Work history
Recruiter
tags:
organizated; human resources;
How would you describe your time at Northwest Center - Seattle?
On a part-time basis, I am responsible for job placement for five Northwest Center social enterprises and two social programs. A lot of my job entails collaborating with hiring managers to create recruiting strategies to attract active and passive candidates. I also conducting interviews and complete all papework processes related to open positions.
I moved in to this part-time position to allow time to pursue my career goal of working at an international non-profit.... 
Director of Communications
tags:
international
• marketing
• philanthropy
• fund raising
How would you describe your time at Mobility Builders?
As Director of communications my primary responsibility is to secure funding for the creation of customised wheelchairs in developing countries. I do this through organizing social events and updating our website and marketing materials to prepare for donor development.
Mobility Builder's is an organization building customized wheelchairs in Peru for Peruvian citizens through using innovative software and partnering with US based occupational therapists and engineers....
Assistant Director of Community Services
tags:
administrator
• driven
• positive
• challenge seeking
• patience
• marketing and sales
• program manager
How would you describe your time at Northwest Center-Seattle?
As Assistant Director of Community Services, I managed "Northwest Center Works" a non-profit employment agency within Northwest Center Inc. My job entails managing a team of Employment Specialists that connect with employers in placing adults with disabilities in jobs.
We aim to provide hiring solutions to employers that have problems with high turner and poor attendance and/or create new jobs by looking at unfinished/mundane tasks in the workplace.
The role entailed a significant amount of administrative work and fiscal management in addition to marketing our service and motivating a diversely skilled team. I enjoy my job, the work is challenging as you need to balance social goals with maintaining an accountable, sustainable program....
Employment Specialist
tags:
positive
• confident
• communication skills
• driven by success
• sales & marketing
• social worker
How would you describe your time at Northwest Center - Seattle?
I had a caseload of 18-25 adults with disabilities that I was contracted to find employment for. The position involved creating a network of employers that would find hiring a person with a disability valuable in their work place. This often translated in to doing research and learning about a companies operations and creating a hiring solution to a business problem. I regularly communicated with multiple stakeholders with competing demands(clients, government caseworkers, parent's of client, employers, residential staff of client, corporate HR arms)...
Assistant Marketing Manager
tags:
orgainized
• public speaking and presentat...
• creative & resourceful
• communication skills
• marketing
How would you describe your time at Paradise Center (now Centro...?
I coordinated advertising, promotions and events for Australia's only shopping center on the beach.
Education
Communications Officer (Work Practicum)
How would you describe your time at Health Rights Commission?
I raised awareness of the functions of the Health Rights Commission through community education, relationship building and improving commission's promotional and information materials. I also collaborated with consumer and provider organizations, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, Culturally and Linguistically diverse communities and people with disabilities to facilitate positive working relationships....
Counselor (Work Practicum)
How would you describe your time at Lifeline?
I utilized counseling theories, methods and techniques in the application of interpersonal and telephone counseling for men, women and children in individual, couple and family counseling contexts. I further strengthened volunteer telephone counseling program through training inexperienced counselors and shift coordination...
Social Work
tags:
social work
• international
• communication skills
How would you describe your time at University of Queensland?
I completed a Bachelor of Social Work with a focus on Immigration and Refugee Studies. Whilst there I completed two 6 month Work Practicums, one at Lifeline as a Counselor and one at The Health Rights Commission as a Communications Officer.
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