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Battle Creek, Michigan, United States

• • Lead, coordinate, and collaborate with multiple school districts, organizations, businesses to provide educational programming initiatives that increase competency, access, and awareness to postsecondary pathways including trade schools, apprenticeship, and workforce development credentials. • Lead community-wide assessment of current local education landscape and sector trends to develop recommendations and strategies aimed to increase systematic change and solutions toward postsecondary pathway credential access, success, and attainment.• Assess and develop strategic planning initiatives to determine short and long-term program recommendations to Board of Directors. • Manage all 501(c)(3) reporting and compliance in accordance with state and federal rules and regulations. • Develop and maintain annual program budget.• Supervise staff including on-boarding, role alignment with mission and vision, and professional development. • Co-lead a community collaborative with local community agencies focused to help re-engage community members and encourage degree or GED attainment.

Dowagiac, Mi

• Led and managed department and community outreach through increased proactive strategic communications, site visitations, website content management, and community presentations to help educate and engage students and families on financial aid literacy, including advising and counseling of the federal and state financial aid process.• Served on the College’s student retention committee that focused on the creation and assessment of processes that are utilized to measure student retention. • Taught the college’s Educational Exploration (ED120) course that helped students navigate campus resources and support services while assisting in the development of their own academic and career goals though an Educational Development Plan. • Managed the institution’s $100,000 endowment scholarship fund comprised of over 160 individual scholarships each with specific restrictions in accordance with external donor and organization requirements. This process included candidate matching, communication, awarding, record keeping, and reconciliation of funds. • Administered the institution’s policy regarding academic performance and financial aid eligibility, which included review of each student, communication of eligibility status each semester, leading the appeal process and committee, and ongoing review of 75-100 different student contracts each semester with different terms and conditions to maintain eligibility. • Managed office staff, administrative processes, policies, and priorities in absence of Director including leading staff meetings, department representation, committee participation, and supervision of staff.

• Managed over 270 organizations with on-boarding, advising/mentoring, training/presentation facilitation, and assessment. • Increased number of participating organizations by 15% through a redesigned application and recognition process.• Created educational content and curriculum-based learning modules and workshops for individuals, organizations, staff, and community stakeholders. • Led and facilitated workshops, trainings, and educational programming to over 2,000 participants annually. • Collaborated with legal and subject matter experts to create risk management best practices, polices, procedures, and trainings to organizations. • Planned and executed a variety of large-scale events that included an annual community involvement fair with over 325 vendors/organizations and 4,000 participants as well as an out of state trip with over 2,000 participants and a budget of over $100,000. • Represented department on institution and community committee workgroups.

Louisville, Kentucky Area

Masters, Higher Education Administration

B.A., Psychology (Business Concentration)

Activities and Societies: Delta Tau DeltaContinued Member Development Fundraising