Sabelo Makhaye
Mulbarton
Summary
I am highly motivated and eager to take on new tasks. Strong work ethic, adaptability, and excellent interpersonal skills. I am easily adaptable, capable of working well unattended and fast grasping new abilities. I bring a diverse set of skills honed through years of experience in property management, which has allowed me to develop and enhance numerous personal and soft skills.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Property Portfolio Manager
Johannesburg Housing Company
Johannesburg
12.2020 - Current
- Draw up and prioritize budget for projects to be completed within the financial year or five-year strategy
- Managing buildings financial performances and reporting on areas that must be identified as the key issues impact
- Stakeholder engagements sessions to ensure alignment on business performance and monthly updates on the progress thereof
- Manage housing supervisors
- Support and implement training interventions to address performance/development gaps, aligned to talent and succession planning, ensuring alignment to learning and development and training policies under the guidance and direction
- Managing the condition of the buildings that are allocated under the portfolio that I am responsible of
- To ensure that all processes and procedures are performed at the buildings such as: To ensure that overcrowding is being managed at the buildings
- To ensure health and safety for the livelihood of the tenants is prioritized
- To ensure that security and maintenance required by tenants or clients are actioned
- Providing excellent customer service to ensure that our clients and stakeholders are informed on the relevant information including changes and projects that will be implemented in the buildings
- To ensure that all buildings are complying with the OHS regulations
- To ensure building utilities are managed properly and engagements with Council Departments are well monitored
- Meeting with stakeholders internal and external to ensure that all processes and procedures are aligned to avoid misunderstanding and confusion
- Managing buildings arrears to ensure that our company collections are up to date
- Manage the performance of the relevant service providers and review their contracts annually
- Manage housing supervisors that are based at the different buildings and ensure that processes and procedures are managed and actioned.
Property Assistant Manager
Johannesburg Housing Company
Johannesburg
05.2013 - 11.2020
- Draw up and prioritize budget for projects to be completed within the financial year or five-year strategy
- 2IC for Property Portfolio managers in their absence and ensuring that all their scope of work is actioned
- Taking on new projects and seeing them off to the end
- This involved the following: Drawing up the scope of work and specifications, sourcing quotations from different service provider for the specific job/project
- Depending on the value and scale of the project, some are put up for tender process
- This involves drawing up the tender documents, site briefing with the potential service providers and evaluating the tenders/quotations to be submitted to the procurement committee for final approval of the selected service provider
- Ensure all processes and procedures of appointing a service provider are followed and completion of the JBCC contract by the appointed service provider
- Ensure that Property Portfolio manager gets feedback of what is going on at the buildings level
- Ensure communication with the line manager for approval of work and processes that should be followed
- Ensure that feasible solutions are provided for the buildings' challenges that Housing Supervisors have been attempting to solve at the building level.
Building Manager
Johannesburg Housing Company
Johannesburg
05.2009 - 04.2013
- Building management, service provider management, building maintenance, utility management, management of social issues Building Management - Manage the vacancy levels in the buildings through assisting prospective tenants, facilitating viewing of vacant units, Maintaining vacant units for ready use for new tenants
- Management of Adhoc maintenance in buildings, including allocating service providers for the specific tasks, inspecting and monitoring jobs after completion by the service provider, signing off the invoices and assigning them to the specific Portfolio manager for final approval
- Stakeholder engagements sessions to ensure alignment on projected projects and weekly to monthly updates on the progress thereof
- Manage housing supervisors
- Support and implement training interventions to address performance/development gaps, aligned to talent and succession planning, ensuring alignment to learning and development and training policies under the guidance and direction of the manager
- Manage the rental collection process through analysis on dummy runs, distributing rental statements, Reviewing the arrears report, following up on tenants that are in arrears, distributing arrears letters and Implementing credit control measures Manage the condition of the building through Inspecting the building and grounds and identifying key areas of concern, review any security or maintenance required, and Manage cleanliness of the buildings
- Service provider Management - Manage the performance of the relevant service providers and provide feedback on the following: Cleaners, Security, Garden services, Meter readers etc
- Customer service - Deliver appropriate customer service, give continuous feedback, Follow-up on outstanding matters and Communicate with tenants to ensure that they are informed of relevant information
- Utility Management - Monitor level of utilities recovered in the building, attend to tenants’ queries with regards to utility changes by: Investigating tenants queries, communicate with debtor’s department and Take meter readings when necessary and Identify faulty meters and report to PO.
Building Manager and Project Manager
Trafalgar
01.2007 - 04.2009
- Sourcing quotations from service providers vet them and forward them to the building owners for final appointment of the service provider
- Inspecting and assessment of buildings owned by the company and sectional title owned properties, and ensure building compliance with the laid down rules and regulations Preparation of scope of work for proposed conversion works and obtaining quotes for projects tenders
- Minute taking at site meeting and adjudicate all site correspondence
- Ensuring all health and safety compliance on construction site To ensure that the house rules are being followed by the occupants
- To ensure that rentals is collected within the timelines
- Maintaining building condition and attend to daily maintenance
- Provide customer service to clients and the stakeholders.
Education
NQF 8 - Construction Safety and Quality Management -
Wits Business School
01.2021
NQF 6 - Property Management Programme -
Wits Business School
01.2017
Generic Management -
Siyaya Institute
01.2009
Matric -
Golozela High School
01.1998
Skills
- Deciding and initiating action
- Learning and researching
- Entrepreneurial and commercial thinking
- Relating and networking
- Adapting and responding to change
- Persuading and influencing
- Creating and innovating
References
- Sifiso Ginindza, JHC, Senior Portfolio Manager, 079 529 8942
- Boyce Maritz, JHC, Head, Property manager, 082 523 4704 / 010 593 0200
- Kleinbooi Gololo, Trafalgar, Operations Manager, 011 642 0166
Timeline
Property Portfolio Manager
Johannesburg Housing Company
12.2020 - Current
Property Assistant Manager
Johannesburg Housing Company
05.2013 - 11.2020
Building Manager
Johannesburg Housing Company
05.2009 - 04.2013
Building Manager and Project Manager
Trafalgar
01.2007 - 04.2009
NQF 8 - Construction Safety and Quality Management -
Wits Business School
NQF 6 - Property Management Programme -
Wits Business School
Generic Management -
Siyaya Institute
Matric -
Golozela High School
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