Outreach Coordinator

Desna has experience in several areas, including: math, statistics, data analysis, teaching, and community outreach. Desna has lived in Florida, North Carolina, Colorado,and Arizona before making Vermont her home 21 years ago. She enjoys figure skating, fashion design and construction, mid-century modern design, cats, and European cars.

A few, but not limited, duties include:

• Develops and implements public education, relations, outreach and marketing campaigns to promote increased waste reduction and diversion in the RCSWD, which includes but is not limited to designing brochures, logos, advertisements, posters, signs, informational stickers and flyers; 
• Makes frequent contact with haulers, businesses, institutions, schools, organizations and the general public, and effectively responds to situations that may challenge the District’s mission, requiring a sophisticated degree of judgment, initiative, courtesy and tact; 
• Represents the District on local and state committees and other organizations; 

• Increases engagement and education of District members, staff members, stakeholders and community partners through myriad of strategies including public presentations and participation at local events;

• Ensure the RCSWD’s communication and branding are consistent, professional, and effective;

• Writes the District newsletters for electronic and/ or mail distribution to all residents and businesses, and contributes to the RCSWD Annual Report; 
• Manages social media accounts including overall design, content and maintenance, and develops additional methods of promoting the District through social media; 
• Performs all other related work as assigned in order to comply with RCSWD’s SWIP Plan.