Cllr Rory Love

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  Job Title: Cabinet Member

  Organisation Shepway District Council

  Email: rory.love@shepway.gov.uk

  For more information about working with Rory contact Janine Gill at PtP Janine@seemp.co.uk or 01962 840664

As Council Leader in 2001, Rory worked with strategic partners to set up Shepway’s first Local Strategic Partnership and together it launched the District’s first Community Strategy.

In 2002, Rory co-founded the Boulogne and Shepway Co-operation Association, a unique, cross-border partnership that has secured £2m of European funding for regeneration projects in the two districts, as well as promoting sports and cultural links.

Rory was recently Shepway’s representative on a shared services committee with Dover District Council, intended to form the basis of a wider East Kent shared services governance arrangement.

As a former Deputy Chairman of the Kent Probation Board, Rory promoted a partnership between two councils and the Probation service to provide a graffiti-removal service.

Rory is also a participant in a local “Partnership and Community Together” initiative on crime reduction and community safety.

Skills:

• Excellent communication skills and a logical mind.

• The ability to seek common ground between disparate and sometimes apparently conflicting aims and objectives

• The flexibility to try different approaches to resolve a challenge.

• The ability to share experience and offer non-prescriptive advice.

• The ability to obtain community engagement.

• Performance management, budget management, prioritisation, and target setting.

• Patience and a sense of humour!

Practitioner Associate assignments to date

22 April 08	Assignment for East of England Regional Assembly (outside region)
13 Oct 08	Learning module: Scrutiny, Slough Borough Council
16 Oct 08	Learning module: Scrutiny, Adur and Worthing Councils