Education Authority (Northern Ireland)
Tara McShane is an experienced professional currently serving as a Category Officer at the Education Authority in Northern Ireland since May 2025. Prior to this role, Tara held multiple positions at M Tech Systems Ltd, including Business Delivery Manager and Business Coordinator, from June 2015 to April 2025. Earlier in the career, Tara worked as an Assistant Sales/Operations Manager at Seatruck Ferries Ltd from July 2003 to April 2015. Tara holds a Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) in Parks, Recreation and Leisure Studies from the University of Lancashire and a Higher National Diploma in Leisure Studies, Sport & Leisure from the Belfast Institute of Further and Higher Education.
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Education Authority (Northern Ireland)
The Education Authority (EA) was created on 01 April 2015 as a new organisation responsible to the Department of Education (DE) for the delivery of education services to schools and youth centres across Northern Ireland. The work we do impacts the lives of tens of thousands of children, young people and their families every day. The services we provide are essential in supporting, encouraging and facilitating learning within our communities to develop generations of young people who are equipped to succeed in life and work in the modern world. As a public sector organisation, we must continue to deliver these vital services in a challenging environment of increasing financial pressure and under intense public scrutiny. EA is at the beginning of an exciting journey of organisational transformation and modernisation. Emerging from the five Education and Library Boards (ELBs) our aim is to build a new organisation which is focused on meeting the needs of all our young people equally, removing barriers to learning and ensuring equality of access to excellent education services so that every child can develop to his or her full potential.