Kelly Sharkey
Highly motivated professional with extensive community development experience through program design and implementation, community engagement, and one-on-one relationship building.
- Role
- Director of Programs and Communications at Humanities Foundation
- Location
- Charleston, SC, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Kelly Sharkey
Demonstrated leadership, marketing, management, volunteer coordination, fundraising, media, and public relations experience. Successful program implementation and management with long-term intensive educational programs as well as short-term workshops and seminars. Documented accomplishments in neighborhood recovery, housing issues, data analysis, community program implementation, budgetary planning, and teambuilding. Professional experience within neighborhood development and community-based organizations. Culturally aware and extensive interaction with community leaders. Management-level experience, team leadership, staff mentoring, organizational planning, and coordination with boards and civic leaders. Experienced in diverse community settings, working with all socioeconomic levels and ethnicities, including collaboration with community groups and public agencies. Skilled in conducting educational outreach workshops, disaster response and relief, residential rebuilding initiatives, strategic planning, and grant administration. Communication skills demonstrated through employee management and training, giving presentations, and establishing productive community partnerships. Proficient in a range of social media, digital technologies and applications, database development and mapping, maintaining websites, and facilitating detailed seminars and workshops.
Experience
Director of Programs and Communications
Oct 2022 — Present · Charleston, SC, US
Kelly works to increase the impact of Humanities Foundation’s programs to address the needs of the communities we serve. Her leadership helps guide external communications to assist with fundraising campaigns and community service programs.
Education
George Mason University
BA, Communication
2006 — 2010
Tulane University Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Master of Public Health - MPH
2018
Tulane University School of Social Work
Master of Social Work - MSW
2018
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