Nikola Kovacevic Email & Phone Number

Boston, North End

• Managed core staff in English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) program serving 60 adult students.
• Introduced mixed-methods data collection instruments, leading to increased efficiency in key program performance measures.
• Established Program’s database; created and maintained Excel spreadsheets to administer and analyze collected data, prepare charts and graphs for presentations and reports.
• Prepared program’s reports using Excel features, compiled and incorporated relevant graphs, tables, and charts, facilitating an overview of the vital signs of the program.

Boston, North End

• Introduced an interactive teaching strategy and participative approach in curriculum development, resulting in a more efficient process of defining academic and career objectives.
• Assessed needs of the adult immigrant population of ESOL Students using qualitative and quantitative data collection instruments.
• Developed and instructed multiple intensive pieces of training based on assessed need.

Chelsea, MA

• Assisted to the program director in administering Adult Based Education program with more than 300 students,
• Maintaining and administering student records, creating reports, interpreting, and summarizing.
• Assisted organization and coordination of bi-weekly staff meetings

Boston

• Assisted head faculty member with classroom instruction material, exams, and record keeping for Statistics in social research.
• Helped students achieve desired results with one-on-one tutoring and regular out of class assistance.

• Founder/President, YUMASS BOSTON, Yugoslavian Students Club—UMass Boston,
• February 2013-Fall 2014. Established the club with a mission to preserve and celebratemodern Yugoslavian cultural identity, our universal values rooted in common good,empathy, solidarity and progress.
• Hosted and organized a panel discussion “From Genocide to Cooperation: LiberateYugoslavia of Its Own Past” (October 2013) with participation of Professor Paul Mojzes(Rosemont College, Philadelphia), Biljana Cincarevic.
• Initiated and organized a group of talented students and alumni of Berklee College of Music’s, originally from the former Yugoslavia to form a one-time band named “Balkan Fusion Groove” and perform musical repertoire.

Sarajevo, Bosnia And Herzegovina

• Assisted professor/program director in creating efficient sample to investigate trends in narratives across generations in different regions of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
• Helped define research framework and completed literature review.
• Reviewed literature on concepts related to trans-generational transmission of trauma.
• Designed, developed, evaluated, and implemented a semi-structured questionnaire with forty measurement items for qualitative research – cognitive interviews.
• Collected data, completing about thirty individual interviews across the country, involving sensitive topics such as traumatic events and memories of war.

Belgrade, Serbia

Belgrade, Serbia

Master’S Degree, Applied Sociology

Activities and Societies: Yugoslavian Students Club

Bachelor’S Degree, Sociology

Sociology

Activities and Societies: Koalicija 6000 studenata FF Inicijativa Studenata FF

High School

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