The Digital Marketing Specialist will lead the marketing and outreach strategy for Cayuse Native Solutions, perform digital marketing-related duties for client projects and participate as a member of the corporate-level marketing team for the Cayuse Holdings family of companies. The ideal candidate should have original ideas and create impressive designs with a keen eye for detail. All duties and responsibilities are performed in accordance with the Mission, Vision, and Core Values of Cayuse.Cayuse Native Solutions is a subsidiary of Cayuse Holdings that serves Native Nations, tribal entities, and Native-owned small businesses.Job Responsibilities• Strengthen and increase the company’s overall online presence and brand.• Plan, analyze, and facilitate the creation of digital solutions, including marketing and campaign materials, social media, advertisements, brochures, reports, brand management, and other digital content.• Manage and update company and client websites and related content.• Create, implement, analyze, and manage the company’s social media management strategy on a variety of projects and awareness campaigns. Enhance and grow audience online engagement.• Develop and execute digital strategies around specific events and projects, including researching, writing, and creating visual content and messages to support and promote the organization’s missions and initiatives.• Monitor and measure success on the company’s social media and web using a variety of analytics.• Create presentations, capability statements, and branded collateral for presentations; manage design revisions, approval of layouts, and information accuracy.& More as delegated.

KCUW -LP Pendleton (104.3FM) is a community radio station serving the people of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. We focus on independent and noncommercial syndicated shows, many indigenous and native based. I oversee the day-to-day operations of KCUW.Some of my direct responsibilities include: Volunteer recruitment, training and supervision. Solicitation of donations and underwriting to sustain operations. Syndicated program selection, placement and subscription management. FCC broadcast compliance. Recruit guests/produce weekly talk shows live and post-production. Audio editing, mixing, formatting. Digitize historical recorded media into modern formats. Data collection for annual grant compliance reports. Assist in station budget management & compliance. Coordinate live remote broadcasts for community events. Recruit and train sports broadcasters to call high school games on air. Troubleshoot engineering issues and contract for support services. Write copy for broadcasts and produced public service announcements. Manage online content and write copy for social media accounts. Interview guests live in studio and in field. Host daily show, live, multiple times a day to disperse information and entertain listeners. Market community supporters by selling promotional items. Host regular community open house events. Emergency information broadcasts. Streaming Development. HTML coding.

I oversee operations for our Legislative Affairs, monthly newspaper publication, non-profit radio station, government websites, official social media channels and our newly developed mobile app. I manage administrative matters for each of the previously listed communications channels including program budgets which involve multiple revenue sources and expenditures that are guided by strict internal fiscal policies. I develop visual program materials that convey our Tribal interests to external political delegations. I prepare and assist in the development of press releases, talking points or official statements as well as drafting position papers or correspondences for elected officials. I am the primary liaison with the news media and coordinating response to inquiries from news reporters. I provide essential proactive engagement information through our websites by writing copy and creating unique content for the Tribes multiple social media channels. These involve utilizing professional graphic design programs to create infographics, videos, presentation reports, newspaper ads, radio ads and digital billboard displays that are of interest to our Tribal membership. I develop annual work plans for our departmental programs, produce six month progress reports and the Annual Report that is sent out to our tribal membership. My permanent position is that of the Operations Manager for the radio, one of our Tribe’s channels of information dissemination. Here my responsibilities continue to be providing oversight on administrative, financial, and technical operations. Within my tenure at the radio station, I received two national journalism award from NAJA for general excellence and best news story. I also fulfill the role of Publisher for our Tribal newspaper. Here I ensure that advertising requests are honored, letters to the editor are included, writing occasional articles and providing thorough and final editorial review over each page before it goes to print.

The General Council officers of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation are elected to execute and achieve directive from the General Council constituents in policy,resolutions, constitutional amendments, annual reports & information dissemination.

In this venture, I was employed within the startup team that launched Cayuse Technologies which is an onshore delivery center providing software development, technical help desk support services, and other business process outsourcing solutions. I was deployed to Austin, TX completing on the job training for two corporate client sites as an Integrated Tester and then a Business Analyst. After those projects were completed, I was-reassigned to Phoenix, AZ for another opportunity testing healthcare networks and website portal functionality as they advanced through various lifecycle models. Once I returned to work at the home office in Oregon, I was assigned to troubleshoot network accessibility issues for clients of a major telecommunications company by running sequences of SQL queries and applying solutions with basic data handling. I was also administrator to the Cayuse Technologies website.

Placed Keno bets for customer of Wildhorse Casino. Responsible for a large bank. Customer Service was my specialty and some sales and profit to our department resulted from that contribution.

I was hired to make reservations for guests, right the heart of one of the greatest places on earth. I sat at a phone line and awaiting incoming calls to make reservations for all of the hotels and campgrounds within Yellowstone. I was also tasked to try and sell vacation tour packages to which I accomplished successfully as I received an award for selling the most packages during my occupation there. In the evening, I took on a second P/T job and sold firewood to campgrounds and campers around the park.

Intake of clinic patient walk ins and scheduled appointments. Medical chart/record preperation for visits. Introduced HIPPA regulations to all new patients. Determined health eligibility services based on individual CIB's and federal formula regulations.

Supervised home visits with clients of DCFS. Transported clients to and from visit sites around the NorthWest. I also covered secretarial duties when needed.