Melissa Poh Email & Phone Number

Singapore

• Equip students and trainee teachers on Service Learning skills and life skills

Singapore

• Provide recommendations to team lead in youth development best practices and approaches
• Designed and create a 5-part series curriculum to facilitate effective online (e.g. Escape Room) and face-to-face (e.g. Simulation Game) learning focused on socio-emotional and peer mentoring development
• Developed and organised an inaugural Community Problem-Solving Competition to empower teens to kickstart projects for social change

Singapore

• Strategic Planning
• Conducted a detailed analysis of industry's & Association’s fundraising work for effective strategic planning and goal setting
• Designed and led 3 fundraising campaigns with the support of an intern and raised a total of $100,000 (more than $130,000 with grants)Donor Management
• Set up a donor management system which increased volunteer & donors engagement and volunteer to donors conversion ratePartnerships
• Cultivated inter-departmental work to enhance quality of fundraising outcomes (eg. visibility of Association’s causes on social media, strengthening staff ownership of fundraising initiatives)
• Researched and applied for grants and was awarded the Toteboard Enhanced Fundraising Programme grant for 2 fundraising projects Operational Management

Singapore

• Leadership & Management
• Oversaw a team of 4 direct report staff and up to 8 interns
• Led the team to plan and execute strategic goals; expanding Association’s youth reach from 3 to 6 programmes
• Selected to be in Association’s yearly corporate event committee which included the participation of more than 800 people
• Represented organisation to participate in the National Mentoring Summit committee for 2 years running Strategic Planning & Innovation
• Spearheaded creative digital youth initiatives (local & overseas) during the circuit breaker period to increase online youth engagement and Association’s social media visibility

Singapore

• Programme Management & Development
• Oversaw and revamped a school-based mentoring programme; successfully expanding the programme from 1 to 4 schools
• Oversaw a youth leadership development group to mentor them through special projects for community developmentVolunteer Development & Management
• Organised yearly volunteer appreciation and onboarding events which volunteer engagement and retention by at least 20%
• Mentored 11 youths on a one-to-one basis in the areas of transitions, relationships, self awareness & management, workCurriculum Development & Training
• Designed Train-the-Trainers, mentors’ training and socio-emotional learning curriculum

Singapore

• Trained & facilitated leadership and cyberwellness related topics to over 400 students from various local schools

Singapore

Bachelor Of Science (Honours), Banking And Finance, Second Class Honours (Lower Division)

Missionary Training School, Missions/Missionary Studies And Missiology

High School Diploma, Business & Social Enterprise

Activities and Societies: ▪ Captain of Ngee Ann Polytechnic Lifeguard Corps ▪ Social Entrepreneurship Advocate: Citibank Youth For Causes.