Experience

thinklink

• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Partnership Managing Director

  • Feb 2021 - Present

  thinklink (Pty) Ltd is a company that supports non-profit organisations, corporates, small micro-medium enterprises, start-ups, and governments to partner better together. This is achieved through a variety of service offerings that aim to build remarkable partnerships, sustainability, and shared impact. thinklink (Pty) Ltd is a company that supports non-profit organisations, corporates, small micro-medium enterprises, start-ups, and governments to partner better together. This is achieved through a variety of service offerings that aim to build remarkable partnerships, sustainability, and shared impact.



Old Mutual Insure

• South Africa
• Insurance
• 700 & Above Employee

• Corporate Social Responsibility Consultant

  • Nov 2013 - Dec 2020

  This role is accountable for identifying, implementing and an ongoing management of all projects within the categories of SED, staff volunteerism, and Community Trust which includes assessment and development of funding motivations, projects monitoring and evaluation, category reports, budget management, and management of external service providers, project launches and handover functions. This role is accountable for identifying, implementing and an ongoing management of all projects within the categories of SED, staff volunteerism, and Community Trust which includes assessment and development of funding motivations, projects monitoring and evaluation, category reports, budget management, and management of external service providers, project launches and handover functions.



Old Mutual

• United States

• Responsible Business Practititoner

  • Oct 2012 - Dec 2020

  •Analyse corporate funding proposals and assess against policy and focus areas •Screen funding proposals (including external referrals) and respond to funding queries •Prepare reports of all funding requests and CSI projects for the company committees •Draw, plan and manage staff volunteer calendar and decide on projects to be delivered •Manage all CSI Champions across South Africa. •Manage project budgets accordingly. •Regularly communicate CSI projects on all internal communication platforms •Manage incoming project requests from branches and analyse requests according to our strategy, policies and focus areas. •Liaise with beneficiaries and partners (NGO’s, communities, etc.) for all projects. •Supervise and evaluate bi-annual and annual progress on all project activities. •Prepare consolidated progress reports for the Executive Committee including identification of problems, causes of potential bottlenecks in implementation, and providing specific recommendations •Undertake regular visits to beneficiary organisations for monitoring and evaluation checks •Plan, manage and monitor the implementation of company’s environmental strategy •Support the regions in the implementation of carbon footprint reduction strategies Show less



Academic & Non-Fiction Authors’ Association of South

• South Africa
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Assistant to the Director

  • Aug 2011 - Apr 2012

  •Provides secretarial/administrative and personal assistant support to the Director •Maintain the diary of the Director •Create year planner for the Association as directed by the Director •Basic financial administration •Takes minutes at all ANFASA meetings •Maintains the ANFASA filing system •Ensures the office supplies are maintained •Makes logistical arrangements for ANFASA meetings: Board Meetings etc, •Functions as the frontline reception of the ANFASA - reception, phone •Liaises with members via phone and e-mail as required •Types letters •Investigate or conduct research on request •Makes travel arrangements •Gives and receives messages •Screens calls •Sets up appointments and meetings •Receives/forwards and responds to correspondences relating to membership •Photocopying •Manages member invoicing and receipting •Complete financial forms •Liaises with the Auditors •Collates invoices for Director which require approvals •Manages petty cash for office incidentals •Receive invoices •Taking minutes in meetings, transcribing, compiling a task list •Keep up to date with documentation coming into the office •Arranges appropriate venue for specific functions AGMs, Board meetings, workshops and functions for the association •Organize adequate catering •Make Travel Arrangements for all Board members •Prepare necessary documentation •Circulates notices of meetings and agendas in line with constitutional requirements •On request from Director, collects responses to specific issues •Created an electronic directory containing details of South African literary agents and ghost writers •Maintaining the electronic ANFASA membership database by ensuring that member details are always up to date •Keep track of new non-fiction publications in the country and updating members on these •Liaise with the funder in Norway for different issues •Book flights for all board members and director of the Association, sometimes ANFASA members Show less



Whitesides Attorneys

• South Africa
• Law Practice
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Legal Secretary

  • Jan 2010 - Jul 2011

  •Receive and transcribes legal dictation •Opens and maintains legal files •Compose a variety of correspondences •Provides case management assistance and tracking of litigation •Type variety of reports and legal documents and civil procedures •Review and/or approves legal documents for recordation or disposition incorporation into and periodic reports •Screen and respond to inquiries from the general public and city personnel •Prepare affidavits of documents and maintain documents file and case correspondence •Collaborate with others in office management ; directs office support staff in terms or responsible •Review and file pleadings, petitions and other documents relevant to court actions •Serve copies of plea’s to opposing counsel •Arrange transportation and accommodation for witnesses , if required •Communicate and arbitrate disputes between parties •Store, catalogue, and maintain currency of legal volumes •Track accounts not up to date and liaise with clients to set date of payment •Keep and share diary with manager •Apply for Legal Tenders from Government Departments and Independent Companies Show less



Telkom Centre of Excellence at Rhodes University

• Administrative Assistant

  • Jan 2009 - Dec 2009

  •Reception service and dealing with students and members of the public who call in person •General filing of Departmental circulations, and tidiness of departmental notice boards •Petty cash and finance orders as requires by the Logistical Administrator •Process service provider’s payments (External Examiners) and client’s invoices •Handle all general staff subsistence and travel claims •Assist visiting lectures where and when necessary to set up their working stations for the time visiting •Assist with the maintenance and logistics of the office equipment and accommodation •Order stationery and other office supplies •Assist and do reception services for the Music Library when the librarian is not available •Prepare and monitoring photocopying orders and when necessary do the photocopying, faxing, opening and distribution of mail •Book accommodation, car rentals, flight bookings for visiting lecturers, external and staff •Book all janitor and housekeeping services on behalf of the organization •Coordinate the production of the annual report •Participate in and coordinate corporate events •Updating staff pigeon holes and photo cabinets Show less



Human Resources Division, Rhodes University

• Human Resources Generalist (Graduate Program)

  • Jan 2008 - Dec 2008

  •Responsible for tracking sheet: tracking vacancies and send documents to departments to apply for the post to be filled •Liaise with departments in creating a specific job profile for their vacant posts, if need be •Organize meetings, book venue, order refreshments, prepare and send out necessary documents for the meeting •Receive, compile/capture and keep track of all application forms received •Call/email applicants with incomplete applications and assist where help is needed •Seat in the short listing meeting with the panel and take minutes •Call short listed candidates inviting them for interviews •Book flights, accommodation and car rentals for candidates coming from far places •Set up lab where psychometric testing would be done •Capture new employee personal details •Capture leave taken •Check and edit staff information on our system •Hire temp teaching staff •Create a spreadsheet for each department’s budget to hire temps against •Keep track of when from each department a member of their academic staff would take sabbatical leave and who would be hired to replace them , for how much a month and for how long •General filing of office documents •Keep all support staff files updated •Take minutes in meetings •Service to customers(staff), keeping records of funds allocated including individual files •Assist HRD staff with administrative requirements for training sessions such as informing staff of training courses dates, booking of staff into a specific training course, book venues for training sessions •Process payments for the bursaries •Requisition of payments of accounts •Deal with queries about the courses •Typing reports •Filing •Photocopying •Faxing and scanning •Order stationery for the office •Answering of the phone, take messages and pass them to relevant individuals •Schedule appointments for members of our staff to meet with the HRD Manager Show less