Olivia Devine

Background

About Olivia Devine

My most recent role was that of a Trainer and Facilitator for a non-profit agency seeking to empower those with low confidence in speaking English and helping them adapt to British culture and life in the UK. My role involved creating English session plans, leading an online English group and creating resources to assist volunteers and learners. It was unfortunate that I had to leave this role due to family circumstances as I greatly enjoyed working in a role that sought to assist people in the community and challenge me to think about my work not through the eyes of a teacher, but as a problem solver. Prior to this role, I worked as a Training Specialist at National University in California, USA. In 2020, I was working as a primary school teacher. But when I moved to the US to be with my husband, my qualifications became invalid due to different requirements for teachers in the US. As a result, I searched for a role that still used my teaching experiences, but was not based in a school setting. I fortunately found National University where I was tasked with training new hire employees in soft sales skills, procedures, policies and programs related to the role, and key values upheld by the company. This role allowed me to exercise my skills in creating and managing the training program, building working relationships with trainees, managers and other departmental staff, and learn how to make resources accessible, professionally formatted and clear. This role ended in redundancy, and shortly after, my family moved to the UK. For a short while in between these two roles, I was a stay-at-home mum. Now that I am working again, I am found a role in a similar field in which I can use my experiences. I work as a training coordinator in a food manufacturing firm, where I am primarily training staff in food safety and health and safety procedures, but also in leadership development and managerial skills.