Chris Elam Email & Phone Number

College Station, TX, US

College Station, Texas, United States

Manages the implementation and coordination of initiatives within the Extension Director’s office to manage guideposts and ensure timely completion.Oversight of strategic agency initiatives from development through successful execution under general guidance from the Director Communicates objectives between the Agency and executive leadership to facilitate.

Houston, Texas Area

Manage staff, precinct operations, and daily administrative duties including: budget, HR, public outreach, policy development, legislative initiatives, and special projects.Coordinate with all department heads to direct operations, community relations, and strategic planning for mobility, flood control, staffing, budgets, and operations within Precinct.

Austin, TX

Managed a staff of 4 employees with ownership of print media budgets, agency publications, presentations, branding, and public advertising for all 17 divisions. Liaised with all division heads to coordinate messaging, budgets, and agency communications strategies. Coordinated directly with Commissioner Bush and executive level staff to develop special.

Austin, Texas Area

• Responsible to create / coordinate legislative priorities for 17 agency divisions in the 2015 Legislative Session.
• Developed and drafted bills and legislation to support agency priorities through the analysis of state codes.
• Coordinated with executive level staff to create and standardize divisional evaluation reviews.
• Performed nationwide research in coordination with GLO-Disaster Recovery for the agency's submission in the competition for Superstorm Sandy federal disaster funding.
• Directed by executive level staff to research, construct, and develop the language for the agency’s RFQ process to ultimately hire a management company and development specialist for The Alamo.

Austin, TX

As campaign manager, Elam oversaw the day-to-day activities of the campaign's statewide staff of 15 employees and maintained the operational budget and its goals. He also established the communications matrix and forecast goals for the campaign's statewide voter program. Other duties performed, include: originated TV/radio scripts, large donor.

Austin, Texas Area

In June of 2012, Elam was promoted to serve as Deputy Executive Director for the RPT. In this role, he managed the day-to-day activities of 8 employees in the political, communications, organizational and outreach departments for the Republican Party of Texas while continuing in the role of statewide party spokesman. In conjunction with the RPT political.

Served as statewide party spokesman for the largest state Republican organization in the country. Regularly interfaced with national and statewide media regarding political activity and legislation. Led media coaching strategy for candidates, elected officials, grassroots, and campaign managers in both informal and formalized training sessions. Oversaw the.

Sugar Land, TX

Political advisor and campaign marketing consultant.Chris has consulted for dozens of successful candidates in Southeast Texas, from school board and city council, to State Senate and U.S. Congress. In his business, he regularly created and executed media strategy, crisis communications plans, and publications / electronic / broadcast media strategy on.