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Durham, Nc, Us

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States

Plan and implement all communications and outreach strategies, articulating the organization’s mission and vision and ensuring we are communicating effectively with all our audiences, including program participants, partners, and supporters.Develop and execute a proactive communications strategy that enables the organization to accomplish its mission more effectively, reach new audiences, and augment its reputation, including setting strategy, objectives, and metrics.Create/coordinate the creation of original content that engages various audience segments and leads to growth and development of the organization.Manage website, blog, social media accounts, communication with media, email, and print collateral. Initiate, plan, and complete a rebrand for the organization, including all visual elements and a new website, working with an outside contractor.Hire and manage new Community Outreach and Engagement Coordinator, tasked with sharing our work and opportunities with the public.Support the organization's strategic plan, particularly focusing on growth and development, both geographically and demographically.Market and launch a new down payment assistance program in partnership with the City of Durham, NC.Work closely with Executive Director and Development Manager to plan and execute fundraising campaigns.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Design and implement effective communications and outreach strategies and events, articulating the organization’s mission and vision in order to grow a base of support and rewrite the predominant narrative around the potential for all families and children to succeed. Develop and execute a proactive communications and media strategy that positions the organization as a thought leader, working to complement the organization’s strategic plan, including setting strategy, objectives, and metrics.Grow and train organization's Speakers’ Bureau, creating materials to be used for public events by trained team ambassadors.Create/coordinate the creation of original content that engages various audience segments and leads an increased perception of the organization as a thought leader and an effective, high-impact organization.Manage website, blog, social media accounts, communication with press, email, and print collateral. Manage all aspects of the organization’s cornerstone community events, leading planning and fundraising committees; recruiting, training, and supervising up to 300 event volunteers; hosting over 1000 community members; and ensuring successful messaging and outreach.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Book Harvest provides an abundance of books and ongoing literacy support to families and their children from birth and serves as a model for communities committed to ensuring that children are lifelong readers and learners. Our vision is of a world in which reading, learning, and access to information are considered rights, not privileges, so that all children thrive. We provide books to children from low-income families through partnerships with public schools, social service agencies, community health clinics, and other community partners, and we have distributed over one million books since 2011. With book ownership ranking as the number one predictor of academic success and 67% of American children living in poverty owning no books at all, we are changing the literacy and education landscape in our community one book and one child at a time!In my role as Community Partnerships Manager, I managed core programs, supervised and continually grew a regular team of volunteers, organized and staffed several major events, and developed and maintained partnerships with other community organizations.I recruited, trained, and managed approximately 40 weekly volunteers along with several hundred occasional volunteers.I coordinated and oversaw distribution of 2500 books per week to 35 different partner organizations.I managed our website, blog, and social media accounts, soliciting as well as creating content.I coordinated our annual Dream Big Book Drive, recruiting, training, and supervising more than 400 volunteers and overseeing the processing of over 40,000 books. I also planned and coordinated several other events throughout the year.I created and administered all aspects of a new program, which provided over 20,000 books to middle and high school students in its first year.I regularly spoke to groups, explaining the organization's mission and vision, and I also hosted weekly volunteer events, ranging from 10 to 50 participants.

Oversaw all communications for the ministry staff, including website, newsletter, and social media. Coordinated all communications to congregation ensuring consistent and regular messaging.Maintained and updated church website weekly using Expression Engine. Wrote and distributed weekly email newsletter using iContact, keeping congregation informed.Enhanced and maintained Facebook presence to streamline communication.

Developed, grew, and oversaw ministry to approximately 50 children, birth to fifth grade, on a weekly basis. Managed 40 volunteers, two staff members, and annual budget.Successfully modified existing curriculum and wrote new materials for preschool/kindergarten, lower elementary, and upper elementary classes on an ongoing basis.Coordinated childcare and children’s programming on a weekly basis, providing an ongoing and consistent educational experience.Implemented training for volunteers, improving services provided to children and families.Recruited, trained, mentored, and scheduled approximately 40 volunteers on a monthly basis.Established processes and procedures to ensure consistent high standards of education and care.Organized yearly church-wide Operation Christmas Child outreach project in connection with Samaritan’s Purse, developing momentum and growth over three years of participation.Worked with staff to plan and implement ministry strategies for a congregation comprising approximately 250 people.

Edited all external communication from the college and any published material, such as letters, graduation programs, press releases, and course catalogs, enabling consistency in format and style.Established consistent messaging to support marketing and community presence.Regularly proofread and edited the college’s website, ensuring all information met college guidelines.Updated and revised the college style guide to be used as the standard for all publications, incorporating both MLA and APA styles as appropriate.

Taught developmental writing and reading in both individual and group settings and worked with staff to provide educational support.Successfully hired, trained, scheduled, and supervised Campus Learning Center staff comprising about 10 professional tutors.Independently tutored vocational and technical students needing regular, ongoing individual instruction in writing and reading skills.Developed the Online Learning Center for the college, providing online tutoring for distance education students, winning an Effective Innovation Award in 2002.Taught Developmental English for incoming students whose writing skills assessed below the freshman level, receiving positive evaluations from students and faculty.Based on requests, designed and taught faculty workshops on topics such as research skills and plagiarism.