Grace Obasohan

I'm an friendly, hardworking individual with effective leadership and team-working skills which have developed through my previous customer experiences. I have strong communication and organizational skills which I can apply to support store operations and maintaining good customer service!

Director at Black Law Network (BLN) (2024-09 – Present)

An award-nominated legal network that aims to help ethnic minorities and disadvantaged students enter the legal profession by connecting students with top law employers.

• Manage communication to our community of over 700+ members- frequently checking emails and replying back to questions/concerns.
• Introduced a digital team tracker to monitor engagement and deadlines, boosting team productivity by 150%.
• Led a successful mentoring programme for 6 months, connecting Sixth Form and aspiring degree apprentices with university students and current gap year students with a satisfaction rate of 86%- from its previous success, I am running it again for a second time.
• Facilitate the communication for 15 + members throughout the mentoring programme, significantly improving my organisational, time management skills and ability to use digital platforms like Excel Sheets to monitor mentee/mentor engagement.

Founder and CEO at Gracessigniture (2022-08 – Present)

Run my own baking business for 3+ years, servicing clients in Kent and London by providing baked goods depending on the clients needs and demands.

• Utilize social media to market my business and monitor customer engagement, tailoring my social media content to reach broader audiences and additional customers.
• Confidently communicate with clients whilst mainitaining a high level of professionalism, successfully communicating with all clients, leading to several referrals, recommendations and high customer satisfaction rates.

Academic Tutor at Mayfield Grammar School (2022-12 – 2024-06)

• Mentored a small group of Year 11 students in GCSE English Language alongside my A-Levels- all of whom obtained an average of 7.0/A grade.
• Created personalised lessons, academic resources, and providing constructive and detailed feedback weekly to improve their English Language grades.
• Worked closely with students teachers to understand students struggles and how to best adapt my teaching style to meet their needs.
• Weekly reviewed students homework and tracked students grade progression via digital trackers.

Sales Associate at Scope Charity Shop (2021-11 – 2022-04)

• Consistenly delievered excellent customer service, providing a high level of customer service and professionalism.
• Maintained a clean, organised shop floor and confidently welcomed and served customers and the front of the till.
• Directed customers to more experienced collegues for further assistance when needed.
• Successfully balanced working part-time with GCSE's and running my own business, demonstrating strong time management and orgnaisation skills.
• Gained exposure to working in a fast-pased environments, remaining adaptable under pressure.

BA in English – University of Nottingham (2024-09)

A Levels in English Literature (A), Psychology (A), EPQ (B), Chemistry (D) – Mayfield Grammar School (2022-09 – 2024-08)

GCSEs in 10 GCSE's (9-4) including English Language (9), Mathematics (6) – Wilmington Academy (2017-09 – 2022-08)