Experience

Career Wise

• South Africa
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Bursary Manager

  • Oct 2011 - Present

  Managing company clients, which include the following tasks • Establishing budgets. • Selecting and mentoring candidates. • Reporting to the client. • Performing the daily administration and payment authorization. • Maintaining and updating the students’ database and ensuring that information is current. • Maintaining a filling system for students’ progress visit reports. • Updating and reconciling detailed expenditure reports for each student. • Compiling accounts that list students and their allocated funding, ensuring that correct payments have been made. • Collecting progress visit reports to confirm information accuracy for reports.. • Compiling biannual progress reports for clients. • Collecting and interpreting results for each student and deciding on continuation/termination of funding. • Compiling a summary of the results, and pass and failure rates. • Communicating with the accounts department regarding payments made to students and ensuring that budgets are not exceeded. • Mentoring; • Updating; personal and contact details, assignments, tutorials, practical work, examination results, personal well-being (accommodation, family), and financial well-being (requests, complaints). • Determining the reasons for passing and failing. • Offering advice and suggestions for solutions. • Ensuring that the status is up to date; registrations, de-registrations, and direction changes. • Commenting on the motivational levels; focused, disillusioned. • Confirming expected graduation dates and if postgraduate study is considered. Show less