Christy Nitsche Email & Phone Number

Kansas City, Missouri, United States

The Director of Advancement leads, builds, and comprehensively articulates multi-faceted campaign and project strategies including, but not limited to, major gifts. Additionally, the Director participates in the identification, cultivation, solicitation, and engagement of prospects with connectivity and engagement to organization leaders and the Board. Responsible for overseeing all Advancement activities and acts as a liaison for the organization in the community and prioritizes communications regularly. Serves as the philanthropic and development expert advisor to the CEO/Executive Director, fellow senior leadership, and the Board in matters relating to organization advancement. Sits on relevant community and partner committees and takes responsibility for managing the Ability KC philanthropic and development campaigns and plans as they relate to funding and community priorities.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Provided strategic leadership and operational direction for all aspects of Union Station Kansas City's fundraising and community engagement efforts - including development programs and campaigns, memberships, sponsorships, community relations, and other related activities.

Kansas City, Missouri

Nitsche was instrumental in the significant turnaround and many successes of Kansas City’s Internally Award Winning institution. Responsibilities included the management of Education staff, educational programming development and execution, special science center events (including Easter Eggstravaganza, Maker Faire Kansas City, PNC kidFEST, Spookfest and Noon Year’s Eve) and the communications and marketing strategy for the science center.

Responsibilities included:• Direct management of 15 Science Center Educators.• Developing and maintaining key community and corporate partnerships for the Science Center.• Creating and executing the marketing communications strategy for the Science Center.• Designing and driving new STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) programming in the Science Center.

Liaison between Time Warner Cable, its customers and the community, developing key community partnerships and programs critical to the advancement of a new company philanthropic initiative and implementing public relations activities including internal communications pieces, community events, employee events, employee incentive/awards programs, employee volunteer program and local programming efforts.• Direct and manage all local philanthropic efforts, including a new company initiative focused on advancing science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) – Connect a Million Minds (CAMM). Maintain strong base of influential relationships with local leaders, non-profit and for-profit organizations.• Manage $200,000+ contributions/promotions budget while planning and/or participating in over 20 local STEM community events and/or programs. Managed the creative process for six locally-produced CAMM public service announcements and one 15-minute mini-documentary focused on the STEM crisis. Planned and managed the first annual Time Warner Cable STEMfest with an estimated attendance of 4,000.• Identify opportunities to promote the Time Warner Cable brand and enhance awareness of our product and services through media contact and appearances, community/customer presentations, representation at public functions, and partnering with other Time Warner Cable organizations in advancing the company’s image and promoting our products and services. • Serve as a customer liaison for Time Warner Cable and address related constituent needs of local and state government officials.• Work closely with Time Warner Cable Local Programming organization, providing public relations and promotion assistance to the organization’s events, programs and community partnerships. • Content manager for two internal sites and editor for daily employee communications tool.• Respond to all community sponsorship requests and manage monetary and in-kind tracking database, Microedge GIFTS.

Responsible for the creation and management of key internal and external public affairs initiatives. Provide creative guidance and successful management of key community and employee programs. • Revised and expanded state fact brochure project – Collaborate with numerous business units across all levels to gather, compile and edit key corporate data, as well as in-house creation, printing and distribution.• Owner and manager of two corporate Intranet sites.• Create and produce more than 20 customized community key leader newsletters for Public Affairs Managers throughout a 12-state region.• Successfully established and manage two Kansas Leaders of Tomorrow awards programs recognizing local youth for the commitment to community volunteerism.• Corporate Community Relations liaison.• Provide communications support to Government Affairs and Employee PAC with newsletters, collateral materials and grassroots and campaign initiatives.

Drove and project managed regulatory communications initiatives, including communications plans, managing direct mailings, creating and producing postcards, brochures, bill inserts and writing and scheduling mandated bill messages. • Project manager for national and regional regulatory initiatives – developed communications plans that included bill messages, inserts, customer letters, employee letters, Web site postings, press releases, directory updates and talking points. • Project manager for 19 state fact brochures – collaborated with numerous business units to gather, compile and edit key corporate data included in the brochure. Coordinated artwork creation, printing and distribution process of more than 40,000 pieces.• Managed mandated/regulated bill package for 9-state region, as well as all national and cross-regional issues – team lead for billing coordinators that managed all bill package issues, including transition to new EMBARQ invoice vendor.• Managed the EMBARQ Retiree Website.

Promoted understanding and support of company activities through management of the billing communications package for a 9-state region, utilizing Bill Message Workbench (BMW) computer system.• Accurately wrote and scheduled mandated customer communications in the bill for multiple business units and interpret complex information into stakeholder communications, including annual mandated notification. • Managed mandated/regulated bill package for 9-state region, as well as all national and cross-regional issues – team lead for billing coordinators that managed all bill package issues. • Managed the Sprint Retiree Website. • Ensured compliance with customer communications regulations for the 18 states with Sprint local telephone operations in preparation of the spin-off from Sprint.

Promoted understanding and support of company activities through management of the billing communications package for a 9-state region, utilizing Bill Message Workbench (BMW) computer system.• Accurately wrote and scheduled mandated customer communications in the bill for multiple business units and interpret complex information into stakeholder communications, including annual mandated notification.• Chaired the monthly meetings to improve processes and achieve standardization for customer notification in the billing package.• Assured accuracy of information and additions of regulatory mandated information in telephone directories for six states.• Ensured integrity of two budgets by analyzing monthly results and communicating with key managers.• Served as corporate representative at the NE Johnson County and Shawnee Chambers of Commerce – served on the NE Johnson County Chamber’s Women’s Symposium Committee.

Facilitated lifecycle of hiring and sales process, which included cold calling, sourcing, recruiting, interviewing, scheduling, reference checking, tracking, salary negotiations, closing and new hire follow-through.• Actively recruited top professionals in the Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology and Agriculture industries• Built strategic relationships with clients and candidates through telephone interaction with executive level hiring professionals • Successfully sourced, interviewed and recruited candidates nationally through networking, cold-calling, referrals, industry associations and internet sourcing• Conducted legal and professional interviews, as well as thorough reference checks• Assisted candidates through the entire placement process, including compensation negotiations and relocation issues• Broadened the focus of The Chase Group, Inc. Agriculture clientele from small, regional cooperatives to include large, global agriculture corporations

Bachelor Of Science, Agriculture & Public Relations

Activities and Societies: Ag Ambassadors, Cardinal Key, Delta Tau Alpha, Mortar Board, NAMA, and the Missouri Pork Producers Association.

Mba, Marketing

Activities and Societies: Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM) - Ottawa Student Chapter