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• Manages community engagement and impact assessment projects in Ireland and the United States. • Mentors planners, designers, transport specialists and researchers in best practices in developing public engagement and involvement strategies, as well as evaluation frameworks.• Delivers proposals, presentations, articles and award-winning reports for a range of clients across sectors, focusing on documenting community engagement and impact assessment. • Crafts outreach, educational and science communication materials to explain complex information.• Ensures quality products through design, layout, copy-writing and editing services. • Reviews and edits proposals for quality control and feasibility of teaming arrangements, budgets and timelines.• Develops templates to better position teammates and communicate project outcomes and impact.

• Coordinates the public engagement, communications and impact assessment efforts for Principal Investigators and researchers to advance evidence-informed policies, programs and services.• Serves as Director of the Health Research Board-Irish Research Council Ignite programme, focused on public, patient involvement in health research. • Assists researchers and partners in developing public involvement plans and assessment frameworks. • Manages staff to promote teaming and consortia development with national and international partners, overseeing proposals from pre-qualification to post-tender.• Develops tools, resources and outreach materials to better position teammates, build brand awareness and communicate complex ideas. • Directs event planning to engage stakeholders, including large-scale events (1,000+ participants) to management of smaller working groups. • Develops educational initiatives including: the International Summit on Ageing with an Intellectual Disability (200 participants / 6 CEUs); the Falls and Syncope Unit International Training (133 participants / 14 CPDs); the Irish Universities Association Engaged Research Training (2,000+ attendees); the Universal Design Innovation Showcase (90 undergraduate engineers); the FutureLearn Massive Open Online Courses: Strategies for Successful Ageing (30,000 online learners); Women’s Health After Motherhood (7,000 online learners); Performing Accessible Health Assessments (2,500 online learners); and programming for primary and secondary school students, as examples.• Oversees social media campaigns and coordinates efforts across multiple teams. • Serves as National Convener for the engaged research report Society & Higher Education Working Together to Address Grand Societal Challenges and creator of the Engaged Research Framework.• Facilitates 'Planning for Impact,' and 'Strategic Engagement' workshops for higher education institutions, governments, funding bodies, and community organizations.

• Co-founded the Institute, secured 501c3 nonprofit status, managed all proposal development and bid submittals, delivered over $2M in community engagement technical assistance focused on walkability, livability, wayfinding and place-making through urban design and transportation planning efforts. • Served as project manager for engagement-focused publications for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Highway Administration, National Association of Realtors, AARP, AECOM and others. • Managed a wide range of community engagement projects and directed educational programming for approximately 300 communities annually. • Oversaw all daily operations, including recruitment, mentoring and personnel performance reviews, in addition to managing the transition from start-up to a profitable business. • Provided monthly, quarterly and year-end financial reports to the Board and Executive Director, reconciled all accounts, approved purchases, issued payroll and authorized invoicing. • Positioned and marketed the organisation nationally and internationally, scoped projects and ensured significant net equity from year one through external partnerships, fundraising initiatives and consulting services.

• Designed curriculum for Beginning Composition; Advanced Composition; Women's Literature; Introduction to Poetry; and Introduction to Creative Writing;• Lectured, critiqued student writing, conducted personal conferences, and computed final course grades for 120 undergraduate students each semester;• Provided academic advisement for an additional 80 students each semester;• Served as Editor-in-Chief for Symposium: A Journal of Research and Inquiry;• Utilized online learning technologies for distance learning and served on the Assessment Committee for the U.S. Department of Education and the City Colleges of Chicago;• Awarded 2007 Outstanding New Teacher Award by the National Council of Teachers of English.

• Developed, implemented, and maintained a Cooperative Sanctuary Program for the University of Notre Dame, per the guidelines set by Audubon International;• Engaged land owners during campus expansion of facilities, ensuring proactive environmental stewardship to protect sensitive areas and build partnerships with the surrounding community;• Established a science education program for area schools and launched citizen science programs;• Ensured compliance with Indiana Department of Environmental Management wetland permits;• Served as an Environmental Steward for the State of Indiana.