Sikhanyiselwe Joanna Ncube
Summary
Accomplished Business Development Manager and English Tutor with a proven track record at Babbel Live and deVere Group, showcasing strong linguistic abilities and portfolio management skills. Elevated sales by 20% and enhanced student motivation by 10%, demonstrating dynamic reporting and effective communication. Expert in fostering educational and financial growth.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
English Second Language Tutor
Babbel Live
12.2022 - 11.2023
- Company Overview: Babbel Live is a German online English tutoring application
- With over 60 000 followers Babbel live caters for multi nationalities of individuals desiring to improve their comprehension of the English language
- I tutored over 700 students per month, whilst maintaining a high teacher rating, until my time of departure
- Babbel Live is a German online English tutoring application
- With over 60 000 followers Babbel live caters for multi nationalities of individuals desiring to improve their comprehension of the English language
Volunteer
CURE Hospital
01.2021 - 07.2023
- Company Overview: CURE Hospital provides world-class, comprehensive care for children suffering from a variety of life-limiting yet treatable conditions
- Biblical Counseling
- Providing the Christ-centered support children need to reach their full potential
- Provide creative healing through play therapy
- CURE Hospital provides world-class, comprehensive care for children suffering from a variety of life-limiting yet treatable conditions
Business English Second Language Tutor
GEAD
09.2021 - 11.2022
- Company Overview: GEAD Language Community is a South American Chile, based Language community
- This language community provides, specialized services that promote linguistic knowledge, forming ties that allow understanding and fulfilment of intercultural needs through various technological platforms
- Training and developing a portfolio of managerial staff from affluent firms such as Siemens Health, Equifax and HP
- Investing dynamic presentation skill in clientele
- Ensuring flawless report writing, embodied with charts
- Meeting execution
- Negotiation skills are developed
- GEAD Language Community is a South American Chile, based Language community
- This language community provides, specialized services that promote linguistic knowledge, forming ties that allow understanding and fulfilment of intercultural needs through various technological platforms
- Attained a 90% student's pass rate in first semester
- Increased student motivation by 10% through utilisation of diverse manner of teaching
Business Development Manager
Cloth Co
08.2020 - 07.2021
- Company Overview: Cloth Co - a Fabric outlet, Importers and distributors of wholesale fabric textiles, sourced in South Africa, Korea, China etc
- Daily Sales processing
- Buyer Acquisition and relationship building
- Monthly sales report writing
- Managerial duties (Marketing and negotiation)
- Subordinate management
- Cloth Co - a Fabric outlet, Importers and distributors of wholesale fabric textiles, sourced in South Africa, Korea, China etc
- Increased sales by 10% in first quarter of service
- In the absence of outlet owner, solely managed firm for 4 months
- Designed dashboards to track metrics and team performance
- Improved team velocity by 10% through motivation and continuous improvement
- Engaged and educated stakeholders that were completely new to Cloth-Co, this led to an increase in sales, better feedback, and engagement with the team
- Maintenance of monthly targets
Executive Assistant
Netsurit
12.2018 - 05.2019
- Company Overview: Netsurit provides proactive Information Technology support, strategy, systems design and ongoing support to streamline your business operations, increase productivity and boost profitability
- Providing administrative support to the CEO
- Managing his diary + organisation of meetings
- Handling his primary financial accounts
- Maintenance of confidential files, responding appropriately and filtering requests on CEO's behalf
- Responsible for the administration of Board of Trustees and Board
- Netsurit provides proactive Information Technology support, strategy, systems design and ongoing support to streamline your business operations, increase productivity and boost profitability
Business Development Manager
deVere group
11.2015 - 05.2018
- Company Overview: The deVere Group is one of the largest independent financial advisory firms in the world, managing US $ 10 billion from more than 80 000 international investors and expatriates in 109 countries
- Promoting the services provided by the deVere Group
- Performing introductory interviewing and identification of potential clients
- Analysing financial information of potential clients
- Developing and presenting financial planning recommendations
- Co ordinating with the relevant offshore financial institutions in order to implement financial planning recommendations
- Client Services and Monitoring of the financial planning recommendations
- Networking and creating a chain of connections through networking events, to gain knowledge of potential business for the firm
- Training and supporting a team of junior employees
- Identifying varied training needs
- The deVere Group is one of the largest independent financial advisory firms in the world, managing US $ 10 billion from more than 80 000 international investors and expatriates in 109 countries
- Attained Business development manager award of the year award in our office 2017
- Solely Brought in business worth +USD$40 000.00 in 2017
- Improved sales by a 20% increment within my first quarter of service
- Trained a group of 3 new junior staff that have excelled exceptionally well
Education
Master of Business Administration -
University of Suffolk
10.2024
B com - Financial Management
UNISA
01.2016
Skills
- Effective communication
- Strong linguistics
- Administrative skill
- Portfolio management
- Consultancy management
- Investment bonds
- Retirement planning
- Life insurance
- Pension transfers
- Education planning
- Utilisation of digital assets
- Report writing
- Dynamic reporting packs
- Workshop facilitation
- Coaching
- Tutoring
- Training
- Behavioural management
- Multilingualism
- Vocabulary building
- Pedagogical Knowledge
- Native fluency
- Pronunciation coaching
References
Available upon request.
Running and Swimming
Completed first half marathon in July 2023. Victoria falls Zimbabwe.
Languages
French
Intermediate (B1)
English
Advanced (C1)
Zulu
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Timeline
English Second Language Tutor
Babbel Live
12.2022 - 11.2023
Business English Second Language Tutor
GEAD
09.2021 - 11.2022
Volunteer
CURE Hospital
01.2021 - 07.2023
Business Development Manager
Cloth Co
08.2020 - 07.2021
Executive Assistant
Netsurit
12.2018 - 05.2019
Business Development Manager
deVere group
11.2015 - 05.2018
B com - Financial Management
UNISA
Master of Business Administration -
University of Suffolk
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