JENNIFER KELLEY
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EXPERIENCE
Cherry Hill Township: Cherry Hill, N.J. Sept. 2007 – Oct. 2010
Communications Manager/Environmental Liaison, which included:
• Researching, crafting and copy-editing press releases, official messaging, articles, social-media updates, speeches and other communication devices from the Mayor’s Office;
• Generating engaging daily content for the town’s Web site and newsletters, editing;
• Fostering symbiotic relationships with department heads to facilitate information flow;
• Serving as Liaison and Communications Director for Sustainable Cherry Hill and the town’s environmental committee, while assisting each group in developing sustainability initiatives.
Elauwit Media, LLC: Haddonfield, N.J. Nov. 2005 – Sept. 2007
Associate Editor, which included:
• Proposing, writing and editing 10 news features a week that covered politics, government initiatives, businesses, area schools, human-interest stories and pressing community issues;
• Copy-editing, fact-checking, page-designing, and performing weekly layout duties for one of several 40-page papers, and reformatting content for news organization’s Web site;
• Editing and re-shaping dry, unreadable press releases into rich, compelling, usable content.
The Philadelphia Tribune Company: Philadelphia, Pa. Oct. 2004 – Nov. 2005
Senior Copy Editor, which included:
• Ensuring grammatical and factual correctness of articles, headlines and related text;
• Overseeing the final proofing process and page-editing layout prior to print;
• Pulling/shaping news stories, photographs and obituaries from the AP wire;
• Working effectively, efficiently and cordially in stressful, deadline-driven environment.
EDUCATION
Delaware County Community College: Media, Pa. Sept. 1999 – May 2002
Communications/Journalism
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Windows XP, Microsoft Office 7.1, Excel, PowerPoint, QuarkXPress, Adobe InCopy/
InDesign, Photoshop, Wordpress, Web (HTML, RSS, SEO) and social-media savvy