Experience

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  Media24 (Pty) Ltd

  • Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

  • Picture Researcher

    • Oct 2021 - Present
    • Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

    Sourcing appropriate, striking visuals for the brands various products. Ensuring visual consistency in conjunction with the art director. Assisting with administrative duties related to syndication & archiving. Engaging with content partners in various divisions and ensuring editors across platforms have visual support.Building and maintaining strong relations with suppliers and contributors. Creating a system for ensuring accuracy of images passing through the system. Archiving used images and managing the archives.

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  FORKING DELICIOUS

  • Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

  • Small Business Owner

    • Aug 2018 - Present
    • Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

    Cooking ● Marketing ● Deliveries ● Shopping ● Stocktake ● Pricing ● Quotations ● Research ● Planning of Events ● Administering Events ● Supervising, Planning Menus ● Ordering Supplies ● Hiring ● Training & Motivating Staff ● Ensuring Health & Safety protocols are observed ● Monitoring Quality of Products ● Keeping to budgets and maintaining financial and administrative records

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  Tsiba Business School

  • Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

  • Library Assistant

    • Feb 2019 - Sep 2021
    • Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

    Shelving, shelf reading, circulating library materials, processing textbooks for students, weeding, acquiring new material for the libraryo Assisting with Library projects & assist in absence of the Knowledge Curatoro Supporting library users with information retrievalo Adding and updating users to the library systemo Coming up with new ideas for a better & more efficient workflowo Cataloguing new material & Collection Developmento Circulation of student and lecturer textbookso Assist in the implementation of any new systems and designs for TSIBA’s library with the use of InMagic as well as Snapplifyo Liaise with external suppliers such as Juta, Van Schaik, Community Chest, etc

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  e.TV

  • Cape Town

  • Senior Audio Visual Archivist

    • Mar 2005 - Mar 2018
    • Cape Town

    - Continuously review content worth archiving according to Archive Selection Policy - Oversee the efficient and effective gathering, organising and storing of content produced by eNews - Division, e.tv, Sabido Productions and Sabido Distribution.- Monitor standards and data input through a Controlled Vocabulary and Subject Headings in the archive system- Assist the Operations Manager in identifying and gathering content to fill any gaps in the archive collection- Consistently monitoring the performance of the digital archive system, archive service and workflows - Provide feedback on the digital archive system- Coaching and Mentoring of staff - Generating Hand-Over Reports and alert the Operations Manager to shortcomings of the team - Assist the Operations Manager in identifying and planning for upcoming news related events- Provides appropriate audio-visual material to all e-channels, production houses and independent producers- Overseeing digitisation and preservation activities- Training of new employees and interns within the archive service- Monitoring, motivating and allocating daily tasks in Archives to ensure optimal productivity and output- Monitor the quality of work of new and junior colleagues- Conduct research in trends on Broadcast archives to improve the Archive- Draw up a monthly shift roster- Supervising the team- Researching stock footage for SABIDO Documentaries