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Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

• I lead project analysis and internal communication efforts for the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Office of the Regional Conservationists (ORC), a national cross-functional team that supports the.
• Overseeing a suite of employee-focused communication resources – including a redesigned, employee-focused ORC SharePoint and bimonthly newsletters and webinars – that inform state and national headquarters’ employees.
• Developing and reviewing customized talking points, briefing papers, visually-rich presentations, white papers, and decision memos that advance agency priorities and support the regional conservationists’ discussions.
• Supporting national meetings’ success by strategizing with the ORC chief of staff, developing detailed action item tracking systems, working closely with external contractors, reviewing and developing meeting.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

You need compelling content that stays on message and speaks to diverse, multigenerational audiences. But where will you find the time? That’s where I come in – to help execute your vision and breathe life into your messages.I create focused and captivating content that resonates with your intended audience. My expertise includes digital and offline.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• I expanded the FPAC Human Resources Division (HRD) communications presence, sharing important HRD news and information with 22,000+ employees across four federal agencies. I increased HRD employee-focused strategic.
• Working alongside the Chief Human Capital Officer and HRD leadership and engaging agencies’ leadership and employees by writing, editing, and designing executive briefing papers, external website and SharePoint.
• Helping employees navigate HRD business processes, tools, and automated systems by coordinating 50+ national training webinars and guiding subject matter experts, presenters, and contracted webinar service providers’.
• Conceptualizing and implementing a communications action plan to address employee concerns by analyzing feedback from an internal HRD survey that focused on workplace challenges. A “Planting Seeds for the Future” video.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• I streamlined and shared NRCS Mission Support Services’ (MSS) activities and processes – which included Human Resources, Procurement and Property, and Budget and Financial Management Divisions – with 9,000+ employees.
• Highlighting the administrative communities’ significant role in the agency’s mission by creating polished communication resources (e.g., briefing papers, executive summaries, presentations, newsletters) and managing.
• Facilitating streamlined onboarding experiences for new administrative employees in the Raleigh office by serving as the MSS lead and point-of-contact for IT, space, training, communications, and event planning.

Research Triangle Park, NC

• I shaped, expanded, and led the Center’s internal and external communications, science delivery program, website presence, and outreach efforts by interpreting forest science into information and products useful to.
• Crafting and implementing communication strategies and products (e.g., key messages, briefing papers, fact sheets, presentations for Forest Service national teams – Chief Information Office, USDA National Agroforestry.
• Managing the Center’s interactive website that received more than 1,500 monthly visits from 85 countries (www.forestthreats.org), ensuring engaging, timely, and credible content.
• Coordinating and editing 35+ researchers’ accomplishments, activities, and publications into a comprehensive report for the Center’s multiple locations, resulting in consistent, accurate, and plain language reporting.
• Planning onsite and virtual opportunities to connect federal forest scientists with family-focused hands-on research activities at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences (e.g., 24-hour Nature Research Center.

Asheville, NC

• I increased forest science awareness for the U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station’s 13 southern states by overseeing and developing targeted messaging products for federal and state agencies, non-governmental.
• Developing, writing, and editing more than 25 forest science-focused local, regional, and national press releases and media resources (e.g., fact sheets, feature stories, backgrounders) highlighting emerging research.
• Authoring eight engaging and plain-language cover and feature articles for the Station’s award-winning quarterly science magazine, Compass, enhancing broad-based understanding of southern forest science.
• Coordinating, writing for, and editing the Station’s annual “State of the Science” report, highlighting significant achievements from 100+ research scientists which helped employees, partners, and the public understand.
• Supporting multicultural and senior workforce initiatives and enhanced recruitment efforts by developing targeted messaging and recommendations to reach underrepresented populations.

Asheville, NC

• I analyzed, streamlined, and communicated complex Southern Research Station business processes to 300+ employees, enhancing administrative staff (e.g., human resources, budget and financial management) relationships.
• Leading and implemented internal communications for the Station’s Administrative Realignment Team charged with redesigning the business operations team throughout the southeast. I was recognized with a Station.
• Conceptualizing and developing the inaugural quarterly newsletter, Cybervine, connecting the Station’s Forest science community with significant administrative news and updates.
• Crafting talking points and briefing materials for regional and national Forest Service executive leadership which helped to expand the Station’s administrative influence.

Atlanta, GA

• As the inaugural regional corporate communications manager, I developed, customized, and implemented the U.S. Forest Service Southern Region’s internal communication strategy for 13 states and the Commonwealth of.
• Initiating joint projects across deputy areas and divisions and evaluating, writing, and strengthening executive-level key messages, presentations, speeches, and briefing papers that enhanced congressional, employee.
• Coordinating a Southern Region visit by the Forest Service Chief and accompanying the Chief and executive leadership during a multi-state tour. I planned each phase of the visit, kept leadership activities on schedule.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area/Washington, DC

• I implemented internal communication strategies for the national NRCS administrative services (e.g., human resources, budget and financial management) reorganization, facilitated timely and credible employee-focused.
• Organizing 50+ national webinars and virtual meetings and managed web-based employee information portals (e.g., SharePoint) that offered impacted employees and customers useful resources.
• Initiating, guiding redesign, and serving as managing editor of the national Mission Support Services newsletter and coordinating agency-wide content to ensure a relevant and engaging publication.
• Designing, writing, and implementing NRCS’s national digital awareness campaign highlighting the agency’s change to the Concur travel system, providing more than 10,000 employees with consistent, accurate, and timely.

Columbia, SC

• As a state leadership team member, I led and implemented strategic communication campaigns and interpreted NRCS’s mission and vision to internal and external customers, partners, and the media. My influence guided.
• Evaluating the existing public affairs program, creating strategic communication plans, and collaborating with agency field offices and conservation partners to increase NRCS visibility, collaborative opportunities.
• Developing briefing papers, brochures, newsletters, videos, and displays that successfully expanded NRCS informational and educational programs to partners, stakeholders, customers, and the public.
• Initiating an innovative marketing campaign, Common Ground, to cultivate new partnerships and expand the agency’s visibility. I also led outreach activities, proactively managed print and broadcast media, and elevated.

Raleigh, NC

I developed NRCS informational materials and trained statewide employees and conservation partners, improving effective communication techniques. Additionally, I established relationships with community officials, private citizens and grassroots organizations to increase agency awareness and introduce conservation programs to small and limited landowners.

Certificate, Technical Communications

Bachelor Of Arts, English