Pumelela ‘Pumi’ Ntsezo

Contact Information

Name: Pumelela Ntsezo

Cell Phone: 084*******/074*******

Email: adkf1y@r.postjobfree.com

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Date of Birth: 31-05-1996

Citizenship: South African

Gender: Female

Marital Status: Single

Employment History

Period: January 2014 – January 2017

Company: Vernac News

Position: Food, Fashion Entertainment Section Editor Key Performance Areas and Responsibilities

· Wrote a minimum of 2 articles and a recipe every month

· Contacted people to be featured in each issue and conduct all interviews · Edited articles submitted by internal and external writers

· Sourced pictures from in-house photographer for the section

· Conducted interviews for candidates wanting to join the section Reason for leaving: Freelance

Period: April 2015 – August 2015

Company: UCT Radio

Position: Online Entertainment Feature Writer

Key Performance Areas and Responsibilities

· Sourced all entertainment news available

· Created gig guides, conducted interviews and wrote articles for the website Reason for leaving: Part time

Period: February 2016 – August 2016

Company: UCT Radio

Position: Content Producer and Co-Host

Key Performance Areas and Responsibilities

· Produced content for the brunch show and co-host the same show · Arranged interviews and sourced content for features

· Interchangeably fill in the show clock with the show driver, post on social media during the show Reason for leaving: End of contract

Period: January 2016 – December 2016

Company: Vernac News

Position: Executive Board Member

Key Performance Areas and Responsibilities

· Drafted the agenda before Monday evening meetings

· Liaised with the founder of the paper, overlook the writing and editing of all articles to be in the paper.

· Conduct interviews for prospective section Editor candidates,

· Ensured that the final PDF has been sent to the printers on time and that errors were fixed · Dealt and assisted with disciplinary hearings and issue warnings to writers not pulling their weight

· Distributed schedule and be at the printer drop off point to ensure off writers as they pick up and go to distribution, distribute to CPUT, UWC and UCT. Reason for leaving: Freelance

Period: January 2017 – May 2017

Company: South African History Online

Position: Research Intern

Key Performance Areas and Responsibilities

· Wrote This Day In History articles weekly

· Produce feature articles for the various sections of the website

· Website clean up (grammar, broken links, picture quality issues) · Assisted the rest of the team with their projects

Reason for leaving: Internship ended

Period: August 2017 – February 2018

Company: Food24-Media24 Position:

Editorial Intern

Key performance Areas and Responsibilities

· Loading and editing recipes and food/drink/restaurant articles into the content management system

· Sourcing and resizing images on Adobe photoshop

· Conceiving and writing short original articles and posts: recipe roundups and features about the goings-on in the greater food/drink/restaurant community

· Aggregating of articles on a day to day basis ·

Creating videos on Wotchit

· Being part of team brain-storming sessions around new content ideas and formats Reason for leaving: Internship ended

Period: March 2018 – August 2019

Company: Sanlam

Position: Communications Assistant, Distribution Marketing Key Performance Areas and Responsibilities:

• Distribution of internal and external communications via Outlook

• Reporting on communications activities: queries, unsubscribe requests, subscription requests

• Assisting the comms manager from both an admin perspective and with projects that overflow from their to do list

• Liaising with the PR agency on behalf of the comms manager as and when needed

• Liasing with intermediaries who might need assistance with anything related to communications at Distribution Marketing

• Managing distribution lists and mailboxes

• Population of content library

• Creating a process document that lists all my duties step by step which assists the comms manager when I am not at work.

• Editing, researching, layout, design and writing of communications

• Running the Everlytic site to send out communications (emailers) online, running the LinkedIn page and creating and running the Sharepoint intranet site.

• Offering general assistance to the comms manager as it is only us 2 in the entire department. Period: August 2019 - present Company: ENSafrica

Position: Communications Assistant. Key Performance Areas and Responsibilities:

Editing and proofreading communications-related materials;

Assisting in the drafting and distribution of communications material to external and internal parties, including drafting copy for the internal newsletter and drafting social media posts on the firm’s accounts;

Administration, including updating and maintaining media lists and tracking the firm’s media coverage;

Assisting with various media-related campaigns, including identifying target media for events;

Running with various general ad hoc tasks, projects, queries and requests, as they arise.

Distribution of internal and external communications via Tikit

Social Media performance reports

Email campaign reporting

Academic Positions

Historical Studies second year class rep-2015

Education

High School

West Bank High School: 2009-2010

Cambridge High School: 2011-2013

University

University of Cape Town: 2014-2016

BA Degree: Triple major in Media & Writing (journalism), English language and literature, Historical Studies.

Graduate School

University of Cape Town: 2017 & 2018

BA HONS Degree: Historical Studies

Computer Skills

• Microsoft Suite (Including Outlook)

• Wochit video editing &creation

• Adobe Photoshop (Beginner)

• CMS

• Hootsuite

• Everlytic

• Sharepoint end user

• Tikit

Certifications

• Sharepoint End User

• Google digital Garage Fundamentals of Digital Marketing References

Stuart Ferguson: Supervisor –South African History Online adkf1y@r.postjobfree.com

Natalie: Station Manager- UCT Radio

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Mapaseka Sebatlhodi: Director- Vernac News

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Nuraan Ederies: Sanlam Distribution Marketing Communications Manager adkf1y@r.postjobfree.com

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