ตัวอย่าง Resume ประชาสัมพันธ์ (Public Relations) ฉบับที่ 157

Professional Summary

Influential Director of Community Engagement and Public Policy, possessing creative passion for strategic planning and building coalitions. Expertise in targeted engagement efforts, political strategy, public relations, and public speaking effecting positive change in issue advocacy at statewide level. Effective communicator able to successfully negotiate in advocating for policy issues with high level governmental officials and elected leaders. Expert strategist with comprehensive knowledge of legislative, regulatory, and political processes at state and federal level.

Highlights

• - Analytical and Critical Thinker Community and Stakeholder Engagement - Organizational Development and Strategic Planning - Excellent Verbal and Written Communication - External and Internal Public Affairs - Collaborative Leadership - Resolution-Oriented - Planning and Coordination EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE Director of Public Policy and Community Relations, 09/2019 - 06/2022 AZ Commission For The Deaf And The Hard Of Hearing - City, STATE Principle Advisor and Commission Spokesperson: Apprised executive director, executive team, and 14 Board Commissioners of all proposed legislative and governmental affairs, policy development, communication and media issues impacting the Deaf and Hard of Hearing individuals; including Congressional and federal agency activities. Advised on appropriate action and recommendations. Legislative Liaison: Led the formulation of annual legislative plan in coordination with the Executive Director; presenting proposed plan to Board Commissioners. Responsible for drafting legislative bills and amendments, securing sponsors and support of agency requested legislation. Conducted analysis on introduced legislation and policy impacts; creating fact sheets and testimonial talking points. Coordinated with stakeholders and governmental entities, including Governor's Office and the Office of State Planning and Budgeting acquiring support for appropriation requests. Monitored and tracked pending state and federal legislation. Took direct action on policy, including meeting with state Legislative and Congressional members, Governor's Office and other elected officials. Established Public Policy and Community Engagement Unit: Oversaw the development, implementation, and coordination of newly enacted public policy and community engagement unit. Directed a staff of two, leveraged internal resources to achieve agency objectives by bringing public affairs in house. Raised agency brand awareness through strategic planning efforts. Consulted with external public relations firms on major public awareness campaigns. Developed internal policies related to communications and engagement. Implemented internal procedures to streamline agency engagement activities. Coalition Building: Spearheaded disability policy response coalition. Managed partnerships among cross disability organizations, agencies, and issue-orientated associations; securing cooperation and action to further collective policy goals. Key Highlights: - Significantly increased agency's presence among Arizona Congressional delegation, state elected officials, policy makers, and other government agency heads; - Successfully passed all introduced agency legislation and signed into law, including agency sunrise bill, securing additional eight years of operation; - Lead author on rule making comments with federal and state agencies, resulting in substantial change in state economic social services cultural competency service approach to serving Deaf and Hard of Hearing constituents; - Established weekly legislative and political updates for constituents and stakeholders, including biweekly livestream show to boost engagement within Deaf and Hard of Hearing communities; - Developed agency first ever communication strategy and plan, creating annual savings of $200,000 to agency public relations budget, - Increased community and stakeholder engagement by 25%; - Executed dedicated COVID-19 fully accessible resource website for Deaf, Hard of Hearing, and DeafBlind constituents; - Directed statewide employment awareness campaign: Let's Get To Work: Engage. Employ. Empower. Partnering with 65 businesses and reach of 800,000 earned and unearned media and over 7,800 unique visits to campaign website; - Spearheaded collaboration of 25 cross disability organizations responding to lack of inclusion of disability community in COVID-19 pandemic emergency response; resulting in interpreters on screen during Governor press conferences and inclusion of best practices for accommodations in statewide vaccination plan; - Implemented content editorial calendar to plan marketing campaigns and manage content; and, - Maintained proactive media relations program by distributing news releases for placement, building strong relationships and monitoring media. Director of Legislative Affairs, 07/2016 - 09/2019 Arizona Secretary Of State - City, STATE Principle Advisor: Advised the Secretary of State and Assistant Secretary of State on governmental affairs and policy development affecting the agency and its eleven divisions. Navigated partisan politics to ensure fairness and equity in advocating for election administrative changes. Served as the Interim Assistant Secretary of State leading the 149 agency personnel during transition of powers. Legislative Liaison: Led the formulation of the Department legislative action plan in coordination with the Assistant Secretary of State and the eleven division directors. Responsible for reviewing and drafting all agency sponsored legislation, including securing sponsors. Collaborated with division directors on impacts of pending legislation. Coordinated meetings with stakeholders and other entities to ensure collaborative support on election and business legislation. Monitor pending state and federal legislation impacting agency. Represented agency at legislative hearings, meetings with state elected officials, and stakeholders forums. Drafted legislation and amendments, as a well as conducted legislative analysis on introduced legislation. Communicated Department policy priorities to state legislators, Governor's Office, Congressional members, their staff and constituents. Directed annual policy reviews and updates. Key Highlights: - Secured additional 11 million dollars for Department operations and new voter registration system; - Successfully drafted and lobbied for Department legislation, securing unanimous support for Omnibus bill and signed into law overhauling Department processes and regulations; and, - Successfully thwarted election initiative referendum legislation backed by national partisan organization and opposed by voters and County Recorders in Arizona. Director of Victim Support Services, 09/2011- 09/2019 Arizona Secretary of State - City, STATE Pioneered Statewide Programs: Appointed to develop and administer the Arizona Address Confidentiality Program (ACP) and Road to Rights (RtR) program. Trained and guided staff of eight, plus interns and volunteers. Evaluated overall performance of programs by interpreting programmatic processes and implementing changes as needed. Directed the daily operations of division, including $500,000 annual budget. Coalition Building: Partnered with state, cities, counties and private entities on innovative programming and program statutory compliance. Worked across state lines to build connections amongst other state Confidential Address Programs to address similar systemic challenges. Legislation Activity: Monitored legislative activity impacting victim service programming, criminal fines, and restitution. Lobbied and testified on legislation impacting program services. Key Highlights: - Successfully obtained federal and state grants resulting in awards of $1 million dollars over three year period; - Engaged all 15 county prosecutors and all city prosecutors to incorporate statutory required fines into all standard plea agreements, resulting in 55% increase in program revenue within first 6 months of implementation; - Cofounder of National Association of Confidential Address Programs in 2016, incorporated non-profit coalition of 36 states representing interests of state programs and best practices of programming: - Instrumental in introduction of H.R. 3887 SAFE at Home Act in 115th Congress and H.R. 4705 in 116th Congress, working with U.S. Congressional Representatives from Minnesota and Missouri; and, - Successfully lobbied for legislative amendment to exempt Arizona Address Confidentiality Program statutory fine from being eliminated in fine reduction reviews.

Education

• Bachelor of Science: Women's Studies, Political Science, 05/2002
• Northern Arizona University - Flagstaff, AZ