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Carla Dillard Smith, MPA

CANDIDATE FOR

PROJECT COORDINATOR ENCLIPSE

Seasoned Project Manager with 20 years building strong collaborative

partnerships across large complex organizations and at all levels.

Demonstrated excellence delivering detailed complex comprehensive projects

that span multiple years.

Excellent ability to build strong and lasting partnerships across

organizations. Skilled Project Manager and Leader of collaborative efforts.

Trusted executive advisor.

Solutions that align with Delivers on large complex Exceptional attention to

strategic direction and multiple stakeholder detail and delivers

standards projects quality work

Skilled writer of project Gifted collaborator and Strategic planning and

plans, grant requests, and builder of cooperative tracking of progress

peer reviews partnerships

Technology smart -MS Significant years in Managed budgets up to

Office Suite and MAC public sector building $3M and 30 staff members

collaborations

Carla Dillard Smith Consulting Independent consultant providing project

leadership and research development.

OWNER & CONSULTANT, San Leandro, CA, 6/2013 - Present

Deliver comprehensive projects in development, research, group

facilitation, and report analysis.

. Delivered focus group facilitation for UCSF, Center for AIDS

Prevention Studies, and the BRUTHAS Project.

. Analyzed reporting and evaluation for Allen Temple Baptist Church.

. Wrote grants and consulted on fund development for St. Columba

Catholic Church.

. Provided research support, and writing assistance to author, Ann Fagan

Ginger, Director Emeritus, Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute.

Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation International organization building

strategic partnerships to improve the lives of people living with and most

at-risk for HIV to ensure equitable access to prevention, testing,

treatment, and care.

Top Championed connections and linkages with community partners.

Achievements: Orchestrated successful World AIDS, conference feedback and

other events.

SR. DIRECTOR, COMMUNITY RELATIONS, Oakland, CA, 9/2012 - 6/2013

Led strategic outreach with key stakeholders in communities most impacted

by HIV. Developed strategies to maximize contributions in response to AIDS

in Oakland. Maximized existing community impact research to identify

strategic direction and funding opportunities. Led Executive Team Office

Manager and Administrative Assistant. Member of senior leadership team.

Reported to CEO.

. Spearheaded connections at conference in Zambia- to connect churches

in U.S. with churches in Zambia.

. Orchestrated 3-year collaborative of 9 members of Oakland Late

Diagnosis Project from UC Berkeley, UCSF, community organizations, and

other key players.

California Prevention and Education Project (CAL-PEP) Nationally

recognized organization partnering with hard-to-reach, high-risk

populations for hepatitis, HIV / AIDS, and STD education, prevention, and

support.

Top Recognized by University of California Berkeley by widely

Achievements: disseminating publication as model to other state and national

organizations.

Requested to present at National Institutes of Health on

publication, "16 Years Participating in Community Based

Behavioral Research."

CAL-PEP, continued

DEPUTY DIRECTOR RESEARCH DIRECTOR, Oakland, CA, 7/1992 -9/2012

Directed strategic planning, delivering programs, and day-to-day operations-

executed set of practices for project management, quality improvement,

fiscal responsibility, contract monitoring, public relations, and

operations administration. Represented agency at local, state, national,

and international conferences. Managed $3M annual budget. Expert in

executing research and evaluation of programs including complex multi-year

projects. Managed up to 30 paid staff and 20 volunteers. Reported to

Executive Director.

. Engineered integration of low-income residents traditionally subjects

of research to conduct research-educated over 100 individuals.

Initiated community collaborative with UCSF AARC to hire low-income

community members as research staff.

. Orchestrated strategic planning for 16 collaborative research projects

and grants.

. Recognized by Pfizer Pharmaceuticals for successfully completing all

comprehensive research objectives.

Directed Various Research Projects

Provided strategic leadership, collaborative partnerships, project

management, and research directorship.,

STRATEGIC COMMUNITY/NGO PARTNER, RESEARCH DIRECTOR, Connect HIV Project

Oakland Late Diagnosis Project Directed and reported on a proactively

Provided leadership as partner in directed implementation of mental health

coalition of 9 community stakeholders, case management intervention initiative.

organizations, and academic

researchers to conduct research and

address problem of late diagnosis of PROJECT COORDINATOR, Equal Access

HIV in Oakland Managed and monitored local site for

cross sectional study to identify

COMMUNITY/NGO INVESTIGATOR, Alameda potential barriers and facilitators.

AIDS Research Coalition

Leader and partner in coalition which CO-PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR, Reducing HIV

provided training and research Among African Americans

education to 50 individuals and Implemented and coordinated

organizations to expand research to comprehensive evaluation of

benefit underprivileged communities. quasi-experimental study design of

non-randomized control groups.

CO-PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR, BRUTHAS

Projects I & II PROJECT DIRECTOR, Evaluation of CAL-PEP

Partnered with UCSF to successfully Mobile Van Services

develop and implement study and Directed and monitored project

intervention for 400 men to reduce HIV activities including creative

risk. development of research protocols to be

integrated.

Education, Awards & Volunteer Leadership

Master of Public Administration - Bachelor of Art - Communication and

Public Management, California State Public Policy, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

Univ., Hayward, CA

California HIV Planning Group Award, 2000

Alameda County Community Award, 2006, 2008

Widely Published - see LinkedIn profile for details of peer review

articles. www.linkedin.com/in/carladillardsmith/

CA HIV/AIDS Advocacy Network

Eastbay HIV Faith Collaborative Expand HIV Ministry in the Eastbay

Alameda County African American HIV State of Emergency Task Force

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