Cassius L. Rudolph

• Provides pastoral, and grief care.

• Officiate weddings, and funerals, administers baptism and the Lord’s Supper.

• Advises church staff and works with a diaconate board on a monthly basis, or as needed.

• Visits the sick and shut ins.

• Work with the appropriate board/s to develop goals and strategies for the interim period.

• Consults with staff, board/s and committee/s assisting them in carrying out their assigned tasks.

• Continue to develop and intentionally employ interim specialist skills, including listening, conflict management, healing, reconciliation, and others as appropriate.

• Coordinates training for officers and board/s.

• Leads the congregation in all aspects of relevant worship. This includes worship planning, working with the music ministry to ensure continuity in worship; preparation of liturgy; delivery of the preached word and preaching assignments in case of absence.

● Designed and executed both virtual and in-person events to bring alumni together for social and professional networking and to increase alumni/ae involvement and giving

● Coordinated regional, national, and international alumni/ae and

church/denominational gatherings, and continuing education opportunities, and interfacing with alumni/ae, in consultation with the COO/Vice President for Development and Institutional Advancement

● Maintained positive relations with alumni/ae and developed professional educational, and fellowship experiences to support and encourage alumni/ae, creating an atmosphere conducive to strong financial support for the Seminary.

● Act as the liaison to all alumni/ae groups and churches they represent, designing and promoting activities and opportunities leading to greater participation and financial support of the Seminary’s programs.

● Identified and qualify alumni prospects for gifts; Communicates development-related activities via written contact reports; Assures procedures are effective at documenting alumni engagement activity in the database.

● Identified and recommended faith-based and community-based partners and initiatives.

● Strategically leveraged NYTS resources to support community social structures and community- based programs; Support church and community partnerships by engaging with faith and community-based organizations to achieve greater collective impact.

● Helped nurture partnerships and alliances and look for the potential in new collaborations.

• Served as an active member of RPC senior staff.

• Participated in overall strategy development and implementation for the organization.

• Lead national advocacy strategy and voter campaign team.

• Served as special assistant to the founder and president.

• Worked with the government relations team, lead strategy for growing/sustaining along with mobilizing the network of advocates on programming.

• Co-Lead the organization's mobilization campaigns.

• Lead national field oversight team.

• Lead national field office.

• Served as liaison to the president and one thousand churches

connected.

• Created the PUSH millennial council.

• Created the PUSH young professionals’ group.

• Reorganized the minister’s division (1000 Churches Connected) for the organization.

• Identified and recruited volunteers to work at Saturday morning forums, conventions, and workshops.

• Developed and planned fundraising events to support our annual convention.

• Developed/prepared campaign materials, communication and promotional programs. that supported the organization's fundraising efforts.

• Wrote fundraising correspondence, maintained an active database of donors, and developed new relationships with civic and social organizations, churches.

• Produced ideas for articles, and publications.

• Tasked with proofreading articles, info for media correspondence.

• Served as special committee chairman to the General President.

• Lead national advocacy strategies and voter engagement campaigns.

• Lead overall voter strategy development and implementation for the fraternity’s 800 plus domestic and international chapters.

• Convened of the 2018 & beyond building a strategy for black America national summit.

• Co-authored of the black men vote initiative (one million voter challenge)

. • Worked with government relations and partnerships with National Urban League and NAACP.

• Served as TPC’s primary spokesperson to the organization’s constituents, the media and the general public.

• Established and maintained relationships with various organizations throughout the country and utilize those relationships to strategically enhance our mission.

• Oversaw marketing and communications efforts.

• Supervised and approved content creation for website, flyers and memos.

• Conducted PR activity.

• Governed the whole process of content creation, including task allocation for journalists, editors, experts and designers, control of the task execution, and proofreading.

• Planned and implemented voter advocacy programming for organization.

• Fundraised and fostered relationships to enhance the mission.

• Other duties as assigned by the Board of Directors.

• Worked closely with the senior pastor in strategic development, implementation of the church's vision and overseeing of the ministerial staff.

• Planned and conducted weekly staff meetings.

• Performed necessary tasks assigned by the pastor.

• Developed and implemented creative and effective programming to carry out the vision for spiritual development with the worship staff.

• Coordinated, planned, along with the pastor, the order of worship.

• Facilitated bible study and power groups.

• Visited the sick and shut-ins.

• Participated in the ordinances of the church.

• Lead weekly prayer meetings.

• Lead and assisted in all VIP check-ins at convention host hotels.

• Provided direction to the area office.

• Monitored main stage activity during all general sessions, public forums and meetings. Served as liaison between the presidential team and convention oversight team.

Co-Coordinator National Voting Task Force (In development)

• Implemented the national program on getting NBC churches (30,000 congregations) registered to vote.

• Assisted in gathering data from state to state on numbers of minorities registered to vote.

• Coordinated voting workshops & sessions on the importance of the African American vote.

• Monitored national email concerns and matters on voting in the 2016 election Serve as lead in the charge to send out monthly reminders with dates and deadlines for primary, and general elections, and dates for voter registration by state.

• Provided assistance to the pastor with working with the young adults.

• Completed assigned tasks as given from the office of the Pastor

• Officiated Sunday morning worship services

• Administered the ordinances of the church

• Served as liaison for community engagement

• Served as alternate musician

• Developed and implemented creative and effective programming to carry out the vision for spiritual development with the worship staff and Director of Worship.

• Coordinated, planned, facilitated and oversaw weekly worship leading for chapel programs.

• Assisted in overseeing and running morning chapels.

• Maintained inventory of office supplies and ordered them as needed.

• Provided confidential pastoral counseling to members of the seminary and Columbia University community.

• Co-Managed a $119,931 USDA federal grant and served as its first administrative assistant.

• Facilitated outreach programs in target area through direct programming and replicating best practices through grass roots involvement and community partnerships.

• Designed brochures, flyers, posters etc. for all sectors of the department. • Managed website, newsletter, and all related articles.

• Coordinated campus programming for faculty, staff and students to address health disparities. Managed community partnerships with socially disadvantaged and veteran farmers and ranchers’ (SDVFRs) residing in the Mississippi Delta.

• Coordinated voter registration drives and rallies within the city of Chicago. Advised student workers and new employees.

• Entered, updated, and retrieved data with community organizations in the city of Chicago and maintained a database for volunteers.

• Identified supporters and donors to join our collective efforts of political engagement in the city of Chicago.

• Assisted the college chaplain in the planning, advertising, and implementation of weekly religious services, interfaith/ ecumenical discussion groups, and panels.

• Organized a variety of programs promoting interfaith and cross-cultural dialogue faith, diversity, and social justice, attended by students of a multitude of racial, ethnic, and religious identities.

• Served as an Instructor for the campus wide faculty, staff & student bible class.

• Served as worship service leader and chaplains assistant.

• Ministered and evangelized to student leaders during the monthly

empowerment breakfasts.

• Created, managed all ideas for social media, flyers and faith-based

newsletters.

• Served as president of the Tougaloo College Baptist Student Union. Served on the planning committee for religious emphasis week.

• Served on the Baccalaureate services committee.

• Served on the Commencement Steering Committee.

• Established and planned BSU week.

• Served as dorm and peer counselor.