Nominations for Respect  Task

Stephanie Cooke is always positive, considerate and respectful of everyone, and a fantastic morale boost, whether its 9am on a Monday or 5pm on a Friday. The biggest credit to Steph is when you walk round DCMS with her, the number of people who stop her for a chat or to thank her for something.

 

 

David Hughes always enquiries about the welfare of his colleagues, and is very good at getting the best out of people. He always adopts the right tone (whatever the situation is/whoever the person is).

 

 

 

HR Team continue to act with integrity and respect to colleagues in the department, whilst continuing to strive to improve the way they work in a way that celebrates the diverse nature of the workforce.

 

Vita Hylton makes a special effort to listen and communicate the best approach to any circumstance or issue, and is a very kind and considerate person.

 

 

Joe Lawrence has gone out of his way to build excellent personal relationships. He has something positive to say about everyone and everything. Everyone has commented on his sunny disposition, which creates such a pleasant working environment.

 

 

David Machin is a calming influence even at the most pressurised moments. He is always helpful, providing important advice on key issues, and has rapidly become an integral part of the team.

 

 

 

Ashley Mangtani treats everyone with cheerfulness and courtesy, and is rarely without a smile in response to a request. He got on with the IT transition with no complaint, cheerfulness, courtesy and a willingness to pitch in.

 

 

Michael Parsons takes the time to share his extensive knowledge of tourism policy, builds team morale with his sense of humour and realism. He is particularly good at challenging views that he doesn’t agree with, with clear evidence, logic and respect for others views.

 

 

Sian Sinnot is calmness personified, coping so well with everything thrown at her in a professional and courteous manner. She us fun to work with, always optimistic, and always willing to help colleagues when they are under pressure.

 

 

Nominations for Professional  Task

Gwion Aprhobat works incredibly hard processing mountains of staff data. He is always professional and hard working, meeting deadlines and ensuring accuracy in his work. He is also an excel expert, regularly giving up time to show others.

 

 

BDUK Superfast and Commercial did incredible work to complete 44 Phase 2 Superfast Broadband contracts and 8

additional contracts meeting a tight (and indeed non-negotiable) deadline of the 30 June. The whole team work tirelessly, often late into the night and weekends.

 

Philip Bland works tirelessly to provide the best possible service to the Minister, while still maintaining a cheery disposition. He is calm even in very stressful situations and works collaboratively with policy to get the job done.

 

Richard Boorman holds himself fully accountable for the quality of his work, shows excellent judgement even for difficult decisions, and rarely shows any visible signs of stress. In addition he is an excellent operational researcher, producing very high quality analysis.

 

 

David Evans provides consistently clear, concise, high-quality work. He knows his portfolio inside-out and can always answer on the spot questions, has always delivered on time and never pushed back on challenging deadlines. He manages his time extremely well so is never unable to deliver.

 

 

Colin Gibson has been dealing with a Judicial Review submitted against DCMS, bringing his usual calm dedication, sound judgment and expert knowledge to provide accurate and professional advice. He demonstrated exceptional attention to detail and hours of painstaking research.

 

 

Olivia Jensen has made Special Advisers’ start much easier by demonstrating her exceptional organisational skills, professionalism, effectiveness and efficiency, friendliness and making sure that diaries are properly managed and all briefings and other papers always ready as necessary.

 

 

David Machin deals with an extraordinary workload, but he has taken everything thrown at him in his stride and dealt with a myriad of complicated issues in such a professional and commanding manner.

 

 

 

Ashley Mangtani has consistently demonstrated a willingness to get things done. He has ensured everyone has the equipment they need to do the job, managed the moving back and forth to TCR, and helped everyone get ready for the big move.

 

 

Sophie Marment has taken the lead on the funding of the BBC – one of the most complicated issues for the Charter Review. She has built a high performing team to tackle the challenges that Charter Review will bring. She has done all this at the same time as preparing for and taking her professional qualifications in her spare time.

 

 

Partial Not Spots and Code team achieved a key priority of the SoS against almost insurmountable challenges. The team showed huge commitment and innovation and worked incredibly hard

(including on a long series of weekends) and flexibly across team boundaries.

 

Natalie Penge is passionate about doing a good job and constantly strives to make sure that she is working with all our stakeholders as effectively as possible. Throughout a hectic period, she kept a level head, and was professional to the last – you would never have known that she was new to the job.

 

 

Sarah Riebland has consistently delivered high quality analysis at pace with limited support, including developing from scratch a model of the potential coverage and costs of wireless technologies in delivering superfast broadband.

 

 

Matt Rogers led the election planning process with great professionalism and excellence. He maintained tremendous calm, managed to give feedback with tact while maintaining quality control and pulled everything together so we were ready for all eventualities.

 

 

Ankit Shah/Penelope Leith have put in a huge effort to make sure that DCMS can lay its Group accounts, unqualified, before Parliament’s summer recess for the first time. They have worked very long hours including at weekends over a long period.

 

Keira Shaw is the consummate professional and led her libraries team over the course of last year to lead not one but three four major pieces of work. . In addition, she led her team to deliver a number of statutory libraries’ case, and is a motivating and effective team leader.

 

 

Paul Walker worked tirelessly and continuously in his roles with IT and Estates, ensuring that desk moves have been as efficient as possible, and that people have had individual assistance and support with IT. His recent selfless hard work to create new ministerial offices is further example of this.