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Omaha, Nebraska, United States

Develop and implement strategic and innovative communications and marketing plans to elevate the Omaha Community Foundation brand, as well as partner organizations and initiatives. Provide oversight to guide the work of Marketing & Communications team members, ensuring alignment with organizational goals while fostering a collaborative, high-performing environment. Responsible for developing and managing the department budget, encompassing key areas such as events, advertising, advisor outreach, and fundholder communications to ensure strategic and efficient allocation of resources.Develop and nurture strategic community partnerships to enhance brand visibility, drive awareness, and support key initiatives for the foundation.Led the communications strategy and branding efforts for the successful launch of OCF's new online client portal, ensuring clear, impactful messaging that drove engagement and system adoption.Serve as the company spokesperson for media events and speaking engagements. Develop messaging and communications strategy for executive leadership.

Create and execute strategic communication plans for county government. Serve as the chief spokesperson for the county government, including during crisis situations. Generate news coverage of county events, programs and initiatives. Solicit, interpret and respond to public input. Develop strategic relationships with other agencies and organizations. Represent county government at community events and organizations.Established new content distribution channels that resulted in a large increases in website pageviews and unique users for each of the past two years. Developed a social media strategy that resulted in a 300% increase in users referred to our website.Led the launch of a new public-facing website for the entire county government. Served as the project manager while developing the site's content, structure and style.

Oversee all digital operations for the Lincoln Journal Star and six other newspapers in Nebraska. This includes website management, development and analytics; email and social media reach; app development and deployment; and budgeting for the online department. I analyze all of the data that we track to look for actionable steps to increase our users and our revenue.I also manage all of the marketing efforts for the Journal Star and six other newspapers in Nebraska, from concept development to budgeting, production and campaign tracking.

Lincoln, Nebraska Area

Manage the editorial content and story placement of JournalStar.com. Create web-only stories and graphics. Manage social media accounts for the Journal Star newsroom.

Served as the executive editor for two monthly magazines, ONE Magazine and L Magazine. Duties included developing and managing a budget for each magazine; writing 10-20 stories, columns and reviews a month; assigning and editing freelance stories and photography; coordinate production and advertising placement; and management of the website for each publication.

Lincoln, Nebraska Area

Responsible for the content, design and production of 10-15 special sections per year, including sections focused on parents, senior citizens, business, education and the environment. Assigned and edited stories, graphics and photography for all special sections. Managed a freelance budget for writers and photographers. Edited stories, captions and headlines for the Journal Star's daily edition and website. Designed pages for special sections and the newspaper's daily edition.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Designed features sections and magazines. Created graphics and charts. Made the pages look pretty.