Sara Ball, Six Sigma Black Belt and MBA Student at EKU
Senior Program Manager, Impact and Reporting at Partners for Rural Transformation- Claim this Profile
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Credentials
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Six Sigma Black Belt
Aveta Business InstituteJul, 2016- Oct, 2024 -
Prosci Change Management Practitioner
ProsciJan, 2012- Oct, 2024
Experience
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Partners for Rural Transformation
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United States
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Non-profit Organization Management
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Program Manager, Impact and Reporting
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Mar 2023 - Present
· Manages reporting, impact analysis, and relationship management for federal and foundation grants, currently totaling over $15 million in grant funds. · Leads planning, logistics, prep, and execution of virtual and in-person convenings, site visits, and participation in conferences. · Creates and ensures maintenance of annual operational dashboard for reporting to the Steering Committee. Responsible for tracking and challenging monthly, quarterly, and annual progress. · Serves as Corporate Secretary. Show less
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United States
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Civic and Social Organizations
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1 - 100 Employee
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Director of Strategic Impact and Operations
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Sep 2022 - Mar 2023
· Facilitated creation of strategic planning and various other strategic documents to guide the organization.· Supervised Communication Team.· Led the executive, senior, and management teams through a yearly process to establish a budget and goals and guide the successful execution of an annual work plan to operationalize the plan.· Coordinated annual operational dashboard for approval by board of directors. Responsible for tracking and challenging monthly, quarterly, and annual progress.· Served as Corporate Secretary. Show less
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PRT Partner Staff
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Oct 2018 - Mar 2023
· Facilitated the creation of PRT’s Theory of Change and Strategic Plan.· Managed reporting and relationship management of initial foundation grants totaling $3.1 million. · Conceived idea and lead Voices for Economic Opportunity Gates Grand Challenge grant (April 2020 – November 2021) resulting in Everything Else: Stories of Rural America story map.· Led planning, logistics, prep, and execution of virtual and in-person working sessions, convenings, and site visits.
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Director of Strategic Planning and Internal Systems
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May 2020 - Sep 2022
· Lead the executive, senior, and management teams through a yearly process to establish a budget and goals, and guide the successful execution of an annual work plan to operationalize the plan.· Coordinated annual operational dashboard for approval by board of directors. Responsible for tracking and challenging monthly, quarterly, and annual progress.· Managed organization’s work load for various collaborations. Including support of grants, various collaboration team members, and other tasks as assigned.· Identified, evaluated, and advised potential projects with executive team to establish projects to conduct to create and build efficiencies and processes where needed.· Managed various technology and software solutions for systems across the organization.· Served as Assistant Corporate Secretary and later Corporate Secretary. Show less
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Chief of Staff to the CEO
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Sep 2018 - May 2020
· Primary responsibility was to exercise discretion and independent judgment in all project work with special regard to strategic vision of the organization, organizational priorities, and goals. · Served as Assistant Corporate Secretary.· Coordinated and orchestrated projects or commitments directly involving the President/CEO and his direct reports, ensuring alignment among the often-disparate stakeholders and, when such alignment is absent, alerting the President/CEO and recommending mitigating approaches.· Supervised Administrative Assistant for Executive Office. Show less
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Executive Assitant to the CEO/President
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Nov 2013 - Sep 2018
· Prioritized and maintained heavy calendar management for the CEO; made travel arrangements as needed, made independent decisions regarding prioritization of scheduling and rescheduling, logistics, travel arrangements, agendas, and other activities.· Interacted with both internal and external executives and assistants, as well as external VIPs and consultants, to coordinate a variety of complex executive meetings. Ensured CEO was prepared for scheduled meetings.· Assisted in planning and prioritizing the work activities of the team – tracked commitments, reports deadlines, and services provided. Show less
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Integrys Energy Services is now a part of Constellation!
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United States
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Oil and Gas
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100 - 200 Employee
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Operational Excellence Practitioner
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May 2011 - Jun 2013
Certified Change Management Practitioner – Certified through Prosci
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Retail Electric Billing and Contract Analyst
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May 2007 - Jun 2013
• Maintaining excellent cross functional working relationships as a means of keeping customer focus at the forefront of focus• Strengthened leadership skills by creating process documentation and training for Billing Analysts who were new to the NY Market• Conducts in depth analysis of billing and usage data in order to address customer inquiries
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Student Curator
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Jun 2005 - Dec 2006
Related work: Documentary creation, museum exhibit creation, theater performances, and visitor tours. Related work: Documentary creation, museum exhibit creation, theater performances, and visitor tours.
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Education
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2004 - 2006
Berea College
Bachelor of Arts (BA), History -
2023 -
Eastern Kentucky University
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Community Development and Restorative Justice
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