Deio Jones

Core competencies

Deio’s core competencies are:

• Engagement and Consultation: Engaging local communities & stakeholders to understand local circumstances, identify issues and risks that need addressing, and identify opportunities that can be developed.
• Facilitating Project and Partnership Development: Bringing together local partners and stakeholders to develop targeted practical solutions that deliver positive and sustainable changes.
• Project and Programme Delivery: A fully accredited Program & Project Manager with a proven track record delivering cross-sector partnerships & projects.
• Funding: Experienced in identifying and acquiring appropriate funding to support projects, activities and services.
• Monitoring & Evaluation: Supporting organisations and projects to monitor their progress and evaluate the delivery of outcomes and impacts.

Career highlights

Deio gained extensive experience working in diverse roles, supporting & promoting community regeneration and conservation across the public and third sectors.  He also spent 2 years researching the support needs of community enterprises as part of the Welsh Government’s Pathfinder project, before taking on a strategic management role managing Anglesey’s Destination Management programme.

In 2019, Deio successfully developed a £1.7m Landscape Partnership scheme on Anglesey, promoting cultural & heritage tourism as a catalyst for local socio-economic development.  As a Facilitator for Welsh Government’s Sustainable Management Scheme he has a key role in securing European funding for rural partnerships in Wales.

Other stuff

A first language Welsh speaker, Deio lives in North Wales where he tries to spend as much of his spare time as possible in the great outdoors.  A keen amateur sportsman he’s played, coached and managed at both youth and senior level football clubs, and volunteers with the youth sailing charity ‘Challenge Wales’.  He took a year out in 2015/16 to compete on the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race, spending the following year living and working in Australia.