David Thompson Email & Phone Number

Washington, Dc, Us

Arlington, Virginia, United States

Rockville, Maryland, United States

- Develop original and engaging communication materials for internal and external audiences, including newsletters, executive e-mails, memos, and intranet content.- Provide consultative review and editing support to ensure clear and effective messaging from internal stakeholders.- Utilize in-depth understanding of business operations to enhance the depth and relevance of communication materials.- Craft compelling visual communications to effectively convey key messages.- Contribute to company-wide communications to employees, covering organization values, strategy, performance, employee programs, policies, and tools.- Lead a department or small unit, overseeing multiple projects.- Take ownership of executing the functional strategy and providing operational direction to the department.- Interpret and administer policies, processes, and procedures.- Tackle complex challenges through thorough investigation and analysis.- Make decisions that have a significant impact on work processes and outcomes.- Influence others and effectively communicate with executive leadership to promote best practices.- Interact with internal personnel and external representatives to resolve operational and scheduling issues.- Collaborate closely with division leadership on company priorities.- Represent the company at external events and public forums.- Manage client-facing communications products and capture communications for multi-million dollar initiatives.- Shape and deliver impactful messages aligned with the organization's goals and values.

Rockville, Maryland

• Supported the Sustaining Health Outcomes through the Private Sector (SHOPS) Plus project, USAID’s $150 million 5-year flagship initiative in private sector health. • Support Abt’s portfolio of bilateral projects, including ones based in Egypt ($36 million), Bangladesh ($23 million), the Democratic Republic of Congo ($314 million), Uganda ($23 million), Tajikistan ($17 million), and Nepal ($41 million) working in a variety of sectors including global health, economic growth and trade, agriculture and food security, governance, gender equality and women’s empowerment, nutrition, and water and sanitation. • Support communications strategies and activities for the division and select projects through strategic messaging, event support, writing, editing, and social media.• Improve presentations, reports, and other documents through editing, formatting, graphic design, and photography.• Support external communications strategies for the International Development Division (IDD) and its projects.• Develop, design, and update communications materials, including stories, website copy, press releases, brochures and factsheets, videos, and social media messaging.• Liaise with Strategic Communications and other divisions to promote IDD project developments and updates through Abt website updates, social media outreach, conference organization and support, and the development and improvement of publications.• Follow external events that correspond to IDD practice areas and business development initiatives and track IDD attendance and event takeaways to promote divisional intelligence-sharing.• Support IDD business development processes through proposal research, writing, management, or other tasks as needed.• Serve as a division focal point for social media assistance and training.• Support production of the quarterly IDD e-newsletter.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Manage Social Media and digital marketing campaigns for Saylor Academy and day-to-day activities including: Developing content to reach the organizations target audiences.Related responsibilities include: customer service support, graphic design for social, website, and print, and blog writing.

Plan, implement and monitor Saylor Academy’s social media strategy. Additional and related duties include graphic design, digital marketing, blog writing, and analysis of social media analytics.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Assisted in the creation of social media content promoting Aid for Africa charity/non-profit members.

Falls Church, Virginia

Acted as a staff reporter and photographer writing articles on local issues, from school plays to city politics.

As a Barista with Starbucks I made all types of beverages, managed money and maintained a clean and inviting environment, as well as keeping all the customers highly satisfied.

Zambia

Photographed sites and students who had received bicycles from World Bicycle Relief (WBR) for documentation and awareness advertisement. Produced a short film for Dave Neiswander to show to potential donors back in the United States.

Zambia

Filmed NGO projects funded by USAID to collect a visual record of the impact on people receiving aid. This was done through research, interviews, logistics management and b-roll footage.

Master'S Degree, Global Media And Digital Cultures

Studying global media and digital cultures in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, focusing on the dynamics between media and politics.

Bachelor Of English (Creative Writing), Film/Cinema/Video Studies

Activities and Societies: Co-founder of Western Writers United