Kelley Dennings, Pmp, Mph, Cph, Fphw Email & Phone Number

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Develop and execute outreach and advocacy initiatives that address the connections between reproductive health, gender equity, endless growth and the climate and extinction crises.• Support communications and marketing through writing of reports, op-eds, news releases, blog posts, etc.• Conduct research to inform campaigns: environmental scans, literature reviews, focus groups, and surveys.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Developed social and behavior change solutions for topic areas such as border crossing public safety, emergency preparedness, forest conservation, and recycling. • Supported business development through networking, conferences and proposal writing.• Conducted research: literature reviews, focus groups, intercept interviews and surveys.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Managed $2M budget and 4 interns. Led project team of 7 (internal staff and partners).• Raised $250k from grants for climate change social marketing campaign.• Negotiated all research contracts and orchestrated all aspects of research (collection, analysis, interpretation and presentation).• Coordinated 3 literature reviews, conducted 4 focus groups and administered 3 surveys.• Led conservation easement social marketing campaign: designed and implemented campaign and content for direct mail (12% response rate), email, websites and local events (25 – 40 attendees, twice per year); increased requests for land trust visits by 25%.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Managed $600k budget, 1 employee and 8 interns.• Coordinated 4 sponsors and helped raise $600k ($400k, $150k and $50k). • Provided vision and leadership through the creation of a KAB behavior change process. • Organized 15 trainings, events and workshops.• Led the strategic creation and implementation of K-12 school recycling social marketing campaign: engaged with 550k students per year; coordinated creative aspects, stakeholders, marketing and reporting; organized 5 award ceremony PR events per year; increased recycling by 10% in participating schools.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Supervised 25 interns and operated budget of $300k.• Raised $50k for education and outreach campaigns.• Managed 6 grant contracts (total $150k) and 2 media contracts (TV and radio, total $150k) per year.• Enhanced RE3.org campaign for 18-24-year-old targeted audience through introduction of social media.• Utilized website, social media, ads (TV, newspaper, radio), press releases, promotional items and events (flash mob and partnerships with sport venues) in marketing campaign; Increased target audience’s recycling frequency 30x.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Managed 4 staff and budget of $700k. • Wrote proposals and received 3 recycling grants in amount of $100k.• Directed 4 grant contracts, 2 consultant contracts and 6 service contracts.• Led 3 stakeholder task groups (food waste, C&D, electronics) for writing local policies and state law.• Directed the strategic conversion of an outdated school recycling program to a more cost-efficient collection service that also allowed for a new comprehensive environmental education initiative.

Elizabeth City, Nc

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Master’S Degree, Public Health

Activities and Societies: Received Social Marketing Certificate in December of 2015.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Natural Resources Management And Policy

Activities and Societies: Minor in Spanish, Forestry and Environmental Science