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Delavale Project Management

Delavale Project Management is a small consultancy run
by Nick Brennan.

Me! Nick Brennan

Nick Brennan

I have over ten years experience in project management and as a bid writer, establishing Delavale Project Management in 2007 to provide consultancy in the education, training and skills sectors. I help my clients to manage projects and write bids for a number of agencies including EC PHARE, the EC Lifelong Learning Programme and ESF. I have also worked with UK domestic funding agencies including LSC and the regional development agencies.

My experience includes:

Tender management and bid writer
Domestic and international project management
Understanding of European projects and procedures in particular LLP and EC PHARE
Expertise in different international vocational and academic education systems
Designing qualification frameworks, occupational standards and curricula
Experience of credential evaluation
Design and maintenance of datasets used in the education sector, including:

Vocational education and skills
International education systems and qualifications
Occupational sector data
Qualification frameworks and benchmarking

I also have close contacts in the teaching sector, schools management, qualifications design, domestic and international project design, translations and researching.

Before setting up Delavale Project Management I had been a senior manager at UK NARIC and was the main bid writer managing a number of projects in the education and skills sector. Recent projects included:

Vocational Education Project in Sofia, Bulgaria: Wrote successful competitive bid and subsequently managed project budget, local team and international consultants in this one-year project to upgrade vocational qualification standards on behalf of the Ministry of Labour. The outcome of the project was 2500 trained education professionals; 80 upgraded occupational standards and a set of guidelines for writing vocational curricula.
IT Project Manager for LSC Migrant Skills Project: developing an online database and tracking system to support migrant workers and refugees across the pan-London region to find appropriate employment based on their skills and qualifications.
Yemen: Successful bid writing for World Bank funded project to develop an accreditation system for Yemeni higher education institutions.