Cortney Leach, Mpa, Mlis Email & Phone Number

Tacoma, WA

• Leads prospecting, proposal development and submission, and coordinated management of school district activities related to external grant funding ($50M+ annually) and gifts in collaboration with district leadership.
• Oversight: coordinate development, review, and implementation of district priorities, policies, and procedures related to grant development and management; provide districtwide review of funding proposals for.
• Guidance and training: facilitate cross-departmental development of grant program and evaluation plans; provide funding opportunity identification and targeted dissemination; provide grant writing support, compliance.
• Communications: represent district strategic priorities and activities with federal, state, local government, and private funders; auditors; and community partners

Seattle, WA

• Provided strategic and catalytic guidance and support to leadership, 60+ faculty and research personnel, 11 organized research units, and 400 students to advance research mission and increase institutional.
• Development: one-on-one and team facilitation to define and develop research agendas; funding opportunity identification and targeted dissemination; grant proposal development and writing; partner identification and.
• Advising: human subjects; responsible conduct of research; intellectual property; team science; data management; research infrastructure services; dissemination and open science
• Administration: create and assess policies to support research success and maintain regulatory/fiscal compliance; strategic planning; internal seed fund advising; performance and outcome tracking and analysis
• Promotion and public external relations, including web and social media, events

Greater Seattle Area

• Bench and field research, analysis, and dissemination related to digital inclusion programs and policy in the U.S.
• Coordinated Impactsurvey.org, a web-based toolkit survey and advocacy toolkit that enables public libraries to collect and share the outcomes of providing public access technology services. Coordination of statistical.
• Author on Washington State Library IMLS LSTA (Library Services & Technology Act) 5-Year Evaluation. Conducted interviews and focus groups; statewide survey design and implementation; quantitative and qualitative.
• Community forum moderator for Framework for Digitally Inclusive Communities funded by IMLS. Facilitated deliberative dialog, documented outcomes to inform framework revisions

Seattle, WA

• Provided programming and evaluation support for the Public Access Technology Community of Practice, facilitating peer and expert learning among State Library Agencies to advance digital inclusion outcomes nationwide
• Designed, supported, and lead member surveys, webinars, in-person events; developed online forum structure and resources

Seattle, WA

Designed and conducted summative and formative program evaluations of two early literacy programs serving over 90,000 people annually in Seattle, WA; Developed program development and evaluation tools for library staff; conducted background and original research in support of a UW-SPL joint IMLS research grant proposal (Project VIEWS)

Seattle, WA

Selected and created database records for over 800 historically unique items in accordance with shifting departmental priorities; accurately cataloged over 5,000 United Nations and U.S. government documents from over 20 agencies using appropriate standards, including legal briefs, judicial rulings, and statements before committee; creatively problem-solved.

Greater Seattle Area

Provided confidential executive assistantance to Directors of Alumni Relations and Marketing/Revenue Development with scheduling, event planning, budget management, board management, meeting facilitation, program delivery, strategic communications, database management

Greater Seattle Area

Coordinated Executive Director’s Advisory Council and over 100 event volunteers; served as primary point of contact for public inquiries within Washington State; managed local website content to facilitate engagement of over 1,000 volunteers and event attendees; managed Gala auction database of over 500 items

Greater Seattle Area

• Coordinated all aspects of 15 central nervous system pharmaceutical research trials for 6 industry sponsors, including staff training, patient scheduling, creation of original source documentation, data collection.
• Coordinated successful communication between cross-disciplinary clinical and administrative teams, sponsor companies, vendors, and regulatory agencies
• Trained staff on the use of electronic and web-based data collection and investigational product tracking systems

Master, Public Administration

Activities and Societies: Pi Alpha Alpha Public Affairs Honor SocietyConcentrated coursework in program evaluation, research methods.

Master, Library & Information Science

Activities and Societies: Ruth Worden Award for Student Excellence in Library & Information Science, Friends of the Edmonds Library.

Bachelor Of Arts, Comparative Literature & French, Magna Cum Laude