Kim has over 40 year of experience in the employment and skills sector spanning both operational and policy roles. She has extensive experience of fostering partnerships between local authorities and employment services. In particular, she has worked with local partnerships to develop solutions tackling long term worklessness. In her early career, Kim spent time working for The Prince’s Trust as the Northern Director of the Volunteers Programme in some of the most economically deprived areas of the North of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. She has worked at a national level on a number of central governments training schemes. She was the Director of the East London City Strategy Pathfinder, leading the employment and skills agenda, including sub regional programmes with combine value of £59m, for the 5 Olympic host boroughs over the period of construction and hosting of London 2012. She is a strategic adviser to the Centre for Ageing Better.