Sarah Bailey Email & Phone Number

Boston

Boston, Ma

Greater New York City Area

Manage internal communications function for 1,000-person staff among 5 main office locations.Ensure corporate strategic goals are made clear and relevant at all levels of the organization.Provide resources and communications vehicles for employees, including: intranet site, monthly newsletter, quarterly town hall meetings, open house events, new hire orientation, and more. Improve employee engagement and morale through multiple feedback vehicles (e.g., CEO Inbox, Employee Opinion Survey, employee council) and social events. Support change management throughout organization including major office moves, leadership changes and department restructures, roll-outs of new systems, technology, and workflows, etc.

Facilitate communication of corporate vision/goals/initiatives to employees through a variety of vehicles: annual All Employee Meeting, company orientation for new hires, weekly newsletter, memos from CEO/COO and others as needed, Three Questions leadership interview video series. Maintain resources of information for employees: Bookends intranet site, company overview presentation/slide library, company fact sheet, "Source Book" content for new hires.Solicit feedback, questions and concerns from employees, share with company leaders and advocate for employees' needs as appropriate; follow up and provides responses/actions etc. - via Pulse Committee, CEO Inbox, Employee Opinion Survey. Assist other internal groups with various aspects of project planning and communication around new initiatives and other projects/processes, such as: HR, IT, Facilities, and others. Support external communications, as needed: manage HBG Facebook and Twitter pages, content for HBG's public website "In The News" section, serve as back-up for dept head when needed to send press releases to trade press and respond to press inquiries.Organize social events for staff and some perks: Pool tournament, quarterly office parties, Holiday Book Sale, Holiday Craft Fair, etc.

Draft company communications including memos to staff from CEO, Human Resources, Information Technology, Strategic Publishing Operations, and other departments; create PowerPoint presentations and speech outlines for CEO and other senior management. Manage company intranet siteProduce company-wide weekly newsletter, “What’s the Story?” Liaise with parent company communications staff Manage internal communications related to the company’s acquisition by Hachette Livre (April 2006) and transition to new office spaces in New York (May 2007). Manage bi-annual Employee Opinion Survey process, including reporting results and action plans to management and staff.

Conducted training session for company proprietary business information systems for both employees and distribution clients. Developed and managed logistics plan for training delivery, maintained and published training schedule.Produced a monthly newsletter about IT & Systems

- Responsible for all aspects of gift management, including data entry, correspondence, and donor archives.- Built and maintained events management systems, and assisted in the planning and running of major fundraising events.- Analyzed and reported on philanthropic income to Board and fiscal department.