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Excellent Development, Great Soft Skills Development,Excellent leadership

An amazing environment to work in. It requires a self starter, disciplined and responsible professional. I have a good working relationship with my colleagues. We all have frequent meeting to sensitize everyone of the objective we all strive for in the organization. I that I've learnt to account, assertive, decisive and negotiate. My academic experiences have been used throughly in my projects and to the organization. I've developed into a diligent manager that can easily relate with everyone at all levels, which I enjoy the most. My soft skills have vastly improved whereby I can turn a heated/sombre room into a fun filled.Most challenging about my role is not being offered necessary support in projects which were not properly planned, which I now then have to resuscitate. My job requires me to be at an interface with the end users in various informal settlements, which are mostly volatile and posses a huge risk to my life as I often get held hostage, atlas once a month.

Pros: great environment to work in.Opportunities for career development
Cons: Lack of social facilitations, volatile community exposure

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Excellent national exposure at executive levels.

I have had to work in an empowering space, being exposed to executive and accounting officer levels in the varied national and provincial government departments. The focus being on relational management at governance, executive and operational levels.

Pros: Exposure to broader government planning, monitoring and evaluation.
Cons: Dynamic political environment with short 'life' spans of proncipals. Disruptive to developmental continuum.

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Corporate culture has changed and is no longer good.

- drafting of agreements, - traveling to meet with stakeholders, - preparation of presentations, - conflict resolution with stakeholders, - management of agreements, - report writing, - Strategic planning, - financial management, - long hours, - expected to be an all rounder, -

Pros: Great learning opportunity
Cons: Rigid organogram

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Learnt to manage projects that are running concurrently and to schedule projects

Coordinate project information and track the effective implementation of the Catalytic Project Programme as well as delivery on pri. • Coordinate project information and track the effective implementation of the Catalytic Project Programme as well as delivery on priority projects.proejcagsgsf • Develop and monitor the operational and strategic risk register for the Planning, Programme and Design unit. • Schedule regular meetings and record decisions (e.g. assigned tasks and next steps). • Arrange and facilitate all meetings that lead to the successful completion of the project. • Create a project schedule for projects. and monitor the operational and strategic risk register for the Planning, Programme and Design unit. • Schedule regular meetings and record decisions (e.g. assigned tasks and next steps). • Arrange and facilitate all meetings that lead to the successful completion of the project. • Create a project schedule for projects.

Pros: Great organisation
Cons: Contractual employment

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Desktop support

Day to day desktop support,setting up new machines,printers ,managing the active directory ,setting up VC meetings.outlook and internet/intranet issues .setting up projectors for meetings ,patching network points in the server room ,managing our telephone management system and our biometrics

Pros: Flexible hours and great learning curve
Cons: having the IT team in different provinces

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Exposure

Stakeholder Relation matters (3 Sphere of Govt, SOE , Private Business and Communities) Budget management Infrastructure planning ( Water and Sanitation, Electricity, Roads and Storm water, Solid waste, and ICT) EIA application Infrastructure Master plan Land Evaluation and acquisition Municipality steering Committee IDP and SDF review Board Meeting presentation Develop Strategy Team working relationship is healthy I enjoy site visit work Most challenging aspect, is when i do not get approval from Board members whereby delays have financial implications

Pros: International capacity building
Cons: 3 years Contract

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Great experience by far

My day is hectic as I process journals and invoices of suppliers. Sometimes they don't submit everything then you have to follow up. I have a great relationship with co workers as they make me belong and I can contribute ideas. I enjoy the experience they give me and they don't limit me. Most challenging aspects is dealing with difficult suppliers and workers but it helps because I've gained experience to deal calmly with stressful situations.

Pros: Great experience by far
Cons: Difficult suppliers

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Exellent learning opporunity

A day in my position include liaising with media companies, updating websites, writing and editing, events management, ensuring that communication and marketing strategy approved by the Board is implemented. I enjoy problem solving. I generally work well within a team and my "two-eye seeing" (ability to perceive and unpack complex issues) abilities assist me to resolve complex issues. I won organizational "Path Finder" award in 2017. I am also very keen on IT.

Pros: Great Opportunity for promotion
Cons: Long working hours

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Good learning curve

- Follow up on outstanding CAPEX claim with the provincial officials - Ensure CAPEX invoice requests are supported by a signed level agreement for the project and other supporting documents - Reconcile all projects to align expenditure with actual funds received Projects Accounts payable - Initiate a process of obtaining a purchase order once supplier is approved by BAC/ relevant approval structure (prepare a purchase requisition and have it authorised then send to SCM/Procurement to create a purchase order) - Receive project invoices and review for compliance in terms of applicable financial policies and procedures, delegation of authority document and capital expenditure submission standards

Pros: Encourages growth and development
Cons: Offers fixed term contract

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Pros: Promotion
Cons: learning many things

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