Sh'anesu Rusike

NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) (hosted by UCL Partners HIN) • London

Responsible for the operational delivery of the overall NIA Programme to support healthcare innovators to spread their innovations wider within the NHS, for the benefit of the NHS, patients and the public. • Responsible for the end-to-end planning and execution of the annual NIA Fellowship Recruitment Call, encompassing document revision, digital communications, stakeholder engagement, and interview coordination all through to the Due Diligent process for shortlisted candidates, and onboarding of successful candidates. • Budget management and tracking, maintaining the Risk Register and reporting milestones and Programme progress to the NIA Board every quarter • Creating and maintaining a comprehensive 'Lessons Learnt' report to document key insights and inform process improvements for future recruitment cycles. • Line management and supervisory responsibility for Programme Coordinators. • Planning and coordinating the NIA Launch event, pitching for and executing the first annual networking events for internal and external stakeholders, and coordinating learning events, including scoping for venues and suppliers, delegating roles and responsibilities and working collaboratively with the team to create a robust agenda. • Building and maintaining effective relationships with external stakeholders, leveraging professional networks to recruit assessors and promote the programme through strategic partnerships (e.g., international accelerators such as the Canadian Tech Accelerator, London division; new Mentors for Fellows; Clinicians and Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement experts (PPIE) to become Recruitment Call assessors) • Engaging with the NIA's key stakeholders, including NHS England, Health Innovation Networks, other arm's length bodies, ICSs, regional partners and local accelerators in addition to patients and the public for programme support and potential collaboration. • Representing the NIA at national conferences such as NHS ConfedExpo, enhancing programme visibility, generating new leads, and engaging prospective applicants and collaborators. • Designing and implementing a structured mentor engagement strategy, including communication benchmarking, feedback collection via surveys, developing a mentorship policy and guide for Mentors, and the introduction of a 'Mentor Spotlight' feature in programme communications. • Connecting Fellows with Mentors for specific challenges they may be facing with their innovation. • Horizon scanning for opportunities for Fellows, including funding initiatives, priority area updates, and networking opportunities. • Recreated the general support document by researching funding opportunities for applicants who are unsuccessful and looking into organisations who support early-stage innovations in clinical trials, evidence gathering and real-world implementation. • Secured last minute medical consultants to support application assessments from a clinical perspective during a time when there were doctors' strikes, using personal and professional network connections. • Improved relationship with finance team to bring the team's finances in order. • Reviewed and revamped mentorship program to set expectations, clearly outline roles and responsibilities and improved our engagement with the Mentors. • Strengthened public speaking, stakeholder management, and networking capabilities through event representation and chairing a panel discussion at an event. • Demonstrated adaptability, resilience, and problem-solving acumen while managing workload and maintaining performance amid organisational changes and personal health challenges.

RM Partners (hosted by Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust) • London

Managed the Bladder Pathway Redesign projects across West London and maintaining good relationships with our key stakeholders for the projects including pathway group chairs, clinicians, pathway navigators, operational leads, executive colleagues, finance and other colleagues from Trusts, Primary care, ICBs and other non-NHS organisations, ensuring compliance with the Data Protection Act 2018 and UK GDPR. • Produced milestone tracking reports, escalating risks and issues, budget tracking and updated performance dashboards to inform strategic decisions. Conducted pathway mapping exercises with Cancer Nurse Specialists and MDT coordinators and supported understaffed teams to ensure timely project evaluation. • Responsible for chairing the Bladder Pathway monthly meetings, creating slide decks, updating the action log and producing minutes for the Urology Cancers meetings. • Responsible for ensuring Trusts are demonstrating that they are delivering on KPIs by collecting data and consolidating it in collaboration with our Informatics team to generate performance reports to be shared with stakeholders during monthly project meetings.

RM Partners (hosted by Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust) • London

Working with the PMO Lead and the Strategic Finance Lead to support work around project governance, continuously improving and promoting change management processes while maintaining the project dashboard managing a portfolio of 69 live projects in cancer care. • Maintained RAID logs, project dashboards, and generated slide decks including data-driven insights for executive reporting at governance meetings, as well as taking minutes during governance meetings • Developed a finance guide to provide budget holders with key information including funding agreement protocols and governance, invoicing for projects. Building confidence in change when I introduce new ways of working. • Enhanced project efficiency through finance process improvements

Ernst and Young • London

Consultant within the Health and Life Sciences sector through the NHS Graduate Scheme flexi placement as a PMO Analyst supporting the EY PMO Lead in a high performing team around project governance, business cases, and governance meetings for a business transformation project with two major public sector organisations. • Using JIRA to manage tasks and keep track of any issues through the Kanban board for crossfunctional teams. Supporting the client with recruitment-related finances liaising with the finance business partner and generating monthly cost breakdowns using Excel. • Responsible for creating an onboarding guidance to be used by the client to onboard new recruits onto the work programme and co-creating the project handbook containing project information including stakeholder groups and the project aims and objectives. Onboarding resources to different teams, ensuring they had the appropriate equipment and access to the relevant software and SharePoint drives.

NHS Leadership Academy (hosted by NHS England and Improvement, and The Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust) • London

Completed placements in both an NHS regulator and an NHS provider organisation, rotating across finance functions as a management accountant, financial accountant, capital accountant and finance analyst. • Working in the national Strategic Finance team on the then Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships (STP) capital bids Wave 4 for £1bn additional government funding, responsible for data quality assurance and supporting feedback development. Responsible for conducting research on hyper-acute stroke to assist STPs to present strong business cases for funding, based on previously successful bids. Established a volunteering and Trust-partnership initiative to help improve the team's relationships with Trusts (while at NHSE). • Working as a finance analyst for the Clinical Pathway Groups clinical pathway transformation programme, generating reports using SQL, Qlikview and Excel to give an analysis of performance based on activity and costs.

UK Health Security Agency • London