Lynn Sternstein Email & Phone Number

Livingston, Nj, Us

East Orange, Nj

Direct all literacy programs for JVS. Write grant applications to secure funding from federal, state and county sources. Manage $600,000 annual budget. Supervise staff of 11, both in-house and off-site.

East Orange, New Jersey

Oversee all grant programs related to Education & Training and Émigré Services • Manage Adult School of 3 English as a Second Language (ESL) classes and 2 Adult Basic Education (ABE) classes• Administer $400,000 department budget and monitor all grant deliverables and reports• Supervise 6 JVS employees, including Émigré Department Manager, secretary and teachers• Liaison between funders, facility managers, instructors and administrative staff to implement programs• Oversee data entry for Department of Labor program and generate semi-annual reports• Report regularly to senior management regarding department programs and budgets• Determine and authorize purchase of office and testing materials• Co-chair Essex County Literacy Committee and report on Literacy to Workforce Investment Board

East Orange

Managed and implemented all aspects of workforce development and adult education programs tohelp unemployed/underemployed individuals and low-skilled incumbent workers improve skills to obtain and retain jobs and advance in the workplace • Hired and supervised 8 employees, including teachers, trainers and coaches• Ran 6 different grant programs• Developed relationships with Hospital HR management and staff, union management,employees, teachers, community college personnel to provide training and education to entry level healthcare employees to help them advance in the workplace under multi-year healthcare grant• Implemented new Logistics & Distribution training program funded by JPMorgan to prepare unemployed/underemployed individuals for entry level jobs in the field of logistics & distribution, including computer and customer service training• Provided outreach to Cuban and Haitian community to deliver ESL and technical training to improve proficiency and employment opportunities for refugees for New Jersey Division of Family Development Grant program• Administered individual annual program budgets totaling $300,000 and provided semi-annual reports to public and private funders

Livingston, New Jersey

Conceived of and implemented the first community-wide Multicultural Fair and expanded and ran successful program for 5 years • Engaged over 200 families from within the school district to come together, prepare multi-cultural foods, exhibits and performances• Increased one-night event to an entire week of activities by motivating and organizing school staff to create supplemental programming• Created succession plan documentation and trained other parents to continue the event

Livingston, New Jersey

Revitalized school-wide art, music, and educational assembly programs• Forecasted and allocated budget requirements• Negotiated contracts with 3rd parties, including talent companies and performers

Greater New York City Area

• Created Marketing Plan for #1 selling tax guide preparation book: Ernst & Young Tax Guide, small business books, and career planning• Integrated efforts between marketing and sales to ensure annual launches met obligations to trade• Created an industry-leading “instant book” that enabled key sections affected by late-breaking tax laws to be incorporated into book release, beating competition to market

Greater New York City Area

• Assisted with the creation of editorial content, interfacing with authors, professors and the accounting community• Acted as key liaison with Sales and Marketing teams to ensure excellence and continuity of success for new editions of top-selling Gleim & Delaney CPA Review books & accounting textbooks• Created launch plan for new cutting-edge “CPA Review” software, digitizing content for the first time• Led sales efforts to universities, establishing a licensing program that allowed universities to provide software centrally for students to use