Sandra A. Darby
Bossier City,LA
Summary
Seasoned Health Care Professional (Coordinator) with broad ranging expertise in operations management. Highly skilled in championing strategic visions. Committed to driving teams toward success and sustaining organizational missions. Highly-motivated employee with desire to take on new challenges. Strong work ethic, adaptability, and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills. An organized and motivated individual, eager to utilize time management and organizational skills across diverse settings. Eager to contribute to a dynamic team and support organizational goals. Results-oriented individual with a passion for continuous learning and innovation.
Overview
40
40
years of professional experience
Work History
Nurse Recruiter
LSU Health Shreveport - OCIS
Shreveport
01.2022 - Current
- Work closely with colleges and universities to recruit students into the program
- Plan and implement ways to recruit potential students by attending various community activities such as, but not limited to: (career fairs, health fairs, and job fairs)
- Responsible for setting up recruitment activities on and off campus
- Ability to work successfully with college and university administrators and high school personnel
- The ability to understand complex student information systems and to use those systems effectively in a management capacity
- Budget management skills, analyze and interpret statistics and data, and sensitivity to issues related to recruitment and retention of a diverse student body
- Perform work with various computer applications, such as an application for admission
- Provide faculty / staff members with completing and submitting requests for travel, direct compensation, supplies, equipment, personnel transactions, and entertainment events, requisitions and purchase orders, along with procurement cost reports and other relevant items
- Serve as point communication between internal employees and external resources
- Establish and maintain relations with colleges/universities, congregations, community partners, etc
- Recruit and coordinate recruitment efforts for the program and attend health fairs, and job fairs, for the program
- Also aid students (ID badge, parking, computer and printing, etc.)
- Process work orders for the department and floor of the building
- Recommended and assisted in building / creating a database to manage all students (incoming and outgoing) admissions and track alumni
- Manage database for the department and create reports, as needed
- Maintain a spreadsheet updated with purchases of the department
- Create composites for graduate students
- Maintain class calendar
- Collect / Report news for the departments’ quarterly newsletter
- Post departmental news, activities, and events weekly to LinkedIn and Facebook
- Responsible for taking photos of all events and activities
- Organize and manage blood drives, and special events (such as Public Health Week), activities, including but not limited to recruitment, community outreach, graduation celebrations, and delta omega awards
- Created PowerPoint Presentation for the department
- Facilitate the purchase, relocation, and storage of furniture, equipment, and related paperwork
- Proficient use of Microsoft Office programs, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
- Perform additional duties as assigned.
- Participated in industry conferences and networking events to stay abreast of current trends in healthcare recruiting practices.
MPH Program Coordinator
LSU Health Shreveport
Shreveport
06.2021 - Current
- Provide faculty members administrative assistance with completing and submitting requests for travel, direct compensation, supplies, equipment, personnel transactions, and other relevant items
- Also aid students (ID badge, parking, computer, etc.) Review and retrieve information from Spark Hire upon students’ admission into program
- Serve as point communication between internal employees and external resources
- Establish and maintain relations with colleges/universities, congregations, community partners, etc.
- Recruit for MPH program and attend health fairs, and job fairs
- Attend and coordinate recruitment efforts
- Work with diverse groups, students, faculty, and staff at the school and in the community
- Contact person for work orders for the department and floor of the building
- Keep track of departmental activities like travel, educational, and entertainment events and procurement cost reports
- Recommended and helped create a database to manage all students (incoming and outgoing) and alumni
- Manage database for the department and create reports, as needed
- Maintain a spreadsheet updated with purchases of the department
- Create composites for graduate students
- In charge of T-shirt sales and deposits
- Maintain class calendar
- Collect and design information for the departments’ quarterly newsletter
- Created PowerPoint Presentation for the department
- Responsible for taking photos of all events and activities
- Post departmental news, activities, and events weekly to LinkedIn and Facebook
- Organize and manage blood drives, and special events (such as Public Health Week), activities, including but not limited to recruitment, community outreach, graduation celebrations, and delta omega awards
- Process requisitions and purchase orders
- Facilitate the purchase, relocation, and storage of furniture, equipment, and related paperwork
- Proficient use of Microsoft Office programs, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
- Perform additional duties as assigned.
Program Coordinator / Communications Disorders
LSU Health Shreveport
Shreveport
01.2018 - 06.2021
- Manage Master’s Program and provide primary administrative support for the Director, faculty, staff and students
- Coordinate intake, orientation, and registration
- Retrieve, review, print and file admissions applications
- Prepare, print and mail acceptance and denial letters for graduates
- Manage, process, and reconcile monthly invoices
- Process prior approvals, requisitions, travel, director pay, surplus and inventory
- Order supplies
- Place/process work orders
- Create and manage Power Point Presentations
- Coordinate graduate events (Orientation, Luncheon, Meetings, Events and Activities
- Etc.) Schedule appointments
- Prepare and submit all purchase requisitions for the Division
- Reconcile all accounts
- Continuously monitor and follow up on all accounts for available funds
- Consults with purchasing agent, business manager, and comptroller, as needed
- Track and inform Director of financial status on all accounts
- Monitor status of purchase orders and completed requisitions
- Manage and process Procurement Report monthly
- Responsible for completing documents to control equipment inventory and report locations for new equipment
- Perform other duties as assigned or required.
Administrative Assistant
City of Shreveport
Shreveport
01.2016 - 01.2018
- Provides administrative and clerical support to management
- Composes letters, memos, reports, compiles statistical, productivity measurements and effectiveness data
- Assist visitors and telephone callers
- Maintains, searches, and retrieves records, data and information from manual and automated files
- Process Work Orders and developed a draft Work Order form via email and Implemented a data entry Call Log for Work Orders and the Work Order Form
- Processed payroll, purchase orders and requisitions
- Update employee records
- Processed and reconciled monthly bills
- Disseminate mail
- Coordinate Safety Training for employees (schedule), develop certificates, material and solicit speakers
- Assist with the preparation of recognition luncheon of employees
- Prepare and submit Work Order Reports monthly
- Performs other duties as assigned or required.
Program Coordinator / Biochemistry
LSU Health Shreveport
Shreveport
01.2014 - 01.2016
- Manage Master’s and Ph.D
- Programs for and provide primary administrative support for Graduate Chair: monitor deadlines, insure compliance with department, school, and university policies and procedures
- Coordinate intake, registration, advisor-assignment, qualifier, and all steps through graduation
- Advise masters and Ph.D
- Students regarding department and university requirements, policies and procedures relevant to their program
- Manage Ph.D
- Program records, compile program stats and reports
- Track and report Ph.D
- Degree placements/employment
- Organize departmental aspects of graduate orientation and graduate degree completion and commencement
- Assist Graduate Admissions Chairs in Ph.D
- Recruiting
- Screen, manage, circulate applications communicate with applicants and prospects, answer questions
- Manage on-line recruiting system for department
- Coordinate recruiting events: arrange for catering, lodging, and vendors in coordination with Business Office
- Assist/advise prospects with visits
- Provide administrative support for Business Manager: Process payroll, requisition, and inventory
- Handle related correspondence and paperwork
- Perform additional duties as assigned.
Instructor
Ayers Career College
01.2013 - 01.2015
- Develop, review and revise lesson plans
- Prepare handouts, projects and guest speaking engagements to lesson plans
- Establish and maintain classroom standards, such as attendance, tardiness, dress code, behavior expectations, etc
- Instruct students following the course outline, established time frames, and utilizing lesson plans with resources
- Utilize a variety of teaching methods such as lectures, hands-on, demonstrations, sharing professional experiences, etc
- Evaluate student progress and performance: behavior, attitude, and attendance; academic progress
- Administer written tests for academic evaluation
- Organized and participated in student retention activities
- Submit weekly Classroom Status Reports
- Classes Taught: Intro to Computers, Word/Data Processing, Career and Development, Medical Law and Ethics, Keyboarding
- Perform additional duties as assigned.
Coordinator
Vision Integrated Programs, LLC
01.2008 - 01.2013
- Perform customer service requests by answering employee requests and questions
- Welcomes new employees to the organization by conducting orientation
- Maintain employee information by entering and updating employment and status-change data
- Perform clerical duties including typing, filing and inventory
- Manage calendars and arrange appointments
- Operate office machinery such as copier, scanner, adding machine and fax machine
- Type and proofread outgoing correspondence
- Process incoming mail such as faxes and email
- Maintain billing accounts/receivables
- Accept payments for services rendered
- Scan, audit, and mail invoices
- Assist with new employee background checks
- Update HR spreadsheet with employee change requests and processes paperwork
- Assist with processing of terminations
- Assist with the preparation of performance review forms
- Assists with the recruiting and interviewing process
- Prepares new employee files and completes all necessary forms
- Maintains employee confidence and protects operations by keeping human resource information confidential
- Perform additional duties as assigned by the Director.
Reentry Manager
Department of Corrections
01.2008 - 01.2012
- Assisted with the development of the Reentry Program
- Responsible for managing the Reentry Program and serving as a central location for offenders
- Managed, collaborated, tracked, and monitored the participants to ensure compliance with their service plan and terms of release
- Collaborated closely with partner agencies to ensure program participants are engaged and supported in services that include employment/training, housing, mentoring, and other comprehensive services
- Supervised Coordinator, Discharge Planner, Interns, Deputies and Volunteers to ensure the offenders make a positive transition from incarceration to the community
- Facilitated activities as psycho-educational classes, therapy groups and community meetings, etc
- Reviewed goals and progress of reentry program with staff
- Assigned, managed and monitored class curriculum to instructors
- Established and maintained relationships with DOC facilities, educational system, businesses, community leaders, city officials, and citizens, etc.
HR Assist. / ZBA Coordinator
City of Shreveport
Shreveport
01.1993 - 01.2008
- Serve as an HR Rep backup (input personnel/payroll data)
- Assisted with HR issues and personnel procedures
- Maintained employees’ files and the filing system
- Processed payroll, purchase orders, requisitions, and travel requests
- Update employee records by processing status changes
- Processed enrollment, changes and termination of participants in all benefit plans
- Processed and reconciled monthly billing statements against payroll deduction, etc
- Coordinated all ZBA procedures and routine tasks
- Established and maintained relationships with the mayor, city officials, businesses, community leaders, and citizens
- Organized Neighborhood Association meetings
- Responsible for scheduling and administrative work for the ZBA
- Attended board meetings and typed legal ad, resolutions, and ordinances
- Responded to the inquiries on planning, development, and zoning matters
- Recorded and transcribed minutes, researched and retrieved files, etc
- Perform additional duties as assigned.
NASA Resource Center Coordinator
Southern University - Shreveport
Shreveport
01.1990 - 01.1993
- Serve as an HR Rep backup (input personnel/payroll data)
- Assisted with HR issues and personnel procedures
- Maintained employees’ files and the filing system
- Processed payroll, purchase orders, requisitions, and travel requests
- Update employee records by processing status changes
- Processed enrollment, changes and termination of participants in all benefit plans
- Processed and reconciled monthly billing statements against payroll deduction, etc
- Coordinated all ZBA procedures and routine tasks
- Established and maintained relationships with the mayor, city officials, businesses, community leaders, and citizens
- Organized neighborhood meetings
- Responsible for scheduling and administrative work for the ZBA
- Attended board meetings and typed legal ad, resolutions, and ordinances
- Responded to the inquiries on planning, development, and zoning matters
- Recorded and transcribed minutes, researched and retrieved files, etc
- Perform additional duties as assigned.
Admissions Asst. Officer
Bossier Parish Community College
Bossier City
01.1985 - 01.1990
- Provided students with information about the admission process and answered all inquiries about the college programs
- Reviewed, accepted, and filed applications, transcript records, scores, etc
- Consulted / Advised perspective students
- Processed students’ registration and payment
- Communicated the status of students’ applications (accepted or denied)
- Provided detailed information to the students to further the application process
- Referred acceptance students to scholarship, financial aid, and bursar information
- Updated students records, made phone calls to perspective students.
Education
M.S.A. - Master of Science Administration (Health Services)
Central Michigan University
Mt. Pleasant, MI12.2000
B.S. - Bachelor - Organizational Management
Wiley College
Marshall, TX12.1995
Associate - 1) Business Administration 2) Office Administration
Bossier Parish Community College
Bossier City, LA12.1988
Skills
- Onboarding Processes
- Candidate assessment
- Social media proficiency
- Healthcare regulations
References
- Carlotta Askew, (901) 292-1127
- Carolyn Coatney, (318) 518-0551
- Janice Chalmers-Priest, (318) 762-0981
- Katrina Thomas, SF Agent, (318) 688-8312
- Rodney Murphy, (318) 990-2192
- Dr. Michael Taylor, (318) 210-8364
Timeline
Nurse Recruiter
LSU Health Shreveport - OCIS
01.2022 - Current
MPH Program Coordinator
LSU Health Shreveport
06.2021 - Current
Program Coordinator / Communications Disorders
LSU Health Shreveport
01.2018 - 06.2021
Administrative Assistant
City of Shreveport
01.2016 - 01.2018
Program Coordinator / Biochemistry
LSU Health Shreveport
01.2014 - 01.2016
Instructor
Ayers Career College
01.2013 - 01.2015
Coordinator
Vision Integrated Programs, LLC
01.2008 - 01.2013
Reentry Manager
Department of Corrections
01.2008 - 01.2012
HR Assist. / ZBA Coordinator
City of Shreveport
01.1993 - 01.2008
NASA Resource Center Coordinator
Southern University - Shreveport
01.1990 - 01.1993
Admissions Asst. Officer
Bossier Parish Community College
01.1985 - 01.1990
M.S.A. - Master of Science Administration (Health Services)
Central Michigan University
B.S. - Bachelor - Organizational Management
Wiley College
Associate - 1) Business Administration 2) Office Administration
Bossier Parish Community College
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