Oxford Diocesan Bucks Schools Trust Governors' Briefing Pack

31 Rosie Harper Rosie runs a three church Parish with a large turnover. Rosie is a member of the Archdeaconry senior staff with oversight of 270churches, a member of Bishop’s Council: the Governing body of the Diocese of Oxford, and a trustee of the Oxford Diocesan Board of Finance. She is an elected member of The General Synod of the Church of England. She is the chair of the Oxford Nandyal Education Foundation -an education charity in India. All these roles give her experience ofTrusteeship, strategic planning, financial planning and compliance, change management, values based judgement, safeguarding matters and relationship and team building. Michael Phipps Michael is a retired Department for Education senior civil servant, who had responsible for policy advice to Ministers on school sector, managing passage of education legislation through Parliament, delivering various school standards programmes, and directing various major public expenditure programmes amounting to several hundred £million. He has been chair of governors of Seer Green CE Primary Academy for the last 5 years steering its academy conversion in 2013and preparation for successful Ofsted and SIAMS inspections in 2017; initiating development of the new vision, values and strategic 5-year plan; introducing new school and governing board self-evaluation programmes; he led the headteacher recruitment process in 2015/16; is chair of its admissions and performance management committees, and of various working groups. Michael is an experienced trustee of several charities both large and small. He chaired two Quaker church boards of trustees: one local for Buckinghamshire (annual turnover up to £100k), one national for whole of UK (100+ staff, annual turnover £10m). Michael Mill Michael has had significant experience in the public sector in local government, consultancy and a senior position within a diocese, involving both policy development, setting strategic direction, providing support to a range of stakeholders and projectmanagement. Michael is a highly self-motivated professional with extensive experience of delivering innovative solutions which have helped schools and local authorities get the best out of national programmes whilst meeting local priorities and objectives.Michael has a strong background in partnership working with demonstrable success in developing effective networks and has knowledge of the operation of the charitable sector. He has demonstrated an ability to create new organisations implementing complex projects to time and budget whilst meeting the needs of a variety of stakeholders and leading a variety of large successful teams.