Teaching of English

Secretary/ translator of Project Coordination Unit, Swiss Cooperation Office of Embassy of Switzerland in Uzbekistan. Duties: • Receive, screen, log and route incoming and outgoing correspondence and documents, attaching necessary background information and providing a follow-up system; • Draft routine correspondence, including minutes of meetings; • Organize various meetings, keep agendas and take notes at meetings; • Keep liaison with Government officials, international/ national and other relevant organizations; • Maintain a proper electronic/hard filing system and archives, its control and update; • Provide the office staff with administrative operational information (mail, cargo, holidays, working hours change etc); • Translate different documentation including progress reports from Russian into English and vice versa; • Provide interpretation at meetings; • Format reports and proofread texts; • Assist in preparation of bidding documents; • Assist with international study tour arrangements (hotel accommodation, meals, tickets etc.); • Execute cashier duties including making direct payments, preparation of receipts, checking of supporting documents, drafting pay-sheets; • Handle financial documentation. Achievements: Establishing of effective filing system; setting up and handing over of archives, covering 4 year projects implementation period; mastering agricultural project terminology; accurate handling of cash payments.

• Teach English; • Draft application and related documents to receive UNESCO grants for school projects; • Translate documents received during the implementation of UNESCO Associated School Project. Achievements: Mastering interactive methods of teaching English; Teacher Excellence Award for the contest conducted by the British Council and UzTEA (Uzbekistan Teachers of English Association); successful passing of entrance examinations in English by students in Institutes of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

Translate reports for the “Caspian Water Quality Monitoring and Action Plan for the Areas of Pollution Concern” MAP project.

• Maintain proper filing system and archives; • Keep liaison with government officials; • Arrange meetings with Contractor and Government officials; • Provide translation during the meetings; • Translate documents for Site engineers including technical specifications, O&M manuals, progress reports, BOQ, site instructions etc.; • Draft minutes of meetings and memos; • Assist in bookkeeping. Achievements: Mastering of terminology in civil engineering.

• Translate contract documentation; • Arrange meetings with Clients and Suppliers; • Search for potential Clients; • Monitoring of contract implementation. Achievements: Signing of supply contract with MAFCO Worldwide Corporation (USA); monitoring of contract implementation (piling, weighting and shipment of licoroots).

• Arrange meetings with Contractor and Government officials, providing translation during the meetings; • Translate documents for site engineers including technical specifications, O&M manuals, progress reports, BOQ, site instructions etc.; • Draft minutes of meetings and memos; • Maintain proper filing system and archives; • Keep liaison with government officials; • Provide visa support for the expatriate specialists; • Execute cashier duties including making direct payments, drafting of requests for funds based on the current office needs, preparation of receipts, checking of supporting documents, drafting pay-sheets.; • Hand over project archives and equipment after office closing. Achievements: Mastering of terminology in hydrogeology; monitoring of staff working schedules; accounting of petroleum and monitoring of drivers’ route list.

Faculty of Foreign Languages, English philology

Goethe Institute, German lanugage, B 2.1