Zara Shick Email & Phone Number

United States

Provides assistance and support for the operations of a variety of multiple-employer retirement plans, including creating and maintaining budgets, reports, and ancillary business documents, coordinating off-site meetings and conferences, performing research and analysis, administratively support two vice-presidents, and liaising with the committees that.

Waynesville, North Carolina, United States

• Coordinate administrative support for the CEO, and board of directors, to optimize time management for focus on company growth activities, and customer satisfaction
• Design and establish annual board meeting schedules
• Network and build relationships with local, regional, and national political figures, Board of Directors,committees, and senior staffers

• Responsible for planning numerous college-level events from start to finish including invitations, ordering food, budgeting, publicity, etc.
• Acts as the secretary of CEAP Leadership Council Committee & CEAP Dean’s Advancement Council
• Editor of the bi-annual college level newsletter
• Assists the business officer with budget related responsibilities
• Communicates with alums, students, faculty, staff and community partners in the WNC region
• Processes college level paperwork, including travel, overloads, check requests

• Supervise 6 Level I Supervisors, 30 full time housekeepers and 6-15 student employees
• Set quality control level and perform inspections to ensure standards are being maintained
• Respond to parent and student complaints in a timely and courteous manner
• Handle and maintain all lost and found that has been collected throughout the year
• Recruit, interview and hire SPA, hourly and student worker employees
• Assist employees enrolling in NC State Health Plan benefits

• Observed each professional advisor as they worked individually with students
• Gained awareness on varying advising styles
• Shadowed multiple offices to gain knowledge on how they interact and impact the Advising Center including registrar, one-stop, disability services, first year experience, honors college
• Created a training and information manual for the student worker staff
• Created promotional material for Western’s Advising Day
• Worked regularly in the role of front office person answering phone calls, logging in students for appointments, assisting students in making appointments, fielding questions

• Gained a comprehensive understanding of career services as a functional area of student affairs
• Participated in training meetings with allied offices
• Helped staff career fairs, providing administrative support to students and employers
• Benchmarked how other higher education career services offices provide experiential education through externships
• Designed all components (descriptions, forms, timelines, learning outcomes, assessments) for a Catamount Externship program that will be piloted in collaboration with the Honors College and First Year Experience

Master’S Degree, Higher Education/Higher Education Administration

Bachelor’S Degree, Hospitality Administration/Management