Olivia Arnold Email & Phone Number

Northport, Al, Us

Paul W. Bryant Museum

• Coordinate facility rentals with outside vendors and ensure proper event insurance, alcohol licenses, and contracts are fully executed.• Creation and continued oversight of the Paul W. Bryant Museum Gift Shop including staffing, inventory control, training, PCI Compliance, product development, proper licensing, and customer engagement.• Planning and implementation of temporary holiday store at University Mall. Included hiring and training additional staff, curating a collection of items to be sold, scheduling autograph signings, developing promotions, and converting an abandoned space into a workable store.• Creating a boutique offering of products at weekly Hey Coach shows and ensuring a consistent rotation of merchandise to prevent stagnation with repeat clientele. • Collaboration with multiple internal and external entities to identify and submit grant proposals from various educational, cultural, and diversity-oriented organizations.• Development and design of new product lines for the Bryant Museum store.• Assisted in laying the groundwork for a multi-million-dollar fundraising campaign for the digitization of the film and video collection • During the pandemic and subsequent shut down, continued online sales to help generation revenue for the museum, including a fundraiser with Coach Nick Saban.• Coordination of interviews with former players for an online series titles Crimson Conversations to maintain audience engagement during the pandemic.

• Traveling on behalf on the museum for various events and meetings to interact with a develop relationships with University of Alabama Alumnus• Working with various media outlets to develop strategic marketing campaigns to identify and target advertising dollars towards museum specific audiences• Planning and execution of multiple, concurrent projects relating to the centennial celebration of the birth of Coach Bryant including, an Emmy Award winning documentary, a book highlighting the archives of the Bryant Museum, development of centennial specific product lines, organizing a red carpet movie premier, and coordinating with the City of Tuscaloosa to utilize city facilities to promote events

• Planning and organizing of an annual event for namesakes of Coach Paul W. Bryant following the request of Coach Bryant’s son Paul W. Bryant Jr.• Completed an overhaul of the Bryant Museum’s membership program by reconnecting with former donors and actively engaging them with events, publications, and open lines of communication• Took on responsibility of planning and successfully executing museum events for Homecoming, A-Day, and other events as needed.• Developed and implemented an online retail store for the Bryant Museum. This created the first sustainable revenue generating operation created at the museum in more than a decade.• Assigned the responsibility of budget management for all aspects of the Bryant Museum. This included but was not limited to admissions, online sales, memberships, expenditures, purchase orders, bids, endowments, state funds, gift funds, and Capstone accounts.• Creation and design of advertisements for the museum in local, regional, and national publications.• Coordination of educational programming such as Art with the Experts, Weather Art Contest, and a Broadcast workshop• Edited two books published by the Bryant Museum; When Winning Was Everything and All of Us Fought the War• Coordination of interviews for the museum’s DVD series Crimson Classics. This included scheduling in town and out of town interviews, securing interview space for out of town interviews, and coordination with film crews in multiple locations.

• Supervision of Bryant Museum student employees and Federal Work Study students.• Creating a policy and procedure manual to ensure security of funds both during collection and creation of deposits.• Serving as Building Representative for the Bryant Museum. Requires communication with various entities across campus to ensure proper maintenance of the facilities.• In depth training for policies and procedures at The University of Alabama including but not limited to, I-9 training, P-Card, purchasing, accounting, personnel management, cash handling, travel guidelines, and other courses required for effective job completion.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Higher Education/Higher Education Administration

Bachelors, History