Ashley Vandyke

Experience

1. Senior Event Coordinator

   National Heritage Academies

   Jul 2021 — Present

   Manage approximately 30 – 35 events (in-person and virtual) each year, varying from 25 to attendees, which entails: o Developing budget and reconciling costs for each event. o Communicating with attendees before, during, and after event. o Arranging flights, ground transportation, and hotels for attendees. o Ensuring all materials for attendees and presenters are at the event. o Ordering the appropriate food and beverages for each event and ensuring there are dietary restriction friendly options available. o Troubleshooting problems as they arise both on-site at event and remotely. o Tracking continuing education credits for attendees. Developed a risk management plan for the special events team that is customizable to all in-person events. Lead and supervise two interns each summer in the management of attendee and presenter needs to ensure new teachers receive the adequate training prior to the first day of school. Supported content teams in the transition from in-person events to virtual and hybrid events to ensure school staff could continue to receive professional development at the height of the pandemic. Assess each events’ success and areas for improvement to improve upon future events. Negotiate contracts with venues prior to closing any deals. Oversee the company’s Giving Tree program during the holiday season, which entails collecting both gifts and monetary donations, communicating with each nominated family’s school, and shipment and delivery of gifts to families. Completed National Heritage Academies’ Explore Program, an internal leadership development program in which you must be nominated by manager to participate.

Skills

• Os X
• Team Leadership
• Consumer Behaviour
• Excel
• Microsoft Excel
• Critical Thinking
• Marketing
• Event Planning
• Teamwork
• Online Marketing
• Photoshop
• Cold Calling
• Social Media Marketing
• Customer Service
• Data Entry
• Management
• Trend Analysis
• Social Media
• Market Research
• Pos
• Qualtrics
• Marketing Strategy
• Retail
• Events Coordination
• Merchandising
• Registration Services
• Powerpoint
• Marketing Research
• Integrated Marketing
• Apparel
• Event Management
• Direct Marketing
• Microsoft Word
• Leadership
• Customer Retention
• Non-Profits
• Time Management
• Team Building
• Cheetahmail
• Research