Human Resources Accounts Receivable, Certified Clinical Chaplain

Liza M. Patton

*** **** **** ******, ** ***** Phone: (318] 247-3572 or 318-***-**** (cell)

e-mail: ad6l9z@r.postjobfree.com

Seeking position in management…

Management

Executive Management/ Regional Management/ District Management/ Business Management/Public Programs Management / Employee Training/ Employee Development/ Human Resources/ Pastoral Care/Hospice Counseling/Grief Counseling/Administrative Leadership/Employee Counseling/Financial Budgeting/ Reporting/ Problem Solving

“Proactive Leader, Counselor and Effective Problem Solver”

Over 25 years experience in Office Administration with 12 of those years in Mid to Upper Management. Experience covers the areas of hiring, firing, training, supervision, coordination of support staff, development and implementation of office procedures and policy manuals, human resource management, system’s coordinator, purchasing, accounts receivable/ payable/ general ledger, scheduling collections and credit reporting, payroll preparation, tax preparation and reporting, scholarship disbursement, private donor fund raising campaign coordination, worker’s compensation documentation and claims reporting, student curriculum advisement, preparation of statistical reports, grant writing compliance officer, Christian family counselor, ordained minister, missionary education, conference/public inspirational speaker, customer service, quality assurance, employee benefits coordination, insurance acquisition, grief and crisis intervention, spiritual/religious assessments, spirituality support group facilitation, member of Louisiana Chaplain’s Association Government Affairs Committee, and Hospital Ethics Committee member.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE/STRENGTHS

Problem solving ability Able to work under pressure

Efficient administrator Organizer

Effective communicator Great writing skills

Effective counselor Strategic Planning, Leadership Skills

Human Resources and Team Building Detail oriented

Ability to interact with people of diverse cultures Motivational Speaker

KEY CAREER ACCOMPLISHMENTS

ADMINISTRATIVE LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT

Developed and organized a new Pastoral Care Program

Member of Ethics Committee.

Provide supervision for four contract chaplains, also community volunteer clergy.

Serve on Board of Directors and Government Affairs for the Louisiana Chaplains Association.

Work on special projects as required.

Managed office operations, prepared budgets, performed accounts receivable/payable/general ledger, payroll, tax preparation and reporting, scholarship disbursement, private donor campaign fundraising, coordination of solicitation tasks.

Conducted apartment rental, grant writing compliance, Developed and implemented personnel policy manual which included job descriptions, also procured and coordinated employee benefits packages.

Administrative Department Secretary, Curriculum Advisement, Assisted with Spanish Laboratory Coordination

Office clerical worker, typing, filing, report preparation, worker’s compensation documentation, timekeeper, dissemination of HR forms.

EMPLOYEE TRAINING/COUNSELING/SUPERVISION

Conduct spirituality support groups.

Provide pastoral counseling services, crisis intervention, and grief counseling

Advance directive/organ donation advisement, grief counseling, stress and relaxation therapy

Developed, recruited, trained and coordinate the services of five pastoral care workers for a Volunteer Pastoral Care Program

Student Worker Supervision

Performed supervisory functions to hire, train, and terminate employees.

CAREER HISTORY

Director, Pastoral Care Ochsner LSUHSC-Monroe– Monroe, LA 4/00 – Present

Office Manager/Assistant Director GSU FOUNDATION, INC. – Grambling, LA 6/95 – 6/99

Secretary 2 Grambling State University – Grambling, LA 8/92 – 5/95 Department of Foreign Languages

Secretary Grambling State University – Grambling, LA 1/91 – 8/92

Department of Human Resources

EDUCATION

Grambling State University B.S. Office Administration 12/96

Grambling, LA Minor – Management

Grambling State University MPA-Human Resource Mgmt. 5/99

Grambling, LA and Public Mgmt.

Interdenominational Theological Center Certification in Theology 5/01

(Atlanta, GA) -Grambling Extension

Grambling, LA

United Theological Seminary B.Th. – Bachelor Theology 5/15

Monroe, LA

United Theological Seminary M.Th. – Theology 5/21

Monroe, LA

AFFILIATIONS:

Member of Government Affairs and Board of Directors of LA Chaplain’s Association, Member of LSU Health Science Center - Monroe Ethics Committee, Vice President of Friends & Associates Christian Enterprise, Inc. & Ruston Ministerial Alliance, NAACP

HOBBIES:

Reading, poetry and short story writing, fishing, bicycle riding, traveling, shopping listening to music

PERSONALITY PROFILE

Pleasant outgoing personality, objective listener and thinker, Christian Attitude, honest and compassionate

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