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Mukhanyo Theological CollegeManager
Apr. 2019South Africa, RustenburgMy role involves managing and overseeing college activities at the Rustenburg Centre. This involves administrative, but also relational work with staff, students, as well as the local community.
Botshelo TrustProgramme Manager
Mar. 2015 - Mar. 2019BotswanaWe approached the board of a dormant NGO in Shakawe, Botswana, and I became the Programme Manager for this trust. The new board changed the constitution of the trust, to become a platform for different projects in the local community. Some of the projects that are successfully run from Botshelo Trust, include a playgroup network for early childhood development programmes in the region, a pastoral training programme, the Thimbukushu Bible translation project, as well as the Ju/’hoansi Bible translation project. More information on this trust can be seen on the following website: http://botshelotrust.wixsite.com/botshelo
Currently (2025), I am still serving as the board chairperson for this trust.
The Seed CompanyField Coordinator
Feb. 2013 - Jan. 2017BotswanaAs part of the translation and engagement work of The Seed Company (an American Wycliffe Bible Translators’ affiliate organisation), I was trained as Field Coordinator in collaboration with Wycliffe South Africa and tasked to set up Bible translation projects in Southern Africa. This implied connecting different partner organisations (such as churches and Bible societies) and local language communities where needs were identified for Bible translation projects. This role had wide-spread responsibilities, from setting up budgets and project proposals to facilitating the establishment of translation steering committees and the setting up of MoU’s with different partner organisations. I had to ensure that there was progress with translation work and that translators were effectively mentored and supervised. Areas where I worked during this time was spread out all over Southern Africa. I helped design and set up the Bible translation project amongst the Tonga in the north of Zimbabwe, the Thimbukushu project in Namibia and Botswana, as well as the oral translation project of the San Bible Partnership, in which we started off with 11 different San languages in 3 different countries.
Institute for Rural Development and Nature ConservationProject Manager
Feb. 2012 - Dec. 2012NamibiaMy work was aimed at encouraging the development of a traditional knowledge and skills centre in Bwabwata National Park (but also wider, more regional work). It was linked to other work I was involved in where San indigenous values were investigated in the region. The work continued on and off for about 2 years.
Centre for Responsible Leadership, University of PretoriaLecturer
Feb. 2010 - Jan. 2012South AfricaThis position involved research, advocacy and teaching around responsible leadership (the leadership implications of sustainability) in corporate, public and societal spheres. While part of the teaching responsibilities of this position entailed teaching business management for undergraduates, the main focus of this position was curriculum development for teaching responsible leadership to postgraduate students, on honours and masters level, as well as to facilitate the development of responsible leadership amongst corporate leaders. The different focus areas of the multi-disciplinary work at the centre entailed working on responsible leadership development in the interface between business and biodiversity, business education, as well as in an emerging focus on the public sector and African indigenous leadership.
University of ManchesterPhD researcher
Sep. 2005 - Dec. 2009United Kingdom, ManchesterExperience of action research and action learning design and implementation was gained through the process of pursuing my PhD, which focused on environmental management practice in a transitional local government - Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality. The research, which involved 27 practitioners, praised the potential of a reflective practice framework (action learning) to enable environmental management practitioners at the middle management level to maintain and improve their performance. The action learning initiative was designed to be self-managed and to encourage social support and accountability. Through the process of action research, the interaction between the initiative and practitioners in the context who are analyzed and lessons were drawn for both practice and theory. The research proposed the needs to cultivate an ethos of care, and suggested a relational accountability framework to help cultivate this ethos.
Centre for Environmental ManagementAssistant
Jan. 2003 - Sep. 2005South Africa, PotchefstroomExposure to the work at the Centre for Environmental Management significantly influenced my career focus. This job entailed increased involvement in project management, policy development, training and training design. A major source of learning to me was the experience gained through a significant involvement in a 2-year training program (2004 - 2005) for equipping officials and councillors in 17 local governments for better environmental management. I was involved in the process of developing and coordinating the training process and content and interacted with diverse stakeholders behind the scenes in the coordination of the training, as well as with trainers and trainees. Other projects which significantly influenced me, was the city of potchefstroom bylaw generating Project (2003 - 2004). I was involved in the drafting processes of the waste management by-law, water management by-law, the chemical Management by-law, the environmental policy framework and the green procurement policy. Other major activities in which I was involved, included to the world summit on sustainable development (2002), as well as the Greener Governance project (2002) involving various SADC local governments, in which I was exposed for the first time to the environmental management service delivery issues of local government.
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