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Strategy
Help define how Youth Futures grows, where to focus investment, how pilots scale and how the different parts of the organisation fit together.
About Robin
Turning good ideas into systems that can scale.
Robin has spent his career leading technology, infrastructure, transformation and operational change across complex organisations. His experience spans digital platforms, cloud and infrastructure, cybersecurity, service delivery, large-scale programmes, governance, commercial management and organisational transformation.
At Youth Futures Partnership, Robin's role is not to replace the expertise of educators, youth workers or safeguarding professionals. His focus is on building the strategy, systems and operating model that allow their work to go further.
That means taking ideas such as mobile youth hubs, harm intelligence, digital Career Passports and outcome measurement and working out how they can be designed securely, delivered consistently, measured properly and eventually repeated across different communities.
Robin also supports the wider strategic development of Youth Futures — helping shape partnerships, technology choices, commercial models and the infrastructure needed to move from individual pilots to a sustainable organisation.
The role
Strategy, technology and the machinery behind the mission.
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Technology
Shape secure, practical digital platforms that support delivery, data, communications, participant journeys and partner reporting.
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Data & Insight
Develop approaches for harm intelligence, impact measurement and decision support that help partners target resources more intelligently.
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Operating Model
Build repeatable processes, governance and standards so successful pilots can be delivered consistently in new locations.
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Partnerships
Support relationships with technology businesses, employers, councils, funders and strategic delivery partners.
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Innovation & Scale
Turn early concepts into testable programmes, learn what works and create the foundations needed to scale responsibly.
Current areas of focus
Where strategy and technology can make the biggest difference.
Harm Intelligence Platform
Bringing appropriate local data together to help identify hotspots, understand patterns and support better decisions about where prevention resources should go.
Career Passport
Exploring a digital record that can capture activities, skills, achievements, qualifications and employer encounters so young people can show their progression over time.
Connected Youth Buses
Designing the digital infrastructure behind mobile hubs — connectivity, devices, security, gaming technology, content and reliable service in changing locations.
Impact & Reporting
Helping build clear dashboards and evidence frameworks so partners can understand reach, engagement, progression and community impact without overclaiming results.
What Robin brings
Senior technology leadership with a practical bias.
Technology Leadership
Leading large multidisciplinary technology and infrastructure teams across complex organisations.
Transformation
Modernising services, operating models and platforms while maintaining day-to-day reliability.
Large Programmes
Experience delivering infrastructure, datacentre, cloud, security and operational change programmes.
Commercial & Governance
Working with suppliers, budgets, risk, compliance and senior stakeholders to turn strategy into delivery.
Building Youth Futures
Fran brings the education and prevention expertise. Robin builds the strategy and systems around it.
Youth Futures Partnership combines frontline understanding of young people and education with the technology, data, operating models and partnerships needed to turn strong ideas into sustainable programmes.