Senior Manager: Research in City of Cape Town: Social Development

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Current:City of Cape Town: Social Development
Past:Midrand Graduate Institute (Pearson education Group)
Education:PhD Psychology (currently enrolled)

Job Experience

Senior Manager: Research

City of Cape Town: Social Development

July 2014 to Actually working here

? City wide enumeration and profiling of street people 2014 and 2015
? Programme and Impact Evaluations
? Research Design and Implementation
? Research mentoring of staff

Head of Research

Midrand Graduate Institute (Pearson education Group)

January 2010 to June 2014

? Management of 19 staff members
? Responsible for departmental and campus research and administration.
? Chair Ethics Committee
? Chair of Research Committee
? National Programme Evaluation Committee for MGI
? Psychology Student Conference 2012-2014
? Student counselling for approx. 120 4th year students in the 5 years.

Researcher

Early Learning Resource Unit

September 2008 to January 2010

Design and administration of monitoring database in EXCEL and SPSS.
Project Management, data management, report writing and statistical consulting.

Research Intern

Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC)

March 2008 to September 2009

Project management, data capturing, collection and administration. Interviewing key informants and launching of the African Early Child Development Measures Resource online.

Education

PhD Psychology (currently enrolled)

UWC

Currently studying

Masters in Research Psychology

University of the Western Cape & University of Oslo

Currently studying

Bachelor of Science in Psychology (Honours)

Freed Hardeman University

Currently studying

Languages

English

Advanced

German

Basic

IT skills

Word, EXCEL, SPSS, ATlas Ti, Access

Experto

Other Skills

Team Work, Leadership, Management, Innovation, Creative Design

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Career Goals

My career goal is to work diligently at becoming a researcher equipped with the ability to execute all methodologies and to advance the movement of research analysis to the digital world.

Industries of interest

Areas of interest

Availability to travel and work outside the city

Yes

Interests and hobbies