Provincial Manager
NAPWA & Human Sciences Research Council
01.2024 - Current
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Godfrey Arnold Lepono
Gauteng
Work History
NAPWA & Human Sciences Research Council
Provincial Manager
01.2024 - Current
Job overview
- Leading the full-scale management and strategic implementation of the Stigma Index Project across three provinces, effectively supervising and mentoring a team of 18 data collectors, ensuring high-quality outputs in complex, multi-site environments.
- Coordinating all field operations, including deployment scheduling, resource allocation, and site-specific troubleshooting, while proactively resolving logistical and operational challenges to maintain seamless project execution.
- Driving data excellence by compiling, cleaning, and submitting timely, high-integrity weekly and monthly narrative and quantitative reports to HSRC and key national stakeholders, enabling informed, data-driven decision-making.
- Enforcing rigorous remote performance oversight mechanisms, motivating dispersed teams, and maintaining consistent productivity and adherence to project timelines and quality standards.
- Streamlining the reporting cycle and data integrity protocols, resulting in a 30% improvement in turnaround time and elevated accuracy levels, significantly enhancing project credibility and efficiency.
- Facilitating strategic stakeholder engagement and feedback loops between HSRC, NAPWA, and field teams, ensuring transparency, alignment with research objectives, and sustained trust throughout the project lifecycle.
ANC Caucus (GPL & National Parliament)
Parliamentary Constituency Field Worker
01.2020 - 01.2024
Job overview
- Serving as a primary liaison between citizens and Members of Parliament, ensuring timely communication, accurate representation of community concerns, and effective follow-through on escalated public service delivery issues—cementing trust between the community and legislative structures.
- Overseeing constituency office operations, including scheduling of oversight visits, managing stakeholder events, and coordinating parliamentary outreach initiatives—thereby enhancing visibility, accountability, and accessibility of public representatives.
- Monitoring and documenting service delivery inefficiencies within government departments and municipalities, compiling clear, solution-oriented reports to aid MPs in legislative oversight and interventions, directly contributing to improved turnaround times.
- Compiling and presenting monthly performance and impact reports, summarizing community engagements, operational highlights, and critical service delivery gaps—used to shape constituency priorities.
- Cultivating and maintaining strong stakeholder networks with civil society, local councilors, ward committees, and government entities—streamlining collaboration and ensuring swift resolution of socio-political and service-related challenges.
- Initiating community dialogue forums and feedback platforms, enabling real-time public participation and promoting civic education—resulting in higher engagement rates.
ANOVA Health Institute
Decanting Mentor
01.2019 - 01.2020
Job overview
- Delivering impactful health education talks and actively promoting the CCMDD (Central Chronic Medicine Dispensing and Distribution) programme to increase patient awareness, understanding, and voluntary participation.
- Guiding and supporting patients throughout the enrolment process, ensuring informed consent, clarity on collection points, and smooth integration into the adherence support system.
- Maintaining and updating adherence club registers with precision, ensuring real-time tracking of patient participation, treatment collection, and compliance across various club models.
- Facilitating patient referrals and linkages to care, working collaboratively with clinical teams to ensure timely access to medication, follow-up care, and comprehensive wellness support.
- Monitoring and supervising Patient Medicine Pick-Up Points(PMPs) by ensuring compliance with standard operating procedures, providing mentorship to staff, and escalating challenges to improve service delivery.
- Supporting clinical meetings and multidisciplinary collaborations, contributing to case discussions, performance reviews, and data-informed decision-making to enhance patient outcomes.
Stop Stock Outs Project
Community Trainer
01.2013 - 01.2015
Job overview
- Empowering local communities by delivering engaging educational sessions on the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the National Health Act, fostering civic understanding and awareness of healthcare rights.
- Leading on-the-ground data collection efforts by conducting structured surveys at clinics, identifying and documenting essential medicine stock-outs with accuracy and urgency.
- Compiling and presenting detailed reports—weekly, monthly, and quarterly—that distilled raw data into actionable insights, directly informing SSP’s operational decisions and stakeholder engagement.
- Feeding real-time data into a national medicine stock-out tracking database, strengthening nationwide monitoring systems, and enabling swift escalations of public health concerns.
- Strengthening advocacy initiatives by translating field data into strategic inputs that shaped provincial health department engagements and national-level interventions.
- Delivering front line support by liaising with community members and clinic personnel, resolving concerns, and ensuring the voices of underserved populations are heard by decision-makers.
- Driving measurable impact through direct contributions to reducing medicine stock-out response times, improving community trust, and shaping systemic health improvements across public clinics.
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Timeline
Parliamentary Constituency Field Worker
ANC Caucus (GPL & National Parliament)
01.2020 - 01.2024
Decanting Mentor
ANOVA Health Institute
01.2019 - 01.2020
Community Trainer
Stop Stock Outs Project
01.2013 - 01.2015
Overview
14
years of professional experience