Sarah Griffith, Pmp Email & Phone Number

Boston, Massachusetts

I manage business development work, in particular getting proposals and reports out the door, and keep proposal development tools complete and updated. I work with the gas transition team to look for opportunities and build relationships. Both these activities depend on my project management skills.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

As part of the business development group, I work with the efficiency, distributed energy, and building codes groups to develop their proposals. I'm also actively involved in understanding and promoting networked geothermal as a building decarbonization solution.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

I advise on communications strategy to achieve impact and goals. My services include brand development, website design and maintenance, document editorial and design, and email newsletters and campaigns. For HEET I've initiated internal infrastructure development and strengthened management practices.

Boston, Massachusetts

• Currently coordinating Press and Hydrogen–RNG working groups. Initially volunteered as Communications Director.
• Hydrogen and RNG. Research and curate scientific and gray literature, facilitate high-functioning team of scientists, engineers, public health experts, attorneys, and advocates, build relationships with investors.
• Legislative. Support attorneys drafting bills and amendments, organize outreach to legislators, draft testimony and present, build relationships with legislators. Contributed to FUTURE Act campaign.
• Press and outreach. Strategize presentation of complex information, facilitate working group, manage outreach through various media, coordinate messaging with allies.
• Gas Safety. In 2019, structured, gathered data from experts, and wrote Rolling the Dice safety report. Co-developed two websites for Gas Leaks Allies.

Greater Boston Area

• Conceive, plan, and deploy strategic and programmatic communications for nonprofit offering complex value proposition to energy efficiency program administrators in the United States and Canada. Position organization.
• Strategy—for corporate and programmatic activities, plan communication goals, establish messaging, identify competitive differentiators. Currently leading Board revisioning of public mission statement. Design campaigns.
• Brand—established identity, brand system. Carry out brand training and management. Consult on programmatic brands. Ensure brand adherence across materials.
• Public relations—nurture relationships with government agencies, key industry stakeholders, and end use specific media platforms for residential, commercial, and industrial sectors.
• Member tools—championed new collaborative work application—the CEE Forum—and refocused public website. Designed both sites, managed six-figure budget, hired personnel, carried out design, usability testing, launch, and.

• Managed and marketed nondegree programs for undergraduates and graduates
• Participated in conferences, authored grant reports, and managed budget for multimillion dollar Engineering Resource Center for Educational Technologies.
• Independently marketed, fundraised, and administered three summer research programs for undergraduates.
• As Diversity Coordinator for the division, worked with faculty to refine strategic plan, devised marketing strategies that resulted in an increase of matriculating minorities from 6% to 33%.

Wrote and improved training manuals and contributed articles to marketing efforts at Open Ratings, Inc., PTC, and Weather Services International.

Communicated environmental strategy on nonpoint source pollution to government entities and dairy producers. Planned and promoted conferences, including regional conference for EPA. Managed eight staff to produce all materials, including maps. Assured quality, consistency, design, and branding of all websites, conferences, public relations, marketing.

Designed software to meet business requirements under Director of Front End Systems at household shopping service. Further assisted in a variety of web design, business analysis, and process improvement projects in this startup.

Planned and organized print materials for e-commerce software startup. Took responsibility for writing requirements documents, functional specifications, original technical documentation, and screen text. Scheduled and led writing teams for three major releases of software, meeting tight schedules. Developmental editing of training materials.

Freelance contributor to projects for companies such as Education Development Center (four years, two contracts), Seth Godin Productions, Interactive Media Communications, Learningways, Inc., Berkshire Multimedia Group, Instrumentation Laboratories, and Lotus Development Group, I managed projects, designed user interfaces and software, oversaw quality.

Project manager for Jeppesen-Sanderson CD-ROM prototype. Supervised authoring process and relationship with QA for all products. Assisted producer in video productions.

M.S., Visual Studies

Ba With Distinction, Philosophy