Jeff Jones Email & Phone Number

United States

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Leads the day-to-day operations of the Dallas/Fort Worth team which is helping fulfill Rise Against Hunger's mission to end hunger in our lifetime by educating and engaging volunteers throughout Texas and Oklahoma about the issues of chronic hunger and giving them a hands-on opportunity to be a part of the solution. Launched location, built team, fostered.

Ft. Worth, TX

• Managed day-to-day activities of Center promoting programs and events to start new churches and revitalize existing ones.
• Led strategic implementation of comprehensive new program for churches to shift from decline to growth, including strategic plan, timeline development, logistic planning, curriculum development, leadership recruiting.
• Launched online application for assessing and evaluating skills and effectiveness of event leaders.
• Oversaw reorganization of fundraising program to include educational component that saw increase in giving by ten percent the first year.
• Managed process to close dying churches and turn property into income source for starting new churches, raising more than $800,000.
• Presented to pastors, laity and annual conference about programs available to revitalize local churches.

Ft. Worth, TX

• Directed strategic planning of summer volunteer event for 2,500 participants in more than 30 locations in the South Central United States.
• Recruited and managed more than 200 leadership positions annually.
• Developed and managed marketing plans including website, collateral and social media. Hired and managed contract graphic designers, printers and fulfillment companies.
• Introduced cost control measures that took the ministry from a $17,000 deficit to a contingency fund of more than $60,000.
• Increased number of groups participating each year by 18 percent.
• Worked closely with disaster relief and social service agencies to identify and assess needs.

Irving, TX And Flower Mound, TX

• Used strong project management skills to manage ministries of 100+ participants.
• Led change management process to help broken group divided by theological differences and to introduce new growth.
• Managed annual activities including multiple mission trip, seasonal retreats, annual summer events, church-wide youth prayer partners program and Confirmation.
• Served as staff technology liaison to Trustees Committee managing on-call technology support vendor.
• Led communications team for capital fundraising campaign that raised $900,000.
• Introduced new technologies to streamline program and improve participants’ experience.

• Developed and managed marketing communications strategy of start-up Internet company targeting the legal market.
• Hired and managed national public relations (PR) firm, advertising agency and Web site designer; Managed media and analyst relations.
• Managed development of corporate web site and Internet product’s GUI interface.
• Developed corporate identity package and implemented communications policies and guidelines.
• Managed internal and external communication of mergers and acquisition.
• Worked with usability focus groups.

• Directly reporting to CEO, responsible for development of overall marketing strategy for the 44 international offices of the world’s seventh largest executive search.
• Managed five-person corporate communications department with budget exceeding $600,000.
• Developed strategic corporate communications plan to convey company’s internal and external messages
• Managed relationship with local advertising agency, New York-based public relations firm and multiple key media contacts.
• Advised and consulted on marketing strategy to managing partners of offices around the globe.
• Coordinated translations of collateral materials, organization of cooperative business development activities and other marketing needs.

• Supported director of corporate communications in national media relations program.
• Responsible for meeting internal communications needs of more than 300 employees in 44 offices.
• Wrote and produced monthly internal newsletter.
• Managed development, design and implementation of firm’s first Web site.
• Worked closely with outside public relations firm, advertising agency and printers.
• As member of firm’s Information Technology Committee, took leadership role in developing standards and guidelines, applications development and internal system training.

• Managed relationships of agency’s largest clients
• Planned strategies including collateral, promotional and packaging materials for restaurants, high-tech companies and healthcare professionals
• Grew revenues more than 200 percent

• Responsible for project management, client relations, design, copy writing and desktop publishing for clients in the health care industry.
• Editor of 24-page, full color, direct-mail publication with responsibility for design, writing and production of magazine.

Masters, Church Ministries

Magna Cum Laude

Bs, Journalism

Minor: Marketing