Kamilah Wallen

• Developed policies and procedures to ensure compliance with corporate standards.

• Directed operations to improve efficiency and increase profit margins.

• Evaluated the effectiveness of existing systems used for managing grants administration tasks.

• Attended conferences, seminars, workshops, webinars related to grants administration.

• Developed presentations summarizing key findings from research conducted on various topics related to grants administration.

• Participated in training sessions designed to educate staff on the best practices related to grant administration and management.

• Served as primary liaison between the Foundation and key partners (Private Foundations, Fiscally Sponsored Projects, Government Partners) to manage their large projects and complex grant programs including completing grant reviews and reporting.

• Managed key funds within the fiscal sponsorship portfolio, including working with fund holders to provide oversight of fiscal sponsorship project activities, and fundraising efforts to ensure proper stewardship and expenditure responsibility.

• Supported new business development within the Sponsored Projects portfolio by meeting with potential partners, as appropriate, to evaluate projects, develop collateral, proposals, and budgets.

• Ensured that key information related to the various portfolios is accurately maintained within the Foundation's platforms.

• Balanced over 1000 monetary transactions and corrected/adjusted over 200 transactions weekly for over 70 Financial Institutions contracted to Employer.

• Trained new and existing employees on the daily functions of the Item Processing Department (IP), providing information retention learning techniques, one-on-one and/or group training sessions, and positive encouragement incentives.

• Monitored daily operations for IP Department by performing weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly reviews for employees on and off site.
• Improved training modules for inter-department teams to ensure smooth adoption of existing and new software.

• Created and/or updated Procedure Manuals for Item Processing training, Item Processing daily functions and Item Processing Disaster Recovery.

• Developed, executed and managed various learning methods to ensure total comprehension for IP employees.

• Developed and/or maintained relationships with Financial Institutions for daily Item Processing and Disaster Recovery Solutions.

• Assisted with performing yearly Financial Institutions Disaster Recovery Testing in the IP Department, including scheduling, correspondence, managing results, and finding solutions for errors.