Stephanie Chávez, Shrm-Cp Email and Phone Number

Lead the vision and strategy for a team of 38 campus recruiters nationwide. Set channel goals, develop recruitment strategies, and manage campus recruitment directors while supporting their teams. Act as the primary point of contact for internal and external partnerships, fostering collaboration to drive recruitment success.

•Led and managed a team of recruitment and admissions professionals across the Midwest & West region•Developed, implemented and monitored recruitment and admissions plan•Managed relationships with national and local Executive Directors•Managed over $4 million budget•Planned and executed quarterly team retreats, trainings and events•Recruited +3,500 applicants and admitted upwards of 1300 City Year AmeriCorps Members for 11 City Year sites

•Led and managed a team of recruitment and admissions professionals across the Midwest region•Developed, implemented and monitored recruitment and admissions plan•Managed relationships with national and local Executive Directors•Managed over $2 million budget•Planned and executed quarterly team retreats, trainings and events•Recruited +2,000 applicants and admitted upwards of 750 City Year AmeriCorps Members for 6 City Year sites

•Developed, implemented and monitored general awareness and targeted recruitment outreach strategy, including advertising and outreach campaign geared to meet the site's demographic targets •Managed relationships with candidates by creating a customer service program that encourages timely and consistent communication with prospective and accepted young leaders. •Built and managed relationships with key contacts at colleges, universities, local and regional high schools, community and faith based organizations and appropriate national and regional organizations •Planned and implemented an academic calendar of presentations, open houses, interviews and visitor days •Managed all aspects of recruitment administration including collateral inventory, creating collateral and managing recruitment budget •Created and analyzed recruitment reports

•Managed 60 Americorps Members in their school-based service, overseeing literacy tutoring and after-school programming at various elementary schools within Chicago Public Schools.•Supervised the planning of community service days and positive school climate events such as; attendance rallies, family movie and reading nights in Southside Chicago neighborhoods with attendance reaching over 500 people.•Member of a staff team that developed and implemented eight weeks of orientation, team building, diversity and leadership training for new corps members and team leaders.•Organized a detailed filing system for corps member data: AmeriCorps grant compliance paperwork, payroll records, program graduation requirements and time-off requests.•Chaired planning committee for service day which won a Clinton Innovation Award. The day brought together 240 students for a day of service, celebration and teambuilding.

•Developed the capacity of underserved communities to provide ongoing health, safety, and disaster preparedness education to diverse groups in a cost-effective way•Delivered classes to youth, senior citizens, low-income groups, and minorities•Planned and delivered an HIV/AIDS workshop for 100 of Chicago’s 6th, 7th and 8th graders. Involved Outside organizations such as The AIDS Memorial Quilt, The Chicago Health Works Theatre Company, Camp Heartland, Chicago State University, The Youth Pride Center, and The Names Project.

•Led team of 9 peers in the vision/strategy/implementation of City Year Chicago's tutoring service model•Ensured that team projects met goals and that all team members attained core values of inclusivity, civic engagement and leadership through service projects•Planned and implemented a service project at service site for 100 volunteers; engaged community businesses, created a more conducive learning environment for students through murals, an outside US Playground Map, and beautifying the interior walls of the school