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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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Louisville, Kentucky Area

Masters, Higher Education Administration

B.A., Psychology (Business Concentration)

Activities and Societies: Delta Tau DeltaContinued Member Development Fundraising