Sithembile Cembi
Reporter/ Independent Monitor
Cape Town
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
2013
2013
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Languages
Work History
Writing Consultant/ Monitor (Part Time)
Parliamentary Monitoring Group(PMG)
02.2025 - Current
- Attends meetings in person in Parliament (Cape Town)
- Produce objective accurate reports
- Keep track of MP attendance record, record/obtain documents used in the meetings and write reports comprehensively detailing the proceedings and discussions in the meetings
- Improved client retention rate through consistent follow-up sessions and progress tracking reports.
Invigilator for Mid & End of Year Exams
Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University (SMU)
06.2023 - 12.2024
- Ensuring that examinations are carried out in an orderly, secure and impartial manner
- Exam Set-Up: Preparing the exam hall, ensuring seating arrangements comply with guidelines, and distributing exam materials
- Time Management: Accurately keeping track of time and collecting exam papers according to the time rules and duration as per exam
- Monitoring: Vigilantly observing students throughout the examination to prevent
Head of Training & Development: Presidential Youth Employment Initiative (PYEI)
Mabophe Business Solutions/ South African Public Colleges Organisation (SACPO)
03.2022 - 05.2022
- Working with client and managers in streamlining recruitment programme
- Providing client and management team with feedback on targets met daily
- Maintaining records of all training activities and numbers pooled as per our target
- Assisting with training new recruits added to our team
- Creating a weekly logistic travel plan for field workers to travel to TVET Colleges across the country, made travel arrangements (flights, accommodation) and supporting fieldworkers where necessary when they arrived at designated destinations
- Confirming number of SETAs per programme and college as allocated by client
- Maintaining good relationships with principal and liaised directly with TVET College principals and student programme managers
Research Assistant
Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital
06.2017 - 08.2019
- Co-ordinating & writing of local and international patient living with rheumatic heart disease (RHD)/ congenital heart disease (CHD) profiles
- Assisting with annual events targeted at raising awareness for people living with RHD and CHD
- Processing administrative oversight including the processing and clearing of travel, subsistence and other expenses and compiling financial records as required in liaison with the Research Account Department
ETutor for English for Academic Purposes
University of South Africa (UNISA)
03.2016 - 10.2018
- Creation of supplementary education material to assist students
- Liaising with module coordinator and lecture on how best to structure the e-platform for optimal learning
Research Assistant for Stigma in Rheumatic Heart Disease Project
Groote Schuur Hospital
08.2017 - 08.2018
- Coordinating & conducting interviews with family members of patients living with RHD and schizophrenia and trying to understand their understanding on stigma and genetics
- Collating, transcribing, and translating data from isiXhosa/isiZulu to English
- Using NVivo software to analyze and code transcripts
- Liaised with collaborating sites and national bodies / committees
- Presented results
Research Assistant
The Jameel Abdul Latif Poverty Action Lab (JPAL/SALDRU) UCT
02.2017 - 07.2017
- Extracting data from the two transport systems on travel patterns and transactions made testing a transport prototype system
- Reporting difficulties in application so management could better streamline the process
Research Assistant & Education Innovation Associate
BLUE Door ECE (Early Child Education)
06.2015 - 07.2017
- Contributing to curriculum creation for a dual-language (English & isiXhosa) early literacy and numeracy curriculum
- Conducting in-classroom observations and providing instructional feedback and support at three edu-care sites in Nyanga (Cape Town)
- Assisting in building classrooms settings that were conducive to learning as well as teaching
- Run centralized training workshops for groups of 6-8 early childhood educators
- Interacted daily with children and teachers alike to help improve the programme and training tools used
Recruitment & Selection Assistant to Recruitment Manager
TEACH South Africa
09.2016 - 02.2017
- Facilitator between subject teachers and TEACH trainees
- Assisting in developing and implementing a comprehensive recruitment strategy
- Assisting in selecting and marking tests as part of recruitment strategy in selecting the best trainees to be placed in secondary schools across the country
- Ensuring that adequate advice had been given to the placement committee regarding candidates
Online Editor
Inspire Mzansi (Online Magazine)
09.2015 - 02.2016
- Conducting research for developing or completed stories
- Performing fact-checking after a story is complete and editing of stories
- Brainstorming with team, theme for main article and pieces that run with the theme
- Planning annual editorial calendars, issue content and creating special sections
TEACH SOUTH AFRICA Ambassador and Educator
Department of Education Gauteng
01.2013 - 12.2013
- Established 'I Read & Write, What I Like' Club at the school with grade 9 & 11s
- Preparing daily lesson plans for the five classes I taught
- Facilitating and creating a classroom that was academically holistic English department to Preparing continuous assignments and assisting Head of English Department in creating term tests
- Assisting the English Department at the school in the planning on how to strategically pace the grades in their preparations for their examinations
- Covering and completing the syllabus
Education
Grade 12 (Matric) - English, Afrikaans, Mathematics, Business Economics, Biology, Geography, Life Orientation
Midrand High School
Certificate of Excellence - Good Communication Skills, Time Management, Work Attitude
Work 4 A Living
03.2023 - 03.2023
Certificate - Teach English as a Foreign Language- TEFL
TEFL Professional Development Institute
01.2019 - 12.2019
Masters (Incomplete) - Public Health
University of Cape Town
01.2017 - 12.2019
Honours in Psychology - Bachelor of Arts
University of Stellenbosch
01.2014 - 12.2014
Honours in English Literature - Bachelor of Arts
Rhodes University
01.2011 - 12.2011
Bachelor of Social Science - Psychology & English Studies
University of Kwa Zulu- Natal
01.2008 - 12.2010
Skills
Good listening skills
Published Articles
- 2019, Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) and Pregnancy: Ruby's Story, http://rhdaction.org/sites/default/files/Reach%20patient%20profile_Ruby%20FINAL.pdf
- 2018, Rheumatic heart disease patient event in Cape Town hosts 4TH Annual Listen to My Heart Rheumatic Disease for patients at the South African Heart Association meeting, https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehy199
- 2017, Our Lifestyle is a mix-match: Traditional healers talk about suicide and suicide prevention in South Africa, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1363461517722065
- 2017, Listen To My Heart Event Patient Awareness Event in Kampala, http://rhdaction.org/news/listen-to-my-heart-patient-awareness-event-kampala
- Listen to my heart: A passion for patient advocacy (Flavia's Story), http://rhdaction.org/sites/default/files/Listen%20to%20my%20Heart_Flavia_Uganda.pdf
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 07/31/85
- Nationality: South African
- Driving License: True
- Marital Status: Single, no dependents
Training
- 03/13-15/19, INAUGURAL PROTEA (Partnership For Children With Heart Disease in Africa), Newlands, Cape Town
- 11/03-07/17, RHD Stakeholder meeting, Uganda, Kampala
- 05/09/18, Crede: GCP (Good Clinical Practice) Beginner Course, South African Medical Research Council, Parow
- 05/08/18, Nothing About Us Without Us, IAVI Adolescent Research Workshop, Observatory (Cape Town)
- 05/22/17, QSR NVivo 11 Pro Workshop (Beginners), UCT Medical Campus
- 09/14/17, 4th Listen To My Heart Rheumatic Heart Disease Patient, Cape Town
- 09/10-12/17, Qualitative Evidence Synthesis Workshop, South Africa Medical Research Council
Academic Awards
- 2017, Adole7C Scholarship, Adolescents Receiving Continuous Care for Childhood-onset Chronic Conditions Medical Research Council (University of Cape Town/ Medical Research Council & University of Gothenburg)
- 2015, Bennie Hewat Scholarship, University of Cape Town (Postgraduate Certificate in Education)
- 2014, SASSETA Bursary Award, Safety and Security Sector in Education and Training for Honours in Psychology
- 2011, National Research Fund (NRF) Mellon Humanities Focus Area Scholarship, Rhodes University
- 2009, Golden Key Awarded membership, University of KwaZulu-Natal
- 2009, Macintosh Merit Award, English Studies University of KwaZulu-Natal
Timeline
Writing Consultant/ Monitor (Part Time)
Parliamentary Monitoring Group(PMG)
02.2025 - Current
Invigilator for Mid & End of Year Exams
Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University (SMU)
06.2023 - 12.2024
Certificate of Excellence - Good Communication Skills, Time Management, Work Attitude
Work 4 A Living
03.2023 - 03.2023
Head of Training & Development: Presidential Youth Employment Initiative (PYEI)
Mabophe Business Solutions/ South African Public Colleges Organisation (SACPO)
03.2022 - 05.2022
Certificate - Teach English as a Foreign Language- TEFL
TEFL Professional Development Institute
01.2019 - 12.2019
Research Assistant for Stigma in Rheumatic Heart Disease Project
Groote Schuur Hospital
08.2017 - 08.2018
Research Assistant
Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital
06.2017 - 08.2019
Research Assistant
The Jameel Abdul Latif Poverty Action Lab (JPAL/SALDRU) UCT
02.2017 - 07.2017
Masters (Incomplete) - Public Health
University of Cape Town
01.2017 - 12.2019
Recruitment & Selection Assistant to Recruitment Manager
TEACH South Africa
09.2016 - 02.2017
ETutor for English for Academic Purposes
University of South Africa (UNISA)
03.2016 - 10.2018
Online Editor
Inspire Mzansi (Online Magazine)
09.2015 - 02.2016
Research Assistant & Education Innovation Associate
BLUE Door ECE (Early Child Education)
06.2015 - 07.2017
Honours in Psychology - Bachelor of Arts
University of Stellenbosch
01.2014 - 12.2014
TEACH SOUTH AFRICA Ambassador and Educator
Department of Education Gauteng
01.2013 - 12.2013
Honours in English Literature - Bachelor of Arts
Rhodes University
01.2011 - 12.2011
Bachelor of Social Science - Psychology & English Studies
University of Kwa Zulu- Natal
01.2008 - 12.2010
Grade 12 (Matric) - English, Afrikaans, Mathematics, Business Economics, Biology, Geography, Life Orientation
Midrand High School
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