Robert Fair Email & Phone Number

Springfield, Il, Us

Springfield, Illinois Metropolitan Area

Develops and provides an approved syllabus for semesters coursework and expectations.Organizes, prepares, and regularly updates course materials. Provided opportunities to for in-class discussion and debate.Ensured the content and level of material asked in exams are adequately covered in classroom teaching.

Springfield, Illinois Area

Manages legislative portfolio, overseeing introduction of new legislation and tracking bills through legislative process.Collaborate with lobbyist, staffers, and stakeholders to ensure open communication regarding bills' progress and smooth negotiation.Assist State Legislators by answering phones, returning emails messages on behalf of the Senator, and create distribution lists.Resolve constitute issues by connecting to state agencies and Congressional offices as needed.Clerk Illinois Senate State Government Committee (2021-current), Telecommunications Communications (2019 -2021), Gaming Committee (2017-2019)Attended meetings with personnel, took elaborate notes, and disseminated information to stakeholders.Prioritized tasks to complete on time or ahead of schedule.Gathered support for bills and amendments from other members and worked with committees on legislation.

Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

Trained and managed a grassroots network of over 300 volunteers.Implemented a voter registration strategy which successfully registered over 1,000 new voters in Kent County.Managed a voter turnout operation increasing turnout margins in precincts covering East Grand Rapids by 5%.Planned and executed surrogate events for Bernie Sanders, Cecile Richards, and Hillary Clinton.Supervised two paid internships and three unpaid fellows.

Springfield, Illinois Area

• Served as Teaching Assistant for the Model United Nation’s Course. Created lesson plans, graded papers, and provided course content.• Draft budgets, set fundraising goals, and navigated various levels of university bureaucracy lobbying for funding for different projects in the Global Studies Department. • Served as Head Delegate, and coordinated the university’s Model UN Delegations annual trip to the spring conference in New York. Included reserving hotels, booking flights, ground transportation, and numerous other details pertaining to traveling.• Served as a mentor to undergraduate students. Assisting them in course selection, graduation goals, and matching them with worthwhile internships. Planned, coordinated, and oversaw various department and university events, including making arrangements for guest speakers, and conferences. Responsible for the department’s advertising and campus relations. Maintaining their social media accounts, researching events, and creating advertisements for the campus and general public

Decatur, Illinois Area

Reviewed and approved supply requisitions, and ordered needed materials.Maintained an accurate database of materials, jobs, due dates, and department spending.Provided customer assistance and contributed to maintaining the company’s business relationships with customers and vendors via checkups, status updates, and coordinating on the ground facility visits. Served as liaison between different offices, and branches of the company, and other components of Bodine Electric’s parent company, Rathje Enterprises. Ensured clear and accurate communications amongst divisions.

Springfiled Illinois

Learned legislative process in a hands-on manner, focusing on political issues in health care and human services.Maintained schedules of firms’ members.Updated and tracked progress of firm’s legislation, and maintained up-to-date data base on legislative goals.Wrote issue oriented memos for clients, legislators, and public on health and human services issues in the State of Illinois.Embraced the opportunity to lobby legislators with supervisor present.

Master''S Degree, Political Science And Government, 3.75

Activities and Societies: Head Delegate Model United Nations

Bachelor'S Degree, Political Science And Government, 3.6

Associate Of Arts (A.A.), Liberal Arts And Sciences/Liberal Studies, 2.8