Project and Interim Management 

Over the years, Pareas Associates have carried out a wide range of project management activities for our clients. These  include running whole projects as an external consultant with full use of an organisation’s staffing and resources across departments, managing a team of external consultants, troubleshooting assignments and smaller projects where we have been asked to focus on a specific brief, working in collaboration with others.

In addition Marina Pareas has been asked a number of times to step in and look after teams in an interim management capacity. Some selected examples of our project and interim management assignments are shown below.

Pensions Management Institute (PMI) - Awarding Organisation Responsible Officer  Marina Pareas undertakes Regulatory work with PMI as Responsible Officer.

Confederation of Tourism and Hospitality - Consultant   Marina Pareas works on a variety of different projects for the Confederation of Tourism and Hospitality.

Institute of Hospitality Awarding Organisation- Responsible Officer  Marina Pareas worked as Responsible Officer at the Institute of Hospitality.

AAT Association of Accounting Technicians - Assistant Assessment Production Manager  Project management, quality and compliance, qualification development, assessment production.

EMTA Awards Ltd (EAL) Pareas Associates have provided Interim Exams Delivery and Quality Management, Transition Management, and the development of teams to write questions on engineering and building services, change management, question bank development.

Diploma Development Partnership (DDP) – Project Manager - 14-19 Hospitality Diploma  Pareas Associates provided Project Management and oversaw the the review and development of new questions for a new 14-19 Hospitality Diploma.

People 1st – Young Apprenticeships and Partnerships    Pareas Associates worked with People 1st on its Young Apprenticeship Programme, and 14-19 agenda.

The Open University  Pareas Associates provided Management Services for a number of research projects.

London Chamber of Commerce and Industry Examinations Board (LCCIEB) Developing Technical Certificate Pareas Associates co-ordinated a major project to develop technical certificates – supporting NVQs – in selected sectors.

Awarding Bodies – Functional Skills English  Speaking Listening and Communicating (SLC) DVD Pareas Associates managed a project team which produced an SLC DVD for Functional Skills English to meet the needs of four collaborating awarding bodies – IMT Awards, ITEC, Skillsfirst Awards and EAL.

Department for Education     Pareas Associates managed the consultants and steering a committees involved in the production of technical guidance materials on NVQs/SVQs and their development.