Specialisms include: Grant Writing - including State and Federal applications, Development direction and management, mentorship, strategy, processes and administrative efficiency. Drawing on 25+ years of experience in nonprofit management, direction, and administration.

Genealogy research services

Consultant for Heritage and international Travel. Advising on itineraries for clients and travel designers. Genealogical research and consultation for Heritage Travel.

I am consulting with a number of clients in both non-profit and private business - developing data-informed strategy, client retention and new business growth, and fundraising. Other services include genealogical and genetic genealogical research in accordance with BCG Genealogy Standards.

Client liaison, internal and external communications, project scheduling and overseeing narrative and branding projects. Media Arts management. Tracking and maintaining deliverables in a timely manner and in accordance with client needs and organizational capacity.

Major Accomplishments:Exceeded revenue goals in Clay Studio: achieving revenue of almost 200% of targetRebuilt education programs from covid closure to meet departmental revenue needs in just three quarters of the fiscal yearInitiated and delivered the first on-site Pride arts education programs at the organizationDeveloped targeted marketing strategies to reach interested students resulting in an increase in registration from 0 to more than 1000 student registrations in the first year post-covid. A return to pre-covid registration figures in just three quarters.Coordinated major grant application to recruit, mentor and train teaching artists from underserved communitiesDevised new programs in collaboration with the Visual Arts Department to deliver workshops and masterclasses by exhibiting artists.Developed a strategy for Glass Arts programs resulting in an increase of programming from one program per season pre-covid (before my time) to six programs per season as at Fall 2022.

Client liaison, internal and external communications, project scheduling and overseeing narrative and branding projects. Media Arts management. Tracking and maintaining deliverables in a timely manner and in accordance with client needs and organizational capacity. Pollen is a media arts organization that fosters empathy, encourages connection across difference, and inspires meaningful action by sharing stories of individuals who want to change our collective story for the better.

Project and program manager, administrator, poet, editor, creative writing facilitator.Major accomplishments:• Devised programs and facilitated creative writing workshops in educational, community and institutional settings• Customized programs for a variety of participants including visual or auditory impairment, mental health issues, learning difficulties and disabilities, dementia and autism • Worked with a variety of participants in different elements of their life, including children, adults, adults with social relationship challenges including prisoners and probationers• Reviewed, and edited anthologies of participants’ work• Developed, streamlined and facilitated numerous sessions including presentations, workshops, activities to encourage creativity, empathy and positivity Training includes Autism Awareness, Mental Health First Aid, Child Protection, Conflict Resolution and Dementia Friend.Performed with Scream Blue Murmur for a number of years, an interactive music and spoken word collective. SBM toured extensively internationally across four continents. As a solo performer, performed at the Glastonbury Festival and at venues and events across Europe and the US. Was awarded an Arts Council Grant to create a one-woman show exploring the experience of a parent in a child's struggle with mental health issues.

Financial accounting and business office support for two busy and energetic radio stations. Also Radio Traffic (commercials) scheduling and boardfile management.Software use includes MS Great Plains (Accounting), Mediascape (Sales), Marketron (Finance, management reports and Radio commercial copy and boardfile systems).Company closed in August 2020 due to Covid.

Position summary: Managed all aspects for the annual Poetry in Motion for Schools project, Poetry in Motion for the Community projects and the Seamus Heaney Awards (sole award in late Poet Laureate’s name). This included all regional projects for the largest community organization within Northern Ireland. Poetry in Motion is Community Arts Partnership’s innovative literary program for primary, secondary, grammar and special schools. Since 2001 more than 15,000 students have taken part in this project, and over 2,600 poems have been published. Poetry in Motion aims to develop the creative abilities and enable their poetic voice through language and image.Duties included the management, training, and mentoring of facilitators, facilitation of workshops, administration, budget control, event management, the editing and collation of audio and text based anthologies, supervision of the selection and shortlisting for the Seamus Heaney Awards.Achievements:• Appointed, trained, managed and mentored artist facilitators for school and community residencies and public events• Coordinated 60+ artist residencies in schools and communities per year• Developed, wrote and facilitated writing workshops on poetry, reminiscence and creativity.• Evaluated and monitored all LaVA programs for end of year reports• Managed annual budget of $50,000 and all financial expense tracking and processing• Coordinated and edited poetry submissions and anthologies for print and audio formats• Managed multiple large scale events (with up to 1,000+ attendees) each year• Promoted projects to schools and communities through development of relationships• Increased engagement with application process more than 200%• Press liaison & media management with local and regional press• Represented CAP, and presented, at national conferences• Managed the Seamus Heaney Awards for Achievement and for New Writing. Reviewed submissions, coordinated shortlisting, judging panel and adjudicated process.

Workshop facilitation for women on probation and on release from prison.Workshop facilitation focuses on writing from experience and therapeutic creative activity.

Strategic development and overall management of all contractual relationships and service level agreements for organization whose primary mission is to provide access to the arts for those people who have offended in Northern Ireland; through inspiration, creativity and encouragement of personal and social change in offenders within the criminal justice system, through the arts.Directorial and administrative duties. Advocacy, tenders, management of artists, six figure budgets, contract acquisition, office management, external liaison.Major accomplishments:• Successfully tendered for a contract with a major client at a time when the organization was facing closure and ensured its continuing viability• Inspired, managed and mentor a team of office staff and of 30 contracted artists of all disciplines• Streamlined, trimmed and responsible for overall $700,000 budget• Wrote multiple bids (tenders) for organization, and negotiated terms of agreement with clients resulting in $500,000 dollars for the organization • Managed the provision of art facilitation services to all four prisons within Northern Ireland • Responsible for generating and detailing out all financial reports• Participated in research and development within the European network of artists working with those currently incarcerated I turned down the offer to continue in this role on a permanent basis, due to family illness and in order to dedicate myself to just the work at Community Arts Partnership (which I had been managing simultaneously) and to my own business.

Delivery of lectures and seminars on the Certificate in the Teaching and Management of Adult Literacy and Essential SkillsDuties included preparation and delivery of lectures, mentoring and marking of assignments.

Executive assistant to senior management team and board of Directors. Scheduling, HR, minute-taking, project management, general administrative duties, fundraising.Left to pursue full-time self-employment due to high demand for my classes and workshops.