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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

In the role as the Group Leadership and Culture Manager for DRA Global, an international engineering and project delivery firm, in the mining, minerals and metals industry. My experience at DRA Global spans across multiple disciplines of the group people and culture function. I help to shape our employee experience and am involved in leading and supporting.

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

In my role as a Senior Project and Change Manager, I was responsible for overseeing the project and change management of strategic people and culture projects across diverse global settings. My expertise was centred around applying fit for purpose change management strategies, ensuring effective adaptation and integration of new systems, ways of working.

South Africa

I help deliver results through bringing structure, best practice and expert project, communication and change management skills to various business processes and projects.

South Africa

In my role as Senior Change Management Lead Consultant, I spearheaded the change and communication on a number of strategic programmes of work. These projects spanned across Human Capital, Employee Enagagement, Information Security and Group Technology. I supported, coached and directed the Change Management specialist and a number of project resources. As.

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

I am a success partner working with Corporates and Individuals to achieve project and performance excellence through change management, communications and coaching strategies. Working with corporates to achieve business project success through effective team leadership, coaching, project and change management. Expertise in internal communications, change.

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

My role was primarily focused on driving positive employee engagement and facilitating organisational change through the development and implementation of impactful internal marketing and communications strategies. My responsibilities included enabling the execution of effective business strategies, meticulously planning, scoping, and delivering a range of.

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

• I helped business develop their internal communication and marketing strategies, executed and managed communication and change projects and delivered business unit strategies, employee engagement programmes.Key.
• Partnered with business to provide a high-end strategic marketing and communication services which included copywriting and copy editing, event management, campaign development and project management to drive effective.
• Entrenching the business strategy through communications and change initiatives
• Thought leadership and consultation on best practice
• Lead, coached and enabled the Enabling Functions Communications team
• Quality assurance and development of communication standards and guidelines

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• I lead a team of specialists to provide strategic internal communications services to a unit of close to 20 000 staff across 8 divisions.
• Partnered with executive leadership across multiple divisions and developed communication strategies in support of divisional objectives
• Developed communications team strategy and objectives in line with Group Strategy.
• Led a team of specialists; hired, trained and managed performance of individual team members.
• Developed communication standards and guidelines and drove adherence to best practice principles across all business units.

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

• Coordination and management of the consolidation of all Group IT Communication services into a centralised, strategically focused centre of excellence. Establishment of the Communications Strategy, service catalogue.
• Planned, implemented and managed the consolidation of Group IT Communications across 14 business areas into a single centralised shared service
• Designed and implemented the service catalogue, skills matrix and target operating model
• Developed and implemented the One IT Communications strategy and plan
• Engaged and built relationships with Executive stakeholders
• Development of standards, guidelines and templates for communications based on the One IT strategy and vision

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Established the Internal Communications Function responsible for execution of the internal and external communications strategy and plan. Oversight. direction and accountability for all communication initiatives Full accountability for all IS internal marketing campaigns. Leadership and management of the GIS Communications team.Defined, planned and project.

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

• Project Consultation, Operational Risk Impact Analysis, Change and Release Management, Stakeholder Management, Remediation plan definition and management.
• Awareness and cascading of new Information Security policies, standards and guidelines
• Facilitation of end-user training and information security awareness initiatives
• Compliance reviews against information security policies and associated procedures (scorecards)
• Programme consultation to accurately assess impact of technical vulnerabilities
• Workshop facilitation to assess all technology systems

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

• Planned and executed an extensive number of Infrastructure projects at the Barclays Data Centre.
• Management of all infrastructure projects from conception to closure
• Presentation of project documentation
• Workshop facilitation to define project requirements, goals, objectives Identification and management of project risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies (RAID)
• Developed and managed work breakdown structure based on deliverables
• Created project change control process

South

Jointly planned and executed the communications, marketing and advertising strategy with agency. Full management and execution of prestiige client events. Business analysis, process documentation and optimisation review. Office management and administration.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Started as a Regional Assistant to the IT Manager and within 11 months, was promoted to a Project Administrator. Shortly thereafter I was planning and executing a number of IT projects across various parts of the business. It was here that my ability to schedule, plan and execute work as well as manage teams began to develop.

National Diploma, Public Relations And Communication Science

Graduated in Public Relations with distinction

High School, Biology, Geography, Maths, Science, English, Afrikaans

Activities and Societies: Head of SCAMatriculated in 1993. Head of SCA, Chapel Prefect