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Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Designed, developed and maintained processes for the acquisition and ingestion of government affairs content including legislative documents, congressional floor proceedings, calendars and federal regulations.

- Developed expertise in legislative procedure through live analysis of U.S. House and Senate floor activities.- Reported on congressional committee business meetings by providing amendment analysis, tracking vote outcomes and sending instant news alerts to clients. - As member of data acquisition agile team built automated web scrapers to replace vendor content.

Arlington, Va

- As member of the Message Research Team, observed focus groups to write reports. In addition, hosted clients at focus group sessions, explained the findings from the group and made sure their research objectives were met. - Executed a qualitative and quantitative research project for an external nonprofit. Over a four month-period, wrote discussion guides for interviews and focus groups, conducted in-depth interviews, wrote online surveys, analyzed survey data, and transferred cumulative findings into several reports and presentations.- Regularly analyzed survey data, and briefed staff and clients on information through memos, spreadsheets, reports and presentations to guide political communication strategy.- Served as point of contact for multiple nonprofit organizations, provided feedback on communication materials, monitored for messaging opportunities on their key issues, and proposed additional research projects.- Completed a short-course on “Writing Surveys” through the Joint Program in Survey Methodology.

Arlington, Virginia, United States

- Attended focus groups regularly, summarizing notable findings and analyzing worksheet responses to create reports to guide strategic messaging. Wrote screeners for external vendors to facilitate participant recruitment.- Provided feedback and edits on messaging materials for organization and external nonprofit groups to shape effective communications.- Created and issued weekly external polling summary to more than 150 communication strategists to update on public opinion regarding priority issues.

Arlington, Va

- Assisted Development Director by composing weekly reports on organization’s accomplishments, maintaining donor information in Donor Perfect, and corresponding upon receipt of gifts. - Wrote advertising campaign summaries for donors to show the messaging impact of their investment.- Tracked and recorded all press and digital metrics for two online educational campaigns.- Led quarterly brainstorm sessions with up to 20 staff members for development and communication ideas

- Assisted the Executive Director with projects related to her media appearances, managed her schedule and travel arrangements.- Conducted phone interviews, recruited and managed interns each season. - Ordered office supplies, worked with IT provider and handled payment of invoices. - Represented organization at trade show booth at SXSW’12 in Austin, TX and BlogHer’12 in New York City.

Arlington, Va

- Assisted Policy Director with research and creation of fact sheets for economic education campaign. - Compiled talking points for Executive Director’s radio appearances.- Coordinated office events (holiday parties, staff retreats, lunch presentations).

- Assisted Database Administrator in search for potential new members, organizing leads in SalesForce.- Worked with interns on creation of Biomass Coordinating Council project.