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 youth/violence prevention and racial equity ($3 million budget, with 50+ nonprofits)• 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• Partner with business resource groups and corporate teams to ensure all community engagement aligns to both the social impact strategy as well as diversity, equity and inclusion goals• Represent the Boeing company with internal and external stakeholders to assess community needs, leverage resources, and maximize investment outcomes• Serve as advisor for employee community fund grant-making committee (employee led and financed trust)

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 incentives; enterprise-wide volunteerism program.o Lead skills-based volunteerism implementation o Manage and execute volunteer requests for executive leadership team meetingso Lead strategy development for business resource groups social impacto Serve as liaison for Employee Community Fund • 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 & Local sponsorship portfolio • 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• Provided support for the employee gift match program and Boeing Merit Scholarship program.• Responded to employee inquiries escalated via Total Access.• Processed expenses for Global Corporate Citizenship team.

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.• Processed/reconciled medical insurance bills and processed 401k loan and distribution requests.• Processed benefit enrollment information for new employees.• Communicated with various vendors/licensing agencies regarding employee files, including DCFS, insurance carriers, attorneys and governmental officials.