Nelvis Alvarez Email & Phone Number

Greeley, Colorado, United States

Denver, Colorado, United States

☑ LEADERSHIP: Responsible for strategic insight and management of programs and initiatives that affect the district in achieving its long-term and overreaching goals. ￭ Worked closely with various stakeholders to build positive relationships, serving as a liaison between the city, the district, and its family community. ￭ Guided a community-led and District supported approach creating processes across schools that ensured the community is closer to decision making.☑STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS: ￭ Led and oversaw the management of ongoing relationships with existing partners and leverage those relationships to greater collective impact.￭ Developed systems and procedures to identify, engage, develop and expand strategic partnerships.☑ EVENT MANAGEMENT: Lead strategist of event planning -in-person and virtual- that included interpretation in several languages and various formats. ￭ Maximized organizational productivity by streamlining processes that resulted in a significant reduction of time, staff, and effort dedicated to accomplishing tasks required.￭ Demonstrated ability to perform effectively despite sudden deadlines and changing priorities.￭ Successfully performed a wide range of assignments, managing multiple projects at the same time. ☑ OUTREACH INITIATIVES: Led multicultural outreach campaigns that improved the attendance of families of diverse backgrounds and community members to events and participation in leadership development programs.☑ TEAM LEADERSHIP MANAGEMENT: Hired, led, and trained a team of five that managed and drove sensitive and visible projects in partnership with school District internal teams, community organizations, parents, and students, on issues pertinent to family and community experiences with District schools. ￭ Developed and implemented staff-training sessions that enhanced the events quality and engagement practices. ￭ Obtained high productivity and job satisfaction of team members

Denver, Colorado, United States

☑ EVENT MANAGEMENT: Led, planned, organized, and executed a variety of district-wide events in different formats including person and online.￭ Coordinated the overall strategic plan for content creation, selection of presenters, strategic partnerships, communication, engagement and outreach, vendors, coordination of logistical processes, and reporting for the year. ￭ Led multicultural outreach campaigns to maximize attendance of families of diverse backgrounds and community members to events and community leadership development programs.☑ TEAM LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT: Managed team of three in the areas of social media, adult education, and Customer Relations Management (SalesForce). ￭ Created a series of trainings that significant increased team's productivity and performance.￭ Implemented an open communication policy and constant rapport that improved team's morale and job satisfaction.☑ MEDIA OUTREACH: Served as a Spanish spokesperson representing the Denver School District.￭ TELEVISION: Led and coordinated weekly appearances of different stakeholders on a Spanish TV Commercial Network (Univision) to promote and disseminate key district information. ￭ NEWSPAPER: Led the creation and distribution of the Denver Public School EDUCA bilingual newspaper designed to bring key district initiatives to a larger audience. ￭ SOCIAL MEDIA: Lead strategist of the EDUCA Facebook page, a page dedicated to build bridges and trust between different DPS stakeholders. EDUCA Facebook provided information about different programs, initiatives, community resources in a parent-friendly language.￭ In addition, oversaw the implementation of SalesForce and Pardot strategies to support data driven community engagement and outreach initiatives.

Denver, Colorado, United States

☑ COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND OUTREACH: ￭ Established new records of community and Denver Public Schools parents' attendance at key district events, such as Superintendent Parent Forum, English Language Acquisition District Advisory Committee, Family Leadership Institute, and Collaborative School Committee among others. ￭ Provided engaging and meaningful opportunities for English Language Acquisition (ELA) Board Members to exercise leadership skills and represent ELA parents' voice at public settings.￭ Planned, coordinated, managed, and executed a variety of critical District-wide events to provide opportunities for dialog between District/school authorities and families/community members.☑ MEDIA RELATIONS: ￭ Obtained free-of-cost positive coverage of Denver Public Schools District events on several commercial media channels (TV, Radio, Newspapers) targeting Anglo and Latino audiences.￭ Successfully served as bilingual spokesperson representing numerous DPS District programs and/or initiatives such as Concurrent Enrollment, Free and Reduced Lunch Program, Back-to-School, Parent-Teacher Home Visit Program, CMAS, District Events in the media including but not limited to EDUCA TV, Univision, Telemundo, and various printed publications.☑PROJECT MANAGEMENT:￭ Introduced and developed logistical processes that increased efficiency, reduced costs, and improved results.￭ Trained team members with comprehensive planning tools to effectively execute logistics and build internal capacity.

Denver, Colorado, United States

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

☑ MARKETING AND COMMUNITY OUTREACH: Propelled market visibility and school enrollment with the introduction of unique and highly successful marketing and community outreach strategies, such as creation of web videos, new advertisements, information booths, extensive presence in networking events, massive media campaigns - paid and donated, negotiation of contracts to reduce costs, and establishing productive partnerships with government agencies, businesses, faith-based organizations, and non-profits.￭ Creatively maximized marketing budget by re-negotiating existing contracts and negotiating new ones at reduced prices (over 50% in savings). ￭ Obtained free advertisement sponsored by several television, radio, online, and print media outlets.￭ Played a key role in the organization and execution of several community projects: such as a major event called “The Mexican Mobil Drive” attended by over 500 local residents; and several other events which included open houses, networking events, information booths at local fairs and businesses among others. ☑ OPERATIONS: ￭ Improved students' enrollment procedures by reducing inefficiencies and re-assigning responsibilities. ☑ STUDENT SUPPORT: ￭ Provided wrap-around services for low-income students including job placement and internship opportunities.￭ Initiated a successful collaborative “internship/volunteer program” between PPP / PPMC, and Pikes Peak Community College. As a result, Pikes Peak Community College is now expanding this program to include other schools around the city.

Denver, Colorado & Several Cities In Florida

☑ MARKETING AND COMMUNITY OUTREACH: ￭ Obtained unprecedented record of student enrolled at Life Skills Center of Denver Charter School (a total of 127 for the first day of class) with no budget allocated to marketing purposes. ￭ Successfully cultivated cross-media relationships that generated free publicity and support for Life Skills Centers in several cities across the nation. ￭ First and only employee to be recognized on the board members’ book/minutes for outstanding job performance.￭ Achieved 100% enrollment rate (350 students) including a waiting list during the first 2.5 years at the Life Skills Center of Denver, Colorado, before transferring to Florida to assist other schools with enrollment, marketing, and community outreach.￭ Championed a number of marketing and community outreach campaigns that increased school visibility through free TV commercials/interviews and news media, participation in community events/fairs, and collaboration with stakeholders.￭ Appointed by company’s President to develop, coordinate, and implement marketing efforts in the Life Skills Center of Phoenix, Arizona, and Florida.☑ EVENT MANAGEMENT: ￭ Successfully planned and organized over 10 school events, and two graduation events per year.☑ VOCATIONAL SPECIALIST: ￭ Ranked in the top 5% of vocational specialist with the highest number of students employed- for several years, nationwide among the Life Skills Center, Charter Schools. ￭ Selected to train the vocational and employability specialists at different Life Skills Center locations in Florida.￭ Successfully managed case load of over 400 students per year.￭ Planned, developed, and executed plan of action that led to the achievement of students' vocational skills, provided ongoing support, outlined options, and referred students to available community-based resources.

Denver, Colorado, United States

Created, hosted, and produced a twice-a-month live-25min-live TV Program called "Comunidad al Día con Nelvis Alvarez." The TV program was designed to provide information regarding education, health, social issues, finances, wrap-around services, tools, and key information that may support the Spanish-speaking community in the Denver Metro Area. ☑ TV HOST: ￭ Interviewed community and business leaders in a conversational and friendly manner, asking relevant questions pertinent to the betterment of the Spanish-speaking community. ☑ TV PRODUCER: ￭ Created the first and only TV-program dedicated to serve the Spanish-speaking community as a whole.￭ Scheduled a variety of content experts in the areas of education, physical and mental health, finances, and recreation, among others.

Denver, Colorado

☑ GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING:￭ Successfully acted as intermediary between concerned parents and legislators. Coordinated the creation of dozens of letters from families in support of educational options that were sent to different legislators at the Colorado State Capitol. ￭ Presented grassroots campaign to groups of concerned citizens, non-profit organizations and political leaders, including attending conferences, strategy sessions and coalition meetings.￭ Implemented outreach and recruitment strategies at grassroots level.☑ MEDIA RELATIONS: ￭ Successfully cultivated cross-media relationships that generated free publicity and support via advertisements and interviews on television, radio, and newspapers.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Sociology, Graduated With Honors.

Latino Leadership Institute Fellowship Program - Cohort 9, Neuro-Leadership, Cultural Leadership, Socio-Emotional Leadership

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Hispanic Chamber Of Commerce Aspiring Leadership Program

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Professional Teacher Certification, Business Education 6-12; Spanish K-12

Leadership

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Strategic Leadership

High School Diploma