Lecturer Resume Example John Carroll University

LECTURER

Accomplishments

Raiser's Edge Essentials Sessions I and II Blackbaud, Charleston, SC Raiser's Edge Database Management Blackbaud, Charleston, SC Grantseeking Basics and Getting Started with FC Search, Foundation Center Library, Atlanta, GA Proposal Writing Short Course Foundation Center Online.

Experience

01/2016 to Current

LecturerJohn Carroll University － University Heights, OH

Experience with CONTENTdm, Innovative's Millennium system, oXygen software, and metadata standards such as: Dublin Core, Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS), Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS) and Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS).
Nonprofit Administration Library Subject Guide: John Carroll University 2011 Worked with librarian Kathy Kobyljanec to publish the library subject guide for students in the Nonprofit Administration graduate program: http://lib.jcu.edu/page/15413.
Cleveland Memory Project: Cleveland Heights-University Heights Library 2011 Scanned and uploaded pictures, entered descriptive data for photographs submitted for the local history project, e.g.
http://images.ulib.csuohio.edu/u?/clevehts,2766.
Supervisor: Kirsten Rosebrock-Hayes.
Practicum Project - Manuscripts Relating to the Early History of the Western Reserve: Case Western Reserve University, Kelvin Smith Library 2010 Transcribed and encoded documents for published on Case Western's digital library collection Digital Case, e.g.
https://library.case.edu/digitalcase/CompareView.aspx?id=wrhsms05129.
For each manuscript, encoded text in XML following Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) guidelines and created a Dublin Core, MODS and METS record.
All XML coding was done using oXygen software.
Advisor: Dr.
Athena Salaba, Practicum Supervisor: Richard Wisneski.
Completed project available for review at http://www.linkedin.com/pub/karen-connell/1a/516/8aa/ Preservation Assessment Project: Focus on Special Collections: A Study of the G.
K.
Chesterton Collection at John Carroll University 2009 Assessed the Chesterton collection and made suggestions for continued preservation.
Project Liaison: Charles Zarobila, Preservation Management Professor: Dr.
Karen Gracy.
Completed project available for review at http://www.linkedin.com/pub/karen-connell/1a/516/8aa/ Awarded Summer Online Course grant to develop a course for the Nonprofit Administration master's program: NP 565 Technology and Social Media for Nonprofit Administrators.
Taught course to 16 students during Summer 2016.
The course offers an overview of technology concepts and skills necessary for professionals working in nonprofit administration.
Students studied the technology landscape in the nonprofit sector, performed an assessment of a local nonprofit, and researched a tech strategy and social media plan for that organization.
They participated in discussions on how to assess different technologies in light of a nonprofit's budget, staff, audience, and mission.

01/2015 to Current

Administrative Assistant IIJohn Carroll University, College of Arts & Sciences Dean's Office － University Heights, OH

Provide a high level of professional academic, administrative, technical, organizational, financial, operational, and project management support to the Associate Dean for Sciences, Mathematics, and Health and to the Directors of the incoming and outgoing University Core Curriculum.
Organize, facilitate and record meetings.
Assist in the coordination of internships, special events, and ad-hoc special projects.
Collaborate with the executing budgetary, operational, and academic administrative affairs such as running financial reports, processing stipends, managing and monitoring departmental spending.
Schedule and coordinate dates, times, venues, attendance, agendas, facilities and advertisement, as well as provide administrative support for meetings and conferences.
Compose written documentation and correspondence for the office and update department databases.
Manage and maintain department and program websites (http://sites.jcu.edu/cas/).
Serve as a point of contact and liaison between staff, students, and external constituencies on a range of day-to-day issues.
Screen and handle general telephone and email communications.
Greet and direct visitors and dealing with academic and administrative problems and inquiries.

01/2013 to 01/2015

Administrative Assistant IJohn Carroll University － University Heights, OH

Provide a high level of professional academic, administrative, technical, organizational, financial, operational, and project management support to the chairperson and faculty of the Political Science Department.
Screen and handle general telephone and email communications.
Greet and direct visitors and dealing with academic and administrative problems and inquiries.
Serve as a point of contact and liaison between staff, students, and external constituencies on a range of day-to-day issues.
Organize, facilitate and record meetings.
Assist in the coordination of all special events and ad-hoc special projects.
Collaborate with the department chair, faculty and program director in executing all budgetary, operational and academic administrative affairs such as running financial reports, managing, and monitoring departmental spending.
Oversee the summer computer rotation for the department and other technological needs.
Maintain lists of majors and minors, execute student major and minor declarations, update student advisors and coordinate the logistics for department comprehensive examinations.
Schedule and coordinate dates, times, venues, attendance, agendas, facilities and advertisement, as well as provide administrative support for department and program meetings, conferences, and faculty hires.
Compose written documentation and correspondence for the office and update department databases.
Manage and maintain office supplies and equipment.
Manage and maintain department and program websites (http://sites.jcu.edu/politicalscience/) and social media pages (https://www.facebook.com/poliscijcu and https://twitter.com/PoliSciJCU).
Orient new faculty including compiling contracts, organizing necessary training, ordering course material and other transitional needs.
Execute other special projects as directed by the chair or director such as open house events, public policy seminars and assisting with department student organizations.

01/2010 to 01/2015

Administrative Assistant IJohn Carroll University － University Heights, OH

Act as integral member of the program management team.
Direct day-to-day operations including communications, marketing, accounts payable, student relations, program and course evaluation mechanisms.
Routinely make strategic recommendations to the director in all areas, especially communications, marketing and operation.
Design, maintain and expand all vehicles of internal and external communication including web page (http://www.jcu.edu/nonprofit/), social media (Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter), and Blackboard.
Disseminate and assess student evaluations of courses and the program.
Working on a social media expansion project to educate students and alumni about library and nonprofit resources.
Maintain relationships and communicate with nonprofit executives who are part of the program's Community Advisory Committee.
Member of a strategic planning team that discusses, implements, and evaluates strategies for the program.
Initiated mentor program for students: developed guidelines and facilitated process of matching mentors with students.
This position was combined with the political science department position in 2014).

01/2005 to 01/2007

Office AssistantOregon Research Institute － Eugene, OR

Recorded, edited and distributed minutes for six governing bodies within the organization's democratic governance system, including the Board of Directors.
Posted minutes to the organization's internal website.
Compiled and distributed meeting agenda and packet materials for meetings.
Scheduled meetings and tracked attendance to ensure a quorum would be present when necessary.
Updated web pages for the organization's committees including membership, terms and future meeting dates and agendas.
Responsible for gathering information for and sending out weekly committee meeting announcement to all staff with meeting place, time and agenda items.
Worked with the Science Administrator to update Human Subjects research forms and manual.

01/2002 to 01/2003

Development AssistantBishop Gadsden Retirement Community － Charleston, SC

Redesigned monthly development reports to accurately reflect gift totals.
Reports were distributed to the Board, Development Committee and Residents of the retirement community.
Completed departmental policies and procedure manual to ensure accuracy and consistence in data entry.
Compiled all donor and committee lists for the organization's annual report.
Designed fliers, invitations and appeal mail pieces in Publisher and PageMaker.
Maintained Raiser's Edge database: updating and adding constituents, gift entry, tracking and mailing acknowledgment letters, list management.
Attended The Raiser's Edge database management class: learned to analyze problems within the database, clean up records and tables, and establish data entry consistency.
Implemented changes at Bishop Gadsden.

01/2001 to 01/2002

Development Assistant /Development AssociateThe Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation － Atlanta, GA

Recorded corporate and foundation grants, gifts from individuals, stock and in-kind gifts; invoiced pledges for corporate sponsorships and fundraising campaigns, maintained corporate memberships.
Planned and coordinated annual volunteer appreciation event.
Managed donor database: updated records, structured gift and record maintenance processes, coordinated with finance department to assure accuracy of data entry.
Researched corporate and foundation funding prospects utilizing The Foundation Directory, The Foundation Center library and website and 990-PF tax forms on GrantSmart.org.
Tailored departmental, campaign and financial giving reports to staff requests.
Refashioned and updated campaign presentation materials and grant proposal attachment information.
Worked with the Senior Director of the Preservation Department to send group emails directly from The Raiser's Edge to members of the Georgians for Preservation Action advocacy group.
Used database knowledge to implement group email invitations for fundraising events.
Helped coordinate special events by attending committee meetings, updating invitation lists, creating brochures and sponsorship information packets, training volunteers, coordinating event registration and running revenue reports.

Education and Training

2010

Master of Library and Information ScienceKent State University － Kent, OH

Advanced coursework in cataloging and metadata Elective Courses Metadata Architectures and Implementations LIS 60637 Cataloging I LIS 60602 Research Methods LIS 60604 Museum Studies LIS 61095 Preservation Management LIS 60654 Archival Description: DACS, MARC & EAD LIS 50693 Information Sources and Reference Services LIS 60601

2000

Bachelor of Arts: English Literature HistoryGeorgia State University － Atlanta, GAEnglish Literature History

Middlebury College － Middlebury, VT

1999

Intensive Language School

Work History

Political Science Department

Activities and Honors

American Library Association Association of College and Research Libraries Freedom to Read Foundation Society of American Archivists

Interests

Afterschool Enrichment Coordinator and Corresponding Secretary for the Fairfax Elementary School PTA in Cleveland Heights. 2010-2013 Updated and maintained website http://fairfaxpta.org/, disseminated information via facebook and MailChimp. Helped Fairfax win the Big Lots Lots2Give grand prize of $20,000 for a playground improvement project by encouraging Fairfax families and the greater Cleveland Heights community to vote via facebook , email reminders (via MailChimp) and nextdoor.com. http://heightsobserver.org/read/2013/08/13/fairfax-elementary-grandprize-winner-of-big-lots-video-contest Worked with a neighbor to start the NextDoor Clarendon Road social website for my neighborhood. So far 96 neighbors have joined and exchange information via the site. https://clarendonroadcleveland.nextdoor.com 2

Skills

academic, accounts payable, administrative, administrative support, ad, PageMaker, brochures, budget, com, conferences, Content, contracts, data entry, databases, database, database management, documentation, email, special events, XML, finance, financial, financial reports, Focus, forms, fundraising, grant proposal, grants, http, letters, librarian, logistics, Director, mailing, managing, marketing, materials, Mathematics, media plan, meetings, Memory, mentor, mail, office, Publisher, Millennium, organizing, organizational, page, policies, processes, program management, coding, project management, Raiser's Edge, Research, seminars, strategy, strategic, strategic planning, structured, Supervisor, tables, tax, telephone, Transmission, website, websites, web pages, web page, written

Additional Information

Awards and Honors Invited member of Beta Phi Mu, the International Library and Information Studies Honor Society. Recipient of the James E. Routh award for outstanding senior English major at Georgia State University. Georgia State University Faculty Scholar for three consecutive years, Phi Beta Kappa member.
Volunteer Experience Afterschool Enrichment Coordinator and Corresponding Secretary for the Fairfax Elementary School PTA in Cleveland Heights. 2010-2013 Updated and maintained website http://fairfaxpta.org/, disseminated information via facebook and MailChimp. Helped Fairfax win the Big Lots Lots2Give grand prize of $20,000 for a playground improvement project by encouraging Fairfax families and the greater Cleveland Heights community to vote via facebook , email reminders (via MailChimp) and nextdoor.com. http://heightsobserver.org/read/2013/08/13/fairfax-elementary-grandprize-winner-of-big-lots-video-contest Worked with a neighbor to start the NextDoor Clarendon Road social website for my neighborhood. So far 96 neighbors have joined and exchange information via the site. https://clarendonroadcleveland.nextdoor.com 2

Resume Overview

Companies Worked For:

John Carroll University
John Carroll University, College of Arts & Sciences Dean's Office
Oregon Research Institute
Bishop Gadsden Retirement Community
The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation
Political Science Department

School Attended

Kent State University
Georgia State University
Middlebury College
Intensive Language School

Job Titles Held:

Lecturer
Administrative Assistant II
Administrative Assistant I
Office Assistant
Development Assistant
Development Assistant /Development Associate

Degrees

Master of Library and Information Science
Advanced coursework in cataloging and metadata Elective Courses Metadata Architectures and Implementations LIS 60637 Cataloging I LIS 60602 Research Methods LIS 60604 Museum Studies LIS 61095 Preservation Management LIS 60654 Archival Description: DACS, MARC & EAD LIS 50693 Information Sources and Reference Services LIS 60601
Bachelor of Arts : English Literature History

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