University of the Western CapeFaculty Officer- Committee Officer:Governance, Promotions, Assessment[Multi-stakeholder Operations]
Dec. 2017 - Oct. 2021Bellville, Western Cape, South AfricaIn collaboration with senior management committees within the Faculty of University of the Western Cape, I spearheaded the development and integration of strategic objectives, governance policy implementation, identified departmental development and operational drawbacks, and managed change initiatives. As a Senior Project Lead, I provided strategic operational, governance, project evaluation and implementation advice and quality assurance for a large 6600 client cohort in conjunction with managing 9 departments' input in successful multi-stakeholder project execution. As project lead, I developed training initiatives, facilitated and delivered training on applicable governance processes, managing seven multi-stakeholder projects concurrently. Key Outputs:
• Project Lead: Multi-stakeholder concurrent projects with respect to the development & integration of strategic objectives and initiatives.
• Project integration guidance to committees & department heads re: governance and operational monitoring, evaluation & implementation.
• Co-opted Assessment & Senate Assessment Committee member – presenting & reporting on project pitfalls, complex solution proposals, root cause analysis and adaptive monitoring options.
• Facilitation & Training of Committee members, departmental heads and staff on applicable multi-stakeholder project governance policies, procedures, integration of operations within respective departments & execution of operational initiatives feeding into multi-stakeholder projects.
• Project Management related functions: Inception preparations, development of workflow documentation & guidelines for implementation.
• Adaptive Monitoring & evaluation of project implementation activities.
• Stakeholder Management.
• Applicable administrative project systems management.
• Quality Assurance: Multi-stakeholder projects, project operations, governance policy implementation re departments.
• Minor output: Committee representative (Recognition of Prior Learning).