Education Assistant 2 - School District 52 - Prince Rupert, BC
(2025-10)
- Works with individual students and small groups
- Helps students with assignments
- Helps build students' social skills, emotional skills and self-esteem
- Offers encouragement to help students fit into the classroom and school
- Assisting with children's personal care
- Observes students and shares their observations with the classroom teacher
- Assists students with special needs
- Supervises students on road walks, during school activities in the school gym, labs, and libraries
- Reinforces students' learning using lessons and methods developed by the classroom teacher
Child and Youth Support Worker - Children Matters Community Services - Prince Rupert, BC
(2025-01 - 2025-11)
- Assessed the needs of children and youth in Resource homes
- Provided frontline care based on an intervention plan for each child and youth
- Communicated, reported, and escalated to appropriate channels the progress or otherwise of residents
- Supported the daily home needs of children and youth in care
Program Coordinator - North Coast Immigrant & Multicultural Services Society (NCIMSS) - Prince Rupert, BC
(2024-10 - 2025-08)
- Provided administrative and operational support for community programs and organizational initiatives
- Coordinated meetings, maintained records, prepared reports, and tracked project activities for management and stakeholders. Communicates with and provides services to various internal and external contacts
- Prepared correspondence, briefing materials, and program documentation while maintaining confidentiality
- Liaised with internal and external stakeholders, community partners, and service providers to support program delivery
- Maintained organized electronic and physical filing systems and ensured accurate record keeping
- Supported board reporting requirements and prepared updates for senior leadership and the Board of Directors
Summer Student (Legal) - Prince Rupert Port Authority - Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada
(2024-05 - 2024-08)
- Conducted legal research on case laws, statutes, and regulations, and demonstrated knowledge of legal matters
- Analyzed and reviewed agreements, and drafted revisions and updates as needed
- Drafted letter agreements, ensuring precise and clear terms and conditions
- Provided legal and administrative support to contribute to the success of port-related developments
- Attended training sessions on the use of M-Files metadata
- Attended training programs on indigenous awareness workshops and history lessons
- Gained experience in a fast-paced and dynamic port-related legal environment
Partner - Legal Series Associates - FCT, Abuja, Nigeria
(2022-02 - 2024-03)
- Successfully registered over 50 Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) with the Corporate Affairs Commission, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements
- Serve as an external solicitor for the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN), providing expert legal services for debt recovery matters
- Manage post-incorporation matters for various clients, including: Filing statutory returns and ensuring timely compliance, Facilitating changes to company names, memorandum, and articles of association, Registering trademarks for company names and logos, and Registering and obtaining the Special Control Unit Against Money Laundering (SCUML) certificate for companies
- Conduct comprehensive legal research, drafted and reviewed legal documents, including but not limited to Deeds of Assignments, Sale and Purchase, Joint Venture Agreements, Leases, Tenancy and Non-Disclosure Agreements
- Actively participated in the 2023 National and State Houses of Assembly Election Petition alongside Senior Advocates of Nigeria
- Negotiated settlements and secured four (4) favourable settlements in compensation for clients
- Demonstrated expertise in interpreting complex legal statements and documents, and developed informed legal opinions
- Utilize expertise in police and court bail procedures to advocate for clients' rights and interests
- Prepared and filed a wide range of legal documents in court, including Statements of Claims, Statements of Defence, Counterclaims, and Undefended List procedures, ensuring accurate and timely filing
- Authenticate and notarize confidential documents, ensuring their validity and admissibility in legal proceedings (Certified Notary Public)
Legal Officer/Office Manager - Pillar-Rest Attorneys - FCT, Abuja, Nigeria
(2020-11 - 2022-01)
- Provided administrative assistance to senior legal staff, ensuring seamless day-to-day operations
- Demonstrated expertise in legal compliance, maintaining up-to-date knowledge of regulatory requirements, and ensuring adherence
- Managed office administration, including supervising staff, coordinating court schedules, and overseeing facilities management
- Conducted legal documentation review and preparation, including contracts, agreements, and court filings
Junior Legal Counsel - A.I. Wombo & Co. (Royal Chambers) - Makurdi, Nigeria
(2014-12 - 2016-03)
- Represented clients in criminal and civil proceedings in the Magistrates' and state High courts
- Participated in the 2015 Gubernatorial Elections Petition
- Contributed to successful court proceedings through thorough research and preparation, analyzing case laws, statutes, and relevant precedents to develop effective legal strategies
- Drafted legal documents and letters, interviewed clients, negotiated out-of-court settlements, and advised clients on the strengths/weaknesses of their cases
Administrative Assistant II (National Youth Service Corps) - Court of Appeal, Abuja Division (Chamber 3) - FCT, Abuja, Nigeria
(2013-03 - 2013-09)
- Provided secretarial support for JCA Abuja Division
- Scheduled appointments and meetings
- Conducted legal research
- Drafted and edited correspondence and documents
- Liaised with judicial and non-judicial staff
