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
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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

  1. Director of Programs and Communications

    Humanities Foundation

    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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