City of Charlotte

Division Manager, Community Leadership & Training

•Develop and implement a Civic Leadership Academy to: increase knowledge of government processes and understanding of critical issues facing our community; build engagement, trust, and community relationships; and empower residents to advocate for their needs and work together to create positive community change.

•Recruit a geographically and demographically diverse group of participants, coordinate with internal and external partners to deliver sessions, manage all program logistics, and evaluate the program for continual improvement.

•Develop and offer training opportunities for Community Engagement staff to: increase knowledge of nonprofit and civic groups; connect staff to salient issues in the community; and build camaraderie among co-workers.

•Supervise and assist the Neighborhood Training & Development Program Manager to oversee successful implementation of a bi-annual Neighborhood Board Retreat and year-round neighborhood trainings.

•Administer and oversee the City’s Youth Council contract, ensuring vendor is providing a meaningful civic engagement opportunity for participating youth.

City of Charlotte

Program Manager, Neighborhood Training & Development

•Manage the Neighborhood Board Retreat program, which convenes 30+ neighborhood organizations bi-annually to provide networking, professional facilitation, and City/County resources to neighborhood and merchant organizations.

•Plan and administer year-round training opportunities for neighborhood groups and residents; identify and analyze community issues and design trainings to address needs and/or replicate successes.

•Organize information to prepare and make presentations to individuals, groups, and City Council committees.

•Manage grant software for all Community Engagement and Economic Development grantmaking programs.

City of Charlotte

Program Manager, Neighborhood Matching Grants

•Manage the program, which awards ~$400,000 annually, to ensure compliance with program guidelines, established financial procedures, City regulations, reporting requirements, and contract creation and compliance.

•Oversee two grant review boards (18 members), administrative assistant, and five grant liaisons.

•Prepare and make presentations and communicate (via email, verbal, and written correspondence) with neighborhood representatives, City staff, elected officials, and community partners to promote the program, provide program-specific information/training, solicit participation, and report program accomplishments.

Greensboro Housing Authority

Internal Audit & Grants Management Assistant

• Audited housing files and programs to ensure that money and resources were allocated in accordance with federal, state, and local rules and regulations.

• Developed, distributed, collected, and analyzed resident satisfaction surveys.

• Wrote grant applications, forecasted program budgets, and developed a software RFP.

• Revised the organization's personnel, procurement, and purchasing policies.

• Analyzed criminal statistics in public housing communities; prepared monthly Board reports.

The Duke Endowment

Fellow

• Working alongside program officers and program directors, I reviewed grant applications, conducted site visits, prepared materials for Committee books (charts and narrative), and presented funding recommendations to the Board of Trustees.

• Worked with our evaluation team to collect and analyze data to ensure projects around literacy, food and hunger, and housing are implemented as effectively as possible.

• Worked with our director of higher education and Furman University officials to expand the Endowment’s largest legacy grant program, the James B. Duke Scholarship Program, through a $22 million gift.

• Researched changes to Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act and determined implications for the Endowment’s grantmaking around health care.

• Researched and visited job training programs across North Carolina and South Carolina; created an evaluation tool to vet grant applications from programs providing job training to youth transitioning out of foster care.

• Served on the Grant Application Rewrite Committee; distilled meeting discussions, kept and distributed minutes.

• Managed the recruitment, interview, and selection processes for the Fellowship program (98 candidates for one position); coordinated travel, set agendas, and oversaw both internal and external communication.

Young Life

Primary Care Counselor (The Dale House Project)

• Lived alongside, provided care for, and taught independent living skills to delinquent youth referred by the State of Colorado’s Division of Youth Corrections as they worked towards emancipation and/or parole.

• Planned and led multidisciplinary team meetings (including client managers, probation officers, therapists, and social workers) to develop, implement, and monitor progress towards individualized treatment plans.

• Built relationships with foundations and individuals; wrote support letters and secured funding.

Albemarle County

ICMA Local Government Management Fellow

• Working under the Deputy County Executive, I managed cross-departmental projects including software procurement, workload justification, surplus inventory disposal, and peer county comparisons.

• Worked with Albemarle County, City of Charlottesville, and University of Virginia police departments to develop a website/public messaging around the construction of a regional firearms training center.

• Helped create and present the annual budget, five-year financial plan, and capital improvement plan.

• Researched and wrote time-sensitive reports for the County Executive and Board of Supervisors.

• Co-led a Broadband Task Force, bringing together County officials, internet providers, and community stakeholders to determine how to best provide broadband throughout the county.

Read Charlotte

Read to a kindergarten student on a weekly basis, modeling active reading techniques to engage the student, build vocabulary, and foster a love of reading.

Rebuilding Together of Greater Charlotte, Inc.

Rebuilding Together is a leading national nonprofit in safe and healthy housing with more than 40 years of experience. Together, with our corporate and community partners, we transform the lives of low-income homeowners by improving the safety and health of their homes and revitalizing our communities. Rebuilding Together’s local affiliates and nearly 100,000 volunteers complete about 10,000 rebuild projects nationwide each year.

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