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Davonte Green

Los Angeles,CA

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Recruitment Director

City Year
05.2019 - 02.2020
  • Develop team targets for short-term outputs including outreach activities, invitations, and cultivation events.
  • Coached and supported your team to ensure all members generate the targeted number of qualified leads and converted applications from their portfolio institutions.
  • Coached and supported team to meet on-target throughput rates from leads to submitted applications from sourced outside their portfolio.
  • Participated in Director level meetings and collaborate with the Recruitment Director cohort.
  • Siupported internal stakeholder engagement focused on talent pipeline development.

Senior Program Manager

Defy Ventures
05.2021 - 11.2022
  • Oversaw all in-custody programs across eight southern California prisons and transitional facilities, totaling approximately 500 program participants
  • Managed and trained four prison program facilitators for the CEO of Your New Life Program
  • Collaborated with prison staff and personnel to organize large-scale volunteer days for donors and supporters to engage with program participants
  • Collected and submitted sensitive information from program participants and program volunteers in compliance with California State Prison codes and policies
  • Tracked and analyzed program data, including enrollment, attendance, test scores, and completion rates
  • Conducted weekly one-on-one progress monitoring with direct reports
  • Guided monthly feedback sessions with prison staff to ensure program fidelity
  • Administered certificates of completion for program participants
  • Recruited volunteers for resume review sessions and professional development coaching sessions.
  • Managed and executed special programs and events to attract donors to particular causes.

Senior Program Manager

City Year
05.2016 - 07.2018
  • Managed 30 student success coaches in low-performing middle schools
  • Collaborated with school site leadership to ensure program fidelity
  • Conducted regular progress monitoring meetings with teachers and administrators
  • Analyzed and tracked student performance data to meet program goals
  • Planned and executed school-wide initiatives to improve student achievement
  • Responsible for student safety in afterschool program
  • Upheld duties to protect sensitive student data
  • Oversaw the execution of 20+ school-wide/community events for students, families, and community members.

Recruitment Manager

City Year
08.2018 - 05.2019
  • Managed eight regional recruitment managers responsible for recruiting 500+ graduating seniors across 56 campuses in 5 states
  • Developed regional recruitment strategy and implementation plan, resulting in a 95% enrollment rate within the region
  • Conducted weekly one-on-one meetings with direct reports
  • Conducted performance reviews
  • Collaborated with executive leadership at various sites for progress updates and monitoring
  • Hired four recruitment managers within the first 30 days in the role
  • Tracked trends based on qualitative and quantitative to allocate resources best
  • Onboarded and trained all new recruitment staff
  • Managed $100,000 annual budget.
  • Set and conveyed recruitment goals to downstream staff.
  • Conducted compelling presentations at colleges and community organizations, effectively conveying City Year's mission and opportunities
  • Managed a cadre of Recruitment Ambassadors and fostered relationships with academic institutions, expanding recruitment networks
  • Formulated recruitment goals and fostered relationships with university career center staff, ensuring robust talent pipelines
  • Reviewed applications and resumes, supporting hiring activities and ensuring alignment with organizational needs
  • Collaborated on local and regional HR projects, contributing to HR initiatives and best practices
  • Facilitated professional development workshops for student organizations on topics such as time management, resumes, interviewing, and digital identity
  • Tabled at career days, job fairs, and special events at colleges and universities.
  • Built and strengthened successful relationships with external recruiters and agencies.

Founder & Senior Consultant

The Giants Den
05.2019 - Current
  • Plan and execute Black Mental Wealth Summit with 150+ attendees in El Segundo, California.
  • Developed marketing strategy and implemented over 100 networking events, seminars, workshops, and special events, including virtual and in-person events.
  • Devised and implemented recruitment strategy leading to over 940 event participants
  • Research, negotiated, and contracted over 25 caterers servicing nearly 1000 event attendees.
  • Book live entertainment, speakers, musicians, and special guests for 100+ events and programs
  • Organized outdoor vendors market yielding 20+ vendors
  • Conducted market research to identify new opportunities and target markets.
  • Scout and negotiate venue rental contracts and procurements
  • Create annual events calendar for all organizational commitments
  • Wrote copy for event descriptions, titles, and details for flyers and promotional materials, including Eventbrite and administrative platforms
  • Oversee event setup and breakdown teams
  • Key point of contact for vendors and external contractors
  • Monitor expenses and revenue against approved budgets
  • Sets up timelines for program planning and implementation.
  • Continually maintained and improved company's reputation and positive image in markets served.

Community Facilitation Manager

Black Emotional & Mental Health Collective
11.2022 - 12.2023
  • Manages the Facilitation team and network, training individuals on BEAM’s
  • curriculum and ensuring all facilitation maintains the standards and fidelity of BEAM’s values.
  • Serves as one of the lead facilitators, modeling BEAM’s standards of integrity, facilitating healing spaces, curricula and training with members of the BEAM facilitation team.
  • Manages quality assurance, monitoring spaces and working with the Programs
    Manager to use evaluation feedback to grow the capacity and effectiveness of BEAM’s training and healing spaces.
  • Facilitates integrative engagement with the facilitation team, holding meetings, check ins, feedback, training and coaching sessions monthly.
  • Works with the Program Manager and external evaluators to evolve existing curriculum and develop new curriculum that fits the needs of Black communities.
  • Manages orientation and training of facilitators, as well as forecasting schedules of the facilitation team such that all trainings and programs are properly covered.
  • Supports facilitators such that they have every tool and resource to successfully represent the organization in each training.
  • Develops and maintains data tracking management systems that capture relevant criteria on BEAM’s facilitation team.

Skills

    Program Strategy Development

    Stakeholder Engagement

    Program Evaluation

    Strategic Thinking

    Data Utilization

    Project Management

    Communication Skills

    Supervision and Coaching

    Relationship Building

    Adaptability

Timeline

Community Facilitation Manager

Black Emotional & Mental Health Collective
11.2022 - 12.2023

Senior Program Manager

Defy Ventures
05.2021 - 11.2022

Recruitment Director

City Year
05.2019 - 02.2020

Founder & Senior Consultant

The Giants Den
05.2019 - Current

Recruitment Manager

City Year
08.2018 - 05.2019

Senior Program Manager

City Year
05.2016 - 07.2018
Davonte Green