Rhonda Jones

• Supervising day-to-day operations
• Maintaining a clean, safe, and organized center environment to enhance the client experience.
• Developing strong working relationships with volunteers, fostering a very positive work environment.
• Working one-on-one with volunteers to learn the operating systems of both Cool Focus and Bright Course.
• Monitoring donations of checks/cash intake and deposit records plus sending thank you cards and tax receipts to donors.
• Handling counting/depositing of cash during our Baby Bottle Drive;
• Offering hands-on assistance to clients in the boutique, while assessing their needs.
• Verifying stock levels to forecast future needs.
• Mentoring advocates with devotions and prayer/share time daily.
• Promoting teamwork within the workplace by encouraging collaboration among volunteers on various project tasks, especially keeping the boutique in order.
• Implementing "The Heart of Safety" staff training within Bright Course for all who work at the center.
• Encouraging volunteer training with Bright Course to elevate Advocate knowledge and teaching ability with clients.
• Overseeing daily tasks to maintain store cleanliness and organization.
• Encouraging volunteers to shadow pregnancy tests to help increase their ability to serve clients in my absence.
• Maintaining compliance with health and safety regulations, ensuring a safe environment for both volunteers and clients.
• Opening/closing the center each day and monitoring shift changes between advocates to uphold successful communication amongst ourselves.
• Taking the time to get to know church leaders and child care providers in our special community.
• Attending as many events as I can with the help of volunteers within Jefferson County to get our message of hope out to those neediest within our community.
• Spending as much time gleaning the amazing teachers on Bright Course to increase my knowledge and gain confidence when speaking with our clients.
• Continuing to keep a 'teachable' spirit at all times
• Dealing with difficult clients with courtesy and confidence as the leader at the center.

Volunteered twice a week, 4 hours at a time, to learn the operating systems of Cool Focus and Bright Course.

Helped front desk operations which included answering phones, competently delivering messages, client/donor interaction, setting appointments for clients. and receiving donations,

Eventually shadowed for advocacy and began working directly with clients.

Learned to keep client confidentiality a must at all times with folders overturned on the desk and names never repeated when another person was in the room.

Opened at the beginning of the week on Mondays and closed at the end of the week on Thursdays to catch an overall glimpse of the work week and to also work with our nurse on Thursdays.

Loved working with the other advocates and gleaned all I could from their knowledge.

• Led live music performances and rehearsals each week, teaching the choir vocal techniques to achieve the best sound possible.
• Developed musicians'' skills through focused rehearsals, ensuring high-quality performances and listening skills.
• Built strong relationships within the community by organizing outreach programs at Christmas time.
• Worked with the staff to create a seasonal production with music and drama every Easter and Christmas. We were known throughout the community as the "Pageant" church.
• Selected and arranged music for every week of the year but especially worked extremely long hours to produce our holiday pageant events.
• Planned and scheduled rehearsals and performances plus all details such as locations, times and instrumentalists and creating all of their musical scores.
• Developed and maintained relationships with artists and other music professionals.
• Fostered a positive -faith rehearsal environment, promoting open communication and constructive feedback among the choir and orchestra.
• Handled requests for specific musical selections.
• Oversaw auditions, recruiting talented singers to expand the vocal ensemble's capabilities.
• Recorded practice tracks for the choir each week with their specific vocal parts for learning purposes (soprano, alto, tenor, bass).
• Directed groups at rehearsals and live or recorded performances to achieve desired effects such as tonal and harmonic balance dynamics, rhythm, and tempo.
• Composed and arranged original music successfully for various projects. I have learned I work best with a theme and deadline.
• Studied scores to learn music in detail and develop interpretations.
• Collaborated with musicians for seamless coordination and optimal execution of live events.
• Scheduled and coordinated auditions to select performers for musical presentations.
• Maintained an organized music library, streamlining access to scores for rehearsals and performances.
• Coordinated logistics for community engagements, ensuring smooth transportation of personnel and equipment between locations.
• Re-wrote endings to choral compositions if I didn't like the way it ended.
• Determined voices, instruments, harmonic structures, rhythms, tempos and tone balances required to achieve effects desired in each musical composition.
• Transposed pieces from one instrument to another and one key to another to accommodate client and musician preferences.
• Positioned members within groups to obtain balance among instrumental or vocal sections.
• Wrote and arranged choral songs with matching orchestrations for our pageant themes and special Sunday services.
• Played prelude and postlude at each service on the piano.
• Played for many funerals and weddings within the church.
• Soloed at every pageant and many Sundays.
• Wrote a complete original Christmas dramatic musical and performed it with the choir and actors.
• Poured my heart and spirit into my work with many hours and lots of prayer.