Daniela Ellis

·        10+ years experience in Spatial planning and regeneration, growth and masterplanning with influence on infrastructure and place making, town centres and growth plans through regeneration, strategic planning, economic development and cities design I have acquired strong interpersonal and interdisciplinary skills influencing decisions, feedback to policy, identifying sources, and teaming up with internal and external partners to secure bidding from various funding bodies

·        Placemaking and Growth Scenarios through programme facilitation, led town centre funding bidding applications from UK and EU sources, private investment and devlopers contributions, created programmes, managed consultant’s teams, gathered specialist feedback to LUF projects and facilitated legal agreements and agreed on charging schedules, as well as supported the design work through promotion, direct knowledge and feedback from across the organisation making sure sustainability, social and environmental design processes are followed, embedding EDI parameters to the work

·        Senior stakeholders and political support- confidence when communicating and negotiating and getting a political buy-in, to identify and understand client's needs, while developing and managing client relationships

·        Negotiator, who values everyone’s input and conclude with getting people on board with projects, work builds good relationships and utilising peoples’ skills within a team. Strong presentation skills lead to building relationships, networking and culture with a wider working context.

·        Visionary, innovator and ideas person always providing creative solutions to situations. In the past to improve my confidence I have stepped into a leadership positions wherever possible and always driven good work environment and positive outcomes. I like organising and creating systems that are functional and link work together to allow sharing of resources, as I am a great believer in utilising and sharing knowledge while driving progress.

·        MA Urban Design/Architecture and past experience in Development Management, currently applying for RTPI Charted Membership. TfL Carbon Literacy project trainer/facilitator/ Viability and Commercial contracts development training/collaboration S106 meeting between GLA Viability and TfL Area Planning Teams to align negotiations and long term area planning against various OAPFs and AAPs