Elise O'Brien Email and Phone Number

•Supervise and lead recruitment and admissions for all propsective and incoming families. Coordinate tours for all interested parties, and responsible for follow-up communications. •Work with administration to create standards for admission and set recruitment goals. •Oversee and execute enrollment process including collecting all required paperwork, forms and fees, communicating upcoming steps to incoming families, managing online enrollment within school’s enrollment management system. •Maintain daily, weekly, monthly & quarterly communications with school families, prospective families, Parish community, neighborhood associations, and local community. •Manage social media presence and create and lead marketing campaigns on social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Monitor school’s online presence and engage with users. •Launched and maintain school website, utilizing this a primary marketing and communications tool.

• Project-based work with Chicago-area schools. Projects include creating website and marketing material content and design, drafting school communications and newsletters, training staff on Admissions practices and coordinating and hosting events and live & silent auctions.

• Coordinate all marketing, enrollment and fundraising efforts to generate interest in school and attract potential families and donors. • Serve on school & Parish Leadership team, crafting curriculum, service activities, after-school programming and community activities. • Increased school enrollment over 65% in one year, 100% in three years, and 250% in 6 years, preventing potential closure.; achieved one of the highest enrollment increases among grade schools within the Chicago Archdiocese over this duration. • Organize, plan, design and host all school events including, St. Mary of the Angels School Oktoberfest in Bucktown, attended by over 1,000 guests, and the annual spring auction, Angels of Hope, raising over $128,000 for curriculum enrichment and after-school programming. • Launched and maintain school website, utilizing this as primary marketing and communications tool.• Maintain daily, weekly, monthly & quarterly communication with school families, prospective families, Parish community, Bucktown & West Town community and school alumni.• Research scholarship opportunities for lower-income families, choose qualified students and work with families to compose application and with the students to sustain scholarship academic requirements throughout their career as students.• Director of Parent School Association, acting as liason between parents and school administration, coordinating all parent chaired events and clubs.

• Designed and distributed direct mail and online media to increase awareness of organization and scholarship opportunities.