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Sheffield, Massachusetts, United States

* Overseeing and continuously improving a portfolio of over 80 scholarship programs in collaboration with other Foundation staff.* Aligning the Foundation's scholarship resources with its strategic grantmaking priorities, in collaboration with the Program Director.* Overseeing outreach to guidance counselors, community organizations, and others.* Overseeing the committee review process, including facilitating advisory committee review and decision-making processes.* Onboarding new scholarship resources.* Managing the education enrichment fund portfolio.

Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States

Managed projects pertaining to university and programmatic accreditation, authorization, and approval from accrediting organizations and state agencies. Collaborated with individuals and teams working in university and college compliance, accreditation, licensure, and academic outreach and engagement to find solutions to problems and challenges and opportunities for growth and improvement. • Planned and scheduled activities required to maintain university and programmatic accreditation, authorization, and approval from accreditors, state agencies, and other regulatory bodies, including the development and submission of required reports.• Planned and managed activities to continue accreditation of WGU’s nursing programs, including the development of a self-study and planning and preparation for a site visit from the accreditor’s evaluation team.• Redeveloped the Licensure Handbook for the Teachers College to update, standardize, and streamline the presentation of educator licensure requirements for each state, reducing the total number of articles from over 1300 to fewer than 300.

South Hadley, Ma

Managed the day-to-day operations of the college’s internship programs, including the Lynk summer internship funding program, and served as the primary liaison to the program.• Maintained ongoing and timely communications with students about the Lynk internship program and served as the primary point of contact for the program for students, faculty, alumnae, and employers, providing guidance and support throughout the process.• Cultivated and maintained relationships with on- and off-campus partners (e.g., faculty, alumnae, Advancement Office, external employers), providing guidance and support in the development of new internships.• Improved the Lynk program, such as redeveloping the Lynk application system and orientation materials to clarify and streamline the process, thereby increasing timely submissions, and reducing inquiries, errors, late applications, and the need for follow-up.• Filled competitive, high-profile opportunities with highly qualified candidates, strengthening relationships with employers and ensuring continuation of partnerships.• Improved students’ abilities to set goals, secure and succeed in experiential learning opportunities, reflect on what they learned, and speak clearly and confidently about their achievements, enabling them to succeed on their post-graduation goals.

Hadley, Ma

• Collaborated with supervisors, teammates, and interdepartmental teams to conduct strategic planning for the development of competency-based educator certification tests.• Developed customized solutions for clients, providing guidance and suggesting alternatives based on timing, urgency, potential obstacles, and other factors.• Identified scope of projects and developed detailed planning documents outlining key project objectives, goals, requirements; developed detailed schedules to manage the workflow for assigned projects, outlining the responsibilities of all personnel involved.• Created lists of deliverables for assigned programs and timelines for their completion, determined priorities, assessed readiness to provide deliverables, and identified and secured the needed resources.• Served as the primary point of contact for internal departments, clients, and other stakeholders, serving as a liaison between clients, stakeholders, and company personnel.• Led interdepartmental meetings and communicated client requirements and specifications to cross-functional teams, coordinating activities between departments.• Ensured the correct and timely completion of all program requirements by monitoring staff members’ progress on assigned tasks and conducting thorough quality control checks.• Selected by leadership to develop new procedures and templates for conducting pilot testing to improve efficiency, consistency, and interdepartmental communication.• Solicited by supervisors to recommend specific enhancements to the score reporting system to better provide clients and stakeholders with needed data and to reduce the frequency and urgency of requests for test data.

Hadley, Ma

• Oversaw the daily administrative and operational functions for assigned programs, including the resolution of issues escalated by the Customer Service department.• Developed, implemented, and documented processes and procedures pertaining to various test development and administration activities (e.g., surveys, pilot testing).• Developed internal and external communications, planning documents, data analyses, reports (e.g., monthly/quarterly status reports, annual reports, technical reports), presentations, training materials, and correspondence.• Developed and delivered informational materials (e.g., email notifications, Web site announcements, webinars) to raise program awareness, promote services to candidates, and gain the participation of stakeholders in various program activities.• Drafted external planning documents for client review and approval; revised plans as needed based on client feedback.• Analyzed and reported results of development activities to supervisors, clients, and internal teams, provided regular status reports to clients, and ensured proper documentation of all activities.• Assisted with the development of ResultsAnalyzer, a proprietary data-reporting and analysis tool provided to clients and educator preparation faculty; provided training to clients and faculty on the use of the tool and the data it provided.• Assisted the Marketing department with the writing and preparation of proposals, winning new business and renewing existing contracts.

M.A., Religious Studies, Gpa: 3.9/4.0

Activities and Societies: Theta Alpha Kappa (National Honor Society for Religious Studies/Theology) Thesis: "An Analysis of Self, Nature.

B.A., Philosophy, Cumulative Gpa: 3.3/4.0; Gpa In Major: 3.5/4.0

Activities and Societies: Member of Presidents' Council Coursework included philosophy of religion, existentialism, logic, metaphysics.