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Scottsdale, Az, Us

Phoenix, Az, Us

Phoenix, Az, Us

Fundraising: Builds fruitful relationships with community partners, donors, and alumni. Manages the steps of the donor lifecycle. Creates opportunities for individuals and businesses to contribute meaningfully to Phoenix College in support of student success. Collaborates with internal and external partners to create or increase scholarship giving. Builds a culture of philanthropy through connections with college staff.Volunteer Management: Designs and implements volunteer development programs that promote the identification, cultivation, recruitment, and retention of alumni supporters. Screens and matches volunteers to college's needs and opportunities. Trains and orients new volunteers. Creates volunteer program materials (i.e. policies and procedures, volunteer profiles, and orientation notebooks). Evaluates volunteer alumni programs and ROI for the college. Community Relations: Plans, implements and oversees events which foster community and alumni participation and fundraising. Develops relationships with community partners and neighborhood associations to foster involvement with Phoenix College leveraging their time, talent, and resources for increased student success. Alumni Relations: Fosters relationships with alumni through engaging electronic, paper-based, phone, social media, and in-person contact. Manages alumni mentoring program and collaborates with interdepartmental colleagues to increase mentorship participation rates across the college. Promotes friendraising program through alumni newsletters, blogs, alumni profiles, and webpage maintenance. Coordinates the development of the alumni database and maintains data integrity of alumni records. Facilitates strategic planning sessions with the Alumni Association for mission and goal setting objectives. Develops surveys and collateral marketing material to capture alumni information.

Tempe, Az, Us

Instructed students in PAD122 (Human Resources in the Public Sector) including lessons on succession planning strategies, staff/talent development, and supervisor performance appraisal issues. Facilitated learning of human resources concepts and overall business writing techniques. Developed and designed hybrid course format for City of Tempe cohorts. Communicated with students via e-mail, phone, and online discussion boards.

Tempe, Az, Us

As the Institutional Effectiveness Coordinator I managed the data collection efforts for the fiscal year Rio Salado Fact Book by analyzing complex student data sets and collaborating with a diverse group of faculty, administration, Institutional Advancement and academic deans to publish relevant college and program information. I connected with student alumni through e-mail and phone regarding alumni surveys and paid college level outcomes assessment opportunities. Additionally, I collaborated with faculty chairs in data collection processes and implemented improved strategies for college-wide institutional effectiveness assessments and comprehensive program review reports. Another primary responsibility was the design of survey research projects and writing of comprehensive reports using various quantitative, qualitative methods utilizing SPSS software. I also examined and published program-level pass rates and graphs for internal program review on Institutional Research SharePoint site and external transparency efforts (i.e. College Choices of Adults). All information researched and new processes were presented to faculty chairs and staff in a user-friendly format. A major focus on my work was the coordination of critical thinking, writing and reading student learning outcomes assessments for faculty reporting. I collected and reported data for the HLC subcommittee on persistence and graduation rates for long-range planning and benchmarking goals. Additionally, I designed online and print-based surveys utilizing survey creation software (e.g. eXplorance Blue, Survey Monkey, Remark, etc.) based on faculty and staff proposed outcomes. Another responsibility was the supervision and delegation of work to part-time staff. *Presented at the “Improving Assessment of Online Programs Using the Transparency by Design Model” WCET national webcast for WICHE (Broadcast Date: September 29, 2011)

Tempe, Az, Us

On an ad-hoc cyclical basis, I served as an employee development trainer. I was responsible for leading the second day (of a three-day seminar) of the new employee on-boarding program. Additionally, I facilitated learning of StrengthsQuest materials to cohorts of employees and served as the StrengthsQuest liaison to three departments (i.e.planning on-going learning material and interactive meetings). As a facilitator, I developed engaging activities to increase adult learning outcomes, assisted in the development of curriculum for employee seminars, and designed assessment and evaluation tools for measuring training delivery outcomes & objectives.

Tempe, Az, Us

As the primary analyst, I collaborated with faculty chairs in data collection processes and implemented improved strategies for college-wide institutional effectiveness assessments (i.e. Writing and Critical Thinking Analysis) and reports. Additionally, I coordinated data collection efforts for fiscal year Rio Salado Fact Book by analyzing complex student data sets and collaborating with faculty, administration, Institutional Advancement and academic deans to publish relevant college and program information. Other responsibilities included: analyze and publish program-level pass rates for internal program review on Institutional Research SharePoint site and external transparency efforts (i.e. College Choices for Adults website); coordinate district-wide wellness program surveys and reporting (i.e. Chancellor's Yearly Monitoring Report); develop online and print-based surveys to evaluate training effectiveness and employee engagement; organize survey research and create reports; develop advanced Hyperion queries and manage complex data sets for internal and external requests utilizing various data warehouses (e.g. IRIS, RDS, Perception, eLearning); collaborate with Institutional Advancement on student demographic data published to Rio Salado public website; present new processes to faculty chairs at informal meetings and during Development team; design and facilitate training sessions for department staff in preparation for HLC accreditation.

Tempe, Az, Us

Collected, researched, and wrote reports on student and dental evaluations, pre and post tests, and quarterly wellness reports. Constructed, analyzed, and interpreted data from Hyperion queries and SPSS for ad hoc requests and reporting. Built and utilized Access databases for report generation. Trained part-time staff in student evaluation procedures and assisted in various department projects.

Denver, Colorado, Us

Performed Competitor Analysis through phone and in-person shops. Created and ran occupancy & target market reports weekly for Regional Vice President. Developed and distributed marketing fliers to local businesses and analyzed resultant sales per promotion. Increased resident occupancy as a team from 78% to 90% in only 4 months, surpassing all budgeted goals

Met home sales quotas, collaborated with mortgage companies to secure loans, served as local media buyer for billboard promotions, and implemented sales campaign to reach educator demographic and developed advertisements for local papers.

Decatur, Il, Us

Responsible for the recruitment of prospective music students through direct mailings, telephone interviews, and guided tours while also managing the student database BANNER.

St Louis, Missouri, Us

Experienced in informational interview techniques, conducted observational research, interceptand exit interviews of zoo patrons at various attractions for improvement and educational projects. Events planning examples include assisting with evening fundraising events and heading the promotional effort to welcome a new elephant to the River's Edge Exhibit. As part of Guest Relations Management, I supervised over 50 customer service representatives in ticket sales and tour guides via the Zooline Railroad. Additionally, I trained conductors on how to give guided tours of the Zoo and cash handling procedures. As a seasoned supervisor, I handled the balancing of the end-of-day accounts for ticketing sales at attractions.

Graduate Certificate In Instructional Design, Instructional Design

Masters Of Public Administration (M.P.A.), Public Administration

Bachelor Of Science, Marketing (Music Minor)

New Designs For Fundraising Certificate