Jo Gay

Accomplished professional with extensive expertise in business administration and project budgeting. Demonstrates strong IT proficiency, ensuring seamless operations. Proven track record in contract management, coupled with exceptional skills in customer relations. Experienced in people management and customer service, with a focus on enhancing organisational efficiency.

Takes on challenging new role harnessing interpersonal skills, collaboration and problem-solving. Driven to deliver high-quality service and consistent results.

Energetic employee well-versed in strong communication and organisation skills. Seeks solutions to problems and applies extensive analytical knowledge to findings. Adept at multi-tasking, leading group discussions and managing projects.

• Pure Offices – 3 weeks after joining Pure Offices, the covid pandemic affected our occupancy significantly. By customer connection, advertising and networking I helped bring occupancy back to a high level within a year.
• Centre Manager cover 2 days per week.
• Establishing client relationships and confidentiality to deliver professionalism.
• Maintaining Health & Safety/Statutory requirements to a high standard.
• Chadwick Business Centres – Commercial Centre Manager for a struggling serviced office centre and played an integral part in turning it into the most profitable among the portfolios.
• Tickenham Primary School – Worked with the senior leadership team on a £100,000 project to extend the school building within budget.
• Liaising with The Local Authority, building contractors and Governors to ensure smooth management of the project.
• Ensured the day-to-day school activities could continue safely with minimal disruption.
• Management of Regulation Compliance – Ensured contractors complied with timely testing of intruder alarm, fire extinguishers, PAT testing, legionella and boiler inspections and maintained annual contracts.
• Managed the school accounts, ensuring expenditure and income correctly recorded, accurate reports maintained and produced to ensure annual audits to be signed off successfully.

• For four years I was a New People’s Pastor with my husband at Enjoy Church in Portishead, a community group co-leader, a member of the lady’s ministry and an ad-hoc helper with local events aimed at families on lower income.
• I enjoy cooking, walking, visiting charity shops, camping, entertaining, socialising, travel and writing light-hearted poetry.
• I’m a wife to a sport-loving ex-policeman, mum to three strong, fun-loving and hard-working grown-up children and step-Nana to two boys who are bursting with energy.