Derek Kwait Email & Phone Number

New York, New York, United States

New York City Metropolitan Area

Greater New York City Area

Greater New York City Area

• Oversaw the development and execution of comprehensive advocacy strategies for an array of nonprofit clientele, utilizing skills in strategic planning, data analytics, and program implementation to devise, test, and carry out campaigns that enhanced brand identity and secured mission-critical funding for accounts. • Consistently leveraged creative and strategic acumen alongside client-centric relationship management aptitudes to produce all elements of campaigns, including copywriting, email deliverability, data management, quality assurance, and testing and reporting, to ultimately help clients achieve organizational objectives. • Helped establish an entirely new advocacy program for the Center for Popular Democracy, overseeing all aspects of strategy design, execution, and optimization, including an automated Facebook Messenger bot. • Spearheaded a major campaign strategy for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), helping the organization achieve a dramatic boost in reputation and brand identity. • Upheld efficient organization practices, streamlining key internal processes for the company.

Greater New York City Area

• Employed advanced skills in writing, brand identity, and content management to produce and edit copy; evaluated data analytics and helped support continuous content optimization efforts. • Managed email blasts and other community outreach and engagement operations, generating insightful material for an international audience of more than 9K members. • Drafted text for a speech given at a United Nations forum on religious tolerance; additionally, wrote materials for internal campaigns, social media posts, and various special projects.

Greater New York City Area

• Leveraged leadership skills, writing aptitudes, and operations management acumen to edit submissions, recruit new writers, and define brand strategy and voice for the publication; utilized technologies including Google Analytics, MailChimp, and WordPress to assess and manage site statistics and coordinate content distribution. • Coached and mentored a network of up to 50 contributors dispersed across the country, employing training and development tactics to support learning and growth for aspiring writers. • Established the organizational social media strategy, expanding reach by 50% in one year on Facebook and Twitter.

Supervised the kosher status of 3,000+ meals every day, which included overseeing food shipments and preparation and effectively handling problems as they arose. Much of this job also involved learning food prep and kitchen skills.

Served as a communal leader, organizer, and role model while recruiting, editing, and writing for the student blog, These and Those.

Jerusalem, Israel

Worked on the organization's LinkedIn and Facebook pages and wrote creative promotional copy.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Served as a reporter, videographer, and Israel blogger for Pittsburgh's largest Jewish newspaper.

Published 298 researched, informative articles on a wide range of topics.

Bachelor'S Degree, English Writing, Magna Cum Laude

Minors in film studies and Jewish studies.

Cinematography And Film/Video Production