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United Kingdom

London Area, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

• Key achievements:
• Boosted NPS by 450% and response rate to over 80%, surpassing yearly targets and improving student retention.
• Fostering strong relationships between departments, improving student satisfaction twofold
• Successfully recruiting and training new teams, improving staff retention and professional development.
• Achieved outstanding results in British Council Inspection and compliance auditsResponsibilities:
• Managing year-round school operations and… Show more Key achievements:

London, England, United Kingdom

• Key Achievements:
• Managed a team of 9 CEL administrators to meet and exceed ECF milestone project deadlines.
• Successfully designed & implemented a delivery partner operation guide to streamline processes, increase team productivity and provide clear guidance on recurring issues, overall contributing to the success of the ECF.
• Planning and implementing team ‘teach’ sessions which encourages team members to share their skills in weekly workshops where… Show more Key Achievements:
• Planning and implementing team ‘teach’ sessions which encourages team members to share their skills in weekly workshops where everyone is able to increase their skill base and learn new systems.
• Prepared and supported a team of 9 with the ECF programme’s first Ofsted visit and achieved wholly positive and encouraging feedback.Key Responsibilities:

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

• Key ResponsibilitiesActively working in the DOS role
• Managing and supporting a team of 15 teaching staff, centre staff and interns.
• Assigning classes, hours, and schedules, developing new processes, and observing classes to analyse teaching performance.
• Conducting staff reviews and providing teacher training and monthly CPD sessions.
• Interviewing teaching candidates for our current adult courses and annual junior summer program
• Acting as first point of contact… Show more Key ResponsibilitiesActively working in the DOS role

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Taught multilingual classes of up to 15 adults.Led monthly CPD sessions in collaboration with the academic manager.Applied CLIL, TTT, guided discovery and multiple teaching methodologies to my classes according to the needs and levels of the learners.Planned engaging and student-centred lessons and created active learning opportunities in the.

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

• Assisting in product promotions, to bridge the customers to the company
• Strategizing content plans that align with company strategy, value, and overall brand
• Analyzing consumer data and creating recommendations on products, customers & market needs
• Assisting in developing marketing plans

Dublin

• Taught large groups of teenagers and adults the Oxford English language series English File: pre-intermediate, intermediate+, upper-intermediate and advanced
• Taught English phonetics, grammar, speech and conversation skills, receptive skills reading and listening, productive skills writing and speaking, with weekly material tests and end of course exams
• Planned classes and scheduled feedback sessions
• Organized and led student outings and out of school activities, tourist… Show more
• Organized and led student outings and out of school activities, tourist attractions, museum visits, class picnics, art gallery visits, cafes and local restaurant hangouts.
• Gave weekly exams, marking and providing bi-weekly student feedback.

Presidente Prudente, São Paulo, Brazil

• Improved a one-to-one student’s English proficiency level from A1 to C1.
• Improved students’ results in order to help them qualify for university programs worldwide
• Developed and led multiple training sessions for teaching staff, training a team of 12 teachers on methodology for the Passages 1 and 2 advanced language books.
• Created and implemented an extra-curricular Cinema club to increase language learning outside of the classroom.
• Designed over 500 classes for… Show more
• Designed over 500 classes for multiple levels to increase learner-engagement with technology and the Cambridge textbooks, implementing new learning strategies that had not been used before with special focus on.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Organized car sales paperwork, vehicle orders, driver’s license checks, finance documents, and data storage of all administrative files.
• Built strong customer relationships with showroom guests and established a great rapport with them, to ensure every guest had an excellent customer experience.
• Resolved all customer complaints and queries via the switchboard, directed and handled all Peter Vardy communications and correspondence.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Organized solicitor’s travel arrangements, appointments, and lunches
• Implemented a time-saving filing system for contracts, wills and certificates for all legal departments
• Stored, logged and removed company files using IronMountain and LawSoft databases, and closed fee earner’s accounts as required
• Tracked and logged outstanding account balances and resolved these
• Prepared equipment for international conference calls, organized conference rooms and materials as… Show more
• Prepared equipment for international conference calls, organized conference rooms and materials as requested

Woking

• Organized travel, accommodation and transport for both clients and employees
• Worked with multiple departments on company projects as project secretary
• Created TAF documents and stored project correspondence in the company system.
• Provided services for reception; answered and directed all switchboard calls and company emails
• Purchased office, stationary and kitchen supplies on a monthly basis
• Completed all general administration duties

Surrey

• Managed the store in absence of the manager including holiday periods
• Drove a team of 6 to exceed daily store targets and achieved a percentage increase in annual sales
• Dedicated overtime hours to big sale events to achieve outstanding team sales and company incentives for Area 2
• Managed the rota and payroll, and assigning cover where needed
• Assisted customers with queries and purchases, and provided flawless customer service to guarantee a customer return
• Operated… Show more

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