Simonne Willis Email & Phone Number

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Support the Nonprofit Partnership team’s VP, Director, and Program Managers with reporting and data research and analysis for various initiatives with our nonprofit partners.
• Routinely plan, write, and edit prospecting and member-facing communications with the Member Marketing & Engagement team.
• Assist with funding proposals, project reports, and the creation of essential partnership deliverables.
• Provide research and data collection in preparation for calls and meetings with external partners.
• Identify and orchestrate process improvement activities within the Nonprofit Partnerships department, from contributing to new data governance standards to introducing project software to manage complex and multi-year.
• Serve as the Nonprofit Partnership team's cross-departmental representative in meetings related to prioritization of Salesforce and Magento improvements.

• Assisted library patrons (students, faculty, and guests of the five undergraduate schools and the two graduate institutions and the larger Claremont community) with access to the library's physical and digital.
• Responsibilities included assisting patrons with book checkout, helping them navigate digital library resources, shelving books, processing Resource Sharing requests, and taking calls.

• Completed data research and entry (e.g., ISBN, format, pricing) for new and prospective books for First Book members and special order customers.
• Supported special orders by performing stock checks and updating tracking information for orders.
• Read and evaluated children’s and young adult titles to determine if they contribute to the organization’smission of offering diverse, equitable, inclusive, and culturally relevant stories for all children.
• Conducted internship-long research on multiliteracy, culminating in a presentation to the organization staff.

• Assisted with National Book Award procedures and screening entries.
• Supported NBF's education and access programs BookUp, Book Rich Environments, and Raising Readers through event assistance, research, and program tracking and documentation.
• Assisted at and troubleshooted for virtual events for Raising Readers and Book Up.

• Organized and summarized data from four years of the organization’s annual year-end fundraising campaigns.
• Onboarded new LARB members to Kindful (CRM) database.
• Collaborated with the social media team to revamp the organization's Instagram presence, resulting in the rate of follower acquisition increasing from 3.0% to 6.3%.
• Drafted copy for Mailchimp email newsletters and summarized email engagement.
• Aided in the completion of the organization’s application to a federal grant.
• Copyedited articles in accordance with the organization’s style guide; supported copyediting pieces for a joint symposium between LA Review of Books and Berggruen Institute’s Transformations of the Human program.

Researched, aggregated, and summarized news coverage from various outlets for the daily Newsbling newsletter.

Troy, Michigan, United States

• Communicated with guests to highlight the health benefits of the products and encourage interest in joining the rewards program.
• Provided healthy beverages, bowls, and food products consistently for all customers by adhering to all recipe and presentation standards.
• Responded to meet guest expectations and needs with a sense of urgency.
• Managed monetary exchanges in the store by taking orders and ringing up transactions.
• Adhered to health department codes regarding food sanitation and handling.

Bingham Farms, MI

Provided general administrative assistance to a family lawyer, including photocopying, answering phones, email communication, preparing important documents and forms for signature, faxing documents to appropriate courts (Wayne County Juvenile Court, Oakland County Probate Court, etc).