Amanda Davis Email and Phone Number

Manage classroom of 17-22 students, keeping them on task and rotating them through activities throughout the day. As a tutor, I taught small group lessons on English language skills, reading comprehension, test taking skills, and mindfulness.

My responsibilities include teaching music to children ages 2-6, using music to reinforce the concepts the children are learning in class, and to direct performances for the families of the children.

Work to organize and optimize administrative systems, to create and refine internal and external communications, and manage various ongoing and short-term projects.

• Implemented strategic plan to create and build the organization, and to produce a play.• Secured funding for first production from local partners and individuals.• Oversaw brand management, including designing the logo and building the website.• Wrote press releases and managed media relations.• Designed and implemented marketing plan for production.• Managed financial processes, including budgeting, and tracking revenues and expenses.• Established and maintained social networking and web presence.• Designed marketing materials including posters, postcards, and production web page.• Created and managed online crowd funding campaign through Indiegogo. • Negotiated contracts with local actors, worked with AEA to contract an Equity actor.

Wrote and edited grants for the fall grant cycle for various artistic and educational programs.Ensured accurate and complete grant submissions through exhaustive research of each granting institution and grant requirements, as well as community and organization-specific information, including census data.

• Directed outreach to Latino groups and organizations.• Coordinated with local schools and educational groups to attend productions.• Worked with local businesses to encourage their participation in the fundraising gala.• Maintained database of silent auction donations, donor lists and contact information; coordinated pick-up and delivery of donated items.

•Extensively edited and formatted the accreditation reports for the College of Business’ re-accreditation process.•Worked closely with the Associate Dean to ensure accuracy and clarity throughout the narratives.•Formatted informational tables to be both attractive and easy to read.

Assisted Marketing department in all administrative areas.Participated in meetings with editors regarding marketing of new titles.Worked with a team to develop online social media marketing strategy and Facebook fan page.Wrote and copy edited regular posts for Getty Publications Facebook fan page.Created presentations of frontlist titles in Powerpoint for seasonal sales meetings with distributor.Assisted supervisor in choosing spreads from new titles for use by sales representatives in direct sales.Cold called potential customers for select titles.Coordinated flow of information to sales distributor regarding new titles.Assisted in verifying commission payments to various distributors and sales reps.Coordinated financial aspects of regular business, including paying invoices with purchasing card, creating purchase orders, reconciling monthly purchasing card statements, and filing expense reports for travel.Coordinated shipments of catalogs and some direct sales with our warehouse.Proofread book specific information in sales catalogs, order forms, ads, and other print media.Coordinated travel arrangements for attendance at book fairs and conferences.Maintained filing system for documents related to forthcoming, frontlist, and backlist titles.Scheduled various meetings for the department and maintained supervisor's calendar.

Maintained organization of the Children's Book area, assisted customers, reorganized featured titles and endcaps weekly throughout the store.

Assisted clients with creating and managing camp registrations.Answered phones and welcomed visitors.Managed database of camp registrations.Assisted Financial Officer with recording and receiving payments from clients.Managed database of clients, vendors, donors, and contacts.Participated in creative meetings.Gathered, organized and reported statistics for year-to-year comparisons.

Assisted in all aspects of creative planning for camp including editing of scripts, costuming all camp teams, leading a team of actors and technicians throughout the summer as we traveled to different camp sites, auditioned children for camp performances, engaged with rotating pastors and bands to help them be prepared for camp, engaged with parents and camp chaperones and Children's Ministers while at camp.