Mary-Bestor B. Grant is seeking a position that utilizes her skills in teaching, administration, and organization. She has over 15 years of experience in these areas, including teaching English abroad, nonprofit program administration, and editorial work. Her background includes living and working in several countries, with experience in environmental, medical, and humanitarian nonprofit sectors.

1. Mary-Bestor B. Grant (205) 332-0016
marybestorgrant@gmail.com
MARY-BESTOR B. GRANT
marybestorgrant@gmail.com +001 332 0016
Nationality: United States DOB: 30 Nov. 1975 Civil Status: Single
Profile
Over fifteen years of related professional experience. Expertise
includes teaching English as a foreign language, nonprofit program
administration in the medical, humanitarian, and environmental
sectors, and extensive experience living and working internationally
in five different countries (Zambia, Cambodia, Dominican Republic,
Costa Rica, Guatemala).
Objective
Pursuing a position with a team-oriented organization in which I am
able to utilize my teaching, administration and organizational skills.
Education TEFL/TESOL Certification, Maximo Nivel
150-hour intensive Teaching English as a Foreign Language 2016
course with practical teaching
Brown University
BA, Honors, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology 1994-1998
Experience TEFL Teacher, Antigua, Guatemala 2016
Maximo Nivel Intercultural Center
 Organized creative, engaging daily and weekly lessons for
grammar, receptive and productive skills
 Built chemistry with students by offering praise, easily getting to
know students personally and fostering a fun, dynamic learning
environment
 Utilized techniques essentialto ESL such as: eliciting concepts,
concept check questioning (CCQ), and student-centered error
correction
 Collaborated with peers, teachers, and mentor to develop classes
focused on students’ assessed leveland needs
Editorial Team, Birmingham, AL 2015
The Shadow Tiger by William McDonald, Author, Published 2016 June
 Performed fact-checking research and grammatical editing for the
initial rewrite of this WWII historical memoir

2. Mary-Bestor B. Grant (205) 332-0016
marybestorgrant@gmail.com
Cook, Bo’s Kosher Café, Birmingham, Alabama 2014
 Responsible for breakfast, lunch, dinner and catering menu items
for both kosher and non-kosher guests; shifts included dish-
washing, management of inventory and waiting tables
Home of Hope Orphanage, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Projects Abroad English Teacher and Orphanage Caretaker 2012
 Collaborated with Missionaries of Charity priests and volunteers
in all orphanage programs, including free medical care and
pharmaceuticals to local villagers and the prison population,
teaching English, caring for the resident HIV+ and physically and
mentally disabled boys
Friends of Birmingham Botanical Gardens, Birmingham, AL
Volunteer Coordinator/Special Events Coordinator 2009-2011/2013
 Recruited, organized education and training, and coordinated
activities of over one thousand volunteers annually
 Wrote monthly articles for paper and electronic newsletters,
delivered recruitment comments/speeches to public audiences,
and reported to the board of directors
Good Samaritan Health Center Gwinnett, Lawrenceville, GA
Director of Development 2008
 Responsible for raising the budget by networking with corporate
and community donors, coordinating special events, and grant
writing
 Reported to Board of Directors and maintained verbal and
written communication with members, patients, and committees
Household of Faith Family Medical Care/Hope Health Center,
Birmingham, AL
Medical Administrator 2005-2007
 Managed the front desk including answering all phones,
scheduling, patient intake and check-out, medical charting, coding
and billing, communicating with Board of Directors and donors
UAB Division of Geographic Medicine-CIDRZ (Center for
Infectious Disease Research in Zambia), Lusaka, Zambia
Administrative Assistant, Perinatal HIV/AIDS Control Project 2002
 Organized and oversaw logistics for community health worker
training
 Managed pharmaceutical and equipment supplies

3. Mary-Bestor B. Grant (205) 332-0016
marybestorgrant@gmail.com
 Answered directly to the project’s chief medical officers for
grant-research, proposal editing, and progress reporting
CAWACO RC&D (Resource Conservation & Development
Council), Birmingham, AL
Project Coordinator, Black Warrior River Basin Clean Water Partnership
2001
 Facilitated stakeholder committees across the state to mobilize
community organization for watershed management
 Managed a four county area of socio-economically, racially and
politically diverse residents in an effort to raise funds for river
conservation through collaborative grant-writing efforts
Travel Global travel experience living and working in sub-Saharan Africa
(Lusaka, Zambia; Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania), Southeast Asia (Cambodia;
Vietnam), Indonesia (Bali), Europe (Camino de Santiago, Spain), and the
Dominican Republic (annual travel to the Bill Grant School, La Romana),
Costa Rica, and Guatemala.
Skills Written Skills
Spearheaded and collaborated in producing grant proposals for
community health, international health, and conservation nonprofit
initiatives (Good Samaritan Health Center of Gwinnett, Household of
Faith Family Medical Care, UAB, CAWACO RC&D Council).
PC Skills
Proficient in MS Office software (esp. MS Word, MS Excel, Power Point),
Raiser’s Edge data entry, Apple products (iPhone, MacBook, iPad, and
software (iPhoto), and Internet research and social media.
Publications The Shadow Tiger, William McDonald 2016
Editorial Team
Pennings, S, Bertness, M., Grant, M. 2004
“Plant zonation in low-salinity salt marshes; disentangling the roles of
flooding, salinity and competition”. Journal of Ecology
Bruno, J.F. et. al. 2004
“Landscape-scale patterns of biological invasions in shoreline plant
communities”. OIKOS
References Available on Request