Julia N. Email & Phone Number

Cape Town, Wc, Za

South Africa

NASCEE is South Africa's National Association of Social Change Entities in Education. We aim to support the social impact education ecosystem, drive positive change and support public education service delivery through three strategic worksteams: Capacity-building, collaboration and advocacy. I became a board member in 2023, in relation to my role as Executive Director at Book Dash, a NASCEE member. The board are active in the direction, governance and growth of NASCEE as an important roleplayer in education provision and strategy. As board members, we support management, engage key stakeholders and represent the organisation at industry events.

The Working Group is the Executive Committee of the network: We co-ordinate efforts, special projects, strategic development and member approvals of the Global Network. See more at https://globalnetwork.euread.com/

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Book Dash believes that "Every child should own a hundred books by the age of five". We develop and use innovative, open publishing and distribution approaches to enable this vision.Tasked with leading on strategy, organizational development, people and culture, key programmes, scale, partnerships and donor engagement. I identify and drive programmes and partnerships towards our vision. Oversight of financial management, strategic communications and sustainability are also within the portfolio. I am responsible to the Board, my team, all our partners and the children and families we reach.Under my leadership, Book Dash has created nearly 200 open African storybooks, and distributes close to 3 million physical books to children to own. This offers significant social and economic value to the sectors of ECD, literacy and positive parenting/family-building. We have grown significantly year-on-year in terms of turnover and number of partnerships. We maintain a lean core management team.

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

As Project Director and the first employee at Book Dash, I played a key role in getting the organisation off the ground, establishing a solid foundation from which to work towards our vision: "Every child should own one hundred books by the age of five." This involved establishing Book Dash's presence in the social impact, ECD and publishing industries, identifying and developing partnerships and raising funds for our work. It also comprised all operational and project management, financial and budget management and oversight, organisational sustainability, compliance and devising and implementing strategy to drive growth. Responsible to the Board.

Claremont, Cape Town

Electric Book Works is a laboratory for publishing innovations. It is the birthplace of acclaimed initiatives like Book Dash, Bettercare, and Paperight, and has helped dozens of publishers, retailers and organisations build their digital capacity through training, consulting and product development.Through the Publishing Association of South Africa's internship programme, I was place with Electric Book Works and was subsequently employed full-time. In the small, dedicated team, I was involved in project management, sales, editing, proofreading and strategy. I transitioned from Electric Book Works to dedicate 100% capacity to further developing one of our successfully incubated publishing "experiments", Book Dash, where I currently hold the position of Executive Director.

University Of Cape Town

University Of Cape Town

Most senior position with SHAWCO Education. This position is voluntary and is held by a student, concurrently to full-time studies at the University of Cape Town. •Comprises co-ordination and development of 13 after-school education-based programmes situated throughout six of Cape Town’s developing communities, working with over 800 children and 1200 student volunteers.•Directly responsible for the 21 UCT students who comprise “Senior Leadership. Tasked with their leadership development as well as ensuring that their projects run effectively.•Indirectly responsible for the 80 UCT students who comprise “General Leadership”. •Indirectly responsible for the 800 SHAWCO participants (children) and 1200 UCT student volunteers with regard to communication, effective services rendered and project management.

University Of Cape Town

Headed up a Literacy Project (“Little Moon”) working with 90 children (aged 5 – 10) in Nyanga aiming to inspire a love for English through singing, reading, storytelling and drama.•Guide project from a senior leadership position as well as lead by example. Answer to those above me, respond to their tasks myself as well as delegate. •Oversee and plan day-to-day running of an effective project (going out twice a week for 3 hours). •People-manage my immediate committee as well as 60 volunteers and a further 90 children. •Public speaking when reporting back to management, recruiting and training volunteers as well as at publicity events for Little Moon and SHAWCO. •Develop significant interpersonal skills working within an established organisation with many sectors. •Superior conversational and written skills required to write proposal letters.•Confidence and initiative required to physically run the sessions in Nyanga, which involve songs and games circles, classroom activities and paired reading.

Lyon Area, France

Warwickshire, Uk

Honours, English Language And Literature, General

Thesis: Text Complexity in South Africa, What’s Good? An explorative analysis of how non-profit publishers and literacy organisations.

Bachelor'S Degree, English Language And Literature, French Language And Literature And History Of Art

Matric

Activities and Societies: Interact Outreach society, Editor of the School magazine, Prefect