowing a wide experience of the business. My first placement was in the Retail Channel Engagement Team for cards and loans, within Consumer Finance. Some of the projects I have worked on are the market leading Halifax 'A Loan With A Twist', the Lloyds Bank and Bank of Scotland Loans hamper offer and the Halifax Clarity winter and summer cashback campaigns. My second placement is within the Motor Finance Value Stream, working across both Black Horse and Lex Autolease.

* The RFU National Youth Council is a voluntary consultative body made up of 12 people from across the game aged 16 – 25 years old. The first members were recruited in 2014, with the most recent members joining in September 2017. The Council focuses on a variety of projects and issues across the game, including: * The recruitment and retention of young volunteers and players in the game * Leading the Young Rugby Ambassador programme * Being ambassadors for the sport through a series of conferences and events * Consulting and advising across the RFU on programmes and projects affecting young people in the game

Refereeing for WRU allows me to get further experience of refereeing in different environments. It has also provided me the chance to get wider experience of higher level games, refereeing games at Cardiff Arms Park. Refereeing continues to develop my communication, decision making and leadership skills.

The Young Match Officials (YMO) Programme Lead is a role that involves working with young referees or players who are looking to get into refereeing or to develop their refereeing further. In 2016/17 season NLD had 106 new Young Match Officials progress through either a Level 1 or a Level 2 course. Responsibilities: Work with the NLD Young Match Officials Programme Committee to plan & develop the calendar of events for the Young Officials throughout the season. Communicate with the NLD YMO’s to ensure they have the necessary support and encouragement to develop their refereeing. Work as a liaison between all relevant parties. Including, the NLD Referees Society, the local RFU Professional Staff, Parents, YMO’s, YMO Supporters & Club Referee Coordinators. Management of social media channels being Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Contact: nldyoungmatchofficials@gmail.com

As part of my university course, one of our modules was to engage with a local business and provide environmental consultancy services. St Ann's Valley Centre is an NHS GP surgery and also provides City Council services, NHS Nottingham City clinics and Nottingham City Homes access. For the project, we provided a full environmental analysis of the facility working out the usage and the costs of utilities among other analysis. Based on the findings we provided recommendations as to how St Ann's Valley Centre could decrease their environmental impact and save costs in the process.

While working at the Fox and Hounds, I have worked in all areas of the establishment. I am responsible for the delegation of tasks, organising of events and the handling of prospective business opportunities. I have learnt to undergo tasks while being under pressure and performing at the highest level. I have worked at 3 weddings to date each for between 100-130 people; Harley Davidson weekend for 250 people. As well as this, I have learnt to work in a team with people from different cultures and how to get around language barriers as there are 4 different languages.

I referee rugby matches most weekends, at varying different age ranges and levels. This provides me with an opportunity to develop my leadership and decision making skills through the sport that I am very passionate about. Level 9 qualified referee. Looking to move quickly up the levels and develop my abilities and leadership. I have moved from Level 10 to Level 9 in record time within the society, again proving my ambition and drive to be the best I can be and perform at the highest level. I am currently working towards my target of 100 hours of volunteering through vInspired. As a Young Match Official, every game I referee counts towards this. My vInspired profile can be seen below: https://vinspired.com/people/jamesphillips1

I am responsible for the meeting and greeting of clients and manage all hospitality ticket collections. Liaise with both the crowd management and catering teams in order to resolve issues and enhance the client’s experience. Update customer databases, process and distribute hospitality ticket sales.

* Team finances on SAP. * Quick Reference Guide, internal document. * Management of digital document and video sharing internal and external website. * Planning and production of video content for internal and external website. * Regional Reporting for internal and external website * Colour and trim sample project for the U.K. * Managed translation process of German to English for product literature. * Implemented a new, simpler and more efficient colour and trim samples process for the U.K. * Successfully made changed to the Quick Reference Guides that enables retailers to perform at higher levels. * Planned and produced of the most successful pieces of video content BMW have produced.

Activities and Societies: Business Studies prefect, 1st team rugby player.

Activities and Societies: Business Society