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Education
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Certification
Languages
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Pamela Tórtola Colindres

Madrid
Pamela Tórtola Colindres

Summary

Focused Educational Expert promoting more than sixteen years expertise. Successfully working with students and teachers at language schools and universities. Self-assured educator known for leading favorable education efforts. Innovative thinker, looking for new challenges in the field of psychology.

Overview

16
years of professional experience
1
Certification

Work History

CEMP - Centre for European Master's Programmes

Admissions Advisor
03.2023 - Current

Job overview

  • Interview prospective students
  • Perform academic advisement to caseload of candidates. Conduct career advising, career assessments, and transfer advising
  • Inform candidates about the enrolment process
  • Evaluate and process incoming students for general studies competency
  • Register candidates into appropriate academic curricula
  • Evaluate admission applications

EAE Business School

Academic Coordinator
10.2022 - 03.2023

Job overview

  • Programme coordination. Assessing and carrying out functions which develop comprehensive academic support
  • Academic support. Provide academic advisement to caseload of students
  • Representing the relevant curriculum areas within the school
  • Planning, implementing and overseeing quarterly programmes
  • Organizing regular meetings with programme directors and student representatives
  • Circulating relevant information to students, teachers and programme directors.

Kids&Us School of English
Madrid

School Director
03.2020 - 07.2022

Job overview

  • Client acquisition. Responsible for briefing potential customers in relation to the company's teaching method
  • Quality control. Coordinating, assessing and carrying out functions which ensure brand standards are met
  • Team lead. Working with a team of teachers, providing pedagogical assessment, supervising lesson planning, auditing classes and revising progress reports
  • Student supervision. Ensuring the methodology is integrated into practice, carrying out written and speaking tests, general guidance for students
  • Acting liaison. Cultivating a dynamic relationship between parents, teachers, students and the school
  • Teacher recruiter. First contact with candidates interested in working with the company.

Kids&Us School of English
Barcelona

Administrative Coordinator/ HHRR Manager
07.2018 - 02.2020

Job overview

  • Communication liaison. Written and over the phone contact between the school and families
  • Client acquisition. Responsible for briefing potential customers in relation to the company's teaching method
  • Customer service. Solving problems with the material and services provided by the school
  • Office manager. In charge of ordering and managing office supplies
  • Billing and invoicing. In house responsible for monthly and quarter tuition payment
  • Teacher recruiter. First contact with candidates interested in working with the
    company
  • Selection process. Face-to-face interviews with candidates
  • Hiring process. In charge of filing and managing personnel data.

Kids&Us School of English
Barcelona

English Teacher. Babies, Kids, Tweens and Teens
10.2015 - 02.2020

Job overview

  • Teaching English. Carrying out dynamic lessons following Kids & Us Methodology
  • Student assessment. Daily control of the learning progress for each student
  • Parents meetings. Yearly in-person meetings with families
  • Progress report. Quarterly creation of an individual report on students' development
    and acquisition of English
  • Lesson planning. Weekly creation of lesson plans for the alternate method used in the
    school
  • Tests. Assessing and grading Cambridge test used for young learners.

Colegio Pequeño Príncipe
MADRID

English Teacher
01.2007 - 07.2014

Job overview

  • Lessons. Responsible for planning, creating material and carrying out innovative English conversation lessons for students ages 6 to 16 years old
  • Extracurricular lessons. In charge of all the After school English groups in school.

Education

Universidad Oberta De Catalun
Barcelona

Psychology Degree from Clinical Psychology
05.2023

Instituto Guatemalteco Americano
Guatemala

Teacher Training Course from Teaching English as a Second Language (ESL)
12.2013

I.M.A
Guatemala

Teaching Degree from Primary Education
10.1999

Skills

  • Verbal and Written Communication
  • Telephone Etiquette
  • Team Collaboration
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office suite
  • Time Management
  • Travel Arrangements
  • Complex Problem Solving
  • Report Preparation and Analysis
  • Quality Assurance
  • Recruitment and Hiring
  • New Hire Orientation

Certification

  • ACTIC – Certificate of competence in communication and data technology, Universidad Oberta Catalunya - Sep 2018 – Feb 2019
  • Certificate of Proficiency in English, Council of Europe level C2, University of Cambridge, ESOL examinations - 2010
  • Grammar course in the teaching of English as a foreign language, Instituto Guatemalteco Americano - 2003

Languages

Spanish
Native/ Bilingual
English
Native/ Bilingual
Catalan
Limited
French
Limited

Timeline

Admissions Advisor

CEMP - Centre for European Master's Programmes
03.2023 - Current

Academic Coordinator

EAE Business School
10.2022 - 03.2023

School Director

Kids&Us School of English
03.2020 - 07.2022

Administrative Coordinator/ HHRR Manager

Kids&Us School of English
07.2018 - 02.2020

English Teacher. Babies, Kids, Tweens and Teens

Kids&Us School of English
10.2015 - 02.2020

English Teacher

Colegio Pequeño Príncipe
01.2007 - 07.2014

Universidad Oberta De Catalun

Psychology Degree from Clinical Psychology

Instituto Guatemalteco Americano

Teacher Training Course from Teaching English as a Second Language (ESL)

I.M.A

Teaching Degree from Primary Education
Pamela Tórtola Colindres