Melissa Russell Email & Phone Number

Alpharetta, Georgia

Loganville, GA

• Responsible for all financial aspects of a growing, non-denominational, multi-site church, including assisting the Executive Pastor, managing contribution records, accounts payable, and creating and analyzing financial.
• Serve the church staff through effective administration of human resource needs, payroll, IT and church database maintenance. Maintain relationships with outside bank, accountants, and insurance agents.
• Oversee a team of up to 8 volunteers who assist with the weekly offering count and quarterly giving statements.

Loganville, GA

• Streamlined administration of church records and implemented a new church management system for member information and contributions.
• Coordinated monthly baptisms and Newcomers/Membership Classes, including registration, booklet creations and follow up
• Answered main church phone and greeted visitors, assisted pastoral team with various ministry items, including weekly church bulletins, visitor communication cards, and marketing materials.

Oxford, GA

• Shadowed management team, spending time in each department, learning how an assisted living community operates. Assisted management team with special projects and day-to-day operations. Projects included a grand.
• Worked with the Marketing Director to plan and advertise community events; updated the community’s Facebook and Twitter pages, as well as designed and implemented their email marketing campaigns.

Grayson, GA

• Assisted President in development and planning of organizational activities, including educational seminars, bi-monthly networking luncheons, and annual trade show.
• Maintained database of Georgia-ALFA membership through routine contact with members. Processed all incoming mail and phone calls, handling requests for information, dues payments and event registration. Performed.

Norcross, GA

• Served as primary contact for ministry’s radio stations airing the programs Just Thinking and Let My People Think, keeping in contact with stations on a weekly and monthly basis.
• Maintained and updated radio files and Mpower database of over 1800 radio stations. Negotiated radio broadcast agreements and requests to air radio programs and interfaced with media agency regarding new stations or.
• Reconciled airtime billing and per inquiry share payments each month and handled all aspects of radio traffic, including shipment of program CDs, updating the FTP site, and maintaining shipping lists of all stations.
• Initiated periodic postcard mailings informing donors of new radio station partners. Answered email correspondence from website visitors regarding radio messages, and maintained Audio-Visual Library database of.

Norcross, GA

• Provided assistance to call-in customers on a temporary basis; promoted within three months.

Ba, Interdisciplinary Studies-Communications, Sociology & Family-Consumer Sciences

Activities and Societies: Yearbook Student Career Advisory Board Alzheimer's Association Memory Walk Team Leader for Berry College

Mba, Health Care Management

Activities and Societies: Student Member - American College of Healthcare Executives