Community Leadership Skills
Skills developed through leading Itholelomzansi Foundation and community projects.
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- Designing and managing community programmes and events.
- Stakeholder engagement with schools, NGOs, and funders.
- Volunteer coordination and team leadership.
- Budgeting, reporting, and basic non-profit governance.
- Facilitating dialogues on social issues like GBV and youth empowerment.
- Digital communication, including website and social media management.
- Opportunity spotting and turning ideas into small, testable ventures.
- Basic financial management: budgeting, simple cashflow, and record-keeping.
- Customer engagement, relationship building, and service recovery.
- Using digital tools (spreadsheets, messaging apps, social media) to run operations.
- Negotiating with suppliers and partners in a fair, win-win way.
- Planning and prioritising work across multiple responsibilities.
These capabilities strengthen my leadership presence in both community and corporate environments, including IT projects and cross-functional teams. The business and entrepreneurship skills make me more effective in IT and community contexts, where I often need to balance technical work with people, budgets, and outcomes.