Jennifer Baker-Huotari
Kingsford,MI
Summary
Highly-motivated employee with desire to take on new challenges. Strong worth ethic, adaptability and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills. Motivated professional offering Bachelor's of Science in [Area of study]. Adds value to any organization in need of great collaboration, interpersonal and multitasking abilities. Meets tight deadlines.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Self Employed
Ebay Enterprise
Kingsford, MI
04.2023 - Current
- Prioritized and organized tasks to efficiently accomplish service goals.
- Assisted with customer requests and answered questions to improve satisfaction.
- Approached customers and engaged in conversation through use of effective interpersonal and people skills.
- Delivered products to customer locations on time.
Family and Community Partnership Coordinator
Dickinson Iron Intermediate School District
Kingsford, MI
06.2013 - 04.2023
- Provided comprehensive services to children, family and community organizations.
- Coordinated recruitment efforts to ensure the program was services all at-risk eligible children and families.
- Facilitated parenting, nutrition, budgeting, and numerous other classes and trainings to the community and program participants.
- Developed and facilitated family related and performance standard trainings to staff of over 35 people.
- Developed and facilitated weekly family service staff TEAM meetings.
- Wrote and managed the Children Trust Michigan grant and acted as the program director for the program.
- Developed timelines in order to stay organized and on track with the numerous duties that family service manager and staff must complete within the year.
- Conducted numerous intake appointments in order to enroll at-risk children and families into DIISD programs.
- Reviewed employees' work to check adherence to quality standards and proper procedures.
- Developed work schedules according to budgets and workloads, covering priority tasks.
- Implemented departmental policies and standards in conjunction with management to streamline internal processes.
- Participated in subordinates' tasks to facilitate productivity or help overcome difficulties.
- Researched and prepared reports required by management or governmental agencies.
- Interpreted and explained work procedures and policies to brief staff.
- Issued work schedules, duty assignments and deadlines for office or administrative staff.
- Consulted with managers to resolve problems relating to employee performance, office equipment and work schedules.
- Discussed job performance problems with employees, identifying causes and issues to find solutions.
- Trained employees on best practices and protocols while managing teams to maintain optimal productivity.
- Guided employees in handling difficult or complex problems.
- Coordinated with other supervisors, combining group efforts to achieve goals.
- Provided leadership, insight and mentoring to newly hired employees to supply knowledge of various company programs.
- Delegated work to staff, setting priorities and goals.
- Booked hotel rooms, car rentals and flights for company trips and conferences.
- Planned and managed operations to achieve objectives within budgets.
- Enhanced performance through collaboration with diverse teams.
- Organized teams and resources to optimize timely deliverables.
- Developed policies and procedures related to departmental operations ensuring compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
- Facilitated communication between different departments in order to resolve issues quickly.
- Maintained calendars of upcoming events, meetings and deadlines.
- Conducted regular training sessions for staff members on new software programs or processes.
- Drafted reports summarizing progress on various projects for upper-level management review.
- Researched new technologies to enhance productivity levels across all departments.
- Provided technical support to staff members regarding software applications and hardware systems.
- Organized team events to promote a positive work environment.
- Assisted with the development and preparation of presentations for senior management meetings.
- Utilized management soft ware to track children and families' progress toward goals. It was also used to track participant's attendance, participation,in-kind, health, nutrition, safety and numerous other factors.
- Provided guidance and assistance to teaching staff to meet their individual classroom needs.
- Conducted nutritional need assessments.
- Sat on numerous community committees.
- Gave community presentations about the DIISD Programs to other community organizations.
- facilitated Policy Council
- Recruitment, child outcomes, mentoring, transition and curriculum, parent committee.
- Self-Assessment
- Community Needs assessment
- Developmental screenings- Lg/sm. motor, concepts, hearing and vision, Mental, intake and end of screening meeting.
- IEP
- Facilitated parent meetings
- Facilitated parent-teacher meetings to discuss and resolve issues
- Conducted home visits
- conducted parent teacher conferences
- Paper work
- Goal setting with families
- Community resources
- parenting resources
- budgeting resources
- nutrition resources
- Organized family and community events for over 300 attendees
- Family Fun nights
- Christmas help
- newspaper and social media articles flyers
- Attended conferences
- train the trainer family; service credential trainer and recipient
Education
Bachelor of Science - Human Development And Family Sciences
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR05-2007
Skills
- Friendly, Positive Attitude
- Strength based philosophy
- Ability to work with people from diverse backgrounds and people of all abilities
- Excellent communication- verbal and non verbal
- Networking
- Supervision and Leadership
- Problem-solving skills
- Project Planning
- Grant Writing skills
- Skilled trainer -staff and clients
- Computer skills
- Record keeping skills
- Event Planning
Timeline
Self Employed
Ebay Enterprise
04.2023 - Current
Family and Community Partnership Coordinator
Dickinson Iron Intermediate School District
06.2013 - 04.2023
Bachelor of Science - Human Development And Family Sciences
Oregon State University