Stephen Albright Email & Phone Number

Creative, thoughtful, and diplomatic program manager, educator, and writer with passion for helping people meet their goals. Program Management: Administer employment program for seniors. Led vocational rehabilitation program finding competitive employment for people with disabilities. Led, mentored, and trained staff assisting job seekers with getting ready for, finding, and keeping employment. Developed strong relationships with key stakeholders.Educator: Taught composition, American environmental history, English, English as a Second Language and job seeking skills to varied audiences: college students, high school seniors, adults with disabilities, and middle school youth. Writer: Research, write and edit for gardening website. Can write grants. Wrote national newsletter about funding for children's programs.Knowledge of employer needs, leadership, grants, grant writing and management, disability, Employment First, supported employment, work readiness, job search, Central Ohio labor market, job placement, job coaching/retention, training, and assessment, injured workers, working with diverse populations--restored citizens, persons with limited income, people with disabilities, youth. Accomplishments:--Managed $400,000 fee-for-service vocational rehabilitation program requiring supervision of staff and oversight of quality service delivery, accurate documentation, professional report writing, and stakeholder relationships.--Wrote grants winning $950,000 for workforce development agency.--Cut by 50% the time needed to send billing reports.--Oversaw job-placement increase from 88 to 400 from 2009-2014.--Advocated for workforce development on Capitol Hill in DC.--Selected to write statewide grant.--Wrote and edited a national newsletter, Children and Youth Funding Report, whose subscriptions grew 40% during my editorship.--Built cultural relationships while living with host family in Micronesia as Peace Corps Volunteer.

Listed skills include Community Outreach, Program Development, Public Speaking, Fundraising, and 10 others.