YOLANDA TAGANA
GERMISTON
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
PRINCIPAL COMMUNICATION OFFICER/ WHEN DUTY CALLS PRODUCER
SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE SERVICE
12.2003
- Initiate educational topics or subjects that ensure balance reporting about SAPS organisation
- Conduct field interviews during the crime scenes or SAPS events, Court Cases, research and information gathering for communication purposes
- Write scripts, offline visuals to make sure they meet national broadcast standard and supervising the editing, final mixing and packaging inserts for development process of the production
- Direct studio productions for presenter links and voice-overs
- Creatively develop and implement communication strategy plan for marketing the program that enhance brand awareness of SAPS organization
- Develop and monitor stakeholders’ communication strategy with Justice Cluster, such as prosecutors, magistrates, judges, and operational police officers to set standards that communicate information which is aligned with SAPS policies aimed to reach the target audience of the organization
- Commission educational inserts from the provinces that will enhance the SAPS brand architecture and image to ensure sound relations with all stakeholders of the organization
- Liaise with external stakeholders to ensure that the program is of the broadcast quality by ensuring that FCC sheets, delivery notes and music cue sheets are completed before the submission to the national broadcaster
- Manage the resources and budget of the Broadcast unit in terms of the PFMA and Treasury Regulations which is in line with SAPS Policies.
TRAINING FACILITATOR
IEC
1 1998 - 6 1998
- Educating election monitors about the importance of registering voters prior to the voting process
- Advising election monitors on how to handle pressure on the voting stations
- Training election monitors on how to operate the voting scanners.
AFRO-VISION COORDINATOR, PRODUCTION ASSISTANT AND PRODUCER
SABC
07.1998 - 11.2003
- Coordinate with Afro-Vision to exchange News from SABC to Africa news channels
- Commission: Newsworthy stories from Afro-Vision for SABC-Africa news channels
- Liaise with African Embassies to establish newsworthy events in their countries
- Book studio for presenter links, edit suites for editing inserts and cameras for production
- Assist director during the Presenter Live Studio News Broadcast
- Conduct Field Interviews, Write scripts and Package inserts for SABC Africa News.
Education
ST ANTHONY HIGH SCHOOL
B.A. IN COMMUNICATIONS - undefined
FORTHARE UNIVERSITY
HONOURS IN INTEGRATED ORGANISATIONAL COMMUNICATION - undefined
UNISA
Skills
Full competent in use of Micro Office packages such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Email, Social Media Platforms and Internet
I am a good, reliable team player and motivational leader who always listen and understand my team player’s characters and challenges
Highly motivational, charismatic, enthusiastic, diligent, sincere, supportive and friendly to my colleagues Builds solid and lasting relationship with all people I interact with during the execution of my duties
WINDOWS 98, MS WORD, INTERNET, INTERNET EXPLORER, POWER POINT, MS WORD EXCEL AND ADOBE READER
Crisis Management
Content Development
Internal Communications
Brand Messaging
Media Relations
Multimedia production
Press Release Writing
Strategic Communication
Corporate Communications
Marketing Communications
Team Management
Teamwork and Collaboration
Podcast Production
Social Media Marketing
Excellent Communication
Decision-Making
Effective Communication
Organizational Skills
Problem-solving aptitude
Social Media Management
Report Writing
Task Prioritization
Professionalism
Communication Management
Research proficiency
Social Media Monitoring
Strategy Development
Crisis Response
Shortcoursesattended
- STANDARD BANK: BUSINESS EDUCATION UNIT, MARKETING AND SELLING SKILLS
- SAPS ACADEMY PRETORIA WEST, OFFICERS COURSE
- SAPS RIETONDALE TRAINING CENTER, DISCIPLINARY HEARING
- SAT TRAINING SERVICES “FUNDISA”, PUBLIC RELATIONS
- SAPS MOLOTO TRAINING CENTER, BASIC FIREARM TRAINING AND BUSINESS WRITING SKILLS
- CITY VARSITY, SCRIPT WRITING
- NATIONAL SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT, NYUKELA PUBLIC SERVICE, SMS Pre Entry Programme
Biographicalinformation
TAGANA (MZOLO), YOLANDA THEMBELIHLE, 09/13/73, 730913 0302 084, FEMALE, MARRIED, SOUTH AFRICAN, CODE 10, NONE, 63 SOUTH BOUNDARY ST, RONDEBULT, GERMISTON, 1434, 012 666-1044, 083 281 7733, ytagane1@gmail.com
References
MR MWABA PHIRI OF QUESTION AND TIME SABC NEWS, 011 714 5711, 079 191 2245 AND LT COLONEL BUSISIWE NKOSI OF BROADCAST COMMUNICATION, 012 666-1048, 076 255 9575
Timeline
PRINCIPAL COMMUNICATION OFFICER/ WHEN DUTY CALLS PRODUCER
SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE SERVICE
12.2003
AFRO-VISION COORDINATOR, PRODUCTION ASSISTANT AND PRODUCER
SABC
07.1998 - 11.2003
TRAINING FACILITATOR
IEC
1 1998 - 6 1998
ST ANTHONY HIGH SCHOOL
B.A. IN COMMUNICATIONS - undefined
FORTHARE UNIVERSITY
HONOURS IN INTEGRATED ORGANISATIONAL COMMUNICATION - undefined
UNISA