Josh R. Singh

Community Organizer | Christian Leader

Communications Expert | Content Marketer

Chattanooga/Cleveland, TN

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Leveraging marketing & partnership expertise with ministry work to connect faith leaders to education advocacy initiatives

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EDUCATION

University of Arizona

Bachelor of Science in Physics

2009

Kona University

Master of Arts in Psychology

2012

Christian Leaders College

Associate of Divinity

2019

Christian Leaders College

Bachelor of Divinity

2020 (expected)

CURRENT COMMUNITY BUILDING

Director, CLI Chattanooga: Christian Leaders Institute, 2019–present

Christian Leaders Institute is the largest online-based Christian university in the world. CLI awards certificates and degrees on a generosity-driven basis, allowing anyone with an internet connection to attain a higher education degree with a 90%+ coverage of tuition from the generosity of others.

  • As director of CLI Chattanooga, my mission is to align philanthropic efforts in the greater Chattanooga area with hands-on ministry training and mentorship to raise up strong leaders in southeast Tennessee.

Mentor:Truth in Nature, 2017–Present

Truth in Nature is a ministry that takes boys from fatherless homes and mentors them in God’s great outdoors while witnessing to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

  • As a mentor, I participate in monthly retreat weekends with boys from age 12 to 18, helping them understand the outdoors and themselves, and demonstrating what a positive male role model looks like.

MOST PROUD OF

  • Organizing over 30 faith leaders representing over a dozen different faith traditions into an interfaith coalition to advocate for improving our public schools

  • Advocating for increased funding to hire nurses and mental health professionals, increase teacher pay, and fix deferred capital projects in schools such as leaky roofs

  • Receiving highest award in Scouting, Eagle Scout, after over 10 years of service

Director of Faith-Based & Neighborhood Partnerships: UnifiEd, 2018–Present

UnifiEd is a non-profit organization dedicating to ensuring that every child in Hamilton County has an opportunity to receive an excellent public education. Efforts include everything from leading “boots on the ground” clothing drives all the way to advocating for systems-wide policy change using community organizing models.

  • Lead UnifiEd’s efforts to provide information to, develop partnerships with, and expand participation of both faith-based and non-faith-based community organizations.
  • Coordinate a comprehensive organizational effort to incorporate faith-based and other community organizations into programs and initiatives.
  • Remove barriers to the participation of faith-based and community organizations in UnifiEd programs and initiatives through outreach.
Josh’s Boss said: “Josh Singh is an extraordinary leader and community builder Having come to work with me as a content strategist, within 6 months I realized he was needed for a much larger role. I quickly hired him to be our lead faith and community outreach director. During Josh's inaugural meeting of our faith coalition, I commented to him that it was the best built community meeting I had attended in the last 3 years, and I meant it.”
Jonas Barriere

Executive Director, UnifiEd

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

CONTENT STRATEGIST: UnifiEd 2018; 6-MONTH CONTRACT POSITION

  • Develop strategy for content production and distribution
  • Coordinate communication initiatives across field and policy departments
  • Execute multi-channel campaigns on website, social media, email channels and traditional media outlets
  • Plan, coordinate, and execute events in cooperation with parent and youth groups, community organizations, religious congregations, civic organizations, and media
Josh’s Boss said: “Josh is a thoughtful and strategic communications professional, always asking insightful questions to understand more than “what” needs to be communicated to who. He wants to fully understand the “why” and its bigger picture context before developing a plan and executing the “how.” He understands the art of tying together an audience's motivations and emotions to successfully connect with and engage them to drive results and fulfillment of mission.”

Natalie Cook

Communications Director, UnifiEd

Marketing Consultant: Force Marketing 2015–2017

Force Marketing is a full-service marketing agency that provides a wide array of digital and direct multi-channel marketing services for automotive industry clients worldwide. As a marketing consultant:

  • Develop new business through outreach to automotive leaders in the industry, leveraging subject matter expertise on multi-channel marketing
  • Create and implement quarterly marketing strategies for automotive dealers based on aggregated store and market data, industry benchmarks and rooftop goals
  • Act as a trusted advisor to current clients, identifying opportunities to increase the effectiveness and ROI of direct mail, digital marketing and email marketing campaigns
  • Lead initiatives internally to support increased sales of marketing products, coordinating development of tools for digital auditing and proposal creation
Josh’s Boss said: “I had the pleasure of working with Josh most of 2015. From day one I found his efforts to be second to none. In addition, he consistently displayed an eagerness to learn and absorb information. While all of these are solid qualities I found his ability to be a team player yet separate himself and get the job done when the time came most appealing. This being a key quality I look for when promoting from within.”

John Franco

Vice President, Force Marketing

Principal Consultant: Beacon Consulting Group 2014 – 2017

Beacon Consulting Group is a consulting outfit I created to do freelance consulting for a variety of projects in the business development and marketing space. As a consultant at BeaconConsultingGroup.org:

  • Worked with a startup in the daily deals industry to create email marketing templates & manage customer communications daily
  • Developed strategic partnerships with advertisers through networking, outreach, leveraging social media and press to fill content advertising needs on a daily basis
  • Used PPC advertising to drive traffic to signup page for customer signups, achieving a click-to-close conversion rate of better than 20% from purely cold traffic
  • Grew advertising exposure from baseline to over 100k targeted niche customers per month by leveraging strategic partnerships, advertising and social media
Josh’s Client said: “Josh is professional and a pleasure to work with. He is innovative and creative. His knowledge of internet marketing is excellent. He has helped Noveltunity and myself on numerous occasions. Josh also assisted me in launching my book on Amazon which peaked at #1. All in all you can't go wrong in bringing Josh to your team.”

Rick Karlsruher

CEO, Noveltunity

Content Strategist: MemberSuite, Inc 2014

MemberSuite delivers enterprise-class Association Management Software that enables associations and non-profits of all sizes to accomplish every activity they need to serve their membership. As a content strategist:

  • Developed content strategy and content matrix for all online and offline projects, including blog
  • Implemented strategy to rebuild MemberSuite.com, created and wrote every page and launched July 2014
  • Created content including press releases, whitepapers, blog entries, email marketing copy, sales sheets, landing pages, posters to be used at trade shows, copy for search and display ads and more
  • Project managed third party vendor relationships for PPC and SEO; worked closely with PPC team on creating ads that convert and with SEO team on keyword strategy and implementation within content on website
  • Developed strategic partnerships with associations and non-profits to promote best practices in the industry, increasing brand awareness and thought leadership and resulting in warm leads delivered to sales to close
Josh’s Boss said: “In posting a recommendation for Josh Singh, I could expand upon numerous talents. Some that immediately come to mind are his ability to really listen and understand what a business need/problem is before beginning a project. He does this by asking very thoughtful and specific questions which enable him to see the goal, as well as a path to it. This also allows him to draw on his experience and convert that experience into creative, dynamic, and project specific solutions. He is organized, creative, and inquisitive--asking the right questions and challenging when appropriate. He's a versatile Marketing Professional with a solid command of best practices for the industry.”

Patricia Cuomo

Director of Marketing, MemberSuite

Content Strategist: Altisource Solutions, Inc. 2013

Altisource holds one of the largest mortgage portfolios in the US, with a
concentration of REO and bank owned properties; Hubzu is an online marketplace owned by Altisource where their properties are bought and sold. As a content strategist:

  • Created content strategy and content calendar for Hubzu blog from present state to three months out, with weekly and monthly blog themes and daily editorials, multimedia postings, and news clips with commentary
  • Project managed the creation of articles & multimedia with the content team
  • Posted multimedia to the Hubzu website, managing promotion, response, and engagement in multiple social media and customer engagement channels (Facebook, Twitter, Blog, Email Marketing platforms)
  • Delivered content for partner advertising opportunities in display advertising, email marketing & content marketing

Digital Marketing Strategist: ATG, LLC 2009–2013

ATG, LLC sold products and services to targeted online consumer niches using internet marketing strategies.

  • Created, marketed, and sold high cost four-figure products and services
  • Developed strategic partnerships with similar companies to
    cross-promote products and services via joint ventures, utilizing email
    marketing, social media marketing, podcasts, webinars, and more
  • Generated tens of thousands of dollars in product sales, seminar ticket sales, and continuity programs

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