Tori Harris

Digital Resume

 
 

Employment History

Director of arise Ministry, Mary immaculate catholic Church

July 2015 - Present

  • Website/Digital Media Manager

    • Mary Immaculate website creator, lead developer and staff primary point of contact. Built the site map, collate and format images, write copy/text and collaborate with staff and parishioners to continue developing the website to intuitively serve our parish’s needs.

    • Create web procedures and self-help materials that leverage online technology and empower our ministry leaders to more effectively serve their subgroups.

    • Digitize staff administrative processes by integrating their workflow with online services such as the Squarespace eCommerce, web forms, and Google drive. The technological conversions have improved administrative efficiency, response time, and enabled our ministry leaders to provide more pastoral attention. Digitized examples include sacramental registrations, records requests, registration forms, sign-ups, fee collection, live-streaming, among others.

    • Collaborate with staff to develop special web projects, such as our digital hymnal. Manage our web presence for special seasonal events, like our Fall Festival, which include creating a personalized sub-site, volunteer scheduling, ticket sales, merchandise sales, and vendor registrations.

  • Parish Communications Manager

    • Collaborate with parish staff to plan communication and marketing for parish-wide events. Design promotional materials and distribute them to diverse mediums including: Facebook events/posts, Instagram, YouTube, website events, bulletin, video monitors, radio promotion, banners, posters, flyers, postcards, magnets, flock note announcements, weekly emails, blog, bathroom stall announcements, and pulpit announcements.

    • Monitor social media activity, respond to inquiries and comments, and engage with parishioners. Create content to increase online engagement. (see Facebook page)

    • Manage our weekly Flocknote newsletter which is built using images and information collected from parishioners and ministry leaders. Create and pre-schedule announcements to support special parish events and highlight various liturgical celebrations (Christmas, Easter).

    • Collaborate with our parish secretary and Francophone community to create the weekly bulletin.

    • Empower ministry leaders and volunteers to take advantage of our marketing opportunities by providing comprehensive information and access to marketing resources.

    • Participated in Parish rebranding efforts.

  • Event Management - Parish Liaison

    • Create and propose budgets, reserve parish facilities, coordinate with vendors, facilitate marketing, recruiting, and training of volunteers for setup, service, and clean up for non-sacramental parish events. Responsible for reviewing contracts, coordinating language translation services, live-streaming, online registrations, and ensuring communication with hired speakers and registered participants, and submitting check requests.

    • Solicit volunteers and develop leadership teams to organize and run new and recurring ministry events.

    • For established, lay-led ministries, serve as their onsite liaison, helping them to reserve parish facilities, providing access to parish resources, developing website content, administrating online registrations, and other tasks.

  • Arise Ministry

    • Developed and published the Holy Spirit 101 book and training program. More than 10,000 people have purchased or taken the Holy Spirit 101 program or eCourse.

    • Developed bilingual materials and trained Spanish-speaking facilitators.

    • Organize in-person and digital retreats, classes, and private prayer ministry events. Developed after-Mass prayer ministry; manage monthly healing service; fundraise and plan the filming of an eCourse and testimony video series. Regularly consult with parishes around the country to introduce and/or expand prayer ministry.

    • Helped to establish a thriving sister campus in Birmingham, Alabama. The program is the official prayer team training program for the charismatic center in the Archdiocese of New York. Invited by Dioceses and parishes in 9 states to share our program and train local prayer teams.

  • Special Projects

Musician, Tori Harris Music

May 2012 - July 2015

Toured nationally as a full-time Catholic musician managing 4 employees. Released top 10 Christian record, various music videos, and had original songs featured in major motion pictures, hymnal, various artist records, and Christian radio.

Associate Publicist, NAXOS OF AMERICA

February 2011 - May 2012

Worked on a team to coordinate publicity and promotions for NAXOS artists for the North American region. Our Grammy-award-winning artists were often featured on NPR, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Billboard Magazine.


Education

Master of Art in Theology, University of Dallas

Currently enrolled, Class of 2024 | Studying the history and tradition of the Catholic Church with a special emphasis on Pauline Scriptures and charismatic spirituality.

Bachelors in Entertainment Business Administration, Belmont

August 2010 | Business degree with special focus on entertainment marketing, publicity, and talent management. Included study in entertainment law, record label promotions, tour management, and music publishing and licensing.


Skills + Certifications

  • Squarespace Circle member (developer status)

  • Catechesis of the Good Shepherd, Level 1

  • Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Lightroom, InDesign, Audition, Premiere), ProPresenter

  • Microsoft Office Suite, Apple Suite

  • Publishing: CreateSpace, Kindle Direct Publishing, TuneCore, Teachable.com

  • Communications: Flocknote, Mail Chimp, SlingStudio Livestream, WordPress, Canva

  • Social Media: Facebook Publishing, Instagram Business, Twitter, YouTube Creator

Professional Affiliations & Hobbies

  • Councilmember for the National Service of Communion, Communications Priority Team

  • Functional Spanish speaker (workplace conversational fluency)

  • Public speaking for conferences, missions, and special events

  • Leading worship