ANDY BLACKADAR

• Managed the work of all Choices Program employees who create curriculum, including full time Brown staff, external contractors, and History Department graduate and undergraduate students.
• Ensured that all Choices' curriculum included innovative, university-level scholarship and that met the needs of secondary school educators.
• Oversaw the preparation of curriculum content for publication in three formats: print, a digital web-based platform, and video. Conducted research, wrote and edited content, and conducted video interviews.
• Developed annual budgets, provided financial oversight and guidance as it related to programmatic decision making, served as a liaison with human resources, and kept the Faculty Director and the History Department Chair apprised of relevant strategic and operational issues.
• Represented the Choices Program at Brown University and to the general public.
• Developed new collaborations with faculty and centers at Brown and for seeking grant funding that supported the work of the Program.

Honors:

• Franklin Buchanan prize from the Association for Asian Studies for outstanding curriculum publications about Asia
• Brown Staff Excellence Award for Diversity

• Managed an independently-funded policy research initiative that connected the academy with the practitioner and policy world dealing with humanitarian action in war zones.
• Developed transparent and usable budgeting system to manage one million dollars in program funds from multiple external funders
• Contributed research and writing to project publications.

Teaching: IB English HL II, 9 and 10th grade English

Coaching: Assistant Soccer Coach

Teaching: Taught 11th and 12th grade English and Computer Science

Organized and led of student trips to the USSR

Administrative: Head of Dormitories, managed the work of twenty-seven faculty dormitory heads supervising 160 boarding students