Amber Foundation
Rob ('BigMac')™ McInnes is an accomplished employment coach and director with extensive experience in talent acquisition and employee support. Currently serving as an Employment Coach at Maximus UK and a Key Worker at the Amber Foundation, Rob focuses on empowering unemployed homeless young people through various development programs. Prior roles include Director at BigMacTalent, where expertise in executive search and headhunting was applied to leading service providers and technology vendors. Rob's background also features significant positions such as Talent Acquisition Manager at Y corp, Senior Recruiter for Microsoft's Sustainability Solutions team, and Senior Manager at Haven. With a career spanning major organizations like Trainline, BBC, Honeywell, and Spotify, Rob has consistently driven growth and diversity in technology recruitment.
Amber Foundation
Amber provides a safe temporary place to live for young people who are experiencing homelessness, mental ill health and unemployment. We help them to address any issues they may have, and provide practical and emotional support helping young people transform their lives. We focus on employment, living independently, health & wellbeing and personal development. 122,000 young people face homelessness every year in the UK and once homeless it can be very difficult to find a job and move back into accommodation. Amber provides a safe structured environment at four residential centres in Surrey, Kent, Devon and Wiltshire where young people are given the time, space and support to sort out their problems and re-build their lives. The ultimate aim is to equip young people to find direction in life, work, accommodation and a sense of their own self-worth in the community, allowing them to move back into employment, education or training. Being residential is key, providing a supportive and encouraging environment with structure and boundaries, positive peer support and practical activities so young people can overcome their problems and feel valued and motivated as they work at turning their lives around – and every year 70- 80% successfully do so.