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Ms Aminder Nijjar
Personal details Back to top
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- Title
- Ms
- Forname
- Aminder
- Surname
- Nijjar
- Gender
- Female
- Date record last updated
- Wednesday 15 December 2010
Contact information Back to top
- Preferred contact address:
- aminder.nijjar@yahoo.com
- Regions prepared to work:
- East of England; London; Midlands; North West; Scotland and Northern Ireland; South East; South West and Wales; Yorkshire and North East; International
- E-mail:
- aminder.nijjar@yahoo.com
Reference one Back to top
- Title:
- Mr
- Name:
- Paul
- Surname:
- Jackson
- Job title:
- Director
- Intitution:
- University of Leicester
- Contact method:
- pmj7@le.ac.uk / 0116 252 2315
Reference two Back to top
- Title:
- Mr
- Name:
- Nick
- Surname:
- Williams
- Job title:
- Manager
- Intitution:
- Big Lottery Fund
- Contact method:
- Nick.Williams@biglotteryfund.org.uk / n/a
Experience Back to top
- Job title:
- Independent Consultant & Trainer
- Current institution:
- Self-employed & Sandwell College
- CV
- Download file
- Relevant qualifications:
- MBTI PGDip Management Studies Dip Careers Guidance BSc Hons Sociology
- Personal profile:
- Committed to encouraging and enabling others (individuals, teams, departments) to realise their aspirations.
- Biography:
- Aminder has experience in facilitating small and large groups and one-to-one guidance and coaching with a range of clients: researchers, university staff, professionals seeking a career change, undergraduates, postgraduates, international students, unemployed adults, people with learning difficulties and disabilities. Aminder has tutored on two Local GRADschools and designed and delivered various programmes and workshops for PhD researchers when she worked at University of Leicester. She also has experience of designing, co-ordinating and delivering training for university staff. Currently, Aminder is an Employability Tutor at a College, a Consultant for Higher Education Institutions and an Event Organiser and Host for a professional association. She has worked within Higher Education for several years; as a Project Co-ordinator, Associate Director and Careers Adviser. She is a Fellow of the National Institute of Careers Education and Counselling (NICEC), is an Associate of ICeGS at University of Derby, and has presented at numerous conferences.
- Audience:
- Careers service personnel
- Postgraduate researchers
- Research staff
- Senior staff in HE
- Staff developers/trainers
- Other
Specialist areas Back to top
- Type of work:
- Auditing, review and evaluation
- Coaching
- Event management
- Mentoring
- Research into skills development
- Training delivery
- Training design and development
- Other
- Subject areas:
- Career development
- Cultural awareness, equality and diversity
- Enterprise and entrepreneurship
- Evaluation and feedback mechanisms
- Interpersonal skills development
- Knowledge transfer
- Leadership
- Outreach and public engagement
- Policy development and strategic management
- Project management
- Research relating to skills and career development
- Training needs analysis/reflective practice/PDP
- Well-being and work life balance
- Other
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Experience of delivering
Vitae programmes: - GRADschool Tutor
Additional information Back to top
- Additional information:
- As I am interested in supporting Researcher Development, I am open to contributing in a variety of ways, such as: tutoring, resource development, event management, evaluation, employer engagement.