DEBORAH ONTONG
Work Experience
Personal Details
Date of Birth: 14 April 1989
Nationality: South African
Native English Speaker
Skills
Professional
- Communication:
> verbal
> visual (including digital)
> written
- Computer literate:
> G Suite
> MS Office Suite
> Office 365
- Education and facilitation
- Referencing styles:
> American Psychological
Association (APA)
> Harvard
> Modern Language
Association (MLA)
Research databases:
> EBSCO Information
Services
> JSTOR
> Google Scholar
> Google Search
> SAGE Publications
Personal attributes
- conscientious
- determined
- meticulous
- organised
- reliable
Online Teacher
Employer: DadaABC and independently as required
Tasks: teach English online to 3-14-year-olds and provide feedback to parents.
Date: January 2019 – present
Teacher
- Employer: King’s School
- Tasks: teaching and facilitating learning, planning, assessments and reports;
administration, proofreading newsletters, formatting documents; plan various
school and staff events; play, imagine and create .
- Date: May 2014 – December 2018
Au Pair/Tutor
- Employer: Suzette Loff
- Tasks: transporting school-going children to and from school and extra-curricular
activities; household errands; tutoring all subjects, primarily English and
Afrikaans.
- Date: June – December 2011
Community Outreach Program Coordinator
- Employer: Maties Gemeenskap Diens at Stellenbosch University
- Tasks: mentoring a group of girls in an underprivileged community as part of a
social awareness program. Create and plan a program to meet specific
objectives; coordinating schedules and managing events.
- Date: January 2008 – June 2011; January 2012 – December 2012
Administrative Assistant
- Employer: Edge Church
- Tasks: managing internal and external communication, event planning,
coordinating schedules and workspaces, writing newsletters, proofreading, data
collection, organising databases, filing, etc.
- Date: 2006
Event Solutions
- Employer: Amanzi Blue
- Tasks: general staffing solutions, administrative tasks, personal assistant, event
management, data entry, managing database, etc.
- Date: January 2006 – December 2008
Education
Bachelor of Arts (General)
- Institution: University of South Africa (UNISA)
- Subjects: Communications, Political Science, English Language and Literature.
- Qualification: Bachelor’s degree
Bachelor of Arts (General)
- Institution: Stellenbosch University (Degree completed through UNISA.)
- Subjects: English, Political Science, Psychology, Philosophy, French and
Information Systems.
National Curriculum Framework
- Institution: WCED
- Modules: theory of play, development, inclusive education, Early Learning
Development Areas (ELDAs), planning and assessments.
- Qualification: Certificate
Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) / Teaching English to Speakers of
Other Languages (TESOL)
- Institution: Global Language Training
- Qualification: 150 Hour Master TEFL Certificate
Community Journalism
- Institution: University of South Africa (UNISA)
- Qualification: Certificate
Child Health
- Institution: Northlink
- Qualification: Certificate