Voyager Leadership Award Nomination for CAB Training

Louisa McKee, Training Officer, Citizens Advice with Derek Alcorn, Chief Executive, Citizens Advice at the Voyager Leadership Award Ceremony in Derry

The Voyager Leadership Awards are the first ever awards for leaders of charity, voluntary or community organisations in Northern Ireland with individuals being nominated for dynamic and inspiring leadership in their respective fields.  The award ceremony was held at the City Hotel in Derry on 4th February.

There are ten award categories and Citizens Advice was honoured to be nominated within the ‘Leading on Learning and Development’ category.  While we did not win the award we were particularly pleased to have been nominated by the Northern Ireland Open College Network (NIOCN).  Louisa McKee, Training Manager for Citizens Advice said:  “We have worked very closely with NIOCN in 2009 revising our Advisor Training Programme (ATP) and developing a Level 4 qualification in Equality and Discrimination in partnership with the Equality Commission.”

Citizens Advice sees the training and development of staff as key to the provision of high quality advice and information to our clients and in the maintenance of best practice standards.