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Gabriel Howard

Roswell,GA

Summary

Personable Missionary offering experience in teaching, leading, volunteering and facilitating long and short-term missionary teams. Adept at leading diverse groups of people through cross-cultural journeys. Successful at maintaining long-term relationships with various communities through compassionate volunteering and extensive knowledge of culture. With a decade of experience raising funds and maintaining donor relations.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

English Language Instructor

Iftin Education Center
01.2022 - Current
  • Supervised and trained 3 teachers.
  • Worked with refugees to enhance their English comprehension
  • Developed teaching materials for refugees and displaced peoples, to supplement standard curriculum, enhancing learning concepts and promoting student engagement.
  • Delivered instruction in English language encompassing reading, grammar, composition, and literature, working with a team of diverse teachers to integrate skills across the curriculum.
  • Developed and implemented exercises to help students understand and improve sound and symbol relationships, spelling, punctuation, style, and pronunciation.
  • Educated and coached officers and civilian personnel in English language fundamentals, creating an instructional environment enabling the achievement of personal and professional goals.
  • Administrated and developed resources for the English school. This included admitting new students, developing financial records and certificates, and record keeping.

Missionary

SIM
01.2019 - Current
  • Volunteered in overseas locations and in various roles.
  • Led and trained hundreds of new missionaries on effectively learning culture, contextualization insights, and communicating in a different context.
  • Personal discipleship with people and imparted knowledge of faith using strong public speaking and one-on-one discussions.
  • De-escalated and resolved conflicts between local peoples and missionary representatives.
  • Worked on diverse teams to effectively engage communities in improving life circumstances.
  • Built relationships with local and international mission organizations for successful partnerships.
  • Spoke publicly, and privately, with churches, organizations, foundations, and individuals to raise awareness and funds for various projects.
  • Raised over $160,00 for personal and organization projects.

Podcast Manager

Mothers By Grace Podcast
01.2023 - Current
  • Managed an award winning Podcast. Winner of the APVA 2023 Rising Talent Podcast of the Year.
  • Resolved staff member conflicts, actively listening to concerns and finding appropriate middle ground.
  • Developed and maintained relationships with customers and suppliers through account development.
  • Accomplished multiple tasks within established timeframes.
  • Maximized performance by monitoring daily activities and mentoring team members.
  • Maintained professional, organized, and safe environment for employees and patrons.
  • Cross-trained existing employees to maximize team agility and performance.
  • Developed and implemented business strategies to achieve business goals and stay competitive.

Field Mobilizer

Center For Mission Mobilization
06.2014 - 12.2018
  • Trained over 1,000 workers on how to effectively engage students and communities.
  • Coordinated and managed volunteer activities for community service projects.
  • Led group discussions and activities to meet different community needs.
  • Gathered opinions and support from grass-roots supporters to solidify group position.
  • Raised thousands of dollars of funds for personal and organizational projects.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Zoology

Auburn University
Aurubn, Alabama
05.2014

Certificate - Teaching English As A Second Language (ESL)

Cambridge Assessment in English
Washington D.C
08.2019

Skills

  • Fundraising and donor relations
  • Strategic planning
  • Group Instruction
  • Discipleship training
  • Public speaking
  • Workshop coordination
  • Fostering positive relationships
  • Teaching and instruction
  • Religious study
  • Excellent Communication
  • Public outreach
  • Student Evaluation
  • Curriculum Development
  • Support Raising
  • Working on a diverse team
  • Effective contextualization

Accomplishments

  • Hosted short-term trips (4). Organized travel plans, budget, schedule, training, safety protocols, debrief, transportation, and more.
  • Facilitated and operated an English Language school. Organizing classes, developing lesson plans and curriculums, and doing the necessary administrative work.
  • Raised over $500,000 in organizational and personal funds to facilitate the success of our projects.
  • Organized various community outreach projects like public health classes, community development, and story telling classes.
  • Initiated, fostered, and maintained relationships with more than 1,000 financial partners.
  • Involved in bi-monthly communications with financial partners and other stakeholders.
  • Hosted long-term teams from America. Helped with organizing their travel, transportation, budgeting, pre-field training, debrief, on-field training, security training, and more.
  • Led more than 400 trainings for both small-group and large-group. As little as 5 and as large as 400. Trainings included support raising and community outreach.
  • Spoke at more than 20 events. To both small-groups and large-groups. As small as 20 people and as large as 6,000 people.
  • Traveled to different countries to lead various trainings on community outreach.
  • Spoke at organizational conferences to lead staff in outreach techniques.

Timeline

Podcast Manager

Mothers By Grace Podcast
01.2023 - Current

English Language Instructor

Iftin Education Center
01.2022 - Current

Missionary

SIM
01.2019 - Current

Field Mobilizer

Center For Mission Mobilization
06.2014 - 12.2018

Bachelor of Science - Zoology

Auburn University

Certificate - Teaching English As A Second Language (ESL)

Cambridge Assessment in English
Gabriel Howard