Director of Communications

Work History

Associate Director, Global Communications, April 2011-present, DAI

• Create content (articles, blogs, videos, infographics, photos) for company website

• Craft and execute strategic social media outreach across four platforms, each channel growing by double-digits annually

• Produce internal company podcast and videos for website and donor clients

• Manage full-service communications team and interns (internal and external), in-person and globally dispersed, enhancing overall productivity and output

• Produce company publications and printed marketing materials for events

• Provide advice, guidance, and short-term technical communications assistance for donor-funded projects (in Jordan, Egypt, Somalia, Kosovo, and more)

• Created, and manage an active Alumni Network of 3,200+ former employees Managing Editor, December 2006-April 2011, Washington Business Journal

• Managed 20+ reporters, junior editors, researchers, and interns

• Oversaw production of weekly newspaper from start to finish

• Assisted in editing and posting up to 20 daily news stories for website in addition to helping design daily look of website

• Wrote editorials for Opinion page

• Conceived and oversaw production of half a dozen annual publications

• Recruited talent and helped determine overall long-term editorial vision as part of management team

Business Editor, January 2005-November 2006, Arabies Trends and Communicate

• Wrote monthly features and news stories for Trends, a pan-Arab title on Middle East business, society, and politics

• Wrote monthly features and news stories for Communicate, published in association with Advertising Age. (Duties included writing, editing, proofing, design, making assignments, and managing freelance staff)

• Wrote freelance articles for The Wall Street Journal, Gulf Air’s Inflight magazine, Creative Loafing, The Hollywood Reporter Deputy Editor, August 2004-January 2005, Arabian Business

• Wrote and edited business features, news stories for Dubai-based title

• Was part of two-member team that took the monthly publication weekly, worked on all aspects of re-launch including design and content Managing Editor, July 2002-July 2004, Business Today Egypt

• Conceived and edited all material for largest English-language business magazine

• Worked with art designer to develop style and look for magazine

• Managed all-Egyptian staff and freelancers

• Conceived and developed successful special editions including Top 100 Listed Companies in Egypt, Executive of the Year, Best Companies to Work For

• Launched new title, Travel Today Arabia in April 2003, managed 50 freelancers Profile

Hard Skills

High-energy professional

seeks to transform orga-

nizational communication

through modern storytelling

• MS Office 365 suite: Word,

Excel, PowerPoint, Share-

Point

• Design: InDesign, InCopy,

Illustrator, Photoshop, Acro-

bat, Express, Canva

• Video/audio production:

iMovie, Final Cut Pro X, Ado-

be Premiere, Adobe Rush

• Social media: X (Twitter),

Buffer, Facebook, LinkedIn,

Instagram, Buffer, TweetDeck

• Email newsletters: Campaign

Monitor, MailChimp

• CMS: Siteleaf, Contentful

• Storyteling: Medium,

Exposure

• AI tools

3021 Hickory Grove Ct., Fairfax VA 22031 www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethdrachman/ Elizabeth Drachman 202-***-****

Elizabeth S. Drachman

linkedin.com/in/elizabethdrachman +1-202-***-**** **********@*****.***

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Previous Journalism and Reporter Roles

Technology Editor, San Francisco Business Times

• Developed and determined direction of tech coverage for newspaper and website

• Coordinated all TV news coverage through partnership with KGO-TV (ABC)

• Created and maintained weekly TechBiz section, from story generation to graphic design and overall look

Special Publications and Small Business Editor, Atlanta Business Chronicle

• Oversaw editorial content, production, and design of 40-page feature section

• Managed staff of three full-time writers and 50 freelance writers

• Determined section content from idea to reporting to editing to placement

• Created monthly tech section, from design to story style and special features

• Conceived ideas for 12-page small business strategies section; wrote articles on small business and designed section

Copy Editor/Designer & Education Reporter, Gwinnett Daily Post

• Edited copy for grammar, accuracy, and newsworthiness for 65,000-daily paper in metro Atlanta using Associated Press Stylebook

• Designed layout for 1A, features using Quark Xpress, NewsEditPro, Photoshop

• Covered education beat for largest school district in Georgia prior to promotion Business Reporter, The Concord (N.C.) Tribune

• Covered business beat for 30,000-circulation daily in metro Charlotte, N.C.

• Designed and wrote for weekly business page

Other Media Experience

• Associate producer on “The Art of Flight,” a 2005 documentary on Sudanese refugees in Cairo, official selection for AFI Fest in Hollywood, Bangkok International Film Festival, International Documentary Festival in Amsterdam

• TV production (shooting video, interviewing on camera, writing for TV news and producing TV segments for GNET-TV, Atlanta)

• Radio experience (regular guest commenter on marketing, media, and advertising in the Middle East, occasional host of business news program in Atlanta)

• Won the Georgia Press Association Page 1A Design award, the North Carolina Press Association Spot News Reporting award, other business reporting awards Soft Skills

Education

• Experience managing

complex projects and

teams across the globe

• Excel at learning new

systems and software that

best suit the needs of a

project

• Able to adapt on the fly

to changing needs of

clients

Worked in the following

countries: Bahrain, Egypt,

Jordan, Kenya, Kosovo,

Oman, Palestine, Qatar, So-

malia, South Africa, United

Arab Emirates

B.A., English and

Communications,

Summa Cum Laude,

Queens University, Soccer

Team Captain, Honor

Council member

Travel

Elizabeth Drachman

3021 Hickory Grove Ct., Fairfax VA 22031 www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethdrachman/ Elizabeth S. Drachman 202-***-****

linkedin.com/in/elizabethdrachman +1-202-***-**** **********@*****.***

#OpenToWork Elizabeth Drachman 202-***-****

Elizabeth S. Drachman

linkedin.com/in/elizabethdrachman +1-202-***-**** **********@*****.***

#OpenToWork

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