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Department of Sport Recreation Arts & CultureAssistant Director Special Programmes Unit
Jun. 2022Aliwal NorthWomen, Men, Youth Empowerment Facilitation to the Communities. ❖ Skills Development & Career Guidance Facilitation to the Communities’. ❖ Support Services to Women, addressing issues relating to Gender Based ❖ Violence, Women Empowerment and Women Equity. ❖ Support Services to Children, addressing issues relating to Child Abuse, ❖ Children’s Rights and Child Protection. ❖ Support Services Persons with Disabilities, addressing Disability Rights, Sports ❖ and Recreational Activities. ❖ Support Services to Older Persons, addressing Older Persons Rights, Active ❖ Ageing Sports and Recreational Activities. ❖ Support Services on HIV/AIDS, addressing Social Behaviour, HIV/AIDS ❖ Stigmatization and Behavioural Change. ❖ Support Services to Youth, promoting Youth Empowerment, Sports Activities to ❖ prevent issues relating to crime and substance abuse. ❖ Wellness Programme to the staff, promoting healthy habits, promoting sports ❖ and recreational activities that revitalize and stimulate the mind. ❖ Address issues on absenteeism, HIV/AIDS, Substance Abuse and Mental ❖ Health. ❖ Promote Women and Men Health. ❖ Provision of therapeutic counselling and psychosocial services. ❖ Promote good and healthy working relationships amongst staff members ❖ Budget and Financial Management on each Project to be conducted through Calendar Events. ❖ Monitor Expenditure for the Projects conducted. ❖ Consolidate Monthly, Quarterly, Yearly and Financial Reports
HSRC (Human Sciences Research Council)Research Supervisor
Nov. 2021 - Apr. 2022Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa
HSRC (Human Sciences Research Council)Field Work Research Supervisor
Nov. 2021 - Apr. 2022Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South AfricaAttending interviewer and supervisor training. ❖ Preparing for field work daily, including packing for the team and the team’s daily finances. ❖ Managing the team’s budget and reconciliation during data collection. ❖ Managing staff in the field safety, discipline, conduct and debriefing. ❖ Conducting quality control of interviews. ❖ Completing all the appropriate paperwork connected to the project. ❖ Keeping regular contact with the field coordinator. ❖ Maintaining team morale and scheduling weekly debriefing for the team ❖ Identifying households in which to conduct interviews. ❖ Allocating ID numbers ❖ Assigning work to interviewers. ❖ Handling breach of discipline and ethical conduct in the field
FARRProject Manager
Feb. 2020 - Oct. 2021Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South AfricaTo implement and manage all the aspects and objectives of the Project as indicated in the Project Plan, including research-, awareness-, prevention-, intervention- and training programmes/ activities. ❖ Adhere to all organization protocol and policies ❖ Ensure adherence to targets in all programmes offered as required by Funders. ❖ Manage the day to day activities of the Project ❖ Manage all the administrative and maintenance functions pertaining to the implementation of the project and the management of the Project Office/ Centre. ❖ Monitor and manage project expenditure as to ensure sound and responsible financial management. ❖ Monitor staff performance on the daily basis and draw up quarterly and annual performance
Department of Social DevelopmentActing Social Work Supervisor
Oct. 2017 - Mar. 2019Jansenville, Eastern Cape, South AfricaProvide developmental opportunities to ensure that social service practitioners ❖ have the knowledge and skills to implement integrated social work and ❖ probation services to vulnerable individuals, groups and communities. ❖ Monitor the compliance of social workers and probation officers to the ❖ professional norms and standards required by the Dept. ❖ Assess and review performance; manage poor performance and facilitate ❖ improvement of performance. ❖ Ensure the implementation of an effective audit turn- around strategy related to ❖ the social work and probation section on local service office level. ❖ Consolidate monthly reports for both probation and social service sections. ❖ Supervising 3 social workers, 1 probation officer and 1 auxiliary social worker. ❖ Involve in compilation of operational plan for service office. ❖ Provision of leadership in the management of the Service Office through ❖ effective management systems and resources in implementing departmental ❖ programmes. ❖ Implementation of Social Welfare Services in the Service Office ❖ Implementation of Community Development Services in the Service Office ❖ Monitor and evaluate community projects and progress made by the projects. ❖ Participation in stakeholder’s engagement session for IDP.
Department of Social DevelopmentSocial Worker
Apr. 2010 - Jan. 2020Jansenville, Eastern Cape, South AfricaGeneric Social Work-Conducting interviews and therapeutic counselling holistically to all clients. ❖ Render services to children in need of care; placing them with legal guardian, places of ❖ Provision of psychosocial support to clients affected and infected by HIV/AIDS. ❖ Conduct Awareness Campaigns, Community Dialogues on HIV/AIDS in order to encourage Social Behaviour improvement within the community. safety. ❖ Monitoring the placement of the children placed. ❖ Work closely with local schools and provide therapeutic counselling with children with behavioural problems. ❖ Conduct Life Skills Programmes with the schools to promote healthy lifestyle within the children. Conduct prevention programmes in the community targeting the calendar events. ❖ Conduct Child Abuse Awareness Campaigns in order to address the Children’s Rights. ❖ Compiling Monthly Report. ❖ Conduct Wellness Programme Sessions for the office in order to encourage and motivate team building. ❖ Acting as a service office manager in the absence of manager or supervisor, monitor the officials to implement relevant leg
Department of Social DevelopmentProject Manager
Apr. 2010 - Jan. 2020Jansenville, Eastern Cape, South AfricaCommunity Based Rehabilitation (Little Lamb Disabled Organization) on People with Disabilities, providing psychosocial support & counselling to people with disabilities and encourage economic empowerment. ❖ Conduct awareness campaign with People with Disability in order to promote the rights of People with Disabilities. ❖ Older Persons at the Service Centre (Nonceba Service Centre), providing psychosocial support & counselling to older persons and encourage economic empowerment. ❖ Monitor Older Persons Abuse and place abuse or neglected elderly to the residential facility. ❖ Conduct awareness campaigns on issues relation older persons for the community, in order to address Older Persons Rights. ❖ Coordinate Golden Games from Area level to National Level ❖ Facilitate, Monitor and Coordinate Older Persons Forum from Area level to Provincial ❖ Place children, youth and adults for Substance Abuse to Substance Abuse Treatment Centres and Rehabilitation Centre providing psychosocial support & therapeutic counselling to clients struggling with substance abuse. Conduct aftercare services to clients discharged from substance abuse Treatment Centres. ❖ Local Drug Action Committee (Bophelong Local Drug Action Committee), and conduct awareness campaigns on issues relating to substance abuse in order to encourage positive lifestyle amongst persons struggling with substance abuse. ❖ Fatherhood Programme Family Preservation (Real Men Movement) ❖ Conduct psychosocial support, therapeutic counselling to clients experiencing Domestic Violence. ❖ Address issues of Gender Based violence through awareness campaigns in order to improve the well-being of family members. ❖ Encourage Family Preservation, Family Enhancement, Family Enrichment, Family Reconstruction and Family Re-unification amongst families in the community.
Department of Social DevelopmentMonitoring And Evaluation Officer
Apr. 2010 - Jan. 2020Jansenville, Eastern Cape, South AfricaFacilitate and provide support to funded organizations for monitoring & evaluation. ❖ Mentoring and support caregivers/volunteers within the programmes to ensure an efficient, effective and economic social work services. ❖ Facilitate and coordinate capacity building to caregivers/volunteers and thereby rendering in-service training sessions and/or organizing trainings with service providers in order to keep up to date with new developments. ❖ Ensure required legislating policies and procedures are implemented through the efficient and effective utilization of human resources. ❖ Ensure that all administrative functions required within programmes are performed to the required standard. ❖ Compile financial and non-financial reports on monthly, quarterly, half yearly and annual basis to monitor a required expenditure pattern. ❖ Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the services rendered by both caregivers/volunteers and organizations funded by the department. ❖ Involve in compilation of operational plan for service office. ❖ Assist organizations with crafting of Business Plan
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