I will be the Volunteer Manager for The Salvation Army Chicago Corporate team. I will be overseeing the management of relationship building and cultivating of volunteer efforts for companies, organizations, sport franchises, schools, churches, and clubs for the Chicago area

- Cultivate relationships with Advisory Board members- Prepare budgets, proposals and reports quarterly for Territorial Headquarters- Create and manage office meetings, seminars and workshops- Organize professional/personal meetings, appointments and travel plans for Executive Director- Serve as Chair of DHQ Employee Council

RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT: Manage relationships with donors that give $5K+ for the Divisional Headquarters of The Salvation Army. Liaison between Account Executives and Purchasing Manager of Fortune 500 companies for RCSPARTNER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT: Liaison between software vendors, technical support and Development Staff of The Salvation Army.PROJECT MANAGEMENT: Trained Development staff in Microsoft Project Manager and Lotus Notes. Manage six department project plans for The Salvation Army Divisional Headquarters Metropolitan DivisionCROSS-TEAM INTERACTION: Supervised Volunteer effort for The Salvation Army Divisional Headquarters Metropolitan Division for Hurricane Katrina effort in Chicago. MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE: As a Direct Mail Supervisor responsible for managing a project team of four employees and two departments. As Sales Assistant, I was a team leader for selected accounts that had a sales volume of $1,000,000 per year.; Develop and manage donor and financial reports for nine Gift Advisors for major and planned givingAs assistant to Associate Director of Development, I prepare budgets, proposals and reports quarterly for THQCreate and edit buck slips, adverts and mailing inserts for direct mail projectsAs liaison to the Associate Director of Development, I administer projects from ten departments of developmentCultivate donor relations and records from low to high capacity donor giving accounts

Manage six departments project plans that was once handled by six individual administrative assistantsHaving direct contact for media outlets in the Chicagoland area kept me up to date with news and current events for TSAAs video/photographer for special events, materials used for internet and distribution for promotional venturesSharing background in IT, I am able to have direct access to web updates and promotional toolsAs a member of Divisional Marketing Committee gave creative ways to promote TSA endeavors

As Assistant to the Associate Director facilitated meetings in her absence.Condensed weekly, monthly annual reports from two departments to one page synopsis for the DirectorInteracted and managed various events for development. (Golf outing, Tree of lights, Starlighter dinner, Health fair)Delegated duties for development staff for inter/outer office functions. (Employee and Committee meetings)Created financial spreadsheets to contain year end goals and spending to determine future prospective goal