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Raised visibility of NCSS’s mission, goals and priorities, and promoted understanding of the social studies profession by building a shared vision and voice for social studies education.Effective Media Outreach and Responsiveness• Utilized media inquiries strategically to provide opportunities for NCSS leaders to communicate their thought leadership on controversial topics: “How Social Studies Educators approach the holiday named after Columbus” by Robert Segal, NPR; “Recess: How the heck do you approach Columbus Day?,” by Roger Riddell, Education Dive; “How American High Schools Teach the Iraq War,” by Nick Robins-Early and Rebecca Klein, Huff Post. • Deployed targeted media pitching that resulted in articles that highlighted and distilled the meaning of key social studies issues to target audiences: “Studying Asian Americans Made Me One,” by Frank H. Wu, Huff Post, and “Could Requiring Students to Take the Citizenship Test Do More Harm than Good?” by Stephen Sawchuck, Education Week. Social Media Strategy Development and Implementation• Developed and implemented a baseline social media communication strategy anchored on dissemination channel data analytics and targeting audiences interested in professional development opportunities, legislative advocacy, and social studies industry news. • Raised social media presence by increasing message consistency across platforms and adjusting post frequency on Facebook and Twitter to above the non-profit education industry average.• Developed frameworks and protocols vetted by the organization’s internal stakeholders to guide NCSS and associated groups in their NCSS communications and marketing messaging across dissemination modes and channels.

Silver Spring, Md

Aligned and revitalized activities and communication strategies to facilitate information exchanges with various NCSS communities; increased leader and member engagement, and activated grassroots legislative advocacy efforts; and facilitated departmental pivoting to engage in high-impact initiatives arising from collaborations or grants addressing urgent social studies teacher needs.Developed a culture of openness, inclusiveness, mutual support and trust: • Facilitated departmental transitions of a newly organized department by creating a culture where our diverse team felt included and comfortable to express themselves and to discuss work frankly.Revitalized communications and functionality of intra-organizational governance networks:• Convened meetings and online forums for the organization’s affiliate network of over 120 state and local social studies councils, special interest communities and associated groups, to discuss key issues affecting the social studies profession across the nation.Activated grassroots legislative advocacy across internal and external networks:• Tailored annual leadership institute to meet the advocacy professional learning needs of more than 45 NCSS state council leaders, including the development and delivery of legislative messaging to Members of Congress. Participants represented more than 35,000 educators nationwide.• In collaboration with a legislative consultant, defined common legislative priorities between NCSS, the Civic Mission of Schools Coalition, Council for Economic Education, and National Geographic, and developed a joint call-to-action message disseminated to more than 50,000 constituents.

Silver Spring, Md

Identified synergies between NCSS and external partner organizations and utilized those shared interests in initiating and/or fine-tuning proposed collaborative efforts that would advance NCSS goals and priorities and stakeholder/collaborator educational objectives.Strengthened strategic network and partnership building:• Utilized insights gained from extensive communications with NCSS leaders and outside groups to inform and conceptualize collaborative efforts that would meet both NCSS and proposed collaborator objectives. This included relationship-building with sponsors such as Farmers Insurance, and education partners such as the Center for Civic Education, Save Our History and others. • Represented NCSS internationally to further strategic partnerships that would inform or meet NCSS goals and priorities at Civitas World Congresses in Budapest, Hungary, and Amman, Jordan, as well as Civitas Regional country meetings in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and Abuja, Nigeria. Strengthened internal process and structure:• In conjunction with the Board of Directors, streamlined NCSS’s collaboration and endorsement policy guidelines to achieve a more efficient and transparent proposal review and approval process.• Collaborated with the executive director in re-envisioning the roles and responsibilities of two departments representing five staff that had to be reconfigured into a new three-staff External Relations and Council Communications department.

Silver Spring, Md

Raised the visibility of social studies by strengthening the process leading to the recognition of outstanding social studies educators, researchers, administrators and programs and by providing feedback to association decision-makers on proposal fit of collaboration and endorsement requests.Streamlined and built program efficiencies:• Streamlined, structured, and implemented a recognition programs cycle that included: developing and issuing a timely annual call for nominations; effectively staffing, guiding, communicating and facilitating the review and selection process for fourteen volunteer groups (over 70 volunteers); nurturing relationships with award and grant sponsors; and giving more prominence to annual conference recognition and best practice dissemination events.Built and strengthened sponsor relationships and partnerships:• Managed and nurtured recognition program sponsor relationships with Weekly Reader, Time for Kids, Scholastic, Junior Scholastic, National Geographic, Nystrom, Nystrom|Herff Jones, Social Studies School Service, and Farmers Insurance. This included sponsor recruitment, benefits package development, and agreement implementation. Sponsorships ranged between $2,500 and $150,000 annually. The longest and most substantial being from Farmers Insurance and lasting for over fifteen years.

Washington, Dc

Quota International was my introduction to the impactful work associations are capable of doing. The focus of this particular association was, and still is, to empower women, children, the deaf, hard-of-hearing, and speech-impaired in local communities around the world. As Membership Services Project Manager I was the liaison to district leaders, new club organizers and presidents, and managed new club organization, as well as charter dissolution and revocation, among other responsibilities.It was invigorating to be a part of the significant contributions being made by volunteers in and outside of the United States that transcended their cultural, geographic, and even socio-economic differences through their common belief, purpose and actions towards empowering women, children and deaf/hard-of-hearing individuals, under an umbrella association that made it possible for them to coalesce and take action.

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