Senior Manager: Research in City of Cape Town: Social Development
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)
UWCCurrently studying
Masters in Research Psychology
University of the Western Cape & University of OsloCurrently studying
Bachelor of Science in Psychology (Honours)
Freed Hardeman UniversityCurrently studying
Languages
English
Advanced
German
Basic
IT skills
Word, EXCEL, SPSS, ATlas Ti, Access
Experto
Other Skills
More Lynn
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