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Whether it’s maintaining quality standards, achieving growth targets or addressing new strategic challenges, we’ve got the solution no matter what you need an interim manager for. With a service that’s highly flexible and affordable, we understand that each role and instutition is different and place our associates accordingly. We provide interim management across all areas of curriculum and all business support sections.
With bags of relevant further education experience, our associates are guaranteed to hit the ground running and focus on the job in hand.
For short to medium-term resourcing that gives high impact, you can truly find it all at Click.
We provide experienced interim managers who can hit the ground running across all curriculum areas, apprenticeships and SEND/High Needs provision. We even have associates who have managed less common areas, such as Marine!
Our team of managers and consultants have experience in A Levels and have worked in Sixth Form Colleges, including managing English and Maths. They are able to work across all levels, be that Principal, DP, Directors or Curriculum Managers – always with a focus on adding value.
Our associates have experience managing HE in FE, as well as HE in universities both on a strategic and operational level. Recruitment, admissions and registry, as well as HE curriculum management and developing degrees from scratch, are also in their areas of expertise.
Our associates have experience in all areas of senior college leadership, including mergers, Directors of Governance, Principals and other senior post holders.
There’s not much that influences every aspect of operations more than targets, budgets and the complexities of funding.
We get that it’s not easy to achieve and maintain financial health and that, sometimes, you need that little extra support.
With an in-depth understanding of managing Further Education finances, our consultants provide you with the objective financial review that you need in order to continue improving. We’re there to give a different perspective, actively ask questions and provide alternate approaches – providing the insight you need to effectively manage your finances.
If you’re looking to recruit, manage or provide direction for staff, or to shape the culture of your organisation, Human Resources has a vital role to play.
Our HR services cover the complete spectrum of activities, including:
With an in-depth knowledge and years of experience in Management Information Systems within Further Education, our Click Associates are well-equipped not just to programme, but also to manage your MIS across all aspects of data acquisition, access analysis and reporting. They ensure that you are fully maximising this technology for funding, efficiency, engagement and learner outcomes.
They’ll make sure your data is accurate, supportive of your key performance indicators and in a format that equips managers and staff with the information they need to make improvements.
Our associates are also experienced in exams management, with team members who have managed exams function and some qualified to Level 7 in Exam Access Arrangements.
Our associates have experience across the breadth of Student Services, including strategic and operational management, safeguarding, Prevent, marketing, recruitment, wellbeing and welfare and pastoral care. They are also adept in commercial and business development.
Our associates have experience of managing single and multi-site campuses, including refurbishments and new build project management. Our team also includes highly experienced IT experts, who have managed IT infrastructure projects that have been delivered both on time and within budget.
Liz has been with the team at Click since 2017, working both as an Administrator an Finance Assistant. During her previous career, she has worked at establishments such as South Staffordshire College as the School Links and HE Administrator and at QA Higher Education in Student Services and Registry. She brings years of experience to the role and is always ready to help our clients and associates achieve their goals.
Outside of work, Liz enjoys reading crime fiction, spending time with friends and family and walking around her local park, where she watches the deer and water birds.
Fun Fact: Liz was asked to leave the Brownies as a child, as she had removed the vicar’s gate during a challenge of finding items in his garden beginning with each letter of the alphabet. She still believes this wasn’t fair, as there was no other item beginning with the letter ‘G’!
Wendy started working with Click back in 2011 in an Adminstrator role. Before this, she had dedicated herself to a career in law, starting from the bottom as an Office Junior and having worked her way up to an Office Manager position. This has given her a keen eye for detail, which she uses to benefit both the team here and also those working with us.
Away from the office, Wendy enjoys spending time with her daughter and granddaughter. She loves to bake and also really enjoys dancing, having even done masterclasses with Strictly professionals Natalie Lowe and Ian Waite!
Fun Fact: Wendy’s a true fan of romantic novels, with her favourite being Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’ – she loves the historical charm of the characters that Austen brings with her writing.
Mandy started with Click at the formation of the company in 2009 as Finance Manager, overseeing the company’s planning, budgeting and reporting functions. She supports the team with sound day-to-day operations, a commitment to financial integrity and continuous improvement.
Previously, Mandy had worked in the voluntary sector with a children’s services project that supported parents and children with care and play opportunities, whilst providing training and work experience for people aiming to work with children.
Outside of work, she’s a passionate fan of live music and Aston Villa football club. She’s also a regular yoga enthusiast and enjoys reading and walking her dog.
Fun Fact: Mandy recently broke her finger in Venice whilst trying to touch the `lucky nose’ of a statue!
Colin began his career in the land-based sector before moving into further education as a teacher, working his way up the ranks to become a senior manager. He has been involved in a wide range of curriculum areas, including construction, commercial services and land based. Colin then moved into interim management roles with Click for 5 years before becoming a full-time member of the team in 2016. He particularly values his time working with students who find accessing education and learning more challenging. Colin is also a Vice Chair of Governors at a large London College and is a part time Ofsted inspector.
In his spare time, Colin enjoys travelling with his family and dog and is a keen reader.
Fun Fact: Colin is a huge fan of historical drama stories, such as the James Clavell Asia sagas – he loves how they paint a colourful picture of social attitudes and how those attitudes have changed over the centuries.
Armed with in-depth knowledge and know-how of the UK’s further education sector resourcing, Annette has been going the extra mile with clients at Click since 2015. As an experienced former senior college manager, she has worked across a wide range of colleges and areas of specialism, including apprenticeship growth, marketing and ESF projects. She also has worked as an interim manager, bringing first-hand experience in placing associates. Prior to working in the further education sector, Annette was in marketing and business development.
Outside of work she enjoys walking her two dogs and socialising with friends. She also loves to travel and is slowly working through her bucket list of places to visit.
Fun Fact: As part of her ‘turning 40 crisis’, Annette decided to run a half marathon. As she was nearing the finish line, the traffic policeman on duty reported into his walkie talkie ‘just the stragglers coming through now’ – she hasn’t run a race since!
Our Founder, Kate Mulleady, has decades of experience in successfully placing high-quality interim managers and consultants with all kinds of education and skills providers. Kate has an in-depth understanding of the challenges faced by the further education sector, having first-hand experience as a former senior college manager herself. She was the Executive Vice Principal at Sutton Coldfield college for 10 years, and Interim Vice Principal and a Governor at Dudley College.
In 2009, she noticed that further education professionals need to be secure in the knowledge that they are dealing with a resourcing team that truly understands their interim management needs, quality improvement goals and recruitment requirements. She set out to give clients all the certainty they’ll ever need, building a team that has first-hand knowledge and experience of working in the UK further education and skills provision, and that is how Click was created.
