Carmel Flippen

• Experience in several settings including in-office, remote, and currently as a contractor.
• Regularly assigned the most sensitive stories due to interpersonal, interview and writing skills.
• Skilled at cross-cultural understanding and dialogue.
• Thorough editor, with a good eye for minute spelling, grammatical and punctuation errors.
• Able to create and faithfully adhere to a work schedule and environment at home.
• In-office, also made fund-raising and collection calls with positive results.

While at first glance these jobs may not seem to belong on this resume, I believe they do. Caring for either the young or the old requires skills important for any job:

• Time Management
• Meeting and Exceeding Expectations
• Anticipating & Adjusting to Fluctuating Needs
• Managing Difficult Situations
• Commitment
• Perseverance
• Patience
• Bringing your best self to the most thankless and small tasks
• Strong ethical and moral foundation- you can trust I will do what I say.

• Collated, stuffed and sealed hundreds of envelopes at a time for mailings with many individual pieces. Many of these went to important donors, and needed to be put together very specifically, with no mistakes.

• Made numerous daily fund-raising calls to alumnae, following up as needed.
• Built rapport with individuals from diverse backgrounds, contributing to successful fundraising outcomes.