Karina Singh
Biography
Karina joined the Civil Service in 1990. Her career has spanned a range of policy, front-line operational, change management and corporate roles in HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and HM Treasury, where she was head of the VAT Policy team.
She has been involved in change delivery for the last 15 years, which has included setting up new teams and functions, organisation design changes, and leading a national transformation programme for a private sector engineering firm. Most recently, Karina has been Transformation Director at the Valuation Office Agency, where she led a complex five-year transformation portfolio of change.
Director of Function, Profession & Standards
In this role, Fiona leads the Function, Profession & Standards team, responsible for building project delivery capability in government and creating a world-class project delivery profession.
This includes setting standards for how government delivers projects; developing career pathways and professional accreditation; growing and managing talent; and working to increase diversity and inclusion across the profession. The team also runs the project delivery fast stream and apprenticeship schemes, and development and delivery of project delivery leadership and learning programmes, including the world class Major Projects Leadership Academy.
Previous roles in government
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Director of Transformation