Katie Steiner Email & Phone Number

Lincoln, NE, US

• Served as communications lead for central IT organization, including developing a communications strategy for the Chief Strategist for IT and overseeing internal and external communications
• Collaborated with IT leaders and project teams to develop communications plans and marketing materials for projects and services
• Led communications change management, and participated in business continuity and disaster recovery
• Trained IT staff on UT communications processes and branding guidelines, and best practices for community outreach and stakeholder engagement
• Organized, set agendas, wrote talking points, facilitated and created presentations for biweekly supervisors meetings, monthly all-staff meetings, and quarterly town halls for more than 500 staff
• Partnered with University Marketing and Communications on all-campus communications, media relations and incident management

• Served as communications lead for the University of Nebraska's Information Technology Services, a unified division serving the Kearney, Lincoln, and Omaha campuses and the NU system
• Worked with ITS leadership to develop and implement strategic communications plan
• Planned, wrote content and designed assets for marketing campaigns, email and print correspondence, and social media posts
• Collaborated with employees to promote IT services and notify campus audiences of updates
• Assisted emergency response team with crisis communications
• Oversaw all aspects of ITS website, including coordinating redesign, writing content and site maintenance

• Wrote and edited content for web properties, email and print correspondence, marketing assets, and social media and SMS campaigns
• Identify, develop, produce, execute and maintain communications plans, core informational content and ongoing awareness campaigns
• Oversaw all aspects of Financial Aid website, including coordinating redesign, writing content and site maintenance
• Acted as communications lead for UT One Stop Center, including serving on division-wide implementation committee and coordinating the development of the One Stop website
• Worked with university leaders and communicators to distribute accurate financial aid information to current and incoming students and families
• Managed internal communications for the Office of Financial Aid

• Managed and produced all external and internal communications, including marketing campaigns, media relations, digital and print publications and social media
• Oversaw all aspects of center’s website, including regularly adding new content to blog, creating landing pages for research reports, site maintenance and managing team of developers
• Organized events targeted at digital news leaders
• Prepared quarterly grant reports for funders and assisted with preparation of new funding proposals
• Served as spokesperson for the center at conferences and in the media
• Established and monitored metrics for measuring success of programs

• Supported media relations through media list maintenance, responding to media requests, and monitoring, pitching and archiving coverage
• Wrote news releases, fact sheets, feature profiles and other news content for external and internal audiences

Lincoln, Nebraska Area

• Managed production schedules for quarterly publications for Union Pacific Railroad, BNSF Railway, ConAgra Foods and several other clients
• Responsible for all aspects of newsletter production, including traveling to customer locations to conduct interviews and take photographs, writing and editing newsletter stories and providing oversight of and creative.
• Worked with company leaders to create strategic communication plans for marketing company values to employees, families, customers and community officials

Master'S Degree, Journalism And Mass Communication

Bachelor'S Degree, News/Editorial, English