Danielle Ely Email & Phone Number

Boone, North Carolina, United States

• Lead evangelistic project for a 9-country region in West Africa alongside the Regional Director.• Manage, monitor, and report on The Greatest Journey (TGJ) discipleship program offered to over 1 million children in West Africa each year at initial outreach events hosted by trained local churches.• Determine annual country budgets, ministry material order and global distribution plan based on goals set in collaboration with the National Leader volunteer Teams (NLTs).• Supervise and deploy 9 international contractors (International Field Representatives, or IFRs) to meet global goals.• Coach 54 NLT volunteers and recruit qualified volunteers to fill open NLT positions.• Train 650 (and growing) leader volunteers each year at international conferences and several subject-specific trainings.• Translate and submit target number of high-quality testimonials to Communications for publishing/producing.• Travel within West Africa Region approximately 100 days per year.

Boone, North Carolina, United States

• Trained National (NLT) and Regional (sRLT and RLT) Leadership Teams in the area of financial resources within a Super-Region of 42 countries.• Developed content and facilitation strategy of training events focused on the Resource Coordinator Role.• Collaborated with directors, managers, and NLTs to create an annual budget for each country to be funded by SP.• Tracked and managed in-country budgets up to $938, 375 in the Super-Region.• Maintained accountability of each NLT of the region through monitoring Country Grant budgets via quarterly reports, annual reports and periodic spot checks.• Travelled within the Africa Super-Region approximately 50 days per year.

Boone, North Carolina, United States

• Facilitated logistical arrangements with the Travel Department to include processing of travel visas, airline reservations and materials for international regional consultations and meetings in assigned regions.• Coordinated airline reservations, travel authorizations and reimbursements for directors, managers, and contractors.• Prepared correspondence through transcribing and translating letters, phone calls, and e-mails in French and English.• Presented administrative updates and coached staff on organizational policies.• Supported and collaborated with regional leadership teams and field representatives across three regions.• Travelled globally 20-25 days per year throughout West, Central, and West Coast Africa.

Wheaton, Illinois

• Graded student work for three French classes.• Met with 14 students individually for weekly conversation sessions, conducted entirely in French.• Worked with French professor to structure curriculum for French conversation sessions .• Posed questions about each unit in the curriculum to encourage students to use new vocabulary.• Answered students' questions about French grammar and vocabulary.• Scheduled weekly sessions and communicated via email.• Facilitated “French Table” for students to practice French conversation.• Met with and carried out various tasks for the chair of the French department.

• Assisted manager with logistical planning and operations for concerts and donor events, strategized marketing decisions, provided staff support for audience development activities and events.• Supervised three assistants and multiple interns with sales, front of house displays and table space, poster distribution, social media management, greeting of patrons, and fielding of inquiries about the Artist Series.• Created and updated informational and promotional media presentations.• Sold tickets and merchandise, coordinated staffing of sales, calculated sales commission from merchandise sold for performing artists such as Sylvia McNair, Xuefei Yang, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and others.

Wheaton, Illinois

• Met with manager and attended marketing meetings to discuss promotional strategies.• Greeted patrons and answered questions about the Artist Series.• Gave short speeches about the impact of the Artist Series.• Sold tickets to the Wheaton student body and other patrons for Artist Series concerts. • Sold merchandise for the Wheaton College Artist Series and for the artists that performed for Artist Series concerts. • Hung promotional posters and prepared informational slide show presentations for the Artist Series.• Set up and tear down for post-concert receptions, donors meetings, and various other events.

Niger

• Crafted journalistic content for the Samaritan’s Purse blog by conducting interviews (in French or English), managing photography, and writing articles.• Increased social media following (Facebook, Twitter) for the Niger office of Samaritan’s Purse.• Produced several photo displays for headquarters.• Coordinated and taught French literacy and English conversation classes for national staff.• Translated and edited written reports.

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Education record

Activities and Societies: Women's Chorale, Intramural volleyball and ultimate frisbee, Swing Dance

Ib Diploma

Activities and Societies: Theater, Volleyball, National Honor Society, French Club