Dane Hawley, M.S. Email & Phone Number

Henderson, Nv, Us

Las Vegas, Nevada

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTSLeadership and Corporate Communications• Ghostwrite for the vice president and provide messaging counsel through email correspondence/visual presentations/speeches/talking points.• Prepare periodic information summaries and administrative responses to the college president and Nevada System of Higher Education officials.• Lead planning committee, develop theme and prepare presentations for the annual Student Affairs in-service program for about 130 staff.• Guide a subcommittee to research and propose the future state scope and delivery of virtual student services for online-only college learners.Marketing Communications and Project Management • Serve as the communications strategist for Student Affairs, conducting best-practices research and overseeing special project initiatives.• Partner with Student Affairs assessment leads to aggregate, report and analyze weekly- and semester-based data measures for accreditation compliance and continuous process improvements. • Write all content and publish a monthly e-newsletter for Student Affairs staff.• Research messaging needs, write and publish content for high-level webpages within Student Affairs.Crisis and Issues Management (Exclusive to Spring/Summer 2020)• Contributed content to email communications and webpages for pandemic updates and surveys that analyzed students’ resource needs.• Collaborated with Web Services to create a centrally located, easy-to-follow messaging menu on each office’s homepage for direct student communications to Student Affairs.• Developed, implemented and aggregated the internal, limited-time Daily Metrics Report—a concise instrument to collect high-level qualitative and quantitative operations data from all 15 offices, as employees worked remotely.• Ghostwrote near-weekly “fireside chat” email messages as the vice president to reinforce a sense of community, pride and collaboration as Student Affairs staff continued working remotely.

Fort Wayne, Indiana Area

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTSMarketing Communications and Grant Writing• Author feature articles and ghostwrite marketing content for print and digital audiences.• Write and/or edit grants and funding applications for nonprofit organizations.

Fort Wayne, Indiana

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTSLeadership• Chaired Enhancing the Student Experience, an eight-member, multidisciplinary committee to plan and execute digital and print engagement collateral to support student retention.• Shadowed an events director to stage A Reason to Taste, an annual fine-dining gala and auction, to raise nearly $500k for academic scholarships and programs during the event’s first six years. Wrote and disseminated the event’s digital and print collateral. Marketing Communications and Project Management • Coordinated planning and production, created content (e.g., articles and visual assets), and managed budget and contributors for the award-winning Inside Ivy Tech, a quarterly print magazine for alumni and community leaders (12k circ.).• Facilitated meetings with internal stakeholders to plan and disseminate digital and print collateral for various administrative, development, enrollment and community relations initiatives.• Crafted “Connect the Dots,” a targeted enrollment campaign for the institution’s technology programs that achieved a 16% inquiry rate among high school attendees (college prospects) at TechFest 2017.• Storyboarded visuals, wrote scripts and scheduled on-camera talent/locations for select email marketing and webpage videos.Media Relations • Prepared communication plans, wrote press releases/web/social media content for priority initiatives, such as Disney Institute sessions, Go Ivy Day campus visits and IvyLiving personal enrichment classes. • Maintained media contact list and wrote story pitches, op-ed columns and press releases to achieve a 96% earned media coverage success rate in 2017; 94% earned media coverage success rate in 2016.• Served as a media relations liaison by coordinating college statements and periodic news conferences, as well as assisting reporters to gather storytelling visuals (e.g., photo shoots and b-roll video) and provide subject-matter expert introductions. Documented media coverage outcomes.

Fort Wayne, Indiana

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTSResearch and Strategic Communications• Researched grantors, partnered with faculty and staff, and managed project timelines and budget requests to pursue external grants and funding applications. Secured more than $150k in eight months to support key organizational initiatives, such as a support services coordinator for student-veterans, a Fulbright scholar to teach and tutor Spanish, and a materials science camp to inspire regional secondary school STEM teachers through classroom experiments.• Wrote case statement and stewardship content for the nearly $50m Dream Big capital campaign (e.g., booklet and email marketing).• Composed donor profiles and correspondence regarding general stewardship news, donor-specific gift impact and event/program support.External Awareness and Interpersonal Skills• Partnered with the Office of Financial Aid on donor-sponsored scholarship descriptions and award practices.• Planned, promoted and evaluated campus and community social events to cultivate alumni relationships and inspire philanthropy and volunteerism.

Fort Wayne, Indiana

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTSMarketing Communications and Project Management• Authored signature article/news briefs and coordinated production for the IPFW Alumni Newsletter, a six-times-a-year print publication (20k circ.).• Collaborated with the Office of Research and External Support to write technical research profiles and coordinate production for the ORES Annual Report (e.g., booklet) and “Featured Faculty,” an annual marketing campaign (e.g., booklet, press release, press conference, profile videos and website) to spotlight researcher excellence.• Wrote profiles for the Office of Development’s annual IPFW Honor Roll of Donors (e.g., booklet), as well as content for annual giving, capital campaign and impact reporting print collateral.• Wrote direct mail enrollment collateral (e.g., viewbook, fact sheets and post cards) for the Office of Admissions to promote student recruitment.• Contributed employee relations content and edited the Office of Human Resources’ HR Matters, a quarterly print newsletter.• Edited scholarlypartnershipsedu, the School of Education’s biannual, peer-reviewed print research journal.• Proofread collegewide print collateral for IPFW branding standards, clarity, grammar, spelling, punctuation and AP Style.• Chaired the campuswide editorial style committee.

M.S. In Organizational Leadership And Supervision, Dual Concentration: Human Resource Management/Organizational Leadership (Cum Laude)

Activities and Societies: Society for Human Resource Management (campus chapter), vice president

B.S.Ed. In Journalism (Cum Laude)/B.S.Ed. In Speech Communication (Cum Laude)

Activities and Societies: Association of University Residence Halls, Hanley Honor Hall representative; Golden Key National Honor Society.

A.S. In Journalism/A.S. In Web Design/Webmaster (Magna Cum Laude)

Activities and Societies: Literacy Volunteers of America, tutor; SIFE (Students In Free Enterprise), public relations officer; “.