ADRIAN — Lenawee County has its new total-time advertising and communications coordinator. Jennifer Ambrose, who has been working with the county for seven years underneath agreement with Addison-primarily based marketing business Hoyden Imaginative Group started off her new full-time position with the county Monday, March 6.

Ambrose was with Hoyden Innovative Team from 2016-23 and during her tenure there worked with Lenawee County and its departments as perfectly as many regional company and nonprofit consumers. Her specializations were public relations, electronic media management and digital advertising and marketing. She also worked on model and interaction system.
“Through her assistance through Hoyden, she has uncovered a lot about Lenawee County govt, about the departments, the commissioners and how we work,” Murphy mentioned. “When we have been permitted to seek the services of for her position and she used, we experienced some wonderful candidates that utilized for the place, but Jen just has the expertise that we required. She comes to the desk and will get started off ideal absent, which is good for us. We are truly fortunate and joyful to have her as aspect of our team.”
The posture was newly designed past yr, along with two added new positions that have yet to be loaded — a grants administrator and a community growth coordinator. Ambrose employed in at an annual wage of $58,398.21. The commencing annual income for the grants administrator is $54,578.16, and the starting up annual salary for the neighborhood advancement coordinator is $76,951.68. All a few positions have been accepted as component of the 2023 budget last yr.
The county was able to retain the services of Ambrose following the county commission voted 7-1 in February to raise the using the services of freeze it imposed at its January meeting to variety a subcommittee to even further study the positions. The lone vote in opposition to lifting the freeze arrived from commissioner Kevon Martis, R-Riga Twp., who supports the new marketing and communications coordinator placement and the grants administrator placement. He does not support hiring a community development coordinator. Simply because all a few positions have been lumped together in a single vote, Martis voted “no.” Commissioner Dustin Krasny, R-Cambridge Twp., was absent.
“We are delighted to have Ms. Ambrose with us on promoting and communications. She’s been actually working with the county in marketing and communications for about seven decades through our contract and she has completed an astounding task,” deputy county administrator Shannon Elliott reported. “She has one of the finest views I have witnessed about participating local community, engaging people and truly getting inclusive to our community so that all citizens are heard and can choose element in the conversation back and forth with county government, which I feel is very important for our fee and essential for our local community and our people.”
Ambrose labored for Meritain Well being from 2005-09. During her tenure there, she worked in a lot of departments such as voluntary added benefits, favored company businesses and out-of-community management in positions of raising responsibility. Right before she wrapped up her time with the well being insurance policy provider, she oversaw the renewal of all community contracts and managed an auditing crew.
She took a split from total-time operate from 2009-16 to be a keep-at-residence mother and volunteer for church and university functions.
Ambrose was with Lansing-based mostly technological know-how firm Core Technological innovation Company from 2000-04, functioning on all the firm’s advertising and marketing such as information releases, newsletters, marketing, party management and marketing and advertising campaigns.
“I’m quite excited — very, pretty psyched to be ready to concentrate on this entire time and do one thing that I like and aid the county communicate far better with its constituents,” Ambrose explained. “Being in a position to concentrate on it whole time and not in a deal place, I’m heading to be capable to do even additional.”
In her new function, Ambrose will look for to understand how to far better talk with the community to meet up with residents’ requires.
“There’s been some aggravation in people with not staying ready to entry the information on these conferences and not recognizing the place they can obtain items on the web-site. It’s not very distinct and we’re now equipped to place the recordings of the meetings on the web-site, but even that is constrained in that we’ve experienced difficulties with audio. So I want to enrich that so folks can take part in authorities even if they have work, little ones, household and matters like that,” Ambrose explained. “That goes with both of those sides — not only genuinely staying equipped to talk what’s happening, but also becoming in a position to pay attention to how folks sense about that and then gather that data and push it out to the administration and the commissioners.”