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Responsible for oversight and management of the agency's government grants and contracts. Serve as a compliance resource providing administrative leadership to assess, elevate, and manage agency workflows pertaining to grants administration.

Oakton, VA

• Responsible for prospecting funding opportunities and writing grant proposals to compellingly communicate Northern Virginia Family Service's mission and programs to potential funders.
• Cultivated and maintained strong working relationships with executive leadership, program management, and finance staff; coordinated across the agency and program areas to determine needs and funding alignment for.
• Managed prospecting, proposal development, and award/post-award processes for $25+ million in public grant funding from the Office of Head Start, Office of Refugee Resettlement, and state/local departments of community.
• Launched and administered an agency-wide grants management database to capture elements of the grants lifecycle from review through closeout, set and monitor task completion, and centralize documentation.

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Created and delivered programming in an effort to develop pathways along the continuum of learning to increase the interest and pool of diverse and qualified health professionals in the city of Philadelphia.
• Evaluated educational outcomes within the School District of Philadelphia and developed health science pipeline programs to provide supplemental instruction and increase knowledge of STEM and healthcare related fields.
• Cultivated relationships with administration and faculty in six area schools to identify needs and deliver nine STEM, health science, and college readiness programs for 250+ students annually.
• Project manager for the development of three academic enrichment programs for under-represented minorities, First Generation College students, and other disadvantaged populations.

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Served as a business strategy analyst for strategic initiatives within the Office of the Provost. Conducted due diligence research, developed and presented findings to executive leadership, and managed status reporting.
• Launched six new academic programs to augment current offerings and prepare graduates after consulting with clinical leads across the Jefferson enterprise to identify needs within an emerging healthcare.
• Built and managed status reporting for 50+ initiatives in academic and clinical departments. Provided matrix management to champion leads in developing goals, ensuring accountability, and streamlining reporting.
• Lead the process improvement conversion from paper-based reporting to JIRA virtual platform for pilot group to expand to all initiatives in FY18.
• Analyzed institutional and benchmark data to construct proposals to inform the due diligence and integration process of two universities into a new comprehensive university.

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Project coordinator for the Office of Academic Affairs. Prioritized responsibilities to three dotted line supervisors under direction of the Chief of Staff to the Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs.
• Supported the organizational restructure, process improvement and first-level budget analysis for seven academic departments including academic and student affairs and library services.
• Assisted in achieving five-year university re-accreditation in 2014 by instituting an organizational system in Excel and documenting Middle States’ appendices information and identifying gaps, redundancies.

634 Sproul Street, Chester PA 19013

• Increased volunteer retention and recruitment by 50% during 2012 holiday season for food/toy packing and delivery by implementing an electronic volunteer management system.

Chester, Pennsylvania

• Oversaw competitive scholarship program comprised of 60 students who served 300 hours in the community of Chester while receiving a $5,000 scholarship per year.
• Coached students to find service sites that aligned with professional goals while also providing sustainable impact for community partners.
• Eliminated waste while managing a reduced program budget of $70,000 to produce a $10,000 surplus that was invested in the next academic year.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Process Innovation

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Chemistry

Activities and Societies: Presidential Service Corps/Bonner Leader Program, Chemistry Club, Honors Program in General Education, Omicron.