Joshua Avent Email & Phone Number

Creative Communications Director with a progressive career across both internal and external communications. Offering excellent management and organizational skills to coordinate multiple, concurrent projects. Accomplishments include developing a consistent communications plan for the agency, rebranding corporate identity, increasing statewide grassroots advocacy activities, and creating an in-house workforce development program for organizational members. Forward-thinking and tenacious with a persuasive style.

Listed skills include Marketing Communications, Public Relations, Advertising, Strategic Planning, and 23 others.

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  Director Of Communications

  Georgia Primary Care Association

  Oct 2010 - Present - Greater Atlanta Area

  Developed and implemented communications strategies for both organizational members and general public; ensured that communications strategy addressed the technical assistance and training priorities of health center membership and board of directors. Designed marketing collateral materials and coordinated branding across multiple communication channels. Maintained Association website; identified and corrected website bugs to improve user experience. Recruited, trained, and mobilized a statewide network of grassroots advocates to facilitate and leverage their relationships with elected officials to support healthcare policy. Built and strengthened relationships with state agencies to manage effective planning and implementation of emergency response strategies for membership organizations. Developed in-house workforce development program, assisted health center members in sourcing, recruiting, and evaluating prospective candidates.

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  Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

  Communication Design