Nur Salena Samad

• Collaborate with colleagues to implement best practices in respectful care and education for children aged 18 months to 6 years.
• Design and deliver emergent curricula aligned with Reggio Emilia principles, fostering exploration, inquiry, and creativity.
• Lead parent communications in-person and through online platforms, maintaining supportive and collaborative relationships within a multicultural community.
• Ensure safe, clean, and stimulating environments that support children’s growth and exploration.
• Engage in reflective practice through observations, planning, and documentation.
• Prepare high-quality documentation for families and school displays, highlighting children’s learning and educator reflections.
• Coordinate and facilitate parent events including festivals, exhibitions, field trips, and volunteering opportunities, ensuring smooth execution and strong parent engagement.
• Support termly parent-teacher evenings and celebrations in line with the academic calendar.

• Managed a class of children, overseeing both teaching and routine caregiving responsibilities with a focus on holistic development.
• Planned and implemented curriculum and programmes tailored to children’s developmental needs, incorporating emerging trends to ensure innovation and relevance.
• Designed and introduced initiatives, practices, and learning materials that enhanced the quality of the learning environment.
• Built strong collaborative relationships with colleagues, families, and the wider community to support children’s learning and well-being.
• Coordinated and facilitated family and community programmes, reinforcing the school’s commitment to giving back to the community.
• Ensured high-quality routine care while continually seeking improvements in caregiving and service delivery.
• Championed professional practice by promoting the school’s vision, mission, and values, while innovating to achieve high standards in early childhood education.

• Provide support for IT Governance related service support and delivery activities under Change Management (ITIL).
• Generate report for normal and routine Change Requests.
• Maintain 100% audit compliance tracking with key requestor.
• Provide support for Change and Service Request Annual Review.
• Provide support for Half Yearly Review for User Access Privileges.
• Lead weekly change meeting with all key users.
• Ensure requestor comply with all the IT processes for Change Requests.
• Tracking of all Change Requests.
• Perform checks for audit purposes.
• Perform QC checks for IT forms.
• Track and trace open IT tickets and achieve 100% closure FY2018.
• Main key driver with various stakeholders on multiple interactive IT platforms.
• Update and maintain 500 records of vendor master data bi-annually.
• Process invoices for payment.
• IT Office Maintenance.
• Ad-hoc duties.

Reason for leaving: Retrenched due to company restructuring during Covid-19

• Work closely with general finance.
• Process average of SGD$3.5 million monthly invoices.
• Achieve more than 90% on time payment within 30 days.
• Responsible in processing IT monthly billings and milestone payments.
• Work with Project team in handling of administration activities.
• Verify cost and milestone listed for Initiatives or Enhancement on Projects.
• Review and Analyse on Contracts, Statement of Work and Billing summary.
• Input fixed asset for Capex enhancement.
• Verify for finance and legal position of withholding tax.
• Manages approval process for payment advice.
• Obtain approval from the valid authorizer.
• Create purchase order concerning to Project.
• Oversee that all purchase order requests are met and coordinate with vendors.
• Accrual of expenses.
• Identify opportunities and implement action to achieve efficiencies.
• Resolve and follow up on dispute or discrepancy.
• Fixed Assets tagging.

Reason for leaving: Further progression and expansion of IT related roles.

• Liaise with finance team on payment status and follow up with vendors.
• Process IT pertaining invoices in Oracle.
• Obtain approval for invoices processed checked from cost centre managers.
• Ensure that IT manpower requirements are captured, monitored and reported.
• Coordination of the IT financial portfolio.
• IT procurement facilitation.
• PO processing when requested by valid authorizer for vendors.
• IT facility coordination and Fixed Asset Management.
• Update and record of invoices.
• Reporting to IT Asset Manager.
• Ad-hoc administrative duties.

Reason for leaving: Change of new working environment.