REGINA BAZUAYE
Stone Mountain, GA 30087
Email: *********@*****.**.**
Seeking a position in the capacity of Social Worker with general business and media background, bringing the following experience, skills and attributes:
•Dedicated professional with over 10 years of NGO work.
• Proven ability to create and manage results-oriented projects.
• Ability to write for grants and to donors.
• Effective communication skills. (both written and spoken)
• Ability to produce and direct film documentaries aimed at educating/informing service users.
• Automated accounting systems for improved efficiency and accuracy.
• Designed, developed and implemented fiscal cost control procedures.
• Positive and professional attitude; committed to excellence.
• PC proficient. Software: Excel, Word.
WORK EXPERIENCE
2008 - 2010: NGO: Institute for Work and Family Integration (IWFI), Lagos, Nigeria
• First Executive Officer, with objective of promoting family responsibility practices and good work ethics.
• Organized conferences and seminars in collaboration with world renowned Lagos Business School of the Pan African University.
• Started production of email based quarterly newsletter. Helped set up organization’s website (Can be viewed at www.iwfionline.org).
• Promoted use of and access to internet technology in low income areas. Travelled to the rural areas to conduct training.
• Weekly column with daily newspaper, “Business Day” in Nigeria, discussing work-family issues.
• Went wherever invited to speak on work-family balance.
• Arranged smooth transition of IWFI affairs with successor.
1998 – 2008: VIVANTE MEDIA
• Production Manager, with media organization.
• Produced three editions of tourists/business travelers magazine.
• For ten years, produced and marketed weekly talk show.
• Sort partnership with television stations for airtime.
• Produced various other informative documentaries.
1996 – 1998: Women’s Board (Educational Co-operation Society), Lagos, Nigeria
• Administrative Manager/Project Officer: Supervised maintenance matters; Wrote proposals to donor organizations; facilitated various programs, including marketing, giving lectures in seminars organized by management; ad hoc duties to support projects.
EDUCATION
Post Graduate Diploma – Business Studies – 1978
UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD, United Kingdom
BSc (Hons) – Industrial Administration – 1977
SALFORD UNIVERSITY, United Kingdom
REFERENCES Provided upon request.