Paula Swiatkowski Email & Phone Number

California, United States

• EA responsibilities for Industry and Food & Agriculture program leads; also:
• Grants administration using Fluxx software.
• In support of growing the program constituent lists and participation, manage related organizations and contacts in the Salesforce CRM - including financial and industry information - for complete profile analysis.
• Other programmatic support: research and data collection; project management of grantmaking timeline; content writing and copyediting for contract summaries, white paper, blog posts, events content, materials for.

• General Board:
• Participate in organizational strategic planning; event planning and participation; board recruitment.Communications:
• Lead planning and execution of editorial calendar for web, blog, and social media platforms;
• Plan and produce monthly Spotlight and blog features;
• Website manager: publish new content monthly on deadline; update legacy pages as required;
• Editorial oversight of all outbound communication.Contributing guest blogger and reporter on WEN events from May, 2018.

Oakland, California

• Intern with Communications team at national headquarters in Oakland, CA:
• Contributing writer of Sierra Club campaign updates, volunteer profiles, and opinion pieces for organization's national website (https://www.sierraclub.org/other/authors/paula-swiatkowski).
• Assist with planning, sourcing of material, copywriting, and copyediting for member newsletter.
• Research relevant materials in preparation for interviewing campaign staff and volunteers throughout the US.
• Manage and complete each writing project on deadline, from pitch to (Drupal) publication.

Berkeley, California

• Organized local 'Grass-Roots Eco-Friendly Employee Network' chapter, continuously leading site initiatives and activities around themes of sustainability and environmental awareness, modeling an example emulated by.
• Using direct outreach, secured guest speakers from across business, government and education.
• Created and curated educational content on relevant topics and themes.Initiated Siemens Berkeley’s participation in offsite volunteer work, via direct outreach:
• City of Berkeley Parks Department, Alameda County Community Food Bank, Bike East Bay’s ‘Bike to Work Day’.Also:
• Achieved procurement & installation of four EV charging stations, incurring minimal cost to the company via leveraging of contacts and winning $10,000 grant from Bay Area Air Quality Management District.
• Initiated onsite composting services and training of site colleagues in waste stream management.

Berkeley, CA

• Development and market launch of molecular diagnostics real-time assays. Some essential duties:
• Researched, wrote, and edited detailed, regulatory-level technical protocols, reports, and work instructions.
• Completed thorough laboratory data collection, analysis, and results presentations to key stakeholders.
• Exhibited relationship-building and communication skills internally with onsite and global cross-functional groups, as well as with outside vendors for timely clinical sample acquisition.
• Demonstrated expertise at extraction/purification and real-time PCR amplification/detection of nucleic acids.
• Earned two promotions: from Biochemist 1 to Biochemist 2 - 2011; Biochemist 2 to Senior Biochemist - 2016.

• Provided dynamic leadership for fifteen GREEN chapter sites across US, under umbrella of the Healthineers Diversity & Inclusion Council. Re-energized dormant chapters and fostered new ones. Re-established unifying.
• Served as critical communication link between D&I Council and GREEN site chairs.
• Initiated working relationship between National GREEN and Siemens US Head of Sustainability.
• Compiled sites’ annual business plans, on deadline, for Council’s database.
• Represented GREEN at Council’s 2017 and 2018 national strategy meetings.
• Drove adoption of target alignment across all chapters, while recognizing and supporting each site’s unique local initiatives and events.

Advanced Program In Sustainable Management

Courses completed: 'Intro to Climate Change, Environment and Sustainability', 'Sustainability Leadership - Strategies and Paradigms'.

Bachelor Of Fine Arts - Bfa, Dance, Minor In Literature

Certificates, In Biotechnology, Stem Cell Technology, And Biomanufacturing