Joshua Rusk, M.Ed. Email & Phone Number

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

• Oversees all adult and volunteer administration, finance and operations for a national organization comprised of 8700 chapters and over 1.4 million registered members, achieving a growth of over 1092%.
• Develops, recommends, implements, and manages comprehensive policies, procedures, and programs for over 8 million total alumni and supporters.
• Forecasts short/long-term strategic development initiatives and provides recommendations to the Board of Directors on courses of action focusing on gaining increased engagement to strengthen and grow the associations’.
• Leads team and advisory committee to identify key areas of growth opportunity across the entire organization and foundation.
• Serves on the executive management committee to establish strategy, operations, and $38M budget to achieve goals of developing and impacting 760,000 student and 685,000 adult members annually.
• Cultivates, manages, and stewards key relationships with corporate sponsors and industry partner organizations while representing the organization at national meetings and events.

• Implemented curriculum; provided students with college-level credit certification.
• Evaluated and strengthened training methods, curriculum, and materials to comply with current best-practices while maintaining the programs integrity.
• Implemented cross walking curriculum to provide students with certifications to meet the demands of an increasingly competitive job market.
• Initiated learning strategies in educating adults about leadership and career development.
• Monitored, supervised, trained, and evaluated employees while addressing necessary curriculum to meet their needs as well as the needs of the participating businesses in the program.
• Developed yearly plan of activities and goals using performance data, feedback and recommendations.

Ms | Master Of Science, Educational Administration

Bs | Bachelor Of Science, Agricultural Education