ALTON EVANS, JR.
Resume P.O. Box ****
McDonough, Georgia 30253
Email: ************@**.***
QUALIFICATIONS: Twenty-five years of high-level transferable management experience. Highly motivated and mission and customer focused.
CAPABILITIES: Professional activities have focused on change management, strategic planning, project management, stakeholder guidance, staff and program development and evaluation, marketing and internal and external communications.
RELATED SKILLS: Effective writing and communications skills
Exceptional problem solving and analytical skills
Excellent organizational skills
EXPERIENCE:
Stakeholder Involvement – Twenty-five years experience developing strategies for involving boards of directors, volunteers and parents in programs throughout the Southeastern United States.
Organization Mergers - Provided leadership, direction and support to boards of directors in Mississippi with the merger of three autonomous organizations. The merger was successful.
Change Management - Provided long term leadership consultation to organizations in Alexander City, AL and Clarksdale, MS. in the areas or marketing, board development, and program development.
Special Events – Provided leadership for four major annual fundraising events for fifteen years.
Marketing / Communications – Conducted targeted marketing efforts for twenty years designed to get information to or to seek financial support from different segments of the community.
Data Collections and Analysis – Proficient in data collection and analysis techniques. Data, is used as the basis for establishing organization, programmatic, and personnel priorities.
Presentations - Written and oral presentations made to community, government, religious and civic organizations to make funding requests or to publicize specific programs.
Project Management - Provided leadership, direction and support to board of directors of start-up organizations in Tallahassee, FL, Alexander City, AL and Columbus, MS.
Organizational Growth – Led growth initiatives in organizations in South Carolina, Florida, Alabama and Mississippi resulting in increased client services (through additional facilities and programs) and additional community support.
Developing Organizational Goals - developed goals, objectives and organizational policies in conjunction with boards of directors for twenty years.
Attaining Resources - Grant writing and fundraising events resulted more than 10 million dollars revenue in 12 years.
Human Resources Management - Developed and implemented staff recruitment, orientation and training programs for 20 years. Responsible for forty-five direct reports at one time.
Program and Membership Development and Evaluation – Developed, implemented and evaluated youth development and family support programs for twenty years.
Strategic Planning – Facilitated / Conducted organizational strategic planning sessions for the past 15 years.
Budget Development and Management – Twenty years experience working with boards to develop and manage budgets.
Teaching Experience - Interviewed, screened and performed intake for juveniles enrolled in a Georgia Department of Human Resources Youth Services alternative school program. I also taught Health and Physical Education classes.
Substitute Teacher – Henry County Schools.
EDUCATION:
Walden University
Ph.D. Student (Anticipated Completion Date: 12-24)
Human Services with specialization in Social Policy Analysis and Planning
University of Phoenix, Phoenix AZ
Master’s Degree – Organizational Management (Dec. 2003)
Morris Brown College, Atlanta, GA
Bachelor of Arts - Political Science (major) / Physical Education (minor) (1973)
SPECIAL TRAINING: Organizational Development; Targeted Personnel Selection; Management Information Systems; Marketing and Fund-raising; Strategic Perspectives in Non-Profit Management Course, Harvard University.
JOB HISTORY:
Henry County Schools System, McDonough, GA
Substitute Teacher (present)
Boys & Girls Clubs of East Central Mississippi: Columbus, MS
Chief Professional Officer
Boys & Girls Clubs of America: Atlanta GA
Regional Field Consultant
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Big Bend, Inc.: Tallahassee, FL
Executive Director
Boys & Girls Clubs of Florence County, Inc., Florence, SC
Executive Director