John Barolo Email & Phone Number

Tampa, Florida, United States

• Supervise, mentor and coach the six-person Discipleship staff team that includes directors for the Children and Youth Ministries programs.
• Supervise, mentor and coach the Hospitality staff that ensure all people feel welcome on campus.
• Work with volunteer teams to create small group opportunities for adults.
• Identify, connect, develop and train persons as facilitators in foundational classes and core curriculum.
• Organize and support people who lead small groups for learning and growth and help them select materials for these groups.
• Recruit, support and train teachers, aiding them in the selection of materials for adult Sunday school classes, small groups, and seasonal classes.

Tampa, Florida

• Oversee marketing efforts to recruit 1,200 effective teachers for 230 public schools in Hillsborough County. Includes coordinating three departments to achieve aligned goals, creating social media campaigns.
• Optimize website, social media and newsletters for SEO. Organized virtual SEO training for staff.
• Created and marketed virtual hiring events that engaged 631 applicants.
• Oversaw rebranding effort and logo development for Hillsborough Virtual K-12 school.
• Led marketing campaign to register new kindergarten students at 139 schools across Hillsborough County with print, social media, radio, engaging school administrators and working with community partners. 75% of schools.
• Created a “School Marketing Toolkit” to equip principals in 230 schools in Hillsborough County to better connect with their community, potential families and teachers.

Tampa, FL

• Ensured all forms of communications, both messaging and presentation, align with the organization's brand and values through incoming requests, and an approval process.
• Oversaw daily operations of two communications staff members responsible for writing, video, design and marketing to 2,100 members in two locations and the community.
• Led branding efforts for launch of The Portico Cafe in downtown Tampa.
• Collaborated with 30 staff members to align communication efforts across organization around strategic messages, style manual and annual goals.
• Supported planning of 5 weekly events - creative & strategic elements for 1,000+ people.
• Consulted with 12 internal departments on an ongoing basis to improve branding and communications for individual departments and overall organization.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

• Led annual fundraising campaign for four years to raise budget of $3.4 million and oversaw the transition from two campaigns annually to one.
• Coordinated the design, publishing and analytics of content on social media daily to engage 1,800+ people for two organizations on three platforms.
• Recruited, trained and supported volunteers in guest relations, photography, social media, website and overall communications for the organization.
• Collaborated with team to coordinate and implement website strategy for theportico.org and hydeparkumc.org
• Led strategy team to provide recommendations for new planning and calendar system including overall messaging and events for organization of 30 staff and 600+ volunteers.
• Leader for two-county team overseeing training for 50+ United Methodist church leaders.

Tampa, Florida

• Recruited, trained and supported 120 volunteers to lead groups with 6-25 people each.
• Established two-county professional network for leaders in 10 local organizations.
• Oversaw 50 small groups and classes that included 650 members. This represented a 50 percent increase in enrollment under my leadership.
• Provided multiple communication options for adult education offerings including website, electronic newsletter, Facebook, weekly bulletin, targeted e-mails and print materials.
• Managed and promoted first online class for church members.
• Designed and worked with team to create a 120-page, seven-week workbook for church-wide study that is now published and used by churches across the country in 2008.

Nashville, TN

• Coordinated education, recreation and service opportunities for 195+ students in grades 7-12 with 40 adult volunteers increasing weekly attendance by 50% in six months.
• Planned and led five annual trips with 30-60 people attending each.
• Taught two weekly small group studies with twenty-five students.
• Supervised 3-person Youth Ministry Staff team.

Tampa, FL

• Led programming for 90 middle school student ts and 14 adult volunteers.
• Designed and maintained Student Ministryʼs website.
• Developed and supervised summer week-long day camp for children ages 5-11, run by agroup of ten middle and high school students.
• Planned and taught curriculum for three annual Confirmation classes.

Bachelor’S Degree, International/Global Studies

Activities and Societies: Orchestra, Intervarsity Christian Fellowship

High School

Activities and Societies: Tennis, Marching Band, Orchestra, German Honor Society, Graduated with Honors