I work to strengthen communities and inspire giving!

• Oversee planning of all Career Center services and events and manage a $20,000 budget.• Actively cultivate new employer partnerships to connect students to professional opportunities.• Collaborate with recruiters to host several networking and recruitment events each year.• Supervise, motivate, and evaluate 3 professional staff and hire, co-supervise, and onboard 7 student employees.• Develop and design engaging presentations that contribute to student learning outcomes.• Manage biannual graduate outcomes survey implementation, evaluation and data reporting process.• Coordinate, implement and evaluate comprehensive strategic plan for department in line with University goals.• Serve on the Student Affairs Leadership Team and directly implement the University’s 5-year strategic plan.• Maintain responsibilities of Career Advisor/Coordinator of Events and Marketing position.

• Maintained duties of Director and Career Advisor/Coordinator of Events and Marketing roles.

Awards: Received "2019 Staff Above and Beyond Award"TRAINING & COACHING • Display attention-to-detail and organization through resume, LinkedIn and cover letter reviews, and facilitate mock interview, salary negotiation, and job search training. • Demonstrate customer service orientation while coaching students and alumni in their job search process. • Administer and interpret career assessments to encourage and equip students to take the next step in their career development.COMMUNICATION & MARKETING • Develop, coordinate, and execute comprehensive marketing and social media plan for all Career Center services, events and programs. • Utilize excellent verbal and presentation skills to facilitate in-person and online learning with students. • Communicate and collaborate with faculty, alumni, and employer stakeholders via phone, in-person, and web. • Maintain the Career Center website (Ingeniux CMS) and online job board (Symplicity).PROJECT MANAGEMENT • Manage, coordinate, and serve as key contact for Career Center events (i.e. bi-annual Career Fair Prep Week, Employer Showcases, Networking and Etiquette Dinner, Salary Negotiation Workshop, etc.). • Oversee and teach 4-week career decision-making course. • Assess programs consistently to ensure they meet student learning outcomes.

• Prepared students for new positions in the workforce through resume reviews and mock interviews.• Presented job skills information to interested students through workshops, and managed Kirkwood Jobs website.

• Advised approximately 20 students on the Honors Student Advisory Board student organization.• Planned, promoted, and assessed social and academic events for honors students.• Conducted comparative research of honors programs across the nation.

• Fostered cross-cultural learning experiences between domestic and international students through weekly International Coffee Hour event.• Coordinated International Education Week event logistics through ongoing communication and collaboration with campus departments and student organizations.• Managed a $1000 budget for the International Coffee Hour and a $750 budget for International Education Week.

• Developed early stages of the Loras College Peace Institute, an interfaith peace-building camp.• Created marketing materials to promote program to community organizations.• Connected with campus development officers and potential donors to obtain funding for the camp.

• Gained knowledge of Student Disability Services policies and procedures.• Participated in Behavioral Intervention Team meetings.

⬥ Coordinated two cycles of First-Year Student Orientation for 400 first-year students.⬥ Managed four-day extended orientation program, Launch into Loras.⬥ Interviewed, hired, trained and supervised 30 Orientation Leaders.⬥ Assisted with orientation programs for transfer students.