Travel Agent/ Customer Service/ Interpreter/ Language Teacher/ Russian

Nigora Rosner

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Highlights of Skills and Experience

● Rotary International Peace Fellow

● Extensive experience in IO’s and NGO’s

● Eight years of project design and administration

● Ten years of pedagogy

Professional Experience

CyraCom Inc. Russian interpreter

Tucson, Arizona 2020 - present

• Provided language services and performed language-specific translations

• Handled and responded to phone calls from clients in client-specific languages.

• Developed and maintained customer portfolio and customer relationships.

• Conducted community outreach activities and performed qualitative and detailed interviews.

• Interpreted and translated technical terminology and colloquial language, efficiently.

• Interpreted and translated all information in target language in an accurate manner.

• Received merit increase for outstanding performance and attendance Sahin Private Schools (IB School) Language Teacher Sakarya, Turkey 2017-2020

● Taught compulsory English courses in grades three through six using innovative methods.

● Assisted the department head with the development of a new curriculum.

● Founded and managed a “pen pal” project with overseas partners.

● Coordinated and managed cultural and scholastic events, i.e. quiz show, English dramas, STEM competitions.

World Uyghur Congress (uyghurcongress.org/en/) Paid Intern Munich, Germany 2013

● Collected data on human-rights abuses in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China concerning ethnic minorities.

• Submitted written statements and reports on behalf of the Congress to the UN Human Rights Council

● Translated publications into Russian to maintain and update the Congress’ Russian language webpage.

Bradford Action for Refugees Volunteer Social Worker Bradford, United Kingdom 2012-2013

● Assisted the social worker in organizing educational trainings, workshops, social gatherings and other activities for at-risk refugees.

● Provided English training classes to refugee children. International Rescue Committee (rescue.org) Interpreter Phoenix, Arizona 2011-2012

● Project Support: Interpreted Uzbek and English between staff and service-users.

● Contract Interpreting: Provided Uzbek-English and Russian-English interpretation services for the wider public in court, prisons, hospitals, and schools.

Transperfect Translations International Interpreter Tempe, Arizona 2011-2012

● Provided full-time night shift Russian-English interpretation services for multinational companies, such as Eli Lilly and Cameco.

Center of Multicultural and Multilingual Education (osce.org) Programme Specialist Osh, Kyrgyzstan 2007-2010

● Project implementation: Coordinated the Project Design and Management Workshop for 56 teachers of secondary schools in southern Kyrgyzstan. Assisted in organising and leading the annual Youth Leadership Camp together with US Peace Corps Volunteers. Implemented the annual People's Friendship Festival and art-competition among 1200 school students of Osh and Jalalabad regions.

● Administrative support: Provided administrative support to OSCE education liaison officers from Moldova and Latvia. Prepared and assisted in conducting trainings, workshops, and seminars on second language methodology for teachers and students in southern Kyrgyzstan. Submitted monthly project monitoring reports to the office of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities. Conducted monitoring and evaluation of the project's focus-groups.

● Publication: Designed, edited and contributed to the monthly periodical The Caravan of Friendship, aimed at improving second-language teaching methodologies in rural Kyrgyzstan. Education and Training

Master of Arts – Conflict, Security, and Development University of Bradford (UK) - 2014 Rotary International Peace Fellow, Class XI

(brad.ac.uk/social-sciences/nigora-akhmedova/)

Bachelor of Arts – World Languages: English and German Osh State University – 2006 Foreign Languages

● Russian (native proficiency) ● Uzbek (native proficiency) ● Turkish (working proficiency) ● German (basic proficiency)

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