George Grattan Email & Phone Number

Gloucester, Massachusetts, United States

www.capeannpride.org

United States

Provide writing and editing for project descriptions and profiles on Haley & Aldrich's website.

Gloucester, Massachusetts, United States

Assessed current communications infrastructure, created new media resources page and content for website, edited research-related pages to be more media-friendly and more accessible to wide audiences, researched and developed a media-relations database of 150 journalists, producers, editors, and other influences, developed seven board-approved storyboards for current and future pitching, reengaged with existing media contacts to generate ongoing coverage, provided top-level SWOT analyses of current comms capacities.

Boston, Ma

• Served as senior editor, lead writer, co-writer, ghostwriter, and content and editorial production manager for 10-15 full-length reports per year, ranging from 15 to 70 pages.• Maintained research, writing, and editorial excellence in reports and other print, online, and other media materials, conveying urgency and outcomes through informed storytelling on climate change, water scarcity and pollution, inequitable work environments, and systemic risks in capital markets systems.• Developed new submission and approval guidelines for all reports, managing a cross-cutting committee of senior leadership, advancement, foundations, sustainability programs, evaluation and innovation, and marketing and communications. • Served as senior editor, and often as co-writer or ghostwriter (for in-house C-suite executives and corporate partners), for more than 100 thought-leadership blogs, columns, and op-eds. • Developed and deployed submission, approval, and routing procedures for blogs, columns, op-eds, and similar content; managed two junior colleagues and editorial calendar.• Maintained AP and house style; developed an extensively revised “Ceres Style Guide;" conducted one-on-one tutorials for junior staff and others upon request.• Served as lead author, senior editor, and production manager of the “2020 Silver Addy”-award-winning five-year strategic plan, “Get US There."• Provided editorial and writing support to advancement and marketing colleagues, particularly for Ceres' Annual Report and a quarterly newsletter, writing president/CEO’s columns in addition to overall copyediting and spot-writing for these and associated emails.• Provided talking points, speeches, and speech drafts to the president/CEO and other C-suite executives for public appearances including the U.N.’s Climate Action Summit and associated Sustainable Investment Forum, Ceres’ annual conferences and major events, and smaller meetings with current and/or potential donors and partners.

Waltham, Ma

• Developed, researched, wrote, and designed content featuring faculty scholarship and teaching achievements to advance Bentley’s academic reputation with peer audiences and the public at large, using new targeted publications (“The Bentley Bridge” email newsletter) and more articles online; increased average time on research-related pages from less than one minute to consistently more than four minutes; and grew newsletter subscribers to more than 800.• Successfully pitched to higher education and general media for stories and op-eds advancing the Bentley academic brand strengths; a story on one professor’s research into the opioid crisis attracted the attention of an alumni donor who created a partnership between his company and the university worth more than $300,000 in funding.• Supported faculty communications and research-related event needs through writing, editorial, and design work across a wide range of initiatives, from the semiannual Research Colloquium, to university centers, to Thought Leadership Networks, to independent projects; wrote keystone article on the history of the university for the 100th anniversary issue of The Bentley Magazine.

Waltham, Ma

Shaped Bentley University's social media strategy both in the trenches and in the skies, expanding Bentley's presence online, engaging key audiences, and building active social communities both inside and outside the university. As a member of the Digital Engagement team, I worked closely with colleagues in News and Communications, Marketing, Content, Communication, and Creative Services, Alumni and Advancement, Undergraduate and Graduate Admissions, Student Affairs, Academic Affairs, and various Centers and Departments at Bentley.

Greater Boston Area

Developed and implemented social media outreach and brand management strategies for Earthwatch, the world's leading volunteer environmental non-profit, which sponsors conservation research projects in dozens of countries worldwide and places more than 3,000 volunteers a year in the field to work toward a sustainable future.

Greater Boston Area

I developed and implemented print, web, and other communications strategies and partnerships for Earthwatch, the world's leading volunteer environmental non-profit, which sponsors conservation research projects in dozens of countries worldwide and places more than 3,000 volunteers a year in the field to work toward a sustainable future. Starting as a general writer and Content Manager, I also took on the role of Briefings Editor and then helped create the role of Marketing Strategist within the department. In that role I worked with and helped craft strategy for an international marketing, communications, and PR team, and was the chief implementer of Earthwatch's growth on social media platforms, ultimately becoming Social Media Manager for Earthwatch in April 2011.

Associate Director for Development, Director of Public Relations and Fund Raising.

Full time visiting professor in English Department, teaching composition, American Literature, African-American Literature, and environmental literature and culture courses.

Co-edited and authored two successful editions of a place-based, college composition reader, Writing Places, part of the Longman Topics reader series.

Ba, English

Ma, English

Phd (Candidate), English

All courses and field examinations completed "With Distinction"; voluntarily withdrew from program in 2006.