Nishthaa Lekhi

Programs and Student Services Assistant at Centre for Digital Media
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(386) 825-5501
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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, CA

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Credentials

  • Rolling Out a Diversity and Inclusion Training Program in Your Company
    LinkedIn
    Sep, 2022
    - Oct, 2024
  • Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans Certification (TCPS 2: Core)
    Government of Canada
    Oct, 2017
    - Oct, 2024

Experience

    • Canada
    • Higher Education
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Programs and Student Services Assistant
      • Jun 2022 - Present

    • Assistant to the Managing Director and Program Assistant
      • Nov 2021 - Jun 2022

    • Mental Health Worker
      • Aug 2020 - Present

      • Providing onboarding support to new mental-health workers, making them familiar with company policies and training them in Behaviour Support Plans and Positive Therapy employed by the team• Precisely recording sensitive personal information, and tracking progress on the company database.• Enforcing behaviour support plans; providing rehabilitation assistance and supportive counselling. •Promoting mental health and supporting prevention strategies in the community. • Providing onboarding support to new mental-health workers, making them familiar with company policies and training them in Behaviour Support Plans and Positive Therapy employed by the team• Precisely recording sensitive personal information, and tracking progress on the company database.• Enforcing behaviour support plans; providing rehabilitation assistance and supportive counselling. •Promoting mental health and supporting prevention strategies in the community.

    • Behavior Interventionist
      • Jan 2021 - Oct 2021

      https://www.playaba.ca/about• Designing novel activity templates and individualised datasheet to increase efficiency and consistency in the treatment.• Coordinate communication and schedules between large teams consisting of various professionals and the clients’ families • Providing behaviour therapy (ESDM-NDBI) to clients with autism and parent/ caregiver coaching in residence and school setting via one-on-one interactions and telehealth services. https://www.playaba.ca/about• Designing novel activity templates and individualised datasheet to increase efficiency and consistency in the treatment.• Coordinate communication and schedules between large teams consisting of various professionals and the clients’ families • Providing behaviour therapy (ESDM-NDBI) to clients with autism and parent/ caregiver coaching in residence and school setting via one-on-one interactions and telehealth services.

    • Canada
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Student Programs Assistant (co-op) | Equity and Inclusion Office
      • Sep 2019 - May 2020

      • Designing and managing educational and creative events, monitoring workshop requests, scheduling meetings, and recording minutes • Launched comprehensive hiring campaigns and conducted onboarding orientations for volunteer student groups and advisory committees for the university.• Organised and co-facilitated workshops.• Responsible for all communication related to student programming between various departments.• Designed digital promotional material for increased engagement. • Aided in the design and launch of the pilot Equity Student Advisory Council giving students a decisive role in the policy framework of the university and fund allocation for equity and inclusion projects on campus.

    • Canada
    • Higher Education
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Vice President Academic | Psychology Students' Association
      • Jun 2018 - Aug 2019

      • Coordinated all project management efforts of the PSA, to ensure that both arts and science undergraduate students are involved with psychology outside their classrooms by providing them with networking and career-building opportunities.• Ensured that PSA’s Academic Committee meets all the funding requirements for putting up academic events; this includessecuring and communicating with sponsors designing and defending budget proposals and event designs aimed to usefunds and resources smartly to ensure the maximum utilization for organizing the while guaranteeing the desired outcome forthe same.• Hired and managed an enthusiastic team of ten to put together novel events to ensure the academic and professional wellbeing of the undergraduate psychology community and increase engagement with academic events by thirty per cent in the academic year.• Organised and hosted the 21st Annual Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference (PURC) with over 120 presenters and over 300 attendees. • Coordinated Social Media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat) for the promotion of academic events to increase engagement.https://psa.psych.ubc.ca/

    • Research Assistant | Vision Lab
      • Nov 2017 - Aug 2019

      http://visionlab.psych.ubc.ca/• Efficiently created relevant documents such as the consent and debriefing forms and recorded sensitive subject data.• Worked with raw data to draw and analyse statistically significant effects of the given independent variable • Recruited and scheduled volunteer participants for the research studies, deliver instructions and manage the Human Subject Pool (HSP)

    • Behavior Interventionist
      • Nov 2017 - Jun 2019

      • Worked on social and academic skill development for a subject suffering from Autism by employing principles of Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) Therapy as well as Positive Behavior Support (PBS) Strategies.• Main responsibilities included helping the subject to replace negative, disruptive and/or harmful behaviour or action patterns with more adaptive patterns of functioning. • Worked on social and academic skill development for a subject suffering from Autism by employing principles of Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) Therapy as well as Positive Behavior Support (PBS) Strategies.• Main responsibilities included helping the subject to replace negative, disruptive and/or harmful behaviour or action patterns with more adaptive patterns of functioning.

    • Canada
    • Retail Apparel and Fashion
    • Vice President of Volunteer Affairs | UBCxFashionWeek
      • Feb 2018 - Jan 2019

      • Launched and managed a hiring campaign to staff the 3-day University Fashion Week event with volunteers; recruiting over 100 volunteers for five different departments. • Hosted on boarding-orientation meetings for incoming talents; secured relevant documents and information needed • Closely worked with the Creative Director, VP of Designer Relations and the marketing team to build an inclusive brand and company and launch the pilot of the UBCxFW.Being a part of the pioneer chapter of UBCxFW, I also worked closely with the designers and models to finalize looks, helped in casting, runway lineups, design management, as well, as presented my own collection of designs.

    • United States
    • Food and Beverage Services
    • 400 - 500 Employee
    • Customer Service Representative
      • Dec 2017 - Jan 2019

      • Managed registers in high traffic times, to efficiently work the chain of customers • Took the time to learn about various products, their benefits, and placement in the store to keep the customers well informed and satisfied ensure their loyalty to the store. • Worked on in-store customer satisfaction surveys, analysed raw data to present tangible statistics to the team in order to improve our performance. • Managed registers in high traffic times, to efficiently work the chain of customers • Took the time to learn about various products, their benefits, and placement in the store to keep the customers well informed and satisfied ensure their loyalty to the store. • Worked on in-store customer satisfaction surveys, analysed raw data to present tangible statistics to the team in order to improve our performance.

    • Academic Assistant
      • Jul 2017 - Aug 2017

      • Facilitated leadership, academic and goal setting workshops along with organising expert seminars for both the students and the faculty.• Developed lesson plans to inculcate more interactive modules to cover the conventional syllabus and carried out these plans with students across various grades. • Facilitated leadership, academic and goal setting workshops along with organising expert seminars for both the students and the faculty.• Developed lesson plans to inculcate more interactive modules to cover the conventional syllabus and carried out these plans with students across various grades.

    • Clinical Psychology Intern
      • May 2017 - Jul 2017

      • Front-desk assistance by scheduling appointments, recorded incoming sensitive client information, including client history in a proper format• Conducted pre-screening interviews for the clinical team.• Build relationships with the client to make sure that the treatments were understood and being followed, answered any questions related to take-home therapy measures, and trained the primary caregivers in the same. • Front-desk assistance by scheduling appointments, recorded incoming sensitive client information, including client history in a proper format• Conducted pre-screening interviews for the clinical team.• Build relationships with the client to make sure that the treatments were understood and being followed, answered any questions related to take-home therapy measures, and trained the primary caregivers in the same.

    • Education Management
    • Summer Internship
      • May 2016 - May 2016

      • Assisted in upgrading the curriculum for grade twelfth students by closely observing assessment processes to develop reference material and ensure the maximum utility of the material so developed.• Organised an expert seminar for students and faculty on "Democracy: Evolution and Critiques" with the speaker as Dr Areesh Ahmad (HOD Political Science at Ramjas College, Delhi University). • Taught grades eighth to twelfth various topics in the Political Science curriculum. • Assisted in upgrading the curriculum for grade twelfth students by closely observing assessment processes to develop reference material and ensure the maximum utility of the material so developed.• Organised an expert seminar for students and faculty on "Democracy: Evolution and Critiques" with the speaker as Dr Areesh Ahmad (HOD Political Science at Ramjas College, Delhi University). • Taught grades eighth to twelfth various topics in the Political Science curriculum.

    • India
    • Mental Health Care
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Buddy (Internship)
      • Jul 2015 - Oct 2015

      Autism Center for Excellence (ACE, India) is an initiative helping children with autism spectrum disorders from the ages from 5 to 15, based on Applied Behavior Analysis. • Developmental activities with the subject promoting proper psychomotor and verbal actions. • Based on ABA worked with various strategies such as Differential Reinforcement, Token Economy, Positive Reinforcement along with others Autism Center for Excellence (ACE, India) is an initiative helping children with autism spectrum disorders from the ages from 5 to 15, based on Applied Behavior Analysis. • Developmental activities with the subject promoting proper psychomotor and verbal actions. • Based on ABA worked with various strategies such as Differential Reinforcement, Token Economy, Positive Reinforcement along with others

    • India
    • Chemical Manufacturing
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Internship (Observer)
      • Oct 2014 - Nov 2014

      Observing and assisting various cases in 3 different departments -Internal Medicine, -Pediatrics and-Emergency. Observing and assisting various cases in 3 different departments -Internal Medicine, -Pediatrics and-Emergency.

Education

  • The University of British Columbia
    Bachelor of Arts - BA, Psychology and Political Science
    2016 - 2021
  • Heritage Xperiential Learning School (Formerly known as The Heritage School, Gurgaon)
    High School Diploma, Social Sciences with Biology
    2014 - 2016

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