Susan E. Briggs Email & Phone Number

GOALS: academic department administration/grant program implementation• extensive experience working in a higher education setting• directly assisted supervisors to ensure smooth running of department and program operations• responsible for department reception (welcoming students, faculty, staff, and external visitors; answering phones and email) and served as point person to assist with a variety of departmental needs, including assisting with onboarding and coordination of staff and faculty• collaborated as part of a division of 100 staff, and also with multiple offices across campus• interviewed faculty; researched and wrote reports to foundation and individual donors regarding faculty scholarly activities• helped prepare and submit federal grant progress reports and grant renewal proposal• maintained operating budget for $6 million Title III STEM grant; processed invoices, check requests, purchase orders and resolved budget issues• coordinated donor, parent, student, and guest speaker events and staff and faculty meetings• trained and supervised student workers• performed gift processing, data entry, and database maintenance, with some reporting, in a development database system• highly organized and detail-oriented• hold a master’s degree in English with a creative writing emphasis• am a published novelistSpecialties: excellent writing and editing skills; analytical thinker with an innate creativity and personal drive

Listed skills include Higher Education, Fundraising, Editing, Nonprofits, and 13 others.