Katie St. Clair

Project Manager with an extensive background in corporate advertising, nonprofit development, and community leadership. Proactive problem solver skilled in anticipating client needs while managing timelines and budgets. Proven track record in growing organizations in size, profit, and morale by blending creative strategies with meticulous logistical execution.

VP Communications, Secretary, Holiday Shop Chair, Council Delegate at REED ELEMENTARY PTA (2017 – Present)

Reliably served in positions including VP Communications, Secretary, Holiday Shop Chair, and Council Delegate. Duties often included filling empty roles such as fundraising, volunteer management, and event planning.

• Program Innovation, Staff Disbursement Fund, 2023: Reimagined how to best use donated funds by researching, developing and launching a structured workflow for teacher supply requests, allowing each team or teacher to acquire tools most fitting for their specific needs.
• Project Management, Holiday Shop Chair, 2022 – 2024: Spearheaded a complete overhaul of the school's holiday shop program allowing 100% of profit to pour back into the school rather than 90% to a third-party vendor.
• Communications: Authored, designed, and managed school-wide communications via social media, newsletters, text messages, signage, website management, and various printed materials.

VP of Communications, Membership, and Ways & Means at ALLEN EARLY CHILDHOOD PTA (2016 – 2022)

Passionately led as VP of Communications, Membership, and Ways & Means in this organization which provides community and support for families with young children.

• Rebranding: Modernized the organization's public voice with a new logo, website, and grass-roots marketing efforts resulting in doubling membership over two years.
• Rebuilding: Navigated the challenges of COVID-19 by adapting programs to keep members involved and safe. Post-pandemic, personally recruited and mentored a new generation of leaders, passing on vital institutional knowledge to ensure the community continued to thrive.

Director of Communications at FIRST DALLAS (2011 – 2012)

Directed the strategic planning, coordination, and implementation of communications while managing a multi-disciplined team of writers, designers, video producers, and sound designers.

Corporate Relations & Philanthropy Team at METROCARE SERVICES (2007 – 2011)

• Brand Management & Asset Creation: Designed and managed production for all print and digital advertising materials using Adobe Illustrator and InDesign. Built a social media presence and designed grant proposals and presentations.
• Event & Logistics Management: Coordinated media relations, corporate sponsorships, and logistics for high-profile fundraising luncheons, grand openings, and large-scale holiday donation drives.

Brand Manager at THE RICHARDS GROUP (2002 – 2007)

Managed multi-million dollar projects and client relations while ensuring campaigns were delivered on strategy, on time, and on budget. Acted as agency/client liaison while maintaining communication with all agency disciplines.

• Chick-fil-A, Inc.: Developed a master Point-of-Purchase Production Timeline adopted by the client as an operational benchmark. Supervised the 18-month production lifecycle of the national Cow Calendar. Managed a $1M annual production budget for 260 national billboards.
• Thomasville Furniture Industries: Supervised brand managers and grew account revenue by 217% by expanding the scope of work into national TV, online, and collateral spaces.

Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing – Texas A&M University