Sara Grupe
Marketing & Entrepreneurship Student
Waco, TX
Professional Status
Student
Looking for an internship
About Me
While currently pursuing a double major and a minor at Baylor University, I have grown a passion for non-profit and entrepreneurial development. As a student leader with a reputation of exceeding expectations, staying on track, and working well with others, I strive to work in a field that challenges and grows these passions and skills.
Working towards a double major in Marketing and Entrepreneurship & Corporate Innovation and a minor in Poverty Studies & Social Justice.
Project Management Intern
Compassion International
May 2022
to August 2022
- Collaborated with managers to form creative teams for multiple short and long term projects
- Independently led discovery, kickoff, and creative meetings for a variety of Supporter Experience initiatives
- Increased team efficiency and workflow by designing project management templates
- Coordinated mass communications by utilizing Salesforce, A/B testing, and stakeholder routing
Dallas Region Intern
Children's Hunger Fund
June 2021
to August 2021
- Increased potential new-partner relationship portfolio in the Dallas metroplex by over 600 organizations through internet and in-person field research.
- Contributed to the development of national social media campaigns by capturing video that effectively communicates the organizational mission.
- Designed in-person events for volunteers with an emphasis on safety, work-flow efficiency, and capacity amidst COVID.
Chaplain & Social Media Manager
Christian Business Leaders
Since August 2020
- Serve as Chaplain on leadership team to organize, design, and implement strategies for personal and communal growth with members through weekly fellowship and faith-based events.
- Constructed creative relationship development approaches during COVID that tripled active participation within a six-month period.
- Proficient and active use of Canva for social media platforms and marketing outreach.
Student Leader
Greater Waco Young Life
Since April 2021
- Serve as student leader within a local, Waco high school to encourage and guide high schoolers.
- Participate in weekly leader meetings and local team meetings to plan events for students.
- Learned the fundamentals of Hootsuite as well as its advanced uses
- Learned best practices, content creation, and social advertising fundamentals
- Learned social media strategy using all popular social media platforms
- Learned best practices, content creation, and social advertising fundamentals
- Ability to bring together diverse groups of people to effectively reach a goal
- Maintains contagious optimism in trials
- Motivated by challenges and timelines
- Strong and effective communicator
- Consistently empathetic and teachable
- Extensive history in volunteering through organizing events for local, low-income schools and apartments
- Experience in volunteer coordination
- Catering Baylor course work to emphasize in Non-profit Marketing and Social Entrepreneurship
- Passionate about corporate entities using their reach to achieve philanthropic goals
- Assisted local wedding photography business in logo design and establishment of brand image along with creation of social media platforms
- Strong interest and knowledge in social media algorithms, namely TikTok
- Using A/B testing processes and data-driven decision making to maximize conversions and overall customer experience
- Strong interest in brand management and brand consulting and using these tactics to achieve philanthropic goals
