Teresa Raetz, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Suwanee, Georgia, United States

Empowering nonprofit organizations to diversify and enhance their funding throughout the grant lifecycle, strengthen their operations (making them grant-ready), and coaching.

Lawrenceville, Georgia, United States

• Wrote and/or managed $2.2 million in grant funding• Researched and created a business plan for the Gwinnett Veterans Resource Center that resulted in a $100,000 investment from donors• Created hiring, onboarding, and offboarding processes for the organization and built 3 teams to staff all major initiatives, in a difficult hiring environment• Created goal setting, progress reporting, and employee coaching systems for direct reports.• Managed a team of 8, including a manger of staff• Led the team responsible for implementing the Resilient Gwinnett, Infant and Maternal Mortality Action Team, and the Insight to Collaborative Action data group.• Implemented new human resources information system (HRIS), including creating necessary procedures and training • Upgraded and implemented an appropriate system of policies, internal controls, and standard operating procedures.• Led creation of new vision and mission statements for organization and for a major initiative• Created or supervised creation of programmatic goals, strategies, KPIs, strategic alignment, and grant reporting for two key programs, including using data to enhance equity focus• Contributed significantly to the strategic direction of the organization, including managing the organization’s strategic planning and driving the equity focus• Represented the Coalition to outside groups and individuals through meetings and presentations, helping to build strategic partnerships to advance the work of the organization

Lawrenceville, Ga

2015 – 2020 Director of Policy Analysis, Georgia Gwinnett College• Led a project team that created the College’s Protection of Non-Student Minors policy.• Trained and managed teams of policy editors from multiple units and differing experience levels.• Created the equity review team, which reviews GGC policies to prevent disparate impact.• Created the organization’s policy review and approval infrastructure, including a policy template, style guide, tracking system, and two campus-wide training programs.• Led the institution’s policy review and approval process, including editing all policies submitted for changes• Identified risks and opportunities for GGC via daily environmental scans of state and national policy environment.• Researched and wrote several analytical pieces and created associated communication plans as needed (including presenting results to senior leadership), ranging from project reports and research briefs to a 45-page white paper, informing campus leadership about important issues.• Evaluated and participated in quantitative and quantitative data collection, such as the yearly campus climate assessment and faculty/staff focus groups.

Lawrenceville, Georgia, United States

• Led a large, multi-campus project team that created an institutional process for assessing and responding to students on UGA’s extended campuses who were in crisis.• Led a project team that created the student activity fee and the fee management infrastructure for UGA’s extended campuses• Created and led a project team on my own time that assessed the need for a women’s center at UGA via qualitative and quantitative means and created a report with recommendations for senior leaders.• Participated in or led multiple project teams associated with hiring senior leaders, creating a UGA-quality experience for students on campuses away from Athens, and designing a collaborative management model for services shared with another college.• Managed $225,000 budget from multiple funding sources and associated contracts• Coached and supervised staff across three locations around the state.• Created student affairs operation from the ground up during years of unprecedented budget cuts, collaborating with approximately 20 organizational units, often from a distance.• Wrote a wide range of policies and procedures for all student affairs functions.• Instituted strategic and intentional planning and accountability processes, including qualitative and quantitative assessment of program, service, and event quality.

Athens, Georgia, United States

Short term project where responsibilities included working with partner to design and enact student focus group protocol and create report with recommendations based on data to be used as the department evaluated the effectiveness of its CLASS (Continuing the Legacy of African-American Student Success) Advocate program

Lawrenceville, Georgia, United States

Short-term project where responsibilities included making recommendations to newly formed college as it envisioned creation of a student affairs operation. Created report that included recommendations for a comprehensive student affairs division that would serve the needs of students, meet the short- and long-term goals of the administration and be congruent with best practices of the field and the mission of the college.

Athens, Georgia, United States

Part-time position where primary responsibility was creation, implementation, and assessment of a new centralized graduate assistantship selection process for the Division of Student Affairs (approximately 56 GA positions), with many other divisional projects.

Athens, Georgia, United States

Part-time, live-in residence life position. Responsibilities included a full range of supervision duties for 20 people on 2 separate staffs; recruited and advised ConductReview Board members; responded to a wide variety of crises/emergencies involving residents, parents, and facilities; counseled residents on a variety of issues.

Full-time position where responsibilities included creating and maintaining informational relationships with students, parents, school staffs of 105 in-state high schools and Texas Panhandle region; participating in sponsored and cosponsored recruitment activities on and off campus, including campus tours, and OSU Experience; setting and following up on professional and recruitment goals.

Okmulgee, Oklahoma, United States

Responsibilities included travel-intensive marketing of the institution to prospective students and general public; creating and maintaining positive relationships with a wide variety of populations; coordinating and implementing various campus workshops and programs; student advisement; public speaking; file management; frequent use of professional judgment regarding student admissions; and periodic utilization of creativity to streamline office policy and procedure.

Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States

Phd, Student Affairs Administration

Master'S Of Science, Counseling And Student Personnel (School Counseling Option)

Bs, Secondary Education (Option; English