Meghan Watson

to be completed

• Oversee 99 alumni clubs worldwide, cultivate the alumni club network and related affinity groups to enhance alumni engagement and support university development goals
• Build strong working relationships with school leadership, campus constituents, external stakeholders, and the alumni community of over 35,000 alumni
• Plan and execute new and recurring alumni events including homecoming weekend, annual club events, and senior class reception
• Develop and implement alumni programming to increase engagement & membership
• Support communications strategy by generating content and outreach plans for club use while promoting the Citadel brand
• Create programmatic materials to guide club activities and track processes

• Managed schedules and daily operations of the Vice Dean, Deputy Vice Dean for Development, and Director of Principal Giving
• Prepared confiential correspondences, briefings, and donor reports
• Built strong working relationships throughout the University as well with external with stakeholders and high profile donors
• Coordinated complex domestic and international travel arrangements for school-wide development trips
• Staffed and aided in the execution of fundraising and stewardship events
• Tracked and entered donor interaction information into University-wide database
• Aided in the creation and execution of team trainings and workshops

• Promoted over three years: staff assistant to executive assistant to administrative coordinator as the organization expanded and job responsibilities grew
• Acted as the main liaison between the organization and key stakeholders throughout the University
• Coordinated and executed events, workshops, and open houses
• Responsible for the logistics of committee meetings, internal staff meetings, and project meetings
• Developed and implemented internal processes and procedures to facilitate unified organizational operations
• Oversaw purchasing and event budgets, ensuring expenditures say within organizational guidelines
• Handled new employee on-boarding operations and assisted with the temporary payroll hiring process
• Created the organization's first internal newsletter to enable effective staff communication
• Developed tracking system to manage external visitor data
• Oversaw purchasing and event budgets; assisted with temporary payroll and hiring processes

• Worked as part of the company's newest brand to help veterans and civilians train and enter STEM industries; oversaw STEM course development and administration
• Successfully submitted the highly complex application for private school licensure in Pennsylvania, resulting in approval
• Aided in course content creation, maintained LMS
• Recognized as November 2012's Most Valuable Employee for execution of a ribbon-cutting ceremony/brand kickoff