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Directed all youth services for library collaborative and community engagement. Effective team leader, supervisor, and project manager.Responsible for running a busy youth services department in a four-library collaborative.Wrote and awarded at least 20 annual grants up to $75,000.00.Created, ran, and evaluated multiple projects and pilot programs spanning audiences and diverse topics to engage youth, families, and their community.Collection Development across departments and materials.Managed a busy calendar for in-house, outreach, and community programs for in-person and virtual offerings.  Efficient marketing of library services to visitors and patrons through communication, customer service, social media, print, virtual and in-person presentations, and story-writing.  Successfully created and ran the annual summer reading program from 8-16 weeks, for over 300 participants of all ages.  Quickly pivoted to adjust to Covid-19 by running an interactive virtual program on multiple platforms always keeping efficient use of budgets and donations. Partnered closely with schools and state agencies for public school accreditation, curriculum, presentations, lessons, stories, book talks, book orders, projects, summer reading and more. Coordinated Bookmobile visits.  Volunteer for community bookmobiles. Wrote original fairy tale scripts and created interactive video performances which were shared on various platforms in spreadsheets to engage schools and local community agencies. This included links to tie-in crafts, original Kahoot quizzes, YouTube channel, library, and community resources.  Created virtual libraries for website, created and updated YouTube channel, new software learned and used regularly.Certified Family Place Library Professional for five years. Secured community early learning professionals and parents for the Parent-Child Workshop and provided training to family place assistants

Responsible for all library programming, vision and growth. Managed the development and implementation of the library’s mission following state RSA’s and goals; ensuring they were integrated into library policies, practices, collection development, and programming. Increased library patronage by 10% of population through community engagement.Built library budget with trustees and advocated at town committees. Collection Development across departments and materials.Recruited, supervised, and evaluated staff and volunteers. Designed and implemented all outreach, collaboration, public relations, print, social media, and grant writing resulting in increased patronage, increased offerings, and increased use of the library.Brought library programs from 0 per year to over 100 per year with a small community budget through grants and fundraising. Created a successful summer reading program culminating in annual line-item funding. Provided welcoming, diverse, and unique materials and programs engaging pre-schools, schools, businesses, agencies, and individuals.  Designed and maintained the library website, Facebook page, and monthly column for local newspapers. New software learned and used regularly.Recruited, supervised, and evaluated staff and volunteers. Completed all trainings offered by the NH State Library in librarianship and social media

-Supervised college student calling program for fundraising and stewardship of Alumni Fund.-Provided ongoing training, incentives and motivation pertinent to fundraising goals so that we met our goals each year.

-Performed all duties of daily teaching as well as staff evaluation and management. -Implemented school-wide and individual behavior plans. Received, used specialized training in emotional disturbances, drug/alcohol addiction, and sexual offense cycles. Managed, recorded and tracked academics and behaviors.-Wrote and implemented Life Skills Curriculum, following state standards, with curriculum map.