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Education
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Tumelo Zondi

Multi-Disciplinary Management Consultant
Johannesburg
Tumelo Zondi

Summary

Tumelo is an experienced management consultant driven to optimize processes and streamline operations for team efficiency. Decisive leader with years of experience in Project Co-ordination, Learning & Development Support and Product designing. This includes the co-ordination and support of projects in the Financial, Education and Marketing industries.

She has worked in the learning solutions, project administration and experience management spaces where she received the bulk of her experience and became a certified process professional and full- stack product designer. She approaches every challenge with an analytical and flexible approach and an eagerness to learn.

In her free time, she enjoys volunteering in initiatives directed at uplifting youth and disadvantaged communities through sustainable entrepreneurial action.

Overview

6
years of professional experience
8
years of post-secondary education
2
Languages
4
Certificates

Work History

IQbusiness
Johannesurg

Senior Associate
08.2021 - Current

Job overview

  • ESG Analytics : Absa Group Sustainability Strategy , Project Co-Ordinator 22/04/2023 - Current
  • Review current group and BU strategy and provide review for EXCO consideration. Backlog existing key initiatives and map out against key group sustainability goals and aspirations.
  • Manage communication flows and make sure all communication is centralised.
  • Track team progress against scope of project in each of project swim-lanes through project management tools such as Gantt charts.
    Evaluated diverse organizational systems to identify workflow, communication, and resource utilization issues.
  • Absa : Financial Crime Domain Access Restriction (DAR) , Project Co-Ordinator 22/08/2022 -18/12/2022
    Project focused on automating domain access restriction process, which was previously done manually, for Absa employees with overdue financial crime learning interventions.
    Responsibilities:
  • Trouble shoot, do root cause analysis, problem solve and identify DAR process improvements in respect of Financial Crime training.
  • Assist to maintain QlikSense mapping tables for optimal automated reporting.
  • Engage and interact with various learning counterparts Groupwide relating to DAR.
  • Provide advice and guidance to all stakeholders in respect of Financial Crime learning modules, reporting requirements, temporary as well as permanent exclusions from Financial Crime learning modules.

Sprout Africa
Johannesburg, Gauteng

Co-Founder
10.2017 - 01.2023

Job overview

  • Provide agricultural consulting services and access to market opportunities to small-holder farmers across the South Africa
  • Develop business management learning materials for small-holder farmers for effective farm management.
  • Developed key operational initiatives to drive and maintain substantial business growth.
  • Aligned organizational objectives with company mission to increase business growth and integrate work strategies.
  • Established foundational processes for business operations.
  • HollywoodBets EmpoweringHER award recipient, R50 000.
  • Tony Elemu Foundation grant recipient, 5000 USD
  • News24 Young Mandela of the Future 2019
  • Partnerships with Seed2Shirt (USA & Burkina Faso), Cradle Farms (RSA), HelloChoice (RSA), African Women in Agriculture Alliance (USA & Ghana), Food Lovers Market, Shoprite.
  • Planned, designed, and scheduled phases for large projects.

iSupport Creative Business
Durban

Press Liaison
03.2020 - 12.2020

Job overview

  • Implemented media and social media strategies to further work of national Sikhaba iCovid-19 Radio Campaign, an effort formed as a collaboration between the Departments of Health and SABC Education to educate the public about Covid19 and associated topics
  • Managed voiceover artists and provided radio updates to customer locations on schedule.
  • Managed recruiting of community radio stations around the country
  • Over 60 community radio stations were recruited to broadcast radio inserts daily, teaching a listenership of over 4 million people about Covid-19 and other relevant issues.
  • Coordinated media interviews with organization staff, board members and volunteers.
  • Managed media relations for organizations to produce successful results.
  • Wrote press releases and other materials utilizing SEO practices.

Inclusion South Africa
Pretoria

Management Intern
02.2020 - 03.2020

Job overview

  • Prepared Excel spreadsheets with data used to create visuals such as graphs.
  • Developed relationships with wide range of employees, customers and vendors.
  • Provide clerical support to company's Managing Director, as well as managing variety of normal and exceptional requests
  • Creating proposals, spreadsheets, and presentations for internal and external clients
  • Collaborate with partners to develop successful online solutions for delivering client trainings, as well as monitoring and evaluating client progress online
  • During this period, joined team providing training to Kaizer Chiefs soccer team
  • Due to onset of Covid-19 and implementation of countrywide lockdown, internship was cut short.

Enactus University of Free State
Bloemfontein

Vice President of Operations
09.2017 - 08.2019

Job overview

  • Coordination of team operations based on objectives that must be met, as well as assignment of resources to meet demand
  • Methods and tools for tracking team's performance
  • Participated in seminars and events to build relationships with potential clients and partners and to promote company's brand
  • Oversaw 6 projects that worked with 300 beneficiaries/clients over job period.
  • Providing strategic answers to difficulties that project teams face
  • Ensure organization's process is seamless and efficient, while also increasing impact on beneficiaries/clients
  • Collaboration with finance department to ensure project teams have tools they need to complete projects.
  • Identified opportunities to improve business process flows and productivity.
  • Identified issues with production, workforce, and material sourcing and implemented successful solutions.

Education

University of Cape Town
Cape Town

Postgraduate Degree from Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies
03.2022 - 05.2024

University Overview

University of The Free State
Bloemfontein

Bachelor of Commerce - BCom from Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies
01.2016 - 05.2021

University Overview

Skills

Business Analysis

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Accomplishments

Accomplishments

Named one of News24's 100 Mandelas of the Future.

Timeline

Full-Stack Product Design

03-2023
Certified Process Professional
01-2023
Agile and Scrum
11-2022
Team Leadership
11-2022
University of Cape Town
Postgraduate Degree from Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies
03.2022 - 05.2024
Senior Associate
IQbusiness
08.2021 - Current
Press Liaison
iSupport Creative Business
03.2020 - 12.2020
Management Intern
Inclusion South Africa
02.2020 - 03.2020
Co-Founder
Sprout Africa
10.2017 - 01.2023
Vice President of Operations
Enactus University of Free State
09.2017 - 08.2019
University of The Free State
Bachelor of Commerce - BCom from Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies
01.2016 - 05.2021

Certification

Certified Process Professional
Tumelo ZondiMulti-Disciplinary Management Consultant