Michele Gaffney Email & Phone Number

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Philadelphia, Pa

Provides independent consulting, education, and advocacy services for Philadelphia residents, non-profits, and community organizations harmed by negligent or unsafe construction work.• Participates in peer advocacy activities, including facilitating coalition meetings and events, door-to-door canvassing, creating informational materials and resources, and engaging directly with neighbors, community organizations, and government officials.• Engages as an educator in online advocacy spaces, participates in social media spaces and online groups, contributes to shared knowledge spaces associated with peer-to-peer support, produces and distributes email newsletters, administrates and moderates Slack (and other) collaboration servers, and creates comprehensive print content for audiences who lack digital access.• Acts as a case manager and advocate for non-profits, community groups, and individuals experiencing construction damage, trespassing, harassment, health risks, and other harms caused by unsafe adjacent demolition, excavation, and construction practices.• Facilitates mediations between real estate developers, non-profit services, architectural engineers, contractors, and residents, focusing on maintaining transparent records and fostering opportunities for amicable resolutions.• Develops relationships with stakeholders across the spectrum of unsafe construction issues, including but is not limited to non-profit services, City Councilmembers, City Agencies (i.e., the Department of Licenses and Inspections), and other local advocates and advocacy groups.• Contributes to aid organizations’ and legal professionals’ ability to build their knowledge base in, and capacity to address, adjacent construction cases by documenting and translating case studies into shareable templates, tools, and guides.• Translates complex government information and processes into accessible and transparent community resources.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Manages, executes, and directs all department business-related processes, including but not limited to general office administration, departmental communications, human resource activity, administrative support to the faculty and department chair, liaising with multiple functional offices and contacts across the university, departmental finance management and tracking, website maintenance, event coordination, and more.Handles day-to-day administrative tasks for the Philosophy Department, including managing office operations, supplies, and equipment. Provides administrative support to the Department Chair, executive committee, faculty, and graduate students, including handling inquiries, scheduling meetings, and managing correspondence. Plans, budgets, and manages departmental finances, including overseeing budget allocations and expenses. Organizes and implements collaborative and educational programming for the Philosophy Department, including academic and outreach programs such as lecture series, conferences, and other sponsored events. Assists with various communications and writing tasks, including annual reporting, offer letters, hiring letters, letters of reference, promotion letters, departmental newsletters, and more. Coordinates department human resource needs, including assisting faculty, staff, student searches, appointments, and temporary hires. Maintains and organizes departmental records with strict confidentiality, including acting as the liaison to budget and finance areas within the School of Arts and Sciences (SAS). Assists in promoting the scholarly and teaching missions of the department, including tracking academic leaves, drafting departmental reports, processing visa applications, and supporting curriculum planning and organization.

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Collaborated with executives and directors in restructuring the experience department and product across five cities. Tasks included documenting procedures, creating reference guides and iteratively improving upon execution strategy.• Participated in meetings across multi-functional teams and provided next-step minutes to all participants.• Managed operational needs at property, such as scheduling member move in/move out, maintenance, concierge services, customer support, and acting as liaison with building management and vendors.• Designed, developed, and delivered comprehensive product trainings to address company-wide knowledge gaps created by departmental silos.• Functioned as point person for vendors, building management and maintenance, and programming providers.• Facilitated new member onboarding trainings in one-on-one and group settings.• Designed and facilitated member engagement strategy, focused on fostering a relationship driven culture. • Produced community events and programs from concept to execution.

New York, New York

• Collaborated directly with C-level and director-level executives in pioneering the community role and program at Convene’s first community amenity space in partnership with the Durst Organization at One World Trade Center.• Built and maintained vendor partnerships with programming providers.• Served as a liaison between Convene and building management.• Created a mailing list of over 2,500 subscribers from zero. Created, edited, and published all newsletters.• Built relationships with – and collected feedback from – both tenants and Durst stakeholders in order to continuously develop, revise, and focus the member experience. • Owned the production of community events and programs from concept to execution.• Empowered tenants to self-organize and grow their own community.

New York, Ny

• Supervised and directed project flows, deadline adherence, and both internal and freelance resources.• Maintained relationships and communication across a diverse pipeline of stakeholders.• Educated team members on necessary context and processes a major pharmaceutical client.• Prioritized long and short-term goals as well as shifting deliverables to accommodate client needs.• Designed creative and flexible solutions to project roadblocks.Clients included: pharmaceutical, food, technology, and airline industry clients

New York, Ny

• Managed developers and creative teams to produce conference apps and touchscreen interactive educational material for major pharmaceutical client’s training conferences. • Executed final experiences as onsite-coordinator at client conferences. • Led meetings, assigned tasks, and monitored progress across all projects.• Performed both internal and client-facing roles, translating client concepts into actionable deliverables.Clients included: pharmaceutical, real estate, home improvement, and automotive clients

New York, Ny

• Juggled technology, staff, and catering at special events.• Blended graphic design with social media to deliver information in visually branded formats.• Managed and wrote for client social media accounts.• Wrote, edited, and designed digital communications materials for clients.• Worked convention floors approaching media & giving tours for attendees.• Reinforced experience pitching products and coordinating reviews with media outlets.Clients included: Hangar One Vodka, Korea International Trade Association, Kraken Rum, Mediatronica & MadHouse

• Designed custom Twitter & Facebook graphics for liquor clients (The Kraken Rum, Hangar OneVodka, Three Olives Vodka, 1800 Tequila), Blue Man Group.• Maintained consistent brand identities as a Tumblr, Facebook & Twitter content curator & copy writer.

• Designed packaging & label systems, as well as other internal documents.• Provided clerical support.

• Clerical assistant to President & CEO David Sudolsky• Created & administrated www.anellotech.com

• Student employment responsibilities included: reception desk, phone handling, event facilitations, ad/flier designs, sales, & administrative support

• Student employment responsibilities included: maintaining computer labs on campus, monitoring student use, troubleshooting computer and printer errors, & managing student complaints

Design Intern June-August, created packaging design concept and execution for Jane Goodall Institute, worked with design team on a variety of projects for both fortune-500 clients as well as pro-bono non-profits, started collection of pop-tabs in office for Ronald McDonald House.Design Freelancer August-December, worked with design team on a variety of projects for both fortune-500 clients as well as pro-bono non-profits.

Studio Assistant to Jeanette Kuvin-Oren- concept drawing, fabricpreparations, painting, organizational management. Summer 2006 & 2007

Masters Of Science In Organizational Leadership And Management, Change Management

Bfa Communications Design, Graphic Design

Activities and Societies: Treasurer Jewish Student Union, Vice President Jewish Student Union, Treasurer Comic Club, Public Relations.

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