Colleen Jones
Chicago
Summary
Hardworking and reliable professional with a background in event planning, client services, internal communications, marketing, and project management. Offering over ten years of administrative experience and support. Highly organized, proactive and punctual with a team-oriented mentality.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Practice Development Coordinator
Seyfarth Shaw
12.2022 - Current
- Manages event and meeting logistics for internal and client-facing webinars hosted by the Office of Inclusion including tracking registrations, sending reminders, and processing invoices for external speakers.
- Creates and distributes event communication and registration sites for the Office of Inclusion.
- Handles annual completion of 100+ external diversity surveys in collaboration with a variety of internal departments and attorneys.
- Establishes and enforces internal deadlines related to annual diversity surveys to ensure timely submission.
- Tracks and analyzes internal metrics to provide to internal and external clients.
- Collaborates with RFP team to ensure responses to diversity-related inquiries are accurate and up-to-date.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Assistant
Ogletree Deakins
04.2019 - 08.2022
- Scheduled and calendared all department meetings and provided technical support for virtual meetings and firm-wide programming.
- Supported director and employee resource groups in planning and coordinating heritage month programming and cultural celebrations.
- Planned the annual department team building retreat including dinner reservations, hotel accomodations and entertainment.
- Facilitated in the planning of the bi-annual firmwide retreat for diverse attorneys which included handling transportation and hotel for retreat speaker, communicating catering options and audio visual needs to venue, and preparing a detailed agenda with individual meeting details for team members.
- Managed department communications calendar and work weekly DEI-related content to include in firmwide newlsletter.
Development Associate
Community LINC
10.2014 - 04.2019
- Coordinated board meetings including drafting and circulating meeting agendas, preparing minutes, communicating meeting reminders, confirming venues and arranging refreshments.
- Organized bi-weekly donor and community events including handling of catering and audio visual needs, as well as tracking attendance.
- Assisted with the event logistics of the annual fundraising gala including scheduling site selection appointments, managing the registration check-in and check-out process and invoicing patrons.
- Managed and implemented all aspects of direct donor mailings, appeal letters, and other donor collateral.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Art History
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS05-2012
Skills
- Client services
- Team collaboration
- Data analysis
- Webinar management
- Multitasking and organization
- Events logistics management
- Relationship building and management
- Creativity and adaptability
- Smartsheet tracking
- Budget Administration
Timeline
Senior Practice Development Coordinator
Seyfarth Shaw
12.2022 - Current
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Assistant
Ogletree Deakins
04.2019 - 08.2022
Development Associate
Community LINC
10.2014 - 04.2019
Bachelor of Arts - Art History
University of Kansas
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