Transferable Skill Sets and Major Accomplishments
Leadership
- Project Development and Implementation: Secured international organization memberships; founded a training centre
- Volunteer Coordination: Trained and supported volunteer crew of over 250 annually with high retention
- Conflict Resolution: Trained 30 students who instituted an in-house conflict resolution service in their school
- Event Planning: Executed both urban professional and outdoor grassroots fundraisers, educational conferences and festivals
Organizational Management
- Financial: Managed and balanced a $250,000 budget for 5 years
- Intelligence Management: Developed systems for file meangement for off site team of 1,100
- Facility and Human Resources: Implemented annual shared community kitchen for 5,000+ participants
- Marketing and Media Relations: Launched identity and press campaign; designed and established online presence
Advocacy
- Facilitation: Led a multi-cultural violence prevention group reducing tension between street gangs and students
- Community Activism: established a youth HIV/AIDS / adulterant harm reduction and volunteerism program
- International Awareness: Volunteered in Bangladesh for 14 months using a rights based, participatory approach
- Media Outreach: Featured on 60 Minutes and National News Magazine
- Food Security: Community kitchen development, street youth and homeless programming
- Counseling: trauma, sexual abuse, refugee entry, interpersonal, child and family
Collaboration
- Marketing and Media Relations: Launched identity and press campaign; designed and established online presence
- Networking: Facilitated 5 day training for 14 Executive Directors on Programs from Proposals to Management
- Print Production: Produced 400 page book with hundreds of contributors and 8 designers
- Logistics: Coordinated team for national conference for Best Practice sharing from inception through to accommodation
- Fund Raising: Assisted in securing a 1,000,000 grant from UNDP
DOCUMENT CREATION
- Meeting Packages: Developed board/staff welcome packages, agendas, professional meeting minutes, financial reports, and action item follow up.
- HR Process: Analyzed HR processes and presented customized behavioral interview questionnaires which were rolled out while hiring 100 new staff
- Policy and Procedures Manual: Facilitated the development process and creation of organizational wide manual over 4 executive retreats
- Employee Handbooks: Filtering through 2,000 pages of policy created a user friendly reference manual for staff
- International Chapter Manual: Produced a manual and procedure forms which were distributed to 30 chapters
- Governance and Succession Policy: Documented and produced reports for new policy approval which stemmed from Board retreat
- Community Kitchen Sanitation Manual: Procedure and Practice Manual: Developed for the use by kitchen staff in response to provincial health officials request
- Content Rich Day-timer: Brought together 8 designers and researchers to create a 400 page product to be distributed to 5,000 participants
Computer Competencies
- Word Processing: Microsoft Office 07/08 Suite and WordPerfect
- Bookkeeping: Excel and Quick Books
- Graphic Design and Desktop Publishing: Photoshop & Illustrator CS5, Quark 8, and PageMaker
- Operating Systems: Macintosh, Palm, and Windows
- Web Page Design: Joomla, Wordpress, Front Page, Dreamweaver CS5, CSS, HTML, PHP and Java
- Database: File Maker Pro, Donor Perfect, AS400, Access, SQL, and ACT
- Project Management: activeCollab, DotProject, Microsoft Office Project, Mindmap, Solve 360, and Visio
