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Cedar Falls, Ia, Us

Waterloo, Iowa, United States

Waterloo, Iowa Area

Responsible for overseeing a variety of social service offerings, including emergency shelters, comprehensive assistance, and food programs. Provide direction to program staff and volunteers. Create and update policy and procedure manuals. Incorporate Pathway of Hope model into current programs. Ensure data collection and compliance. Solicit grant funding from local and state governments as well as private funding agencies. Continually update knowledge of social service practices and governmental directives. Serve on executive leadership team.Manage Housing Services to provide both short-term emergency shelter and extended-term transitional support to residents of 32-bed Women & Children’s Shelter, 18-bed Men’s Shelter, and 6-bed Family Shelter.Implement food service menu planning, product rotation and donation management in kitchen and give-away pantry.Restructure comprehensive services to include strengths-based Pathway of Hope techniques with the ultimate goal of crisis mitigation, client accountability and empowerment and long-term stability.Complete grant requests from governmental and private sources, raising an average of $600,000 per year for operational support, program-specific funding, and property/capital improvements. Cross-train to provide coverage and support for Business Administrator and Community Resources Coordinator, including human resources, payroll, fiscal management, donation management, and media relations.Serve as Incident Commander for Emergency Disaster Services deployments to 10-county radius.

Waterloo, Iowa Area

Responsible for engaging with donors, partner agencies, granting organizations, and the public to increase awareness and support of The Salvation Army’s operations in Waterloo/Cedar Falls, Iowa. Direct local message through print, television, radio, and social media. Organize and implement special events, including volunteer and donor recognition celebrations and seasonal activities. Complete grant solicitations and reports. Serve as senior advisor and community subject-matter expert to Commanding Officer.Identified and solicited resources for agency support, both financial and gift-in-kind, through relationship-building, connections with local media, agency partners, and community engagement. Expanded digital presence, including the utilization of various social media platforms. Increased Facebook followers by 420%, established YouTube channel, and developed video Annual Report.Managed complex system of funding, service provision, and reporting to ensure responsible, legal resource-management and compliance with organization’s goals and mission.Retained active knowledge of local, divisional, territorial, national, and international Salvation Army programs, requirements, service numbers, and history.

Cedar Falls, Ia

Responsible for the administration and financial management of small nonprofit, including solicitation of vehicles, funds, and services. Received referrals for potential recipients from local social service organizations and churches, processed applications, and determined vehicle recipients. Provided oversight to program volunteers and vehicle recipients performing sweat equity labor. Additional responsibilities included monthly reconciliation of resources and organization marketing. Built and maintained database of vehicles, donors, and recipients

Cedar Falls, Ia

Responsible for managing the local ministry outreach resources of 20 partner churches, providing oversight to a network of approximately 75 volunteers, and making determinations on roughly 150-250 needs requests each month. Additional responsibilities included producing monthly and quarterly reports, participating in organization events, and supporting Executive Director as needed.Collaborated with Church Ministry Coordinators and Love INC volunteers to continually improve needs request intake and referral process in response to organizational growth.Established lines of communication with local social service agencies and organizations to better Recruited, trained, and supervised a core group of Clearinghouse volunteers to achieve goal of relational client interactions, thorough information gathering, and timely determinations on requests.Fostered a productive environment consisting of two-way communication, volunteer and client empowerment, and continual improvement of processes and procedures.

Responsible for the daily operation of retail women’s clothing store. Managed all aspects of customer care while providing oversight to staff of 6-10 associates, executing corporate directives, and adjusting business tactics in response to store needs. Additional responsibilities included recruiting, hiring, and training new associates and supporting District Manager’s policies and objectives.

Managed 2008 Student Leadership Conference, a day-long event for nearly 200 students with 15 guest speakers & a budget of over $16,000Coordinated Student Affairs Workshop Series, collaborating with multiple offices to offer 28 weekly education sessions over 2 years

Mpa, Master Of Public Administration

Activities and Societies: Pi Alpha Alpha Public Administration Student Association

Bls, Bachelor Of Liberal Studies