Phoebe Elder

2015 - Present

Active PTA Volunteer, District 34.

Organized and participated in school volunteer activities, enhancing student and community engagement.

• Room Parent (every year!) - Communicator, Treasurer, Chaperone, Classroom party lead, and Gift Management.
• Coordinated the collection and distribution of food donations to our local food pantry.
• Led and coordinated the Holiday Helper Program, enhancing community support for families in need.
• Party Planner: Responsible for creating age-appropriate classroom party plans for 500+ students at Hoffman. Created detailed party plans for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades, sourced and purchased materials, stayed under budget, and distributed items to classrooms.
• Secured donations and coordinated fundraising activities to support school and PTA initiatives.
• Created and executed comprehensive party plans for multiple grade levels, maintaining budget constraints and ensuring successful implementation.
• Led planning and execution of the 5th Grade Picnic, developing a structured schedule, securing vendors, organizing activities, and coordinating volunteers.

2023 – Present: Paddle Captain

• Led and coordinated paddle team activities, fostering teamwork and collaboration.
• Managed paddle team dynamics, promoting effective communication and performance.
• Organized team lineups and coordinated food and beverage orders for paddle team events.

Ongoing

Jr. Titans Football Team Mom, AYSO Soccer Coach.

• Coordinated gameday logistics for the Jr. The Titans Football Team, including securing volunteers and organizing team food and beverages for over four years. Organized end-of-year banquets for the Jr. Titans Football Team, ensuring successful event execution.
• Led AYSO Girls Soccer team as a coach, managing practices and games while completing AYSO training.

• Managed a team of highly skilled technical Brand Specialists who support and service reservation based digital media campaigns, offer white glove customer service and project manage high impact custom advertising programs using the latest product solutions.

• Managed a team supporting pre sales, execution and post sales implementations for reservation based media campaigns working directly with some of YouTube's most notable Content Providers.
• Focus on developing and iterating global team roles and responsibilities while driving process efficiencies through tools and self-service offerings.

• Operated as Team Lead across a group of Media Coordinators based on leadership skills and subject matter expertise.
• Oversaw escalations, communicated with key stakeholders, evangelized our work and our process to increase knowledge and education of our platform.
• Lead external client onboarding discussions with top tier Publishers and Content creators.
• Defined and streamlined order entry process by launching Dart Sales Manager.
• Worked with YouTube Product and sales to launch our first ever pre-roll campaigns on YouTube in the US and in Europe.
• Networked with fellow Advertising Operations associates and acted as YouTube Representative at Ad Monsters Conference in Florida.

• Hired as the 2nd Media Coordinator at YouTube to support online Advertising campaigns.
• Initially split North America support with one other Media Coordinator.
• Responsible for providing 24/7 service for our YouTube / Google Sales team supporting standard banner ads, the YouTube Homepage, YouTube Brand Channels and Contests.
• Proven expertise in campaign management, multi-tasking, prioritization, ad trafficking, delivery optimization, billing reconciliation, training and attention to detail.

• Print Advertising Associate supporting Town&Country and Smart Money Magazines.
• Responsibilities included proposal generation, consultations with finance & marketing, completion of RFP's and maintaining massive client database.
• Organized and compiled Media Kits, coordinated large-scale mailing distribution and wrote monthly issues letters for our customers and prospects.
• Coordinated travel arrangements, managed appointment calendar and daily schedules.
• Extensive work in MS Office, ACT, Lotus Notes, Concur expense.

• Quickly ramped up from Intern to Inventory Buyer to Event Coordinator at David Tutera.
• Coordinated all elements for full-scale event production (location, invitation design, catering, rentals, room décor, tenting, lighting, entertainment, specialty gifts) for high impact, high price-tag weddings, bat mitzvahs, galas, celebrity engagements, fundraisers.
• Managed warehouse inventory, buying and renting of all products working with various vendors throughout NYC and surrounding areas.
• Worked directly with clients regarding contracts, budgets, revisions and last minute troubleshooting.
• Created production schedules and supervised freelance designers and labor from pre sales, demo presentations, day of event set up and takedown.
• Worked on events such as: Perfume launch for Jennifer Lopez, Star Jones's Engagement Party, multiple David Tutera appearances on The View, David Tutera's book launch at Cipriani, Private Event at the Field Museum in Chicago, Private Event at Lyric Opera House in Chicago, Bat Mitzvah at the Marriott in Times Square and many many more!