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Halifax Regional Municipality, Ns, Ca

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Responsibilities: My role as Deputy Director involved the day to day management of the language school with a staff of over 100 teachers, administrators and a client base (students) of up to a 1000 participants at anyone time. This role further showcased and developed my leadership skills. It required me to foster collaborative relationships across the business and drive a culture of continuous improvement. To achieve this, I successfully transitioned my peer- relationships into manager relationship, which was possible due to my deep subject expertise knowledge and strong interpersonal skills. This allowed me to influence key stakeholders to improve policy and procedures; provide guidance on academic matters to students and staff; set and review measurable goals in performance appraisals; investigate and resolve academic issues; observe and mentor teachers; and coordinate the professional development program.Key Achievements:• Created a culture of continuous improvement by encouraging trust and transparency. • Directly supporting the Director in the operational management of the centre. • Strong connection with the student body• High level of administrative work• Creation of rosters and databases• Implementation and creation of strict policy and procedures aimed at maintaining high level of consistency across the teaching and student body• Resolving student and staff concerns and issues.• Building strong relationships with other educators• Facilitating strong links with all areas in RMIT training, such as the assessment, curriculum and HR teams• Maintaining standards in the quality of teaching with regular observations, overseeing work programs and the recruitment of new teachers

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Responsibilities: The Cambridge CELTA course is the most widely recognised ELT training qualification worldwide. A CELTA trainers’ role at the school is to train new teachers in techniques and methodology for English language teaching. I have over 10 years of CELTA training experience and managing the team. This involves: interviewing candidates; developing new material to meet latest developments in ELT; delivering input and conducting teaching practice sessions; mentoring of trainees; and managing the administration and of course enrolment and set up. Key Achievements:• Deep expertise in CELTA, which allows mentoring and training of new CETLA trainers. • Keeping up to date with teaching trends and implementing them into the CELTA curriculum.• Managing the CELTA team.• Effectively organising schedules, staffing, observations and course development.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Responsibilities: The Study Success centre of REW provides additional academic support to students by running a variety of services to help students improve their skill level. They key performance metric of the centre is to increase student articulation rates, leading to increased university entrance numbers. As the Study Success Manager, my role was to effectively deliver strategic services within budget, that met this performance metric. I managed a team of six administration and teaching staff to provide appropriate 1-1 support for students; students’ workshops; the design and development of online for self-study, curated social media resources to increase student engagement; and worked closely with REW teachers to ensure both student and educators needs were met. Key Achievements:• Implemented a service delivery strategy that targeted high risk Study Success students. This resulted in an overall increase in average articulation rates at the centre. This targeted strategy proved to be very effective, and when compared to other REW cohorts, showed an increased articulation rate higher than the standard. • Managing and supporting a small support team.• Building strong relationships with educators across REW as well as other key business units of RMIT Training. • Encouraging a personal approach to student’s needs with individualised and targeted level specific support.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Responsibilities: The role is to maintain teaching standards at the school. This involved: overseeing teacher personal development; organising the professional development program; assisting with the recruitment of new teachers; supporting entry level and more senior teachers; managing the observations schedule and undertaking continuous evaluation of teachers; assisting with finalisation of assessment; and reviewing and resolving student issues.Key Achievements:• Designed a robust and diverse professional development program which included substantial input and engagement from the teaching staff, which catered for over a 100 staff per year. • Ensured the quality of teaching by implementing a strategy to ensure regular observations.• Mentoring new teachers and encouraging their professional development.• Encouraging teachers to take the lead in developing their own professional development sessions.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Responsibilities: REW is one of the leading providers of English language education in Australia and is a direct entry provider for RMIT University. As a Senior Language educator, I support and deliver training, assessment and TESOL teaching to onshore and offshore students. To do this effectively, and in addition to my teaching workload, I am involved in: maintaining and updating in-house curriculum; ensuring that the direct entry requirements of the university are met by adhering to the REW assessment and testing systems; and leading professional development, teaching and staff development initiatives. More recently, this has included a transition to blended and online teaching delivery. Key Achievements:• Since 2013, I have led the professional development program for REW which caters for over a 100 staff each year. • Collaborating with the REW curriculum team and in the development of a suite of course books for the language centre. • Adapting and creating materials for online classes and blended learning, using both synchronous and asynchronous learning to develop students study programs.• Multiple secondments into other key areas of the business to drive strategic improvements.

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Responsibilities: Teaching multilingual adults classes, teacher training courses, Cambridge / IELTS exam preparation, placement testing.Key achievements:- Designing and delivering teacher training courses.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Responsibilities: General English language and ESP instruction to the Saudi Arabian National Guard.Key Achievements:- Acting program director- Designing an ESP curriculum aimed at Engineers.

London, England, United Kingdom

Responsibilities: Teaching adults, Cambridge / IELTS exam preparation, EAP, placement testing.

Tokyo, Japan

Responsibilities: Teaching adults and young learners, Trinity exam preparation, General English.

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