• Spearhead and oversee initiatives for non-routine projects of strategic significance.• Strategically plan, execute, and deliver assigned projects, ensuring seamless alignment and contributing to the overall success of the initiatives.Projects:• ATS/CRM migration

Creative Practice: marketing, creative and design recruiting• Utilize extensive database searches, job postings, social media, job fairs, and industry events to source and recruit highly qualified candidates for open positions.• Oversee the entire recruitment process, from crafting job descriptions and postings to candidate sourcing, screening, qualifying, interviewing, negotiating offers, and conducting follow-up communications.• Cultivate a robust pipeline of high-quality candidate relationships, maintaining regular contact with passive candidates and potential prospects for future matches.• Ensure accurate and up-to-date records by diligently updating our ATS/CRM with new data, meticulously tracking candidate and client activities throughout the recruiting lifecycle.• Actively contribute to the evolution of recruiting strategies, engage in projects to enhance recruiting processes, and collaborate on programs aimed at attracting top talent, thereby enhancing overall recruitment efficiency and effectiveness.

Onboarding/Offboarding:• Manage, coordinate, schedule, track, and monitor employee onboarding and offboarding experience.• Create and prepare all paperwork related to new hires.• Conduct pre-employment screening: background checks, drug screens, client related paperwork.• Gather all onboarding paperwork by meeting with employees for an in-person onboarding session.• Monitor, track, communicate and manage expectations and deliverable dates with recruiters, account managers and/or employees of onboarding and pre-employment screening, resolving any concerns or delays and closing once candidate is confirmed to start.• Process new hire onboarding paperwork on internal software systems, ensuring timeliness and accuracy are maintained. • Conduct 30-day check-in with new hires.• Initiate offboarding when employee has ended.• Create and prepare all paperwork related to offboarding.• Process employee offboarding on internal software systems, ensuring timeliness and accuracy are maintained.• Assist in developing and maintaining onboarding and offboarding best practices and procedures while identifying and recommending improvements where necessary.• Perform other related onboarding/offboarding duties as they arise and are requested.Human Resources:• Process weekly timesheets from internal and external systems.• Employment verifications.• Administer employee benefits programs, including health insurance and 401K.• Create, maintain, and update HR processes.• Assist internal and external employees with questions and/or concerns.Office Manager:• Assist with managing the company’s administrative and operational tasks.• Responsible for overseeing the daily operations of the office.• Building and maintenance management.• Vendor management.

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• Instruct courses in: Pies, Tarts, Tea Cakes and Cookies, Wedding Cakes and Cake Decorating.• Present material through lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on lab work.• Assess students with written and practical exams.• Develop syllabi, grading metrics, and exams.

• Grow and maintain membership and encourage the involvement of members.• Develop member recruitment and retention strategies based on goals for the year and lead member recruitment initiatives.• Be the face of membership at events and help distribute membership materials.• Create and update membership packets to welcome new members. • Welcome all new members with emails, packets, or other forms of communication. • Stay aware of the benefits and categories of membership.• Advocate for the mission and consistently communicate the value of membership.

Creative Practice: marketing, creative and design recruiting.• Utilize extensive database searches, job postings, social media, job fairs, and industry events to source and recruit highly qualified candidates for open positions.• Oversee the entire recruitment process, from crafting job descriptions and postings to candidate sourcing, screening, qualifying, interviewing, negotiating offers, and conducting follow-up communications.• Cultivate a robust pipeline of high-quality candidate relationships, maintaining regular contact with passive candidates and potential prospects for future matches.• Ensure accurate and up-to-date records by diligently updating our ATS/CRM with new data, meticulously tracking candidate and client activities throughout the recruiting lifecycle.• Actively contribute to the evolution of recruiting strategies, engage in projects to enhance recruiting processes, and collaborate on programs aimed at attracting top talent, thereby enhancing overall recruitment efficiency and effectiveness.

• Responsible for applying quality standards and verifying copy and specification for production of advertisements purchased by Houston Chronicle newspaper advertisers.• Grew proofreader position to a senior tole by focusing on proofreading and trafficking high-end marketing products offered by the Houston Chronicle, including full-page inserts, special publications, and mailers.• Initiated leadership role within the proofreading team to improve administrative communication and coordination with management and develop best-practice initiatives between proofreaders, ad directors and designers.

• Assist President, President-Elect and/or Special Interest Groups (SIG) Programming Advisor with organizing and coordinating SIG for SIGs meetings.• Advise and equip newly appointed SIG Chairs with procedures, materials, and forms.• Maintain a list of approved event venues.• Manage an annual speaker database.• Schedule upcoming year's SIG events in collaboration with SIG Chairs.• Facilitate venue arrangements and contracts for SIG co-chairs' events.• Review and submit SIG event planning documents for approval.• Preserve master copies of event-related forms and documentation.• Oversee and update SIG folders in the database with event materials.• Ensure cash sponsors complete necessary forms before events.• Coordinate distribution of event materials and speaker gifts.• Conduct pre-event checklists with SIG Chairs.• Handle event registration logistics and communication.• Verify event-related invoices and financial details.• Collaborate on sending post-event surveys and collecting responses.

• Assisted President of a greeting card start-up with marketing responsibilities.• Responsible for general coordination of start-up's launch at a national greeting card trade show, including event concept development, logistics, public relations promotions, and event coordination.• Conducted research and provided project management of advertisements, retailers, and other marketing duties.