Primary Responsibilities: Identify, cultivate, and solicit new donor prospects for Farm Foundation; create strategies to solicit both restricted and unrestricted support; manage annual giving campaigns; drive, capture, and maintain donor data in CRM; develop donor and fundraising reports; collaborate across the team on special initiatives. •Fundraising: Lead the fundraising efforts annually for two Round Table meetings with corporate sponsors, auctions, special events, and annual giving campaigns. Develop new specialized campaigns to cultivate young donors and new partners. Organize the events and giving asks around the Friends of Farm Foundation program. •Reporting & Evaluation: Develop a donor stewardship plan to build stronger relationships with current donors and to reach out to new prospects; evaluate fundraising efforts through annual benchmarking report; create weekly development project reports to evaluate progress towards goals; create tracking measures to develop data points on key stakeholders and potential corporate partners; maintain donor data in CRM and develop additional tools and strategies on managing renewals and annual campaigns.

Primary Responsibilities: Provide foundation for improving operational efficiencies within the home office and remote settings for AEB team members. Assist CEO and COO in preparing for meetings, developing reports, creating presentations, and organizing strategic planning documents. Lead the development and management of a fall, spring, and summer internship program for college students.

Primary Responsibilities: Provide strategic leadership and create synergistic relationships with staff and faculty to encourage a model of teamwork towards serving the needs within recruitment, retention, student development, and alumni initiatives for stakeholders. •Leadership: Directly supervise, coach, support, and evaluate 4 full-time professionals and a team of undergraduate student employees; Oversee annual budget of $100,000 to allocate funds to key strategic initiatives and goals within the college; including $10,000 of student professional development funds •Assessments: Create assessments and reports to measure, evaluate, direct, and communicate the impact of student recruitment, development, and retention initiatives utilizing Qualtrics: Senior Surveys; Intrusive Advising Surveys; Recruitment Surveys; Stakeholder Surveys; Annual Recruitment/Student Programs Report; Graduation Report; Stakeholder Report•Student Retention & Development: Lead programs related to student development and retention: CoA Parent Council; Ag Tiger Tutoring; Ag Alumni Speaker Series; Peer Mentors; AGRI 1001 First-Year Seminar courses; CoA Mentoring Program; Welcome Week (university and college); Career Prep Week; Ag Week; Midterm intervention retention meetings with first-year students; Pre-Vet student retention intervention; Advise Agriculture Student Association, Peer Mentors, and serve as co-advisor to Les Voyageurs (Ag Student Ambassadors) and Tigers for Cultivating Change•Fundraising: Manage small annual campaigns and projects to fund student development initiatives, annually $10,000: Ag Holiday Boxes; Study Abroad Crowdfunding; Day of Service Project; Lagniappe for Tigers (donor project for prospective student visits); Bash on the Bayou (scholarship fundraising event)

Primary Responsibilities: Established a formalized recruitment plan for undergraduate students and introduced, oversaw the restructure of the scholarship awards process, and created key student development programs for retention.•Leadership: Established an extensive recruitment plan to provide structure to the recruitment initiatives and continued to grow student enrollment by engaging diverse audiences in the recruitment process; directly supervised, coached, supported, and evaluated a recruitment team of 3 staff members, graduate and undergraduate student employees•Recruitment: Managed visit process for personal and group tours for prospective students; created specialized agriculture recruitment events and represented the university at recruitment programs; established communication plan for admitted students; worked with communications team to create branded materials and websites•Student Retention & Development: Advised and trained the Les Voyageur recruitment team of 22 undergraduate students with a co-advisor; advised the Agriculture Student Association officer team; developed and organized the LSU Ag Mentoring Program with development, alumni, and career development staff for current students and alumni/supporters; created a schedule of annual programming focused on student development and networking opportunities

Primary Responsibilities: Conceptualized a recruitment and communication plan to reach a diverse audience and engage prospective students by managing an extensive recruitment travel schedule to high schools, community colleges, and university events. Served as a liaison between the Ag Alumni Association and the Dean’s Office to create a working relationship for developing engagement and fundraising initiatives. •Recruitment: Managed over 18 annual on and off-campus recruitment events for audiences up to 1,500 people and scheduled personal on-campus meetings and tours with over 150 prospective students and their families each year•Advising: Advised and trained the Ag Ambassador team of 25 undergraduate students by attending weekly officer and team meetings, organizing retreats, scheduling the annual service and professional development trip, and assisting in coordinating a study abroad trip to China•Fundraising and Alumni Relations: Maintained donor relations for sponsorships of recruitment programs, student leadership trips, and scholarships raising over $90,000 each year; advanced alumni connections by introducing revised events, communication methods, and programs including: Alumni Mentoring Program, alumni fundraising socials and homecoming events, annual Agriculture Hall of Honor awards program, establishing a women’s donor society, and an Outstanding Alumni Awards Program event; provided direct support to the Agricultural Alumni Association executive board and board members to: prepare for meetings, maintain database of members, establish event calendar, create promotional pieces and serve as the liaison between the board and the Dean’s Office

Primary Responsibilities: Admitted to a highly selective cohort of recent college graduates and career changers committed to raising student achievement in Mecklenburg County’s highest needs schools.•Developed rigorous assessments, unit plans, daily lesson plans, labs, and demonstrations with a focus on student achievement for 127 students•Measured student growth and achievement through administering diagnostic and summative assessments to track student data and implement strategies for success•Served as a TEACH Charlotte Ambassador to recruit prospective applicants, promote TEACH Charlotte, and share personal teaching experiences

Primary Responsibilities: Developed an extensive recruitment plan to increase enrollment within the department and created opportunities for student development and alumni networking.•Recruitment and Outreach: Implemented a database for prospective student information and designed a schedule of communication with over 1,700 students; Introduced youth outreach activities for 1st grade through high school students including: summer camps, campus workshops, science lab activities, children field days, hands-on workshops, and high school classroom visits; Improved and created materials for recruiting including: brochures, promotional items, newsletters, and websites; Organize scholarship application and awards process for incoming and current students •Student Development: Established professional development and networking events for undergraduate students including: resume workshops, career fairs, and industry and alumni seminars; Advised 40 club members and 6 officers, tripled fundraising to raise over $7,000 a semester, and doubled participation and outreach activities•Alumni Relations: Planned alumni events, including an annual golf outing sponsored by donors and industry support; established alumni communications through yearly newsletters, tailgate event presentations, and alumni booths at events

• Designed and created a curriculum for a course to help educate students on the first year college experience and served as the instructor for over 100 incoming students with the support of 2 undergraduate teaching assistants• Advised and trained the College Agbassadors®, an exclusive recruitment team of undergraduates, and traveled to high schools, community colleges, tradeshows and conventions throughout the Midwest to recruit prospective students• Coordinated a variety of events for current students, prospective students, and alumni including: job fairs, career development workshops, open houses, and specialized events for prospective students and alumni ranging from small audiences to events with over 1,000 guests• Maintained a database of prospective students and coordinated distribution of hand written note-cards and phone calls to over 4,000 prospective students • Completed three internships during undergraduate and graduate career: Syngenta Crop Protection—Sales Intern, AgCareers.com—Campus Liaison, The Maschhoffs, Inc.—Research Intern

Assisted sales representatives for two summers in sales territories in Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana, and Michigan, with a focus on the aerial application coordination of fungicides and insecticides on corn and soybeans.

Publicized career opportunities to classes, clubs, and faculty, submitted weekly outreach reports

Developed a photograph illustrated swine production manual as a tool for managers to use in employee training.