KAYLA BLADES

• Manages the organization's seven active grants (worth over $1.3 million), including pass-through funding originating from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Bureau of Justice Assistance, and Health Resources and Services Administration, to ensure the program is on target to meet grant obligations
• Creates and implements grants management and reporting process improvement initiatives within department
• Provides technical authority to new staff members on best practices to align efforts in achieving program goals
• Conducts internal compliance reviews to ensure university, continuing medical education accreditation, and extramural sponsor regulations are met
• Maintains records, databases, timelines, milestones, and outcomes of the organization's nine active continuing medical education activities
• Coordinates and leads two cross-team meetings to ensure programmatic compliance with funding deliverables
• Monitors implementation, conducts data collection and analysis, prepares and submits reports on outcomes projected and realized for extramural funders and internal use, including publications for public release
• Collects and analyzes unit data to be used for grants, funding, and strategic planning

• Resolved technical and operational concerns by training eight team members on policies, procedures, and best practices
• Facilitated and enhanced day-to-day operating relations with more than fifty stakeholders through clear, concise oral and written communication
• Coordinated via Zoom over 200 instructional course activities around complex health conditions with a reach of more than 2,000 unique participants
• Orchestrated smooth and efficient program development by collaborating cross-functionally across departments
• Organized and managed program development from conception through successful execution
• Provided administrative support to organizational leadership

• Managed a portfolio of 25 federal AmeriCorps VISTA and Senior Corps projects worth over $1 million
• Performed quarterly cost analyses for more than 25 grantees to ensure expenditures were reasonable, allowable, and allocable
• Created and streamlined training and technical assistance resources for more than 25 grantees
• Provided technical authority and assistance to 25 project sponsors through virtual and in-person trainings
• Monitored 25 grantees' project and data indicators via on-site and virtual visits to affirm compliance with financial policies and performance measurement requirements
• Counseled grant sponsors in interpreting Notice of Grant Awards to ensure consistency with federal guidance and regulations
• Assured portfolio records were well organized and complied with federal recordkeeping requirements

• Maintained and organized a database of over 450 volunteer files, waivers, and timesheets
• Wrote and received five grants that earned over $81,000 for unrestricted operational expenses
• Developed an annual prospect letter that raised over $12,000 in three months
• Developed and fostered over twenty new collaborative partnerships with community faith organizations, businesses and corporations, non-profit agencies, and schools
• Recruited over 150 volunteers for home construction projects, neighborhood revitalization efforts, and special events
• Managed, coordinated, and streamlined the neighborhood revitalization (exterior repair) program and two community garden grant projects

• Supervised a 14-student staff on developing building communities conducive for high academic achievement
• Educated student staff and over 300 students to self-enforce policies and respect the rights of others through community standards
• Established a strong, positive learning environment within four residence halls and the university community
• Provided leadership for the development, implementation, and evaluation of residence hall educational and social programming
• Hired, trained, evaluated, and supervised resident building student staff

• Reviewed and updated university policies relating to sexual assault, tobacco use, and underage drinking to ensure compliance with multi-state laws and regulations
• Planned, coordinated, and ran wellness-related programs and sessions for a population of 900 residential students and 100 employees as well as over twenty extension campuses
• Led over forty sexual assault and bystander intervention educational sessions for college student, clubs and organizations, and faculty and staff
• Trained and advised wellness programming provided by resident assistants
• Maintained an inventory of all wellness equipment and supplies
• Supervised four work study students and volunteers

Graduated summa cum laude (3.989 GPA)

• Graduated summa cum laude (4.0 GPA)