Jessica S. Lev

Created Human Resource department for rapidly expanding agency providing services to people with developmental disabilities, recruiting new employees incl. overseeing criminal background checks, developing HR policies and procedures, compiling new employee handbook, health benefits administration, maintaining extensive government mandated paperwork for 300+ past and present employees, creating employee database, documentation for and successfully completing state fiscal and quality assurance audits.

Wide-ranging administrative duties incl. documentation for state regulatory agency; creating and managing systems for documenting all expenditures from petty cash and residents’ allowances; working with nurse to coordinate medical and psychiatric care visits for residents; Medicaid and Food Stamp re-certifications; maintaining calendar for medical visits, school schedules updating monthly medication administration sheets; acting as liaison to parents and outside agencies.

Taught 12th grade political science and economics.

Meeting and conference planning including scheduling, developing budgets, preparing materials, liaising with participants, handling meeting site and catering arrangements; documenting meeting proceedings; providing administrative support to senior staff, consultants and affiliated overseas organizations.

Worked in various departments including CEO’s office, sales/trading floor, investment bank; long-term assignment to vice-president in Latin American equity research.

Assisted in various administrative areas for intensive continuing education program for more than 300 university professors and administrators from former USSR and Eastern Europe.

Involved in coordinating all aspects of establishing a new institution to house the archives of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty; acted as budget officer and human resources manager, duties included recruiting international staff, drafting employee contracts, staff relocation, compiling annual budgets, processing international financial payments; served as liaison to affiliated organizations in the US, Hungary and Czech Republic; purchased furniture, equipment and supplies.

Coordinated international professional schedule for university president; arranged travel itineraries; organized conferences, meeting and major university events; developed professional and academic contact database; edited student admissions materials; arranged schedules for visiting lecturers.

Edited legal opinions, memoranda and newsletter articles; maintained office archives and client database; general clerical duties.

Provided assistance and advice to recent immigrants from former USSR including English language tutoring, vocational training, acted as advocate with government social service agencies.

Organized study seminars on US government and democracy for East European professionals and students including contacting and arranging visits to US Congress, federal government agencies, non-profit organizations, financial institutions and international development organizations.

Assisted historian in research at the Library of Congress on the subject of child welfare in late Imperial Russia.

Parliamentary debate team