MARION PALMER-HYNES
Curriculum Coordinator/Facilitator
Manchester,Jamaica
Summary
To fulfil a role that requires good interpersonal, organizational and communication skills. Also, maximum computer usage and the opportunity for research.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Facilitator
Northern Caribbean University, Curriculum, Fundamentals of Christian Education
08.2022 - Current
- Principles of Teaching and Learning
- Instructional Technology
- Freshman Seminar/University Orientation
Operations and Curriculum Coordinator
Digital Education Centre
09.2021 - Current
- Distance Education Centre Northern Caribbean University
- Planning and implementing procedures
- Corresponding with the Administration of the University on behalf of the Director of Distance Education
- Reviewing of coursebook and course outline submissions
- Preparation of a Faculty Handbook for online teaching and learning
- Acts and adapts to support roles within the team when needed to fulfil urgent or ad hoc requests
- Create illustrations for complex concepts and software workflows
- Assist with administration of courses and training content
- Use innovative techniques and creative delivery mechanisms to reach a dispersed, global field organization and adopt new technologies as needed
- Stay current on learning best practices and share trends in the spirit of team development
- Any other duties as assigned by the Director or Assistant Director
Administrative Assistant
Northern Caribbean University
09.2018 - 08.2021
- Relate to external clients in office and by telephone
- Relate to students queries regarding certificate course offerings
- Prepare meeting agendas and minutes of meeting
- Organize and maintain the filing system
- Review and assist in the preparation of documents for submission to accreditation and other academic committees
- Prepare contracts for Course Writers and Course Facilitators
- Monitor and maintain supplies requisition and distribution
- Overseeing student worker(s) employed to the department
- Performing all general office duties
- Any other duties that may be assigned
Administrative Assistant
College of Graduate Education, Northern Caribbean University
05.2016 - 08.2018
- Provides administrative and secretarial support to the Dean of the College, including special projects, office workflow, appointments, correspondence, data compilation and records control
- Assisting in the preparation of manuscripts, budgets, contracts, etc
- Performs a wide variety of complex and confidential secretarial tasks for the Dean
- Maintains/oversees the maintenance of college administrative files
- Coordinates special projects and events, office activities, and committee meetings
- Maintains Dean’s calendar, schedules appointments and meetings
- Prepares college’s monthly reports and end-of-year reports
- Collaborates with the Office of Graduate Studies to schedule final defences
- Makes arrangements for External Examiners for final defences
- Assist in the process of getting final theses and dissertations from the Office of Graduate Studies to the University Press for printing and binding and ensure payment is done by student
- Composes and types directives, bulletins, schedules, and agendas
- Makes arrangements for college meetings and ensures that proceedings are properly recorded
- Types routine correspondence and reports from dictation or handwritten copy
- Answers telephone, screens callers, relays messages, and greets visitors
- Opens, sorts and screens mail
- Answers telephone, screens callers, relays messages, and greets visitors
- Carries out duties and responsibilities with limited supervision
Administrative Assistant
10.2014 - 05.2016
- Office of Graduate Studies and Research
Secretary
Northern Caribbean University
10.2008 - 10.2014
- Perform general office duties
- Filing
- Making and receiving telephone calls
- Preparing documentation (letters or memorandum on student’s behalf or on behalf of the department chair)
- Edit documents prepared from the department (eg
- Submissions for accreditation, submissions for the bulletin, final examination, course outlines, reports by the chair or faculty members)
- Attend to students’ queries/concerns
- Plan for monthly department meetings
- Organizing various departmental events
- Supervise receptionist and student workers
- Evaluate transcript and prepare document for transfer credits as requested by students upon entry into a program in the department
Secretary
Church Pastor’s Office, Northern Caribbean University
05.2007 - 09.2008
- Performing all general office duties
- Organizing various church services (from regular to special)
- Prepare and print or see to the printing of programmes for various church services
Teacher
Information
Clarendon
09.2006 - 04.2007
- Responsible for maintaining the computer lab to which I was assigned
- Providing hardware and software assistance to users of the computer lab
- Taught Information Technology to grades 8, 10 and 11 (CSEC) students
Workshop Supervisor/Secretary
Computer Labs, Northern Caribbean University
01.2004 - 07.2006
- Responsible for providing high-level administrative support to the maintenance team and to supervise the workers at the department’s mechanical workshop, this includes:
- Directing workshop service
- Carrying out machine evaluation
- Dealing with request by teacher for specific software
- Job distribution
- Machine inventory
- Data log, preparing and managing records
- Meeting workshop deadlines
- Organize training and supervising of workshop staff
- Responsible for putting together and producing a general lab report and workshop report at the end of each month
- General supervisor of all labs and of lab consultants
Teaching Practicum II
Mile Gully High School
Manchester
01.2006 - 03.2006
- Taught Office Procedures to third form students
- Taught Information Technology to grades 7, 8, 9 and 10 (a total of ten hours per week)
Teaching Practicum I, Beaumont Comprehensive College
Manchester
09.2004 - 10.2004
- Taught Office Procedures and Information Technology to CXC classes
- Taught Mathematics and Religious Education (volunteer) when teachers were absent or unable to attend classes.
Secretary/Lab Consultant Supervisor
Computer Labs, Northern Caribbean University
01.2003 - 12.2003
- Responsible for adding up timecards and preparing document for submission of hours worked by each student worker
- File of the lab consultants’ time cards at the end of the month
- Address students queries as it relates to the use of the computer lab
- Perform general office duties
- Direct lab meetings in the absence as well as presence of the manager
- Responsible for putting together and producing a lab reports at the end of each month
Lab Consultant
Computer Labs
, Northern
06.2002 - 12.2002
- Caribbean University
- Assist students with queries they may have (as they use the facilities in the computer room)
- Monitor the labs as have been assigned
- Assist students during classes in the lab according to teachers’ instructions
- Assist students in accessing the software they desire
- Ensure that all the machines are in proper working conditions and are ready for use at all times once the lab is open
Secretary’s Assistant
Northern Caribbean University
08.2000 - 05.2002
- Provided administrative support in producing all forms of office communication
- Responsible for filing documents
- Addressing students’ queries/complaints
Associate Vice President of Academic Administration
Northern Caribbean University
- Who has special responsibility for Graduate Studies and Research
- Work closely with the Director of Research
- Preparing and reviewing policy documents and handbooks to manage the operation of graduate programmes and the graduate and research areas in general
- Preparing reports of activities within the graduate and research areas
- Assisting with the review and editing of institutional documents within the scope of the responsibilities of the Associate Vice President and the Director of Research
- Preparing internal and external correspondences on behalf of Associate Vice President and the Director of Research
- Planning, organizing and overseeing the execution of graduate studies events and activities
- Planning, organizing and overseeing the execution of research events and activities
- Receiving and placing telephone calls on behalf of the Associate Vice President and Director of Research
- Attending and recording minutes at the monthly meetings of the graduate, research and special projects committees
- Preparing minutes of meetings and scheduling the monthly meetings of the graduate, research and special projects committees
- Providing information to students, workers, visitors and callers on the graduate programmes of the institution
- Responding to and resolving the queries and concerns of students, deans, chairs and coordinators
- Receiving and documenting applications from applicants to the graduate programmes
- Processing applications for applicants to the graduate programmes – assigning I.D
- Numbers to applicants, entering the applicants’ data in the database and forwarding the applications to the relevant College/School
- Creating and maintaining files on all graduate students
- Preparing acceptance letters for applicants to the graduate programmes
- Checking the accuracy of the graduate information that appears on the system and in the bulletin (especially that which is listed directly under the Office of Graduate Studies)
- Liaising with the Deans/Coordinators of graduate programmes on matters relevant to the graduate programmes
- Updating the graduate application form and the graduate programmes listing whenever the need arises
- Overseeing student worker(s) employed to the office
- Any other duties (graduate and research in nature) that may be assigned
Education
Master of Arts (MA) - Curriculum and Instruction
Northern Caribbean University
01.2020
Associates of Science (ASc.) Degree - Information Science
Northern Caribbean University
01.2011
Bachelor of Science (BSc - Secondary Education, Secretarial Studies, Computer Studies
Northern Caribbean University
01.2006
Associates of Science (ASc.) Degree - Office Systems and Administration
Northern Caribbean University
01.2003
Skills
- SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
- Competent & Efficient in Document Editing and Formatting, Microsoft Office Suite, Job Readiness Training, and Project Management Display effective organizational skills while managing multiple and competing priorities
Accomplishments
- COMMITTEE/PROJECT INVOLVEMENT:
- April 2022 - Present Chief Editor Society of Adventist Academic Professionals (SAAP)
- Serve on the SAAP Executive Committee
- Chair the editorial board meetings
- Collaborate with other members of the editorial team and the Executive Committee regarding the annual plan of the editorial board
- Help to recruit suitable Editors
- Coordinate the editing and publication of the SAAP Newsletter and Journal
- Solicit news items pertinent to the interests of the Society and include them in a Newsletter
- March 2022 - Present Online Bulletin Taskforce
References
REFERENCES:
Dr. Grace Kelly
Director
Curriculum Development,
Examinations and Assessment, NCU
Lot #2 Hillview Close
Hillside, Manchester
(876)361-3328
gkelly@gmail.com
Mrs. Avery Thompson
Assistant Director
Distance Education Centre
NCU
15 Fisher Road
Decarteret Road
Mandeville, Manchester
(876)919-2345
ajthompson@ncu.edu.jm
Dr. Nanibala Paul
Associate Professor Department of Graduate Education and Leadership NCU
DeCarteret Road
Mandeville, Manchester
(876)550-2018
nanibala.paul@ncu.edu.jm
Interests
- Northern Caribbean University
- Assess the accuracy of the bulletins now in the system
- Update the bulletins to reflect the approved printed bulletins
- Make changes or adjustments as approved via the Online Bulletin Change Request Form
- Allow for students to accurately track their programme online based on their assigned bulletins November 2021 - March 2022 Project Leader Faculty Guide for Online Teaching and Learning Distance Education Centre, Northern Caribbean University
- Description, Benefits and Challenges of Online Teaching and Learning
- Standards for Online Learning
- Synchronous vs Asynchronous Learning
- E-Faculty Responsibility
- E-Learner Responsibility
- Meeting Learners’ Needs
- Best Practices for Teaching Online
- Online Tools and their Uses
- Teaching Strategies Use in Online Teaching and Learning Representing the Director of Distance Education on the following committees:
- Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
- Graduate Curriculum Committee
- Graduate Council
Timeline
Facilitator
Northern Caribbean University, Curriculum, Fundamentals of Christian Education
08.2022 - Current
Operations and Curriculum Coordinator
Digital Education Centre
09.2021 - Current
Administrative Assistant
Northern Caribbean University
09.2018 - 08.2021
Administrative Assistant
College of Graduate Education, Northern Caribbean University
05.2016 - 08.2018
Administrative Assistant
10.2014 - 05.2016
Secretary
Northern Caribbean University
10.2008 - 10.2014
Secretary
Church Pastor’s Office, Northern Caribbean University
05.2007 - 09.2008
Teacher
Information
09.2006 - 04.2007
Teaching Practicum II
Mile Gully High School
01.2006 - 03.2006
Teaching Practicum I, Beaumont Comprehensive College
09.2004 - 10.2004
Workshop Supervisor/Secretary
Computer Labs, Northern Caribbean University
01.2004 - 07.2006
Secretary/Lab Consultant Supervisor
Computer Labs, Northern Caribbean University
01.2003 - 12.2003
Lab Consultant
Computer Labs
06.2002 - 12.2002
Secretary’s Assistant
Northern Caribbean University
08.2000 - 05.2002
Associate Vice President of Academic Administration
Northern Caribbean University
Master of Arts (MA) - Curriculum and Instruction
Northern Caribbean University
Associates of Science (ASc.) Degree - Information Science
Northern Caribbean University
Bachelor of Science (BSc - Secondary Education, Secretarial Studies, Computer Studies
Northern Caribbean University
Associates of Science (ASc.) Degree - Office Systems and Administration
Northern Caribbean University
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