JOY TAPAJCIK, PLAYER PERSONNEL & FOOTBALL OPERATIONS PROCESS MANAGER
Joy is our Personnel & Football Operations Process Manager, reporting directly to our Assistant General Manager. Joy is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, where she earned her bachelor's degree in political science and government. Before joining the Cleveland Browns in her current role, Joy spent nearly a decade in Naval Intelligence. As part of her last tour in the Navy, Joy was selected to be a flag aide for two different admirals, which served as a great learning experience for both her personal leadership and philosophy. Flag Aides are assigned to enable admirals to perform their official duties more effectively, proving to be a challenging but highly rewarding duty. Joy has brought this passion for leadership development to the Browns and has taken lead in organizing management training sessions to include Veteran presentations to the football operations departments heads. She is also working on two different military community internship initiatives for 2024. She is actively involved in Soldiers to Sidelines, which provides coaching certification to service members and veterans and integrates them into the community as coaches. This partnership could include an opportunity to participate in our offseason program/training camp to provide exposures and experience. She also works closely with DOD Skillbridge, which is an opportunity for service members to gain valuable civilian work experience through specific industry training during the last 180 days of service. She is working to make this a football operations internship.