Personal Assistant/ Translator
Gems Education
Total years of experience :8 years, 5 Months
• Provide administrative & office support to Principal/CEO and Senior Leader Team through conducting & organizing administrative duties.
• Perform all job duties in an efficient, processional and confidential manner.
• Attend meetings and prepare minutes.
• As a translator convert information from English Language to Arabic language & vise versa.
• Facilitate oral communication between Arab families and western staff during school hours for parents/teacher conferences, IEP meetings, and other school functions.
• Translate school-home communications and system- wide documents from English to Arabic and from Arabic to English.
• Responsible for booking rooms for the school events and conferences and updating the operations team.
• Send weekly school newsletter to all parents
Preparing weekly lesson plans
Preparing worksheets for lessons
Teaching English language in an English-Only-Environment
Developing student skills based on Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences theory
Encompassing English, Mathematics, Life Science, Social Science, and Arts in an Integrated Learning Approach (Harcourt - Moving into English)
Keeping assessment reports about student performance
Motivating students through encouraging and praising and reinforcing high
self-esteem
Translating novels /plays (from English into Arabic) for university courses
Online research related to the translation work for university materials
Proofreading translations
Cooperating with the translation team in the publishing house to adhere to assigned deadlines
Typing visa applications for the American and Italian embassies
English - Arabic translation of applicants’ documents
Filing applications
Follow-ups with applicants
Coordinating with the American and Italian embassies regarding latest laws and regulations
• Dealing with email inquiries
• Creating and maintaining filing systems, keeping
diaries, arranging meetings and appointments
• Handling incoming / outgoing calls, printing, photocopying, & filing
• Typing documents and distributing memos.
• Attending meetings, taking minutes and keeping notes
