Tell me about a time you had to implement actions steps towards a strategic plan objective.

"As Special Events Director, part of my role in our five-year strategic plan to increase our organization's endowment was to create and implement two small annual special events and one major fundraising event in tandem with our sixtieth anniversary serving the community. To meet the objectives, I organized a task force from the Community Outreach team covering logistics and planning, fundraising, volunteer coordination, and corporate sponsorships. Together, we broke down our larger objectives into manageable pieces with individual deadlines and met weekly to summarize what we had accomplished that week and see if anything needed to be changed. This model allowed us to increase our fundraising efforts and deliver three new special events by the deadline."

"As Volunteer Recruitment Manager, my task was to increase our active volunteer numbers by ten percent over three years. This meant I was responsible for recruiting roughly 300 new, regular volunteers. This was about triple my typical recruitment numbers, so I studied data from our volunteer database to analyze the demographics of current volunteers. I discovered we lacked participation from college-aged adults, so I began to network with representatives from local colleges and universities. I partnered with several community service groups and developed special volunteer activities that worked better with college student hours. In addition, I met with our social media manager to make our accounts more attractive to that age group. This strategy allowed me to meet the overall goal of boosting volunteer participation in our organization."

Emphasize how you worked with co-workers assigned to the same objective. This question allows you to explore your ability to see the big picture and simultaneously pay attention to details. Think about your process toward achieving a goal and how you take the initiative to ensure success.

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