Jay Carter Email & Phone Number

Greater Pittsburgh Region

Jay helps coordinate the Talent Attraction Program at Allegheny Health Network (TAP AHN) and its hospitals for all 20+ allied health fields, while developing and executing methods that create a talent pipeline for long-term healthcare for all applicants. Jay works with the TAP AHN team to expand and build long-term partnerships with different entities, including but not limited to: universities, high schools, communities, and nonprofit organizations to provide the best comprehensive health career opportunities while offering paid on-the-job training for qualified candidates. TAP AHN matches students with an AHN mentor within their field of studies, provides sign-on bonuses, assistance with transportation and other services to ensure students graduate and start their medical career, successfully. In addition, Jay assist TAP AHN with its recruitment and marketing efforts to attract and retain healthcare workers; especially our diverse population across AHN's hospitals into long-term health careers.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Campaign Manager for City-Council Doug Shields, District 5. In 2005, Jay overshadowed then ex-President and former City-Council Doug Shields during his press conferences and town-hall meetings. Jay's role was an apprentice to Councilman. "Jay was 15 years old, perhaps the youngest to be hired by the City of Pittsburgh at the time," said Doug Shields.

United States

Jay Carter is a former S.C.A. and AmeriCorps Alumni and Ambassador. In 2005, Jay got his start in conservation work as a national crewmember at the Allegheny National Forest in Pennsylvania. Jay restored and designed recreational trails, while conducting wildlife habitat assessments along the Appalachians from Ohio to Maine in 2007. 2008, Jay participated in S.C.A.'s EarthVision event in Washington, D.C. to address environmental causes in the U.S. regarding air pollution and energy consumption. In 2009, Carter flew to Haleakala National Park in Maui, Hawaii to help rebuild the entrance of the Pipiwai Trail & Waimoku Falls with a SCA crew. That same year, Jay was invited to attend a National Power-Shift Conference in Washington, D.C. to discuss actions to reduce climate change. In 2011, Jay completed a conservation internship with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at Rice Lake Refuge before returning to university to obtain a dual-baccalaureate degree in Geography and Regional Planning at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Prior to completing school, Jay was a former college business honor drop-out. In 2012 while attending university, Jay accepted a project with the Great Smoky Mountains National Park Service Diversity program via S.C.A. as a Museum Curator preserving cultural historical artifacts of Natives for environmental, cultural, and educational purposes. In 2014, Jay spent several months working in Fairbanks, Alaska alongside the Bureau of Land Management surveying recreational trails using GIS and GPS devices, while hiking some of the most trenches and steepest trails and mountains along the Steese Highway that runs 161 miles long. In 2016, Jay became a National Park Centennial Ambassador for the Natchez Trace Parkway in Mississippi. Jay continues to learn and grow to protect and preserve human and natural resources through his acts of conservation and humanitarian volunteerism.

Dongguan, Guangdong, China

Jay developed, planned, and prepared lesson plans to teach English to Chinese students in Dongguan, China. Over 90 percent of Jay's students achieved proficiency or higher with their oral and verbal communication skills; he successfully maintained per class a graduation rate of 97%. As an English teacher, Jay's primary goal was to implement aspects of cultural linguistics practices. Most importantly, Jay encouraged individual and group conversational study sessions for students to practice their English regularly.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Increased voter turnouts and political civic engagement through campaigning and town-hall meetings. Jay performed consulting work for local and state elected officials. In addition, Jay managed political campaigns and social media outlets; oversaw geopolitical regions, organized and attended community events. Jay facilitated meetings, trained volunteers and prepared field cartographic map turfs. In addition, Jay led dozens of canvassing, input thousands of data entries and conducted hundreds of phone-banking for various political clients. In addition, Jay did the following tasks:*Built and managed recruitments. Supervised interns and executed complex office and field projects*Set, met and exceeded benchmarks for voters' contact, volunteer recruitment, grassrootsengagement through Universities and other organizations. *Designed standardized best practices for data management usingsoftware and other applications methods to manage voters contacts.*Coordinated fundraising operations and financial budgets

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Coordinating and assisting in the planning of a variety of city-wide special events and community-based programs for the City of Pittsburgh's communities and the greater region. In addition, partnered with both public/private sectors to address federal funds and other fund developments processes. Coordinated and produced printed promotional information, educational materials, press releases, public service announcements, and advertisements for distribution to the public and the media.In 2016, Carter was hired by the Student Conservation Association as a Park Ranger Supervisor co-operated and led by the City of Pittsburgh's Department of Parks and Recreation on a grant funded project. Jay patrolled and educated park users about environmental impacts, recreational activities, community services opportunities, wildlife and public safety awareness.

United States

The Centennial Volunteer Ambassador is a federal program funded by the Department of Interior designed to support designated park units across the U.S. Every year since 2015, 150 CVAs are called to help expand service-learning, and community engagements through educational programs and recreational activities for park goers. As an Ambassador for National Parks, Jay worked with Volunteers and park staff to create a platform to ensure federal intiatives such as, 'Every Kid In A Park' and 'Find Your Park Campaign' became possible for National Parks and a part of their mission-statement. Jay assisted in the development of work plans to help support communities to business relations for National Parks through public services by advocating and raising awaressness about public lands during the National Public Lands' Day and Centennial Celebration for NPS. Jay would go on to coordinate several major service projects and activities that helped guide park management and its staff to increase the number of public visitations by incorporating national stewardship for the following events: (i.e. Earth Day, National Trails Day, National Public Lands Day, Martin L. King Day of Service, etc.)2013-2014 Field Technician and GIS Analyst The position involved acquisition and organization of spatial data needed for management of resources at the Natchez Trace Parkway. It included assisting the Division of Resource Management by using global positioning systems (GPS) such as Trimble and/or Garmin to acquire data on exotic plant species (such as Chinese privet) growing along the Parkway/associated trail systems. Jay was in charge of creating and populating geodatabase information to store collected data in ArcGIS (version 10). In addition, Jay performed georeferencing along the Natchez Trace Parkway.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Jay volunteered his time picking up trash along main-street in Hazelwood. When time permitted, he organized and led community events, contributed to the Hazelwood Homepage Newspaper, participated in Hazelwood Light Up Night for Christmas and led a bike awareness program for youth. Jay wrote his first newsletter at the age of 12 for the Hazelwood Homepage that promoted safe biking awareness for youth. As part of a school project Jay was working on, he conducted depth research into the history of Hazelwood and led free tours with Carnegie Mellon students through the Hazelwood LTV and ALMONO mining sites. The main purpose of the tour was to address the socioeconomic crisis, social and demographic trends occurring within the community over several decades.In addition to his volunteer work, Jay eventually landed a part-time job maintaining the premises at Hazelwood Initiative headquarter by conducting janitorial duties, mowing the lawn and performing general office tasks. During his final employment days, Jay visited several town hall meetings to advocate for improvements to residential homes and main-street businesses, while protesting against massive corporate development plans that would hurt Hazelwood as a community. Jay supported the clean-up of the steel mine, development of more green-spaces and the revitalization of a playground with former Mayor Bob O' Conner and local community leaders. Jay competed in the Hazelwood 5K Race placing 2nd in the men's group 13 to 18 years of age.