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Renee Davis
Business Operations
Atlanta,GA
Summary
Entrepreneurial and creative Founder passionate about turning innovative ideas into tangible results. Experienced formulating and executing strategic plans, creating new products and services, and developing business opportunities. Track record of multiple successful business ventures and leading teams of professionals to maximize profits and deliver success.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Founding Director of Operations
ZEST Preparatory Academy
Douglasville, GA
10.2022 - Current
- As a founding member of the school’s executive leadership team, and the executive director liaison, responsible for the overall quality of school operations
- Create, develop, and implement all facets of the school, business operations, strategic planning, research, finance, HR management, marketing, social media, and assisting c-level executive
- Build a strong, cohesive school-based culture that reflects the core values of ZEST Prep
- Serve as a thought leader on cross-team projects and supports ZEST Prep’s entrepreneurial efforts
- Drive the vision and direction for school operations to achieving that vision
- Build relationships, led by example, and directly manage the school operations team to accomplish operational excellence and leadership
- Support with hiring, on-boarding, management, and evaluation of all founding staff, including principal, teachers, and school-based operations teams
- Lead all communication with internal and external stakeholders to efficiently inform members of any emergent or planned protocols involving school operations; serves as the school-based Directors of School Operations liaison to other operational teams regarding important topics like space planning, feedback, and input
- Collaborate with Board of Directors support and external partnerships to implement ZEST Prep’s Strategic Plan
- Collaborate with Executive Director and Founder to ensure that the school is supported in the areas of Nutrition, Transportation, Finance, People Operations, and Technology
- Work to centralize best practices via handbooks, toolkits, and playbooks; leads training and implementation for school-based colleagues
- Partner with executive director to create, train, and implement standard, consistent, and scalable processes, protocols, and systems aimed at improving school operations and solving common challenges
- Oversee and manages ZEST Prep’s student recruitment efforts and enrollment, ensuring that the organization has a strong enrollment profile across all our geographies; works with executive director and other recruitment professionals across and outside the organization to ensure steady, maximum enrollment across all campuses- Met all benchmarks established by the State Commissioner
- Manage school purchasing process by placing orders with vendors, tracking delivery and maintaining inventory
- Spearhead and provide oversight of the planning and execution of school special events
- Create content for and lead professional development sessions aligned with school’s operational systems
- Builds and fosters relationships with community leaders and organizations, including maintaining a robust database of community organizations
- Create, manage, implement school, marketing content and district social media monthly calendar
- Manage the full Meta Business marketing suite for the school-increasing lead generations, Instagram reach by +103% in 90 days, and Facebook reach by +200 in 90 days.
Director of Operations
Lawrence E. Boone Elementary School
Washington, DC
06.2021 - 06.2022
- Serve as an integral member on the school’s leadership team, principal liaison leading and developing all facets of the student’s admission process, attracting, attaining, enrolling a diverse dynamic of scholars
- Manage all aspects of school business operations including strategic planning, research, finance, HR, marketing
- Supported the mission and expectations of the school, the culture, and offerings, while contributing daily to the school community
- Held a significant level of authority as it relates to day-to-day administrative, operational, and personnel growth and management
- Collected, analyzed, and presented solutions offering win-win outcomes to principal and school leaders
- Employed effective year-long systems that led to meeting yearly enrollment projection
- Developed a result producing tracking system that identified key metric in enrollment gaps, i.e., retention and recruitment efforts
- Responsible for developing and implementing outreach and education events for internal and external stakeholders
- Led multiple webinars, professional development seminars for team members
- Prepared and presented presentation templates and documents for the use of senior leadership
- Within first 30 days of hire, increased student enrollment by 200 plus students
- Managed $481,000 in non-personnel funding that maximized student and teacher resources
- Prepared monthly financial reporting to principal
- Established an effective people strategy to optimize employee performance within first 30 days of hire
- Revamped and employed HR systems to ensure timely and accurate payments for employees
- Streamline team communication by introducing weekly write-ups, daily check-ins shared on TEAMS, reducing 50% of questions during team meetings, ensuring results-oriented meetings within four months.
Manager of School Operations
Phelps Ace High School
, Washington
06.2019 - 06.2021
- Developed enrollment target reports, including statistics and proposed improvement enrollment procedures
- Recognized for meeting school recruiting goals and increasing recruitment through logistical strategies and tightening collaboration on policy, school operations, and marketing
- Organized bi-weekly/monthly community stakeholder meetings to improve organization
- Employed cross-functional TEAMS calendar to communicate events, driving production and attendance at events, increasing rates
- Implemented recruitment strategy to deploy new online enrollment platform, enrolling over 100 new students, increasing retention to 88%, 8 on-site recruitment events, 3 virtual events, with total representation of 11 middle schools present and 200 plus students
- Developed the school’s first admissions team and efficient admissions process that led to enrolling over 100 new students, meeting the 2019 district-wide enrollment projections
- Developed strategic recruitment and communication plan to target audiences
- Spearheaded and implemented all facets of recruitment sales and marketing campaigns
- Overseen the growth and the expansion of the recruitment team
- Coordinated over 125 student recruitment interviews, lobbying the support of school parent, teacher, and staff stakeholders, while pivoting to a virtual recruitment strategy due to the Global pandemic
- One of 3 high schools to meet enrollment projection in 2020
- Prepared and maintained progress and related reports on a weekly basis to report to school principal, that track student retention and satisfaction
- Advised prospective and or current students in understanding their school options of choice and programming
- Managed confidential employee files to ensure they were properly updated and compliant
- Demonstrated personal and professional integrity outlined by the school’s mission and expectations; assisted with additional operational duties as assigned.
Manager of School Operations
Aiton Elementary School
Washington, DC
06.2016 - 06.2019
- Streamlined campus-level operations as well as led external functions, procurement, fiscal policies, and facilities management
- Ensured effective enrollment management, data management, and compliance policies
- Partnered with instructional leads on operational processes, systems, staff recruiting, hiring, and performance evaluations of administrative and operations personnel
- Organized committee on enrollment planning and recruitment initiatives to improve morale and school branding
- Contributed to School Partnership Fellows Program External Relationships and Partnerships to develop and implement best practices for partner management
- Rated highly effective by superior and recognized by DCPS for highly effective service
- Overseen al fiscal operations in all departments
- Managed organizations purchasing, responsible for establishing and monitoring budget goals, staff performance evaluations, and professional development for assigned staff
- Developed organizations budgets based on overall plans of the school and developed an expense allocation methodology
- Built and maintained three new partnerships with the Washington Charitable Foundation, Microsoft, and the Washington Capitals.
Coordinator of School
Operations, DC Public Schools
Washington, DC
01.2010 - 01.2016
Education
Georgia Charter School Association Financial Management Course -
QBE Funding
Master of Business Administration - Global Business Administration
HR University
Bachelor of Science - undefined
University of Maryland
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University of Maryland Eastern
Skills
Recruitment and hiring
Affiliations
- Project Management Institute
- Kappa Omicron Nu National Honor Society
Software
Google Suite & Workspace
Microsoft Office Suite
Adobe Suite
Peoplesoft
Zoom
Meta Business Suite
Timeline
Founding Director of Operations
ZEST Preparatory Academy
10.2022 - Current
Director of Operations
Lawrence E. Boone Elementary School
06.2021 - 06.2022
Manager of School Operations
Phelps Ace High School
06.2019 - 06.2021
Manager of School Operations
Aiton Elementary School
06.2016 - 06.2019
Coordinator of School
Operations, DC Public Schools
01.2010 - 01.2016
Georgia Charter School Association Financial Management Course -
QBE Funding
Master of Business Administration - Global Business Administration
HR University
Bachelor of Science - undefined
University of Maryland
undefined
University of Maryland Eastern
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