Becky Cullen

Experience

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  Allianz Insurance

  May 2011 - Sept 2011

  International Medical Co-ordinator

  - Managed medical cases for client travelling abroad. - Responsible for liaising with customers. hospitals, and repatriation teams across the world to ensure a timely response to difficult situations. - In-depth knowledge of the policies available was required to maximise customer experience.

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  Allianz Insurance

  Jun 2014 - Sept 2016

  International Medical Co-ordinator

  Multiple fixed term contracts whilst studying- Managed medical cases for client travelling abroad. - Responsible for liaising with customers. hospitals, and repatriation teams across the world to ensure a timely response to difficult situations. - In-depth knowledge of the policies available was required to maximise customer experience. - Time-Management, empathy and a strong command of the English language were imperative.

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  King's College, Soto de Viñuelas

  Sept 2014 - Sept 2015

  Teaching Assistant

  - Developing a curriculum for teaching the impact of water shortages across the world. Creative lesson planning for small groups of either gifted and talented students or students with Special Educational Needs (SEN). - Teaching ESL students using the British National Curriculum. - Researching and implementing ways to incorporate technology into the classroom. - Teaching across the curriculum, using interdisciplinary teaching approaches to cement students learning. - Supervised and marketed fundraising events.- Yielded over €5000 for various charities, providing project leadership and coordination. - Resolved delicate issues between students results in their improved educational achievement and social emotional learning (SEL). - Responsible for providing assistance on school trips, ensuring that students were engaged and involved, while also maintaining health and safety. - Providing learner assessment and testing in the lead up to KS2 SAT’s exams, ensuring that areas for improvement were identified and communicated to both the student and their parents. Show less

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  University of Leeds

  Sept 2015 - Jul 2016

  Sub-Warden (while studying)

  - Responsible for providing pastoral care to students in their first year at university. - Assisting in developing and enforcing appropriate discipline strategies where rules and regulations had been broken. - Providing leadership and guidance in times of crisis. For example, when emergency services needed to be called for fires and accidents. - Engaging In peer mentoring across the university to develop new strategies or process improvements. - Working to ensure that all events and activities were accessible to students with special needs, and compliant with health and safety regulations. - Maintaining excellent lines of communication with my superiors, providing timely and detailed reports about any incidents or issues. - Maintaining an empathetic and considerate attitude, while dealing with sensitive information. Show less

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  Tutorful

  Oct 2015 - Feb 2017

  Tutor (while studying)

  - Working as lead teachers for students aged 3-30 years old. - Responsible for curriculum development and creative lesson planning. - In-depth knowledge in a range of subject areas across the UK National Curriculum, including EYFS. - Thorough understanding of how to teach English as a foreign/second language (EFL/ESL). - Researching and collecting appropriate resources, and planning activities that are both engaging and within the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) for students. - Able to engage with people at a range of education levels, ages and culture, to facilitate their learning. - Exceptional time-management and communication skills. - Maintaining appropriate level of teacher-parent relations to ensure student success. Show less

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  Twenty Group

  Sept 2016 - Feb 2017

  Associate Consultant - Business Change and Transformation

  Left this role with a full scholarship to study at Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. - Responsible for developing client base through business development up to Director Level. - Working with clients from international financial services organisations such as MUFG, Bank of Tokyo, RBS, HSBC, The London Stock Exchange Group, Bank of New York Mellon and Ban of America Merrill Lynch. - Operating within the business change and transformation space, it was imperative to be knowledgeable about project management methodologies, business analysis and the role of project management offices more generally. Show less

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  Allianz Insurance

  Oct 2017 - Jan 2018

  Assistance Support Advisor

  FTC for duration of project. Employed to input a backlog of data into a system, while finding a way to efficiently input new data. - Business analysis. Gathering requirements from all areas affected by this process.- Working with senior stakeholders such as account managers, Head of Operations, CEO, Head of Client Services, Head of Finance, Head of Compliance, I.T. and Business Change Management teams to ensure that processes surrounding this are of the business were efficient, accurate and compliant. - Working to ensure processes were GDPR compliant. - Working closely with I.T. teams to automate most of the process, running UAT and designing fixes for any problems. - End-to-end project management. Show less

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  American Eagle Institute - China

  Jan 2018 - Sept 2019

  - Alongside full-time employment within the Kindergarten was assigned a project designing and developing a 48 week STEAM Science curriculum for children aged 5-6 to be used across China. - Researching best practices for STEAM. - Responsible for developing clearly structured and user-friendly lesson plans. - Creating all resources needed to deliver the curriculum. - Engaging with teaching team to use the lessons as they were being developed, collecting feedback and amending curriculum based on user experience. Show less - Presented with an award for ‘Outstanding Trainer’ (January 2019). - Managing all foreign employees; a team of 9 people. - Responsible for providing monthly and quarterly evaluations for team members, holding one-to-one meetings, and weekly team meetings. - Responsible for recruitment of all foreign staff and aiding with work visas. - Streamlining the recruitment process by creating and maintaining an efficient recruitment database which can demonstrate and monitor trends. - Acting as the main point of contact between foreign and Chinese staff. Ensuring communication channels are open and preventing miscommunications. - Process improvement initiatives. Examining current processes, gathering feedback and requirements and streamlining processes to make them more efficient. - Ensuring academic quality and standards are maintained and improved upon. - Providing feedback to Research and Development teams to help improve/redesign the school curriculum.- Working closely with the marketing team to ensure trial students enjoy their experience, and new students are monitored appropriately. - Maintaining frequent contact with parents and liaising with teachers and parents when challenges arise. - Organising and running school wide events and activities. - Providing training for new staff and workshops for existing team. - Supporting another branches management and training needs. Show less In addition to Academic Management responsibilities, teaching a full-time class so as to find them the best replacement teacher possible. - Primary teacher for a class of eighteen 3-4 year old students. - Maintaining high quality teaching and delivering engaging lessons. - Amending parts of the curriculum and differentiating teaching to meet the needs of individual students.- Setting up an extended learning area to maximise student learning time. - Developing areas of the curriculum that were lacking.- Ensuring the use of structured lessons that review previous work, introduce new concepts, check understanding and extend where necessary. - Writing weekly communications to parents and completing monthly evaluations for the English language component of the curriculum. - Completing end of semester evaluations and writing detailed report cards about student’s progress. Show less

  • Curriculum Developer

    Nov 2018 - Sept 2019

  • Academic Program Manager

    Mar 2018 - Jan 2019

  • Foreign Teacher

    Jan 2018 - Jul 2018
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  Little Scholar Academy

  Jan 2019 - Mar 2020

  Academic Director

  - Presented for awards for ‘Best contribution from a new comer’ (June 2019) and ‘Outstanding contribution’ (December 2019).- Responsible for project managing the development of a full years syllabus for all subjects (excluding Mandarin) and updating annually. - Leading a curriculum projects team, defining the scope, priorities and timelines and tracking progress. - Reporting progress and key milestones to key internal stakeholders. - Ensuring the curriculum developed is aligned to UK EYFS and National Curriculum, and fit for purpose in the Shanghai market. - Designing and delivering training on the syllabi developed for all teaching staff. Co-ordinating and delivering Professional Development and In-Service days.- Researching best practices in Early Years teaching, and matriculation requirements for Shanghai primary schools.- Creating and maintaining a master schedule for all teaching spaces and employees annually. - Managing assessment procedures for all students. Including designing assessments and assessment rubrics, training staff on assessment delivery, analysing assessment data and creating intervention plans to improve student achievement.- Responsible for Intervention planning and Special Educational Needs (SEN) as required.- Developing and leading the conduct of placement tests for specific programs.- Providing support to other areas of the business for development of Academic programs. - Working closely with senior stakeholders, including Marketing and Sales Director, Campus Directors, Finance Director, HR Director and Principal. - Building and maintaining strong relationships with the entire community: staff members, students and parents. - Creating and delivering workshops to engage parents in their child’s education, - Supporting the marketing team by creating marketing materials about learning content.- Observing teaching quality, providing feedback and defining goals and targets for all foreign teaching staff. Show less

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  FutureGrow Academy

  Jun 2020 - now

  Director Of Operations