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Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Responsible for overseeing and managing the organization's communication strategies and activities. This role involves developing and implementing communication plans, managing media relations, creating content for various platforms and ensuring the six social initiative programmes are effectively conveyed and delivered. The programmes span across different disciplines such as education, leadership, health, municipalities and community building. I play a crucial role in promoting our organisations mission, building relationships with stakeholders, and raising awareness in directing the organisation towards our ambitious sustainability commitments and making significant contributions towards social impact, social corporate responsibility and community development.The highlights of this role include:• Leading the Partners for Possibility team that won WISE* Awards in 2018. The Wise Awards recognise innovative projects that are addressing global educational challenges• When I joined the organisation, we had one social initiative programme now we have five diverse social initiative programmes that span across disciplines • Selected as one of the PRISM judges in 2019 – Africa’s most sought after public relations awards • To date we have impacted over 2 000 schools, 44 000 teachers and over 1.5 million learners • Successfully rebranded the main brand in 2022 from Symphonia for South Africa to Citizen Leader Lab as well as rebranding of the main educational programme from Partners for Possibility to Leaders for Education• In 2023 our school leadership problem was announced as top 100 educational innovations worldwide by HundrED. org• Starting social media platforms for the organisation and growing the Twitter following to 20.8K followers • Recipient of the Green Peace bursary awarded to female trailblazers in social justice

Pretoria Area, South Africa

Managed and coordinated communication efforts for the organizations multiple social initiatives within the Southern Africa region. This role involved creating and implementing communication strategies to promote Oxfam's mission and projects, as well as managing media relations, producing content for various platforms as well as reporting , and engaging with relevant stakeholders. Additionally the role involved building partnerships, and advocating for social justice and development issues in the Southern Africa region. This position enhanced my communication and reporting skills, media liaison capabilities and stakeholder engagement competences. The highlights of this role included: • Launch of successful campaigns across the region, in particular the Southern Africa Food and Climate Justice Campaign that was held in Harare, Zimbabwe• Publication of the “Hungry for Commitment ‘report that constituted of climate change and food security in the region• Hosted the Sustainable Livelihood Expo in different South Africa, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe, which supported the smallholder farmers in support of the stats that 80% of Africa’s food needs are provided by smallholder farmers• Convened several dialogues with various organisations with the aim of raising social justice issues across Africa.

Pretoria Area, South Africa

This role involved strategic planning, resource management, program implementation, and stakeholder engagement to advance the Oxfam’s mission of fighting inequality to end poverty and injustice and offer lifesaving support in times of crisis and advocate for economic justice, gender equality, and climate action. My responsibilities included ensuring the effective and efficient delivery of the organization's programmes, managing local teams, and representing the Oxfam to local governments, donors and partners. The highlights of this role included: • Collaborating with senior executives to uncover insights and create innovate sustainability strategies• Driving and supporting community development campaigns• Building strong networking skills with various stakeholders such as government, public and private sector• Advocacy and thought leadership to enhance sustainable impact

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Responsible for managing and executing communication strategies for clients. This role involved developing and implementing communication plans, creating content for various media platforms, and coordinating with clients to convey their messages effectively. Furthermore my role included building relationships with clients, and enhancing their online and offline presence. The highlights of this role included: • Develop annual marketing strategy for multi-channel campaigns for various clients • Monitor campaigns and social media campaigns schedules across platforms • Support product positioning workshops and growth strategies • Influencer marketing

Master'S Degree, Strategic Communications, Completed

Social Systems, Business/Corporate Communications, Completed

Ba Honours Strategic Marketing Communication, Completed

Ba Corporate Communication

Completed