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SHANICE Turner

Atlanta,GA.

Summary

Professional leader, consultant, and public speaker with excellent presentation and facilitation skills. An organize program manager that can manage working groups sessions or work individually. Results oriented with adept at prioritizing and completing projects to meet organization and community needs. Detail oriented leader with excellent, verbal and written communication. Exceptional team-player, project coordination, a fundraiser with a passion for volunteer work, non-profits private, social justice, & youth advocacy.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Field Inspector & Home Inspector

Ivueit Open House Atlanta, MYND, Brandy Wine Homes
Atlanta, GA
09.2023 - Current
  • Completed over 1,500 inspections with 7 months.
  • Providing support to clients through speed and accuracy through communication and support; while supplying high quality pictures.
  • Technical skills and knowledge regarding essential for a home inspector, familiarity with building codes, knowledge of HVAC systems, and proficiency in using inspection software. Include both hard skills (technical abilities) and soft skills (communication, problem-solving, attention to detail).
  • Highly focus on providing customer service to clients and renters along with data entry inspections tasks.
  • Conducted inspections of residential and commercial properties to ensure compliance with building codes, safety regulations, zoning laws, and other applicable ordinances including documenting work orders.
  • Conducted site pre-inspections and coordinated post-construction audits.
  • Observed operational processes at businesses to verify compliance with rules and regulations.

Youth Leadership Consultant

Aspen Institute
DC, MD
03.2021 - 06.2024
  • Devised organizational vision, mission and foundational structure to facilitate growth.
  • Participated in small business training and development to increase development and exposure.
  • Developing the Belonging, Meaning-making, Well-being and Purpose portfolio: invest in backbone organizations and ecosystem and pathways strategies in communities.
  • Build out additional/new grantmaking strategies in partnership with funders and young
    people.
  • OYF (Opportunity Youth Fund) member communities and in the systems and structures in those communities, demonstrating systems change and impact at scale in place.
  • Invest in promising and new strategies, models, and prototypes in order to grow the
    evidence-base and begin to scale what works in meaning-making, well-being and purposeful
    pathways.
  • Target a sub-set of investments to support for young people and the systems that reflect extraordinary barriers to
    opportunity, such as child welfare, justice, workforce development, postsecondary and
    others.
  • Help to shape the direction of programs that
    impact the lives of opportunity youth across the country.
  • Participate in some focus groups and/or meetings to help review a new strategy focused on BIPOC youth and young adults.
  • Periodically review FCS materials and provide insights into programs that OYF is developing.

Founder CEO

Shanicespeaks
Atlanta, GA
07.2018 - Current
  • Virtual Assistant enterprising support to a multitude of businesses and capacity building through data entry, bookkeeping, social media management, research, general administration, email management, scheduling, arranging travel, press release, digital marketing, meeting notes, and action steps
  • Managed program operations and provided strategic leadership for staff.
  • Facilitated staff meetings and sessions
  • Monitored program operations for compliance with policies and procedures, applicable standards and relevant contractual policy.
  • Partnered with production team to resolve casting, budget and coverage problems.
  • Checked programs and schedules for accuracy and issued releases to local media outlets.
  • Create and implement new programming ideas to keep businesses relevant and growing.
  • Devised evaluation strategies to monitor performance and determine need for improvements.
  • Collected key program data and analysis to support continuous improvement.
  • Write proposals and reports for general and specific program support.

CEO & Founder

Mind-Refreshers
Atlanta, GA
05.2021 - Current
  • Our goal is simple: create meaningful connections between seniors living in long-term care facilities with people outside while promoting wellness education & awareness campaigns about important topics related to healthy lifestyle changes affecting aging populations globally.

    We address the dire need for caring for and looking after our seniors. With an aging population and rising healthcare costs, it has become increasingly important to acknowledge the wealth of knowledge and experience that seniors bring to our community. The elderly bring a large amount of wealth of knowledge and experience to our community. It is a known fact that nursing homes are the forgotten cornerstone of our community & are elderly are often overlooked.

Program Director

National Youth Employment Coalition
DC, MD
04.2020 - 06.2022
  • Created and manage the youth entrepreneurship shark tank event called Action Hour. The Action Hour support opportunity youth with seed money to launch their community events and endeavors. This cultivation has given more than $10,000 to youth nationally.
  • Managed and led NYEC youth grant related projects with Annie E Casey LEAP (Learn Earn Achieve Potential). Provided technical assistance, to the Annie E Casey Team to lead-cultivated workshops for the 10 LEAP fellow.
  • Created and manage NYEC Though Leaders initiative that offers opportunities for youth to join our ongoing series of NYEC workshops aim to cultivate servant-leaders ready to take action to create a change. The goal is to foster peer leadership, civic engagement, and collaboration through hands-on experiences.
  • Founded and created NYEC YAC (Youth Advisory Council) YAC has the opportunity to join regular leadership development sessions, with other youth and national partner organization staff. Youth can help design and lead NYEC’s two national convening's.
  • Collaborated with social media influencers and press to drive brand optimization such as Senator Will Haskell, Biden Harris representative Chiraag Bains, and Theo Smith.
  • Directed social media and digital marketing strategy and initiatives to promote brand building, guest retention, engagement, reputation and revenue-focused activities.
  • Proposed innovative storylines for digital content and developed unique campaigns to promote brand engagement.
  • Tailored engagement and communications with NYEC throughout the year through emailing and Zooms.
  • Gather and disseminate current youth engagement policies and practices of NYEC member organizations, create an onboarding process for young-adult.
  • Managed sharepoint Asana, MS Office Suite projects.
  • Assist in the coordination of events as designated include the All Youth Connecting Forum and the Annual Forum.
  • Overseeing event planning, working with presenters, logistics, coordinating with the Director of Operations and the Executive Director.

College Champion

College Clinic
Atlanta, GA
08.2019 - 05.2023
  • Directly implement planned curriculum for high school students in the program while
    being inclusive of all students, modeling the College Clinic approach and achieving set
    outcomes.
    •Ensure that programming is meeting intended outcomes and collecting outcome and
    evaluation data as necessary.
    •Work with students and closely monitor the college application process goals using
    excellent behavior management and positive discipline technics.
    •Assure that programs meet goals and objectives established by College Clinic Board of
    Directors, direct supervisors and approved budget.
    •Communicate regularly with parents in a way that promotes their engagement in their
    child’s development strengthens relationships between parents and the organizations
    •Collaborate with other youth and human-serving organizations to develop and implement
    quality programming as needed.

Civic Engagement Liaison

Opportunity Youth United
Atlanta,, Georgia
06.2018 - 01.2021

• Support & track what the CATs (community action team) deliver in terms of training, convening, voter registration results, pledge results, and turnout processes and results;
• Actively supply what the communities need: encouragement and thought partnering, information, training capacity, written plans, bi-partisan voter information on candidates, information on voter suppression and voter accessibility issues in their communities and states, access to inspiring videos or speakers, and more.
• Assist with the organizing the entire Opportunity Youth United response to National Voter Registration Day.

Project Manager of OYN

The Forum for Youth Investment
D.C, Virginia
06.2018 - 04.2020
  • Support planning and designing each session and the overall OYN Summit Agenda. This would involve tasks such as:
  • Send emails and plan with invited presenters to led sessions or portions during the conference. Email and schedule planning calls with the potential speaker. Create session outlines for each workshop and plenary.
  • Maintain and regularly update a planning tracker with the activities completed, activities that need to be completed and deadlines.
  • Send reminders about deadlines to ensure the team is staying on track. Prepare information to share with team (e.g., review registration reports biweekly and analyze how many are from each sector).
  • Create Appropriation Letter for Reconnecting Youth Campaign House Senate and congressional member to support on going programs such as Youthbuild-Job Corp.
  • Encourage Members to support and sign onto FY20 Opportunity Youth program Dear Colleague Letters & Track outreach and signatures for FY20 Opportunity Youth program Dear Colleague Letters on a regular basis.

Grant Writer & Content Developer Part-Time

Gate City Day Care Assoication
Atlanta, GA
03.2017 - 12.2018
  • Works directly with internal departments/agency program leaders to gather required information for grant submissions.
  • Establishes and maintains positive relationships with grantors and agencies.
  • Performs administrative functions related to the department’s grant writing,Manages all of the submission processes grant management, grant reporting, coordinating meetings, document reports, answer phone calls, and grant monitoring process
  • Update and manage all content regarding items on daycare brochures, social media, and website development. Photograph and videography every moment of events and group gatherings.
  • Investigated potential funding sources, including state and federal programs and non-profit foundations.Gathered information on current programs and presented details to show strong organization with long-term plans.

AmeriCorps ServiceWorks Vista Leader

Points of Light
Atlanta, GA
12.2015 - 12.2016
  • Managed over 120 VISTAs team members that delivered 204,000 hours of training to 300 low-income invidious to support financial literacy skill building.  Had constant remotely reporting, conference calls, webinars, phone check-ins, and email check-ins.
  • Created online modules that target youth development, volunteer management, partnership development, and implemented of the ServiceWorks program. 
  • Provide education, assistance and accountability measures related to VISTAs the program evaluation tools, targeting VISTAs, and their sites. 
  • Assisted with progression reports and reviewed VISTAs member reports for accurate and regular data tracking for impact measurement. 

Loan Executive

United Way of Greater Atlanta
Atlanta, GA
08.2015 - 11.2015
  • Managed all contact of 60 accounts that generated and donated  $350,000. Contacts such as schools, department stores, and partners of United Way.
  • Cultivated and established long-term relationships with companies for United Way annual workplace campaigns.
  • Performed, and coordinated all activity events to meet campaign goals for potential donors. Such as golfing events and donation campaigns.
  • Marketed United Way’s campaign message to individuals, and communities for donations.

AmeriCorps VISTA Post Secondary

United Way of Greater Atlanta
Atlanta, GA
02.2014 - 07.2015
  • Awarded the three year Opportunity Youth Incentive Fund grant from The Aspen Institute to reconnected disconnected youth in Atlanta. 
  • Collaborated with various local partners such as Atlanta Opportunity Youth Council and Youth Services Collaborative to expand community awareness of Opportunity Youth Incentive Fund and capacity building to ensure sustainability.
  • Compiled, organized, and analyzed data for reports in tracking youth programs, and their project unit initiatives.  
  • Monitored and updated appropriate stakeholder on progressions of the program milestones and project objectives.

Support Coordinator

The North Highland Company
Atlanta, GA
02.2013 - 07.2013
  • Supported HR related function, by updating various spreadsheets and employee change requests. 
  • Assisted benefits enrollment, processing terminations, auditing invoices, time sheets, and benefits information for staff. 

Education

MBA - Non Profit Management

North Eastern Univesity
Boston, MA
2021

Bachelor of Arts - Business Management/Marketing

Eastern Gateway Community College
2018

Information Technology

Year Up, Inc

Additional Information

  • Year Up Alumni Association Director of Intern & Alumni Recruitment July 2013-2017
  • Year Up Atlanta Alumni Association Vice Chair: February 2017-2020
  • (NCYL) National Council of Young Leaders Youth Leader: February 2015 -2020
  • OYU (Opportunity Youth United) Co-Founder: February 2015-Present
  • OYU Advisory Board Member: 2020-2023
  • Aspen Institute Opportunity Youth Incentive Fund Youth Advocate November 2014 -Present
  • United Way of Greater Atlanta: Youth Youth Collaborative OYIF ( Opportunity Youth Incentive Fund): 2014-2020
  • CLASP (Center For Law & Social Policy) & New Deals For Youth 2017-Present

Accomplishments

Times Magazine: https://time.com/5908483/georgia-youth-vote/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social-share-article&utm-term=politics

Daily Kos: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/11/25/1997996/-Meet-the-Georgia-teens-trying-to-flip-60-000-students-planning-to-vote-for-Perdue

Blogs:

https://aspencommunitysolutions.org/youth-leader-lose-yourself-in-the-service-of-others/

https://blog.citigroup.com/2016/09/service-as-a-solution-a-weekend-of-remembrance-and-impact/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=peer360&utm_campaign=serviceasasolutionaweekendofremembranceandimpact&utm_content=serviceasasolutionaweekendofremembranceandimpact

https://aspencommunitysolutions.org/youth-leader-lose-yourself-in-the-service-of-others/

https://oyunited.org/2019/how-i-carried-on-my-grandfathers-legacy-by-meeting-with-rep-john-lewis/

https://voxatl.org/opportunity-youth-redefining-disconnected/

Timeline

Field Inspector & Home Inspector

Ivueit Open House Atlanta, MYND, Brandy Wine Homes
09.2023 - Current

CEO & Founder

Mind-Refreshers
05.2021 - Current

Youth Leadership Consultant

Aspen Institute
03.2021 - 06.2024

Program Director

National Youth Employment Coalition
04.2020 - 06.2022

College Champion

College Clinic
08.2019 - 05.2023

Founder CEO

Shanicespeaks
07.2018 - Current

Civic Engagement Liaison

Opportunity Youth United
06.2018 - 01.2021

Project Manager of OYN

The Forum for Youth Investment
06.2018 - 04.2020

Grant Writer & Content Developer Part-Time

Gate City Day Care Assoication
03.2017 - 12.2018

AmeriCorps ServiceWorks Vista Leader

Points of Light
12.2015 - 12.2016

Loan Executive

United Way of Greater Atlanta
08.2015 - 11.2015

AmeriCorps VISTA Post Secondary

United Way of Greater Atlanta
02.2014 - 07.2015

Support Coordinator

The North Highland Company
02.2013 - 07.2013

MBA - Non Profit Management

North Eastern Univesity

Bachelor of Arts - Business Management/Marketing

Eastern Gateway Community College

Information Technology

Year Up, Inc
SHANICE Turner