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May 2020 - July 2021

SENIOR MANAGER OF PROGRAMS

SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW JERSEY

Goal: to provide training, competition, and health opportunities for over 25,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities. 

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  • Promoted to lead a team of 25 staff, regional directors, and volunteers that oversaw the strategy, budget, and successful execution of a “membership retention” plan for the pandemic, ultimately resulting in 87% membership retention and engagement across
    all platforms.

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  • Co-developed and grew "Total Body Challenge" and “SONJ at Home”, two daily virtual wellness programs that engaged over 9,000 athletes and volunteers in a 6-month span, 9% of whom experienced Special Olympics for the first time ever.

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  • Researched, wrote, and delivered fitness content for Special Olympics North America to reach approximately 500,000 athletes and 100,000 coaches and leadership officials.

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  • Strategized with Special Olympics Africa officials to overcome their pandemic-induced funding, infrastructure, and program concerns, supplying content and programming that engaged 800+ athletes in 5 countries.

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  • Built and maintained key relationships with thousands of stakeholders in the SO community, including coaches, volunteers, state politicians, corporate donors, and healthcare officials.

April 2018 - May 2020

SPORTS MANAGER

  • Managed a cross-functional team controlling the operations and marketing for all 54 team sport events and programming, showing an 11.5% engagement increase and helping to generate $4.5 million in funding from 2018-2020.

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  • Developed and facilitated educational resources to help coaches build confidence, competence, and character in their athletes, engaging over 10,000 athletes and 110 programs annually.

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  • Reformed content and wrote copy for sport-specific webpages, which saw a 24.7% traffic increase in two months with considerable reduction of repeat questions from the public.

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  • Created a process for collecting and closely analyzing feedback, a system of tracking qualitative and foundational metrics, and one-pagers to establish consistent messaging internally. This data allowed us to create four new program offerings that saw a 12% athlete engagement increase in two years. 

May 2017 - April 2018

SPORTS COORDINATOR

  • Controlled all scheduling and hotel arrangements for over 200 teams and groups across 25 sports, equating to over 14,000 athletes, coaches, and volunteers.

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  • Secured a $30,000/year corporate sponsor who has contributed $150,000 since 2017. 

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  • Transformed and simplified an outdated inventory tracking system, still utilized today, saving over $40,000 in unnecessary inventory costs in the first full year, all of which was allocated towards funding an underprivileged group home.

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