Grace Hammersley Email & Phone Number

Wide variety of experience spanning a 44 year career of service in the public and private sector. As a fire communications specialist and fire communications supervisor for a medium sized municipal fire department, handle all aspects of emergency and non-emergency communications, anticipate and address coverage and resource management issues. Utilize EMT and EMD (Emergency Medical Dispatch) certifications to triage, assess, and manage patients experiencing medical and trauma emergencies while dispatching appropriate resources. Appropriately question callers with fire and rescue emergencies to ensure dispatch of appropriate resources/equipment to minimize and eliminate hazards to persons, property and responders. As a supervisor, involved in recruiting, interviewing, training and monitoring new employees. Working knowledge of apparatus types and capabilities. Experience in managing county wide resources in a borderless response/mutual aid context for a county with 15 fire agencies. At a catholic elementary school as the Development Director and School Office Administrator my duties included coordinating, training and communicating with volunteers; administration, support of and accounting/reporting for all fund raising activities; marketing and promotion of the school and performance of school administrative functions. Supervisory duties for one employee supporting development office functions.Nineteen years experience working for four Washington State agencies: Progressively more responsible duties requiring extensive communication and leadership skills; Office management skills emphasizing communications, computer applications, fiscal and personnel elements; Law enforcement and investigative and collections.Accounts payable/receivable, advertising, catalogs, contract management, data entry, database administration, instruction, inventory management, leadership, materials management. Needs analysis, policy analysis, payroll processing, personnel, public speaking, reports, research, recruiting, interviewing, training, supervisory skills and experience.Proficient using Microsoft products: Access, Excel, InfoPath, PowerPoint, Publisher, Windows, Word and Teams. Office equipment, phone systems, computer aided dispatch, copier/scanner/printer.