Elinor Rosales

Résumé

Experience at a glance

Community engagement leader with 12+ years designing high-visibility outreach, educational conferences, large-scale events, and public meetings across Texas state agencies.

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Core competencies

  • Program Leadership
  • Stakeholder Relations
  • Donor Cultivation
  • Securing Sponsorships
  • Earned Income Strategies
  • Community Engagement
  • Public Meetings
  • Staff & Volunteer Leadership
  • Strategic Communications
  • Grant Writing
  • Contract & Budget Management
  • Interagency Partnerships

Professional experience

2025–Present

Contract Manager 4

Texas Commission on Environmental Quality · Austin, TX

  • Direct all contract and grant activity for the Leaking Water Wells Grant Program, including compliance, performance monitoring, and corrective action.
  • Built a new, highly politicized, public-facing grant program from the ground up.
  • Lead kick-off meetings, evaluation scorings, and post-award conferences with internal teams and external partners.
  • Manage program budget, encumbrances, grant awards, and annual reports for the Executive Director.
2023–2025

Project Manager

Texas Department of Agriculture

  • Delivered statewide educational conferences and outreach reaching 1,000+ attendees and dozens of subject-matter experts.
  • Led a cross-functional team of 7 and oversaw 150 on-site volunteers at MEGACON; 55 volunteers at the State Fair of Texas.
  • Increased MEGACON attendee revenue and stakeholder registration by 20% in the first year; negotiated $30,000 in catering savings.
  • Developed K–12 outreach exhibits engaging 230,000+ State Fair visitors annually.
2018–2023

Senior Events Planner

Texas Commission on Environmental Quality · Austin, TX

  • Coordinated the annual Texas Environmental Trade Fair & Conference (6,000 attendees, 550 exhibitors) plus Autumn Environmental Conference programming.
  • Owned classroom tracks, expo, A/V, transit logistics, hotel partnerships, marketing, and public web pages.
  • Grew subscriptions 32% (17,000 → 21,600); generated expo income that covered expenditures for four additional events.
  • Managed facility, catering, A/V, hotel, parking, and security contracts with active performance monitoring.
2016–2018

Commission Agenda Coordinator

Texas Commission on Environmental Quality · Austin, TX

  • Coordinated Commission Agenda public meetings, including legal compliance, filings, notices, and official minutes.
  • Prepared Commissioner binders, supported board logistics, and timed public speakers to procedural rules.
  • Served as impartial liaison among Public Interest Counsel, General Counsel, Executive Director, and three Commissioners.

Education & community

Credentials beyond the day job

BA, Archaeology/Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin

Certified Texas Contract Manager (CTCM), License No. 1900016719

Lead Instructor, Youth Robotics Club (Spicewood Elementary) · Adopt-A-Creek Cleanup Coordinator · Texas Association of Museums · Austin Museum Partnership · U.T. Archaeological Field School

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