Janine Waters
ODS Associate
Janine is an Applied Theatre Director, who has worked in the arts for the past 23 years. She set up and ran the community outreach programme at the Royal Exchange Theatre from 2002-2006, was Acting Head of Education from 2006-2007 and continues, as a freelancer, to be their lead artist on a variety of projects. In October 2007 she set up her own company, Waters Edge Arts Ltd, to produce high quality participatory theatre, to use drama in community cohesion and citizenship contexts and to be the leaders in the delivery of Arts Based Training in the North West. Prior to that, Janine worked for Shakespeare’s Globe, The Holborn Centre for Performing Arts and the Kings Head Theatre, London and for 6 years led Arts Based Training for the Office for Public Management. This followed a 9 year career as a professional actress, working in theatre and television.
Janine is committed to using the performing arts to help improve people’s well being and to create entertaining and inspiring theatre. Janine has been awarded the John Thaw Fellowship at Manchester University from January 2008-September 2010, is a member of the Greater Manchester Refugee Arts Partnership and is a Trustee of Community Arts North West. Janine’s projects have won several awards for its funders, including The Lever Prize/North West Leadership Team Employees Award at the Arts and Business Bravo Awards and the Business in the Community Big Tick Award.
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HR departments can find themselves overstretched dealing with the additional activity required, or nervous and unsure exactly how to meet the requirements; from consultation, people transition policies, equality impact assessments, function and people mapping and associated ring fencing and selection criteria.
ODS can provide practical, strategic help and support ranging from template policies and people and mapping frameworks, to reviewing and adding to the overall strategy, or working on specific areas. ODS’s commitment to skills transfers allows the organisation to build skills for future transfers.
If you can answer yes to any of the following questions, please look here to find out how we can support you or your organisation, alternatively contact ODS Ltd and ask to speak to one of our consultants.
- Struggling to meet the many requirements of the HR transition framework?
- Don’t have the capacity to write a people transition policy?
- Nervous about people mapping frameworks or selection criteria?
- Don’t know when you’ll address the equality impact assessment of changes?