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Oxford, GB

Oxford, GB

The Blavatnik School of Government is one of the University of Oxford’s newest and most vibrant departments. They combine the academic rigour of the top ranked university in the world with an applied, real-world focus. Its flagship Master of Public Policy programme brings in 156 students from 61 countries for an intensive and immersive one-year programme.

Oxford, GB

• Facilitates and curates professional skills and career development programming at key points during the intensive academic year.
• Provides individualized support for students in finding their Summer Project hosts. Improved efficiency of the placement process, leading the cohort to meet their goals two weeks ahead of schedule.
• Expanded global presence of the Summer Project by 13%, with 73% of students conducting their projects outside their home country.
• Collaborates with administrative and academic teams (programs, assessment, welfare, development, executive education, admissions, and alumni relations) to strategically integrate career development activities.

Boston, Lincs, GB

• Astriid is a charity that supports and empowers people living with long-term, energy-limiting health conditions—such as Fibromyalgia, Lupus, ME/CFS, and Long COVID—as they seek and maintain meaningful careers.
• Oversee all charity operations and community engagement, including the development and growth of new corporate consulting services.

Des Moines, Iowa, US

• IWD is a state agency that provides employment services to job seekers through IowaWORKS offices across the state. As part of the U.S. Department of Labor’s American Job Center network, IWD manages state and federally.
• Led team through multiple pandemic-related operational shifts. Successfully upskilled team to administer multiple new federal emergency unemployment benefit programs.
• Supervised team of 9 employees, initiated and led hiring and onboarding processes, conducted performance evaluations, delegated, and tracked project responsibilities, ensured compliance with state regulations, and.
• Oversees the integrated service delivery of workforce development programs for a 7-county area covering North Iowa under the Workforce Innovation & Opportunity Act (WIOA). Monitors integrated IowaWORKS policies.
• Establishes good working relationships and serve as liaison with other community agencies, training providers, and business associations. Implements and maintains comprehensive public relations activities. Responsible.

Chicago, IL, US

• The University of Chicago is a top-ranked private research university. The Office of Career Advancement works with the roughly 6,500 undergraduates from the liberal arts College. Through their flagship Jeff Metcalf.
• Oversaw employer outreach and internship coordination for multiple internship cohorts in the policy, non-profit, government, environmental sustainability, and healthcare fields, establishing more than 200 new employer.
• Managed $500K budget of restricted and unrestricted donor gifts to provide stipends for unpaid internship through the Jeff Metcalf Internship Program.
• Managed biannual undergraduate career & internship fairs and coordinated 40 staff members in running the fair. For 2017-18 AY, hosted 215 employers (20% increase), 1299 students (16% increase), and collected $138K in.
• Cultivated partnerships with university entities including the Institute of Politics, UChicago Medicine, Center for Jewish Studies, and Program on the Global Environment.
• Expanded and validated relationship information, enhancing an internal Salesforce database of student, alumni, parent, employer, and donor information with ten years of archived career center records.

Chicago, IL, US

• Initiated and developed three internship grant programs to provide stipend funding to support unpaid summer internship.
• Increased number of paid summer internship placements at non-profit, policy, and government organizations by 19%, establishing 38 new employer partnerships.
• Prepared concise, yet thoroughly researched, briefings for VP and Dean-level administrators to prepare them for meetings and events with high net-worth donors and key corporate partners.
• Provided regular insight to career advisers on hiring trends, employer feedback and recruiting best practices.

Chicago, IL, US

• Oversaw employer development for law and education fields.
• Increased paid summer internship placements in education fields by 21%.
• Created workflows and developed best practices for office transition from Symplicity to Handshake career management software.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Catholic Charities of Chicago is one of the largest private non-profit social service agencies in the Midwest, providing assistance to more than a million people annually regardless of religious, ethnic, or economic.
• Built and maintained relationships with local businesses as a means of finding employment for military veterans. Continued regular contact with employers to predict and assess future hiring needs. Maintained an 80%.
• Provided employment assessment and placement assistance for more than 200 unemployed veterans under a two-year (2010-2012) Department of Labor-funded grant designed to support only 100 veterans. Achieved a placement.
• Increased quarterly placement rate for veterans with severe employment barriers between July 2013 and July 2014 from 42% of goal to 123% of goal.
• Worked under multiple government and private grants. Maintained quality assurance standards through accurate and detailed documentation for each funder, in addition to inter-agency reporting. VEP scored 100% on Council.

• PATH is a social service referral hotline serving 4 counties in Central Illinois that operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The hotline is a 2-1-1 social service call center that also takes local crisis calls from.
• Supervised 7 volunteers through 8-week training program.
• Located and provided social service information and referrals for callers in 4 surrounding counties in Illinois’ first 2-1-1 program.
• Evaluated weekly progress of each trainee and helped them improve skills.
• Monitored volunteers’ call-logs to ensure proper referrals were given and records of each referral were properly documented.

Master’S Degree, Higher Education/Higher Education Administration

Ba, Psychology (Minor: Mathematics)