Diligent Director ready to develop outreach and support programs to raise up distressed communities. Creative provider of innovative organizational frameworks. Adept at designing comprehensive planning roadmaps to generate effective and impactful community events and initiatives.
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Kaleema Obot
Director
MD
Summary
Overview
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Site Director
05.2022 - 12.2022
Job overview
- Byte Back
- Built and renewed relationships with high level stakeholders to grow th organization
- Fundraised for 75% of site's budget of $600,000
- Grew team from 3 to 7 highly engaged individuals and supervised them
- Composed grant proposals and supervised writing of all grants and checked for accuracy prior to submission
- Developed fundraising newsletters to raise funds for capital project
- Strategized with client development team members to manage budget and synchronize volunteer efforts to boost funding initiatives
- Served as member of Bye Back National Leadership Team
- Created promotional materials and provided insightful information to social media, websites and print media to educate public
- Fostered work culture of collaboration and inclusion to increase morale and reduce turnover
- Led recruitment and development of strategic alliances to maximize utilization of existing talent and capabilities
Sankofa Children's Museum
Communications and Marketing Associate
01.2022 - 05.2022
Job overview
- Develop and implement communications plan
- Developed brand guide with key leadership staff
- Attended events to develop professional network of potential donors
- Managed communications audit
- Planned and executed promotional materials to drive brand consistency
- Researched, created and presented communication plans to support internal and external marketing programs
- Captured events and navigated social media for industry-related items to develop meaningful content to share with followers
Park Heights Renaissance
Director of Strategic Initiatives and Stakeholder
02.2020 - 12.2021
Job overview
- Planned and implemented marketing campaigns targeting donors
- Engaged with key stakeholders to ensure success of programs, projects, and events
- Liaison between all technology, communications, and marketing contractors and senior leadership
- Developed and executed strategic plans to improve organization's overarching operating model, focused on optimizing effectiveness of centralized functions, driving clarity of purpose, defining roles and responsibilities, and establishing governance models to ensure alignment
- Collaborated with leadership team with stakeholder engagement programming, training and learning events, and information sessions
- Directed hiring of Chief Operating Officer, and senior leadership team by establishing hiring criteria, interviewed candidates and developed performance standards
- Successfully migrated employees to work from home and collaborated with writing work from home manual
- Established brand guide to ensure continuity throughout organization
- Wrote standardized operating procedures for social media engagement to set targets and timelines
City HallBaltimore
Director of Constituent Services “District 9 Council Technician
12.2016 - 02.2020
Job overview
- Collaboratively developed, organized and executed serval successful events focusing on specific target audiences and key priorities within strict deadlines
- Investigated and solve constituent concerns
- Organized and facilitated training and development opportunities for staff and colleagues
- Plan and deliver strategic executive communications for a range of stakeholders; prepare briefings
- Developed and disseminated information through social media, flyers, ENewsletter, and paper newsletter
- Recruited, trained, organized, and collaborated with neighborhood leaders in community advocacy for land, economic, and human development
- Connected with high level officials to rectify community concerns
- Supervised all interns/volunteers
Park Heights Renaissance
Community Outreach Coordinator
10.2015 - 12.2016
Job overview
- Provided technical oversight of Customer Relations Manager to ensure accurate record-keeping of client files and streamlined tracking of organizational goals
- Small Grants Manager; coordinated, reviewed and awarding of $75,000 annually in small grants
- Developed clear and accurate writing products that communicated Park Heights Renaissance's vision and goals
- Wrote employee handbook for Workforce Development Team that included team training and on-site management processes
- Established and sustained relationships with community members to encourage volunteerism
- Managed beautification projects of Park Heights through team of twelve paid staff
- Collaborated with third party marketing vendor to create flyers, brochures, one pagers and electronic campaigns promoting programs, events, and community initiates
- Prepared reports, and presentations to express communication goals
- Oversaw program messaging of external organizational communications, including website updates, articles and social media posts (e.g
- Facebook and MailChimp)
- Conducted community workshops to promote different programs and educate public on available services
- Developed long-lasting partnerships with local leaders, management team and peers with active engagement, exemplary communication and consistent issue resolution
- Developed presentations for public events, community groups and school assemblies
- Created and implemented community-based programs to improve education or fill specific needs
Armada Hoffler Construction
Office Manager
04.2015 - 10.2015
Job overview
- Managed budget
- Administration and administrative functions, performance management, and oversight of the workflow
Keepers
Data Entry Assistant
01.2015 - 04.2015
Job overview
- Entered customer and account data from source
- Complied and verified accuracy an sorted information
- Reviewed data for deficiencies
St. Ambrose Housing Aid Center, Inc
Resource Development Associate
07.2013 - 01.2015
Job overview
- Assisted with the creating of a variety of online media using WebManager, applications, materials, and booklets using GIMP, Adobe InDesign, and social media posts using HootSuite – all leading to a rise in 30 new donors through targeted Holiday Appeal
- Managed social media content and other channels that led to more than 100 potential new donors
- Produced marketing materials including content for brochures, newsletters, and donor correspondence
- Created donor acknowledgements including initiations, cultivation and solicitation mailings
- Researched potential new sources of funding through grant sources and sponsorship
- Assisted in raising $1,500,000 through grant writing and fundraising efforts
- Improved donor relations and maintained database of activities for 4,600 donors
- Guided a successful appeal targeting attorneys by coordinating digital fundraising and point-of-entry events
- Evaluated our campaigns to assess success
Park Heights Community Health AllianceBaltimore, MD
Assistant Director of Human Services
08.2011 - 02.2013
Job overview
- Planned, implemented and evaluated programs focused on improving the health and livability of the Park Heights neighborhood
- Overhauled our old database to a unified system
- Developed, marketed and facilitated educational activities and events for at risk youth
- Analyzed, monitored and fundraised $100,00 budget for a community wellness program
- Planned, budgeted, and managed events and workshops; Prepared financial statements and processed vendor payments and expense reports
- Managed and provided over five health and wellness programs
- Organized board meetings
- Evaluated the effectiveness of B'more Fit for Healthy Babies to offer best practices through collection of data and surveys
- Recruited and trained volunteers and contractual staff
- Monitored participant progress to assess program input
- Prepared various written communications and handled media and community outreach
- Increased access to local foods by overseeing the Pimlico Farmers' market
- Engineered the opening of a community book share; Coordinated the donation of 700 books
- Operated B'more Fit for Healthy Babies: Recruited approximately 40 women; Tracked and motivated participants to stay in the program for 18 months
Bluford Drew Jemison S.T.E.M. AcademyBaltimore, MD
Office Assistant
Job overview
VISTA AmeriCorps, Greater Homewood Community CorporationsBaltimore, MD
Service Vista Leader
Job overview
VISTA AmeriCorps, Sharing CoalitionBaltimore, MD
Middle School Coordinator
Job overview
Education
North Central College
Bachelor of Arts from Political Science
05.2001
University Overview
Skills
Stakeholder accountabilityundefined
Timeline
Site Director
05.2022 - 12.2022
Communications and Marketing Associate
Sankofa Children's Museum
01.2022 - 05.2022
Director of Strategic Initiatives and Stakeholder
Park Heights Renaissance
02.2020 - 12.2021
Director of Constituent Services “District 9 Council Technician
City Hall
12.2016 - 02.2020
Community Outreach Coordinator
Park Heights Renaissance
10.2015 - 12.2016
Office Manager
Armada Hoffler Construction
04.2015 - 10.2015
Data Entry Assistant
Keepers
01.2015 - 04.2015
Resource Development Associate
St. Ambrose Housing Aid Center, Inc
07.2013 - 01.2015
Assistant Director of Human Services
Park Heights Community Health Alliance
08.2011 - 02.2013
North Central College
Bachelor of Arts from Political Science
05.2001
Office Assistant
Bluford Drew Jemison S.T.E.M. Academy
Service Vista Leader
VISTA AmeriCorps, Greater Homewood Community Corporations
Middle School Coordinator
VISTA AmeriCorps, Sharing Coalition
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