Kathryn ''Katy" Severance

This project involved working with my fellow project lead, Joana Jani and HR Scholar Managers, Hanako Cashin and Eric Anderson, to create an opportunity to expand our project team and create project representation across 3 different Unum and Colonial Life home offices. We put together a job description, communication to all scholars with requirements, fielded Scholar questions, and helped to choose which scholars would have the opportunity to join our team. We have plans to help share our… Show more

This project involved working with my fellow project lead, Joana Jani and HR Scholar Managers, Hanako Cashin and Eric Anderson, to create an opportunity to expand our project team and create project representation across 3 different Unum and Colonial Life home offices. We put together a job description, communication to all scholars with requirements, fielded Scholar questions, and helped to choose which scholars would have the opportunity to join our team. We have plans to help share our project knowledge of development and management with our new team members. Show less

I created a template for intern bios, proofread some of these intern bios for different Scholar teammates, helped them develop LinkedIn to use their bio to grow their network and ensured that the group had the resources they needed to do their part of the project.

I the leading partner of three partners who built a Microsoft SharePoint site for the Unum US Scholar Program. The project was managed by Unum HR Scholar program Managers Hanako Cashin and Eric Anderson. I met with business partners Joana and Benjamin, to help foster communication, develop a formal proposal for the changes that we planned to make to the site, communicated with scholars/managers when we had project needs, created a website tutorial to train members of the scholar community… Show more

I the leading partner of three partners who built a Microsoft SharePoint site for the Unum US Scholar Program. The project was managed by Unum HR Scholar program Managers Hanako Cashin and Eric Anderson. I met with business partners Joana and Benjamin, to help foster communication, develop a formal proposal for the changes that we planned to make to the site, communicated with scholars/managers when we had project needs, created a website tutorial to train members of the scholar community, oversaw the facilitation of the training and delegated needs for the project as I became aware of them based on project partners' capacity and skills. Both Joana Jani and Benjamin Tracy were essential members of the team. Joana began the project from the ground up and connected HR manager Hanako Cashin to add me to the project team. Her willingness to take part in the project while doing work for her team was excellent and she was happy to provide any kind of assistance the project required. Benjamin Tracy helped set the site up, and make it truly a 'site'. He had a wealth of technical knowledge that was very useful in building the site and he was happy to share that knowledge with business partners. His delivery of training on the site was strong as well. Show less

I support our department's Communications Manager in editing and writing for our PoliteMail-powered department newsletter, IDI Insights. I have acted as support staff from an editing/writing/design/story lead creation/news team recruiting role since 2016 and continue to work on the project on a monthly basis. Each month, I write between 1 to 2 pieces for the newsletter and copy edit between 4 to 5 pieces for the newsletter. I also sit down once a month with our 'news team' and Communications… Show more

I support our department's Communications Manager in editing and writing for our PoliteMail-powered department newsletter, IDI Insights. I have acted as support staff from an editing/writing/design/story lead creation/news team recruiting role since 2016 and continue to work on the project on a monthly basis. Each month, I write between 1 to 2 pieces for the newsletter and copy edit between 4 to 5 pieces for the newsletter. I also sit down once a month with our 'news team' and Communications Manager to discuss topics that should be featured and help decide who will cover those pieces. Show less

I was the project manager on a charity auction basket project at Unum for IDI Business Operations. I reached out to a group of Unum Scholar Interns at the company and rallied them to participate in collecting items and developing ideas for a charity auction donation for Unum's annual United Way Auction. I set deadlines, provided timely and efficient communication and followed-up with business partners to ensure that the project was finished by the deadline. I submitted the final project and… Show more

I was the project manager on a charity auction basket project at Unum for IDI Business Operations. I reached out to a group of Unum Scholar Interns at the company and rallied them to participate in collecting items and developing ideas for a charity auction donation for Unum's annual United Way Auction. I set deadlines, provided timely and efficient communication and followed-up with business partners to ensure that the project was finished by the deadline. I submitted the final project and thanked all project partners for their participation. Show less

For this project, Scholar Interns and Summer Interns collaborated and set time aside during the work day to come together and functionally organize, fold, put systems into place for, and pack materials at a nearby charitable organization at Worcester's South High School called Andy's Attic. Scholar Interns continued this project, and plan to volunteer again in the winter.

I met with Benefits individuals, including an experienced senior DBS about a Social Security decision process that needed to be streamlined. I also streamlined the written SSDI workflow for ease of access by the Disability Benefits Specialists who use this document. I continued to meet with Benefits subject matter experts to ensure that the document included everything that it needed to meet company standards while also being accessible and user-friendly.

This project was a final for my Social Media Journalism course at Assumption College during my Fall 2015 semester. It required me to choose a Twitter hashtag that was associated with a social movement and expand upon it in a way that fit into the requirements of journalism, in that it was local, newsworthy, and interesting.