University of Oregon

Portland Community College

Content strategy and community manager at Multnomah County

Portland, Oregon, United States

As a member of the web team, I help content managers and maintainers use the web tools our team designs to communicate effectively with end users.
I work with designers, developers, project managers and systems analysts to figure out how editors use content management systems. I work with and train people who create and add content to county websites. I share best practices and create guidelines for organizing and publishing web content.
I advocate for editors, end users and developers to help them all work together so visitors to our site can find what they need, employees are able to do their jobs, and products that we create in-house are useful and accessible.

Multnomah County

Program Communications Specialist

Program Communications Coordinator

Executive level support for County Commissioner and district office. Policy adviser on workforce and economic development.

Convene and support East Metro STEAM Partnership, an emerging collective impact partnership aimed at bringing more STEAM opportunities to students in east Multnomah County. Partnership development, meeting coordination, grant writing and partnership communication.

Responsible for office management including all aspects of the Commissioner’s schedule, prioritizing requests, researching agendas, preparing background information and managing meeting logistics.

Supervise summer interns including interviewing, task delegation and mentoring

Staff Assistant, County Commissioner Diane McKeel

Support teams participating in FIRST Robotics programs, Junior FIRST LEGO League (Jr.FLL), FIRST LEGO League (FLL), FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) and FIRST Robotics Challenge (FRC)

FIRST

Senior Mentor

Provide project management oversight and leadership development of youth involved in FIRST Robotics at Benson Polytechnic High School. Work with technical mentors to ensure students have the knowledge they need to design and build robots, while making sure the students are doing the work. Coordinate activities with students, teachers, mentors and parents.

Provide students with support for school/club balancing act, encourage students seeking post-secondary education and jobs/job training. Lead organizer for annual BotFest, a day-long event with workshops and scrimmages for teams from around Oregon and Southwest Washington. Lead volunteer for student Outreach Team and Student Leadership team. Help students develop positive self esteem and create resumes that will help them with college and work.

Benson Robotics

Volunteer Coach/Mentor

Coordinated all responsibilities of the Host County for National Association of Counties' large annual conference, held in Portland in July, 2011.

Worked with contracted consultants to raise $475,000

Oversaw budgets for multiple events

Single point of contact between the national organization and Multnomah County, consultants, event planners and county officials

Planned and organized special tours highlighting innovative local community and government projects

NACo '11 Coordinator

Part of a team responsible for coordinating county-wide internal and external communications for Multnomah County.
Emphasis on social media implementation and strategies as well as strategic planning for departmental communication efforts.
Trained as PIO for crisis response.

Public Affairs Coordinator

Scheduler, office administration, strategic communications

Tara Bowen-Biggs