SAHENAJBEN KHALIFA
Primrose Schools
Lowell,MA
2
Languages
1
Certification
24
years of professional experience
Dynamic professional skilled in fostering organizational communication and collaboration through strong interpersonal abilities and multilingual proficiency. Demonstrated success in engaging diverse audiences, building positive relationships, and promoting teamwork. Committed to leveraging language expertise to enhance effective interaction across cultures in a challenging role.
Work History
Preschool Teacher
1 Month- Designed developmentally appropriate lesson plans aligned with early learning standards and classroom objectives.
- Fostered nurturing environment supporting social, emotional, cognitive, and physical growth.
- Implemented daily classroom routines, transitions, and behavior guidance with consistency and care.
- Assessed student progress and adjusted instruction to meet individual learning needs.
- Collaborated with co-teachers to maintain safe, organized, and engaging learning spaces.
- Maintained accurate documentation for attendance, observations, and child development records.
Teacher – career educator
2 Years 3 Months- Provided individualized instruction to students who needed additional assistance.
- Supervised group activities.
- Helped maintain a safe and orderly learning environment.
- Collaborated with other staff members to ensure student success.
- Provided one-on-one help to struggling students during study hall sessions.
- Organized instructional materials, bulletin boards, displays, and demonstrations.
- Worked with students to reinforce learning of material or skill introduced by teacher.
- Arranged age-appropriate activities to help children develop interests and talents.
- Created colorful and attractive displays for bulletin boards and hallways.
- Built and strengthened positive relationships with students, parents and teaching staff.
- Introduced and encouraged debate-style classroom setting to increase student active participation and critical thinking.
Food Event Club Supervisor
10 Months- Created successful work schedules for each team member to maintain deadlines and fully staff shifts
- Monitored workflow to improve employee time management and increase productivity
- Maintained clean and well - organized production areas to avoid violation or unnecessary work delay due to hazards or inefficient layouts
- Provided backup to front desk to step in to assist with various tasks whenever employee was absent or at lunch
- Coordinate individual duties after careful evaluation of each employee's skill level and knowledge
- Solicited customer feedback to identify and improve on areas of weakness Handled customer complaints, resolved issues, and adjusted policies to meet changing needs
- Identified unsafe or unhelpful workplace conditions or hazards to enforce safe work practices and procedures
- Mentored newly hired employee on operating equipment and safety and developed training manual to use for reference.
Food Event Club Supervisor
2 Years 5 Months- Determines work procedures, prepares work schedules and expedites workflow for inmate employee workforce
- Assist with hiring, coaching, performance management and reviews
- Prepares work schedules and evaluates work performance of employees
- Trains workers in performance of duties and assigns and coordinates work of employees to promote an efficient operation
- Responsible for Work Force Management scheduling, editing, keying exceptions and approving time
- Contribute to the relevant and timely performance feedback to associates through the performance review process
- Provides effective direction
- Assigns and coordinates work to promote efficiency of operations
- Assist with daily STEP observations and report safety hazards discovered in the location to management immediately
- Supervise and evaluate employees; counsel; promote employee growth, efficiency, morale, and teamwork
- Ask customers about the quality of their service and handle any complaints (with assistance from the manager on duty) while maintaining a positive attitude and smile
- Maintain a safe and hazard-free working environment.
Lead Event Specialist
3 Years 3 Months- Ensure all Event Specialists comply with company standards while providing food and product demonstrations
- Offer food samples and product demonstrations to customers
- Answer all questions with exceptional customer service skills
- Keep area and equipment organized, sanitized, clean and safe
- Provide management with required documentation.
Receptionist
2 Years 1 Month- Opened new customer accounts, input and maintained accurate client data
- Generated monthly bills, collected client account deposits, and generated customer bills
- Updated client information into the directory
- Answered a busy business telephone with exceptional customer service skills.
Private Tutor
11 Years 1 Month- Daily, conducted individualized tutorial sessions for approximately 25 students with academic deficiencies
- Focused on skills in the areas of Mathematics, English, and the languages of Hindi and Gujarati
- Designed and implemented exercises and activities to facilitate student's academic improvement
- Maintained all records required to document student's attendance, fees and academic progress
- Assessed student's needs for assistance in other areas such as counseling and referred as necessary.
Education
Bachelor of Arts
Skills
Skills 1: Microsoft Word
Excel
Outlook
Skills 2: English
Hindi
Gujarati
Early childhood education
Parent-teacher communication
Classroom organization
Certification
EEC Certified
Pediatric Child and Infant First Aid Certified
Pediatric Child and Infant CPR & AED Certified
State Food Safety Manager Certification
Languages
English
Full Professional
Hindi
Full Professional
Timeline
Preschool Teacher
Primrose Schools
08.2026 - 09.2026Read More
Teacher – career educator
Knowledge Beginnings
04.2024 - 07.2026Read More
Food Event Club Supervisor
CROSSMARK
07.2020 - 05.2021Read More
Food Event Club Supervisor
Advantage Sales & Marketing, BJ's Wholesale Club
12.2017 - 05.2020Read More
Lead Event Specialist
Advantage Sales & Marketing
09.2014 - 12.2017Read More
Receptionist
Indian Telecommunication System
03.2012 - 04.2014Read More
Private Tutor
Home Based Business
03.2003 - 04.2014Read More
Career Pathways
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S. B. Garda Arts & P. K. Patel Commerce College
Bachelor of Arts
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