Michele Thomas Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Develop and implement social impact strategy aligned to enterprise-wide corporate philanthropy and sustainability goals in great lakes region including STEM education, workforce training, veteran support, opportunity.
• Manage sponsorship budget increasing brand recognition and awareness ($650K budget)
• Lead partnership development with nonprofits, assessing financial stability and capacity to scale
• Leveraging charitable investments with state and local stakeholders
• Lead cross-functional teams across the region to increase employee engagement and ensure alignment between business imperatives and enterprise social impact strategies
• Lead region STEM Signing Day initiative since 2017, recognizing under-represented students pursuing post-secondary STEM degrees

Chicago, IL

• Employee Community Engagement lead for Great Lakes Region - oversee, manage and deploy all community engagement activities.o Active member serving on several employee engagement teams: employee recognition & volunteer.
• Manage several projects simultaneously including o Lead Enterprise-wide drive campaigns for Chicago and Gary, IN.o Manage sponsorship and business contributions activation and paymentso Administer and process State &.
• Engage in grant-making activities for Great Lakes region including meetings, site visits, grant application review, due diligence, systems navigation and presentation to senior leadership for grants over $100k
• Tracked and reconciled operating budget for Great Lakes Region
• Managed charitable grant payments for domestic and international sites
• Managed Boeing disaster relief program

Greater Chicago Area

• Established standard recruiting practices and procedures for various programs.
• Planned and organized recruiting schedule for local/state universities and community job fairs.
• Conducted interviews for various agency programs and conducted bi-monthly new employee orientation.
• Managed workers compensation case reports; liaison to worker’s compensation carrier.
• Liaison for annual financial audit of 401k plan.Human Resources Assistant
• Managed HRIS system database, processed payroll and maintained personnel files.