Chelley Mclear Email & Phone Number

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

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.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Genealogy research services

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

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

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.

Bloomington, Minnesota, United States

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.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

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.

• 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.

Minneapolis, MN

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.

Belfast, Northern Ireland

• 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.
• 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

Northern Ireland

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

Belfast, Northern Ireland

• 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.
• 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

Belfast, United Kingdom

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.

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

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.

Diploma Higher Education, Teaching And Management Of Literacy And Essential Skills, Distinction

Ba Hons, Theatre Studies, Upper Second Class

Financial Accounting, 4.0

Systems Thinking

Non-accredited online course. Completed December 2020.