Samantha Demars-Hanson Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa

• Served as the Employee Engagement/Internal Communication lead for clients and planned all-staff meetings, events, emails, and other activities to build team morale • Supported effective communication with clients, vendors and communities• Planned and implemented public involvement strategies that helped clients build public support for infrastructure projects and public policies• Put together presentations and speaking points for legislative briefings, executive committee meetings, and regional forums• Wrote and edited content for presentations, communication plans, press releases, websites, and all-staff emails• Coordinated events, open houses, public meetings, and community advisory committees, including managing logistics, developing work plans, preparing materials, meeting setup and takedown, and post-event reporting

Seattle, Wa

• Supported technology and philanthropic marketing efforts through market research, operational coordination, and reporting support• Reported on market research trends and communicated insights to various teams within the company • Identified potential partnerships with organizations/influencers and managed partner relations for a variety of programs• Managed numerous email marketing campaigns in Campaign Monitor, tracked metrics, and reported on results • Put together biweekly reports analyzing the success of social media marketing for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google AdWords • Analyzed website performance and trends for Vulcan programs using Google Analytics• Assisted with recruiting coordination for the technology department, which included researching industry events, tracking event deadlines, coordinating collateral for events, staffing events, setup and tear down, maintaining a database of potential candidates/contact information gathered from events, and updating the internal recruiting team SharePoint Wiki page• Provided UX research support including recruiting, screening, and scheduling participants as well as creating surveys in SurveyGizmo for remote studies

• Planned and prepared for the organization’s largest fundraiser, the Trivia Bee and Silent Auction, which included procuring 100 items for the auction and managing volunteers • Maintained the Microsoft Access donor database and handled donor correspondence• Grew the organization’s social media presence on Facebook and Twitter by keeping them populated with content weekly• Managed the website and put together the monthly newsletter• Performed administrative duties such as mail merges and answering phone calls

Seattle

• Implemented and improved communications strategy for this small organization focused on biodiversity and environmental conservation, which included tracking web analytics, building the media list, and updating the foundation’s social media accounts, such as Twitter and Facebook • Served as the initial point of contact for grantees, interacting with them to create and update their grant profiles• Constructed the monthly newsletter for JRS grantees and supporters as well as the newsletter for the board of trustees • Built and maintained website content using WordPress, which involved writing press releases and news pieces, to show the work that the foundation supports

Seattle

• Developed a timeline and strategy for a research project on foot traffic at drop-off recycling sites, which involved finalizing the survey, recruiting sites to participate, writing and sending out letters to them, and following up via phone, improving my verbal communication skills• Surveyed customers dropping off electronics, enhancing my knowledge of recycling services and programs in Washington, to help with the current literature gap on this topic for producer responsibility and life cycle assessment research• Wrote sections of a report discussing our methods and findings

Seattle

• Prepared for the organization’s annual dinner and benefit auction, their most prominent fundraiser • Contacted businesses and individuals to procure items for the auction, utilizing my cordial telephone manner• Formed auction packages and helped design the Greater Giving auction catalog

I created, edited, and updated dozens of blogs and websites using WordPress along with other web design tasks.

Conducted outreach for Puget Sound Energy's HomePrint Assessments, raising awareness about this service and helping customers save energy and money

Juggled three different roles in this live-in position, serving as a Resident Advisor, Community Advisor, and Conference Assistant, in which I balanced a wide variety of responsibilities and developed time-management and organizational skills

Seattle

• Collaborated with the community education and policy team to develop and implement outreach strategy for community engagement projects in a fast-paced environment, assisting in everything from initial research to engaging the public at events• Supervised the King County ECO Net account by regularly adding upcoming environmental events to the calendar and sending out a monthly e-mail to its members, including over 100 non-profit organizations, helping to facilitate collaboration• Educated the public about current policy issues and raised awareness of what they could to do help protect our region while interacting with the community directly at fairs and festivals throughout Washington, utilizing my public speaking skills • Wrote a 13 page situation assessment draft for the Greater Everett Area Latino Research Project, which involved researching our target audience of the Latino population to decide what marketing and outreach should be implemented to best get them involved with environmental issues in their community, and attended meetings with members from other organizations to discuss and critique it • Participated in the Don’t Drip and Drive campaign, collecting information and creating content for the website • Analyzed data using mapping programs and recorded findings using Excel, allowing me to become proficient with Microsoft Office while working in an office environment 80% of the time and performing clerical tasks

Lynnwood, Wa And Bellingham, Wa

My duties included greeting and helping customers, working at the register, and other aspects of customer service. I opened, closed, and helped maintain the store.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Environmental Studies, 3.6 Gpa

Activities and Societies: Tau Sigma National Honors Society

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