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PERSONAL INFORMATION Maiia Seliatina
DATE OF BIRTH 7th January, 1976

CITIZENSHIP Ukrainian

12a, Seredniofontans’ka Road, app.9, Odesa, 65039, Ukraine
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OCCUPATION Content Manager; Copywriter; Teacher; Lecturer; eTwinning Plus Ambassador

GRADE TITLES AND SKILL Teacher of the highest skill category; teacher-methodist; master in sociology
CATEGORIES

WORK EXPERIENCE

April 2022 – Present Content Manager
The global IT HR, Recruitment and Staffing Agency (Tallinn, Estonia)
For the last 20 years I've been translating texts from and into English, writing and editing texts. For the
last 5 years I've been a professional copywriter.
I draw up and coordinate the content plan, write articles and other texts according to the SEO demands,
include keywords, images, and links in the articles, work with different AI tools, SEO tools and CMS,
post materials on the blog, create cases, guides, e-books, reports, interviews, and PR materials, correct
the website pages, etc.
The content manager’s responsibilities include:
- Drawing up and coordinating a content plan;
- Writing articles;
- Writing case studies, guides, e-books, reports, interviews, etc.;
- Creating texts according to the SEO demands and working with different SEO tools;
- Posting articles on the blog, working with different CMS;
- Creating and posting posts on social networks based on the articles;
- Editing and correcting the website pages and landing pages, creating FAQs;
- Correcting posts for social media and texts for email campaigns.

March 2018 – Present Freelance and Outsource Copywriter
The areas of expertise include:
- IT topics;
- Education topics;
- HR, recruiting, and staffing topics;
- Medicine topics;
- Business and management topics;
- Finance topics;
- Gambling topics;
- Gaming topics.

August 2004 – Present English Teacher & Head of the School English Language Department
Odesa specialized school # 10, Odesa (Ukraine)
The English teacher and the head of the school’s English Department responsibilities include:
- Managing staff in the department;
- Maintaining documents;
- Conducting lessons;
- Conducting organizational arrangements;
- Conducting job interviews with new applicants in case of vacancies;
 - Conducting seminars, training, and other professional events for the staff.

September 2016 –Present Lecturer at Odesa Regional Pedagogical Refresher Academy
ORPRI, Odesa (Ukraine)
The lecturer’s responsibilities include:
- Conducting lectures on project work and social competencies;
- Conducting seminars and workshops on project work and social competencies.

August 2016 – Present eTwinning Plus Ambassador in Ukraine
eTwinning Plus, Kyiv, Ukraine (part of the EU program eTwinning)
The ambassador’s responsibilities include:
- Presenting the program at official events;
- Promoting the program in Ukraine;
- Conducting training, workshops, seminars, and webinars for the teachers in the programme;
- Conducting training, workshops, seminars, and webinars in project work, team work, ICT tools
in teaching developing social competencies in students for teachers;
- Coordinating the work of eTwinners in the program;
- Helping and advising eTwinners.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING

September 2023 Certificate LTTC (London Teacher Training College), Level 7 Diploma (the highest
level) in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

February 2023 Certificate TEFL, Grade A

February 2023 Certificate TEFL in Teaching Business English, Grade A

March 2023 Certificate TEFL in Teaching English to Young Learners, Grade A

March 2023 ITTT Diploma in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, Grade A

April 2023 Certificate TEFL in Teaching English Online, Grade A

September 2020 – December 2021 Master’s degree in Sociology, diploma with honors
Odesa National University after I.I. Mechnikov, Odesa (Ukraine)
Subjects included: sociology, statistics, sociological and scientific research methods, work with
databases, social management, mathematical and statistical research methods, and
sociological technologies.

June 2016 – November 2018 Competent-oriented education: focus – social competency
Ukrainian-Austrian joint project, teacher training course, KulturKontakt (Austria)
Subjects Included:
Social competencies, nonviolent communication, communication in complicated situations,
conflict prevention, conflict management, cooperative education, group dynamics, social
education, work in professional communities, Lesson Studies method, and team development.

July 2016 Interactive technologies for the future classroom
Future classroom LAB teacher training course, European Schoolnet, Brussels (Belgium)

2012 The basics of safe work with ICT in an educational institution
 Educational course held by Microsoft for teachers

September 2004 – June 2008 Philologist, specialist in English Language and Literature
Odesa National University after I.I. Mechnikov, the institute of post-qualifying education,
Odesa (Ukraine)
Subjects Included:
English Language, German Language, English, German and World Literature

September 1993 – June 2001 Philologist, specialist in Russian Language and Literature, Foreign Literature
Odesa National University after I.I. Mechnikov, Odesa (Ukraine)
Subjects Included:
Old Slavic Languages, Modern Slavic Languages, Russian and World Literature, Culturology,
Philosophy, Psychology
ACHIVEMENTS

2023 Honorary Diploma
Honorary diploma for conscientious work, fruitful pedagogical activity, high achievements in the
life and education of young people from the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine
(Ukraine)

2013 – 2023 28 National Quality Labels & 22 European Quality Labels
28 National Quality Labels and 19 European Quality Labels for eTwinning school projects

2019 Honorary Certificate
Honorary certificate for the best Ukrainian school project “Supporting Gender Equality”

2018 Top ten Ukrainian youth business projects
Top ten in the finals of the Ukrainian stage of the worldwide contest “Diamond Challenge” held
by Delaware University, Delaware (the USA)

2016 European Prize 2016
European Prize for the best school eTwinning project (eTwinning project “Is this castle
haunted?”)
2016 Honorary Diploma
Honorary diploma for conscientious work from the Regional Department of Education,
Odesa (Ukraine)

2013 Best Author Article Award
І place in the All-Ukrainian contest for the best author article held by the newspaper “School
World”
2013 Honorary Diploma
Honorary diploma for conscientious work from the District Department of Education,
Odesa (Ukraine)

2011 Honorary Diploma
Honorary diploma for conscientious work from the City Department of Education,
Odesa (Ukraine)

2010 Honorary Diploma
Honorary diploma for conscientious work from the District Department of Education,
Odesa (Ukraine)
 PERSONAL SKILLS

Mother tongue(s) Russian, Ukrainian

Other language(s) English (fluent), German (basic)

Communication skills Excellent verbal and written communication skills both in an office or classroom environment
and with external audiences.
Experienced at giving presentations, conducting seminars and workshops to large audiences.

Organisational / managerial Excellent organisational and prioritisation skills.
skills Experienced facilitator.

Personal features Reliable, punctual, determined, broad-minded, energetic, creative, responsible, flexible, good listener,
good team worker, good learner

Computer skills Experienced user.

Note All the documents mentioned in the above will be provided immediately on the request.