Katherine Jarvis
Virginia Beach & Charlottesville,
Summary
Extensive experience with childcare and family assistance, with a devotion to emotionally expressive creativity, transparency with clients and families, and organized, but dynamic planning and management. Consistent desire to maintain safe, healthy, nurturing, creative, and efficient environments, especially with children, to encourage and enhance their development.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Family Nanny & Assistant
The Dozier & Ragon families
Virginia Beach
05.2024 - Current
- Provide families of three and four children, with ages of six, nine, eleven, and twelve, with efficient care of their children, pets, and households.
- Provide children with fresh and healthy meals, transportation to scheduled activities, health appointments, as well as destinations and activities of their choosing.
- Tend to the pets of the family by feeding, cleaning, playing with, walking, facilitating exercise, transporting to, and handling vet appointments.
- Communicate the expectations of my care with the parents, and respect their wishes and ideas of my nannying.
- Assist the children with academic and extracurricular tasks, including arithmetic and mathematical learning pages, timed reading, and piano lessons.
- Complete household tasks to assist the parents and families, including loads of laundry, folding and organizing clothes, handwashing dishes, loading dishwashers, organizing clean dishes, cleaning and organizing living spaces, and tending to gardens.
- Connect with the children and encourage lighthearted activities to create bonds while actively listening to their interests, feelings, and wishes.
Camp Counselor & Assistant
Norfolk Academy
Norfolk
06.2022 - 08.2024
- Facilitated and encouraged the academic interest and motivation within children the age of four to thirteen by administering academic activities, tending to children's' questions and misunderstandings, and encouraging the children and celebrating their progress and success.
- Helping and caring to children by serving their meals, monitoring bathrooms and locker rooms and assisting if needed, swimming with the children, leading them throughout the academy, monitoring and organizing carpool and buses to safely and quickly join children with their families.
- Organizing the schedules and placement of counselors with each weekly cycle of camps, as well as helping the counselors by organizing binders of essential information, including the children's names and attendance, transportation, allergies, and parents' contact information.
- Facilitating and encouraging the learning processes, confidence, and independence of all children of all ages by actively listening to and respecting their feelings, helping and assisting by explaining, rather than simply doing, and expressing patience and belief within the children and their capabilities.
- Helping to assist the Academy directors by collecting each counselors' attendance sheets, collecting and distributing transportation passes, connecting parents to their children and their counselors, and organizing offices and supplies.
- Joining and helping any counselor and camp with flexibility if needed by the directors.
Peer Counselor and Tutor
Norfolk Academy
Norfolk
08.2022 - 05.2024
- Advised peers, as welcomed and needed, with mental health and academic difficulties, including anxiety, depression, tutoring, etc.
- Led tutoring during my few free, highschool hours with subjects including Latin, chemistry, and English.
- Attended continuous and numerous informational sessions of mental health signs, symptoms, diagnoses, and treatments within adolescents and peers.
Norfolk Academy After-School Program Counselor
Norfolk Academy
Norfolk
11.2021 - 05.2024
- Performed as an academic, behavioral, physical, and health aid to young students, ages five to twelve, each weekday.
- Provided children with academic help, including guidance with homework, administering practice tests, and organizing their materials.
- Entertained and connected with children by creating artwork and crafts, playing board games, being outdoors, and exercising together.
Internship Student
Mary Hasan of the Virginia Arts Recording
Norfolk
06.2023 - 07.2023
- Experienced the power of art through music, artistic expression and creation, poetry, and instruments while enhancing my own connection with art and its societal and communal relevance.
- Connected and effectively communicated with local directors, families, and artists to gain new perspective and sense of interests.
- Assisted company directors by editing schedules, advertisements, and event planning, providing feedback to event ideas, festival topics and themes, and social media presence, as well as organizing and completing financial and event documents within Excel.
Student Volunteer
Brock Environmental Center—Chesapeake Bay Foundati
Virginia Beach
06.2023 - 07.2023
- Experienced the pursuits of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation to save and maintain the health of ecosystems within the Chesapeake Bay and actively joined the foundation's inspirational operations.
- Organized and administered event planning, advertisement, scheduling, and volunteer information including contact and mailing information through Excel.
- Organized essential supplies, office and meeting spaces, and the outdoor spaces to create a welcoming, clean environment.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Neuroscience & Art
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA05-2028
High School Diploma -
Norfolk Academy
Norfolk, VA05-2024
Skills
- Communicating—with peers, employees, and directors
- Creativity
- Organization and scheduling
- Family assistance
- Child care experience
- Academic assistance
- Digital design and marketing
- Artistic expression
- Household and family management
Affiliations
- Studying neuroscience, studio art, and English as academic major and minors
- Pursuing humans' developmental neurosciences, especially the minds of children and babies.
- Artistic pursuits, including painting, sketching, digital prints, and upholstery.
- Enjoying classic literature—my favorite pieces to read include the classic, the novels academic experts view as "must reads".
Accomplishments
- Cum Laude Academic Society (Sophomore, Junior, and Senior years of Norfolk Academy)
- Awarded the Smith Book Award by Smith College (Junior year of Norfolk Academy)
- John H. Tucker Art History Award (Senior graduation of Norfolk Academy)
- University of Virginia Dean's List (First Fall and Spring Semester)
Certification
- Norfolk Academy Certified Academic and Mental Health Peer Counselor
Languages
Spanish
Professional
Latin
Professional
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Family Nanny & Assistant
The Dozier & Ragon families
05.2024 - Current
Internship Student
Mary Hasan of the Virginia Arts Recording
06.2023 - 07.2023
Student Volunteer
Brock Environmental Center—Chesapeake Bay Foundati
06.2023 - 07.2023
Peer Counselor and Tutor
Norfolk Academy
08.2022 - 05.2024
Camp Counselor & Assistant
Norfolk Academy
06.2022 - 08.2024
Norfolk Academy After-School Program Counselor
Norfolk Academy
11.2021 - 05.2024
Bachelor of Arts - Neuroscience & Art
University of Virginia
High School Diploma -
Norfolk Academy
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