Local Economic Development Student Project Assistant

Cape Winelands District Municipality

April 2009 - June 2009

Assisting in coordinating key applications and procedures associated with the identification, implementation, monitoring, and reporting of the effectiveness of local economic development initiatives, programmes, and projects in creating a conducive environment for entrepreneurs, committing and capacitating citizens, community-based organisations, business, and other interest groups towards achieving sustainable ways to meet social, economic and material needs and improve quality of life.
Assisting with project briefs and the signing of service level agreements with service providers & beneficiaries
Assisting in compiling monitoring & evaluation report for LED projects
Maintain records of work in progress, correspondence, updating and filing.
Assisting in organizing workshops and presenting information on economic development opportunities, programmes, and projects.
Participating in meetings and mapping out initiatives and interventions for local economic development as identified by the Municipality
Performing administrative support by keeping and maintaining a database of funded SMMEs as well as cooperatives in the Cape Winelands district.
Assisting with coordination of LED information projects and activities as per business plans.
Assisting with the process of identifying, assessing & evaluating beneficiaries, or service providers for local economic development initiatives such as arranging logistics of business plan evaluation meetings for evaluation panels.
Identifying project obstacles & challenges.
Writing evaluation reports assessing the impact of local economic development initiatives including specific recommendations.

Buyer/Procurement Officer

Shoprite Group of Companies - Freshmark Division

July 2011 - May 2021

Managing suppliers, ensuring that they adhere to the set product standards, specification and to all the company policies.
Procuring different types of baby vegetables, negotiating prices with suppliers, and making sure that customers are charged prices that are accurate
Scheduling and implementing the development of new products as well as monitoring the process until the finishing stage.
Communicate with stakeholders/role players (suppliers and Freshmark procurement department) to work on issues of common interest and to facilitate the objectives of the company.
Apply, control, and evaluate measures to monitor Shoprite Group and participants of various retail companies in the market.
Apply, control, and evaluate measures to monitor price fluctuation in the market so that we (Shoprite Group- Freshmark) can remain competitive.
Draft correspondence to facilitate functionality and perform relevant administrative functions. Identify and communicate trends in the retail industry fruit and vegetables sector. Ensure that a fresh and quality product reaches the customers.
Plan and implement the marketing for product specials
Assist in managing the budget of products and product promotion.
Responsible for sales growth and gross profit of the product category I procure.
Product management including quality, enforcing, and ensuring that food safety systems are adhered to by different suppliers.

Project Administrator

Western Government

May 2021 - Now

Apply best practice project management tools to ensure project deliverables meet quality standards by conducting reviews and assessments before final submissions.
Provide administrative support to project teams, including handling correspondence.
Identify potential project risks and work with the project manager to develop mitigation strategies to minimize theirimpact.
Monitor project tasks, deadlines, and milestones to keep the project on track, identifying any potential delays or issues and communicating them to the project manager.
Maintain project documentation, including project plans, schedules, budgets, status reports, and meeting minutes.
Assist project managers in planning, organizing, and overseeing project activities, ensuring they align with project goals and objectives.
Regular, accurate and timely reporting within agreed project standards.
Facilitate scheduling and allocation of all reactive and proactive maintenance work.
Establish and maintain a project documentation library, and this includes providing document management support, the identification, change control and administration on all project- related documents
Perform general administration functions.
Supervisory and manage of subordinates 1 employee Supply Chain Processes
Verify captured project data.
Execute project administration tasks as requested by project office manager and branch projectmanager
Participate as a member of the project office team.
Produce minutes and agendas for maintenance project meetings. Assist Project Manager/s in organizing project meetings. Monthly Programme Reporting.

Programme Management Administrator:
Effective management of programme information administrators and support of the project and programme management
Ensuring appropriate performance of subordinate project information administrators and managing the performance of key resources discipline; Maintain high-level competency in the deployment and application of the enterprise programme management information systems improvements and upgrades.
Assist the relevant stakeholders, including programme/project managers and project teams, by providing a framework for them to operate within, including structures, processes, reporting lines, standards, and coaching.
Ensure capture of accurate and useful project information and production of reports including all prescribed reports that are timeously made available to all users as required and that the project documentation is available for auditing purposes.
Support the production of the statutory annual documents
and the service delivery agreements betweeneducation infrastructure and its client departments with correct inputs and that documents are correctly compiled to the relevant standard.
Monitor the executive approval process, distribute, and file copies.