Katie Bishop, Cdmp Email & Phone Number

Alexandria, Virginia, United States

- Supervises the city's content team, including a social media strategist, writer/editor and videographer, in creation of marketing materials that communicate the city's services, events, and more.- Serves as the City's media relations manager, which includes interacting with and engaging the media through pitches, direct inquiries, and media advisories.- Collaborates with communicators across the city to establish and reinforce brand standards, organize quarterly meetings, and work together to share messaging with residents, visitors and businesses.- Prepares and establishes the city's crisis communications plans for a variety of emergencies.- Collaborates with the social media strategist to establish plans and content for sharing the city's message.- Covers council meetings and events, local government issues, and other government related announcements through our website, social media and email channels.

Alexandria, Virginia, United States

- Reshape branding and ensure that all promotional materials adhere to brand standards.- Supervises two Public Information Specialists and one graphic designer in the creation of print and digital assets that tell the department's story and promote its programming.- Collaborates with a variety of departments to ensure our story is being communicated effectively to the public.- Manages survey distribution, data analysis, and data-driven recommendations for recreation, parks, and cultural activities.- Manages content sourcing, timeline, design, production, and distribution of Department-wide publications.- Leverages consumer trends and market data to create campaigns that resonate with our target audiences. - Manages the social media channels for the entire department including planning, strategy, execution, and data analytics.- Rolled out the first project management and project request system to ensure timeliness in deliverables, easier collaboration, and time-saving for future requests through the use of Basecamp and Microsoft Forms.- Serves as editor and webmaster for the city's Drupal-based recreation, parks, and cultural activities pages which includes training new team members.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

- Recognizes public information and marketing opportunities and assists and advises department staff in the planning, production, and implementation of those opportunities.- Creates visual content for a variety of social media platforms including Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, LinkedIn and Nextdoor.- Regularly monitor and keep up to date on digital marketing trends and provide training to team members.- Supervises the work of one graphic designer who oversees creating collateral for the City’s Recreation department. This includes providing performance reviews, guidance, brand marketing assistance, and collaboration on all marketing pieces.- Uses a project management tool to assign and collaborate on all marketing projects.- Conducts media relations, public relations, ad buying, marketing, press releases, newsletters, writing, and media pitches.- Coordinates preparation, layout, printing, and dissemination of monthly and annual reports.- Writes or edits and submits press releases and feature articles for newspaper, trade journals, and other media.- Maintains a website property for our recreation department including SEO best practices, monitoring Google Analytics and SiteImprove, assigning users access to editing portions of the site, creative design, writing and HTML editing.- Acts as the liaison to media representatives; establishes and maintains good relations.- Works closely with the Communications and Marketing Manager to ensure published and digital products meet City quality and style standards.- Works with a team to collaborate on projects of all sizes with the goal of resident awareness of the services we provide, the programs we offer and the functions of their local government.- Acts, when needed, as a City Emergency Operations Public Information Officer.- Creates materials for staff training programs and new employee orientation.

Safety Harbor, Florida

- Develop, produce, and edit video content promoting or enhancing citywide events. Design additional marketing materials for recreational events and programs within the city to increase awareness of events and programs and heighten community involvement.- Create a monthly Arts & Culture eNewsletter and bi-monthly digital school newsletter including copywriting, photography, design and maintenance of mailing lists. Use analytics to optimize newsletters’ membership and content.- Write requested press releases for special events and classes and make contacts throughout the community to ensure our information is received by the right outlets.- Creates print and digital materials for recreation and citywide programs including flyers, online graphics, brochures, mailers, banners, a frame signage and more while adhering to brand guidelines and our established visual identity. Coordinate with outside departments and companies on printing materials. - Widen the reach of Safety Harbor’s social media presence by establishing and implementing a detailed social media plan and timeline covering all geographical areas of the city and utilizing various platforms including Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Communication And Media Studies

Associate'S In Science, Digital Video Production