Committee Member Communications Officer
Resume:
Jessica Robyn Gavin
PROFILE
"The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full
potential...these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence." - Confucius
I am a dynamic, innovative and passionate individual with immense drive. I am a strong believer in growth, I believe that the key to success is knowledge. One can never know too much, the more information one has access to, the better they will be when dealing with any situation. I have worked hard to achieve everything I have thus far, I am looking for my next opportunity to further my knowledge and bring about personal and professional growth. WORK EXPERIENCE
Intern
Forensic Tools
(March 2021 – Present)
I am currently working as a non-paid intern at Forensic Tools where I aid in forensic training, facilitating with crime scene processes, understanding the court and judicial processes.
My duties include:
o To assist in the development and delivery of online and in person forensic courses
o To draw up draft documentation for forensic related reports
& proposals
o Prepare presentations for prospective clients
o Prepare and edit video formats for social media content in a forensic context
o Provide insightful input on the forensic market as well as product demand/supply
o General administrative functions
o Assisting with all lab work and cases when the need arises CONTACT
34 Vermooten St.
Edenglen
1609
Johannesburg
South Africa
adnosa@r.postjobfree.com
ID No: 960**********
Drivers Licence Code 08
Physically Disabled
KEY POINTS:
o Extensive social science
background
o Sound knowledge of
various forensic principles
and techniques
o Excellent computer
literacy skills
o Professional written and
verbal communication
skills
o Passion for humanitarian
work and understanding
human difference
SKILLS:
o Proficient in MS Office
o Well versed in research
and report writing
o Strong interpersonal skills
o Appropriate data
collection, analysis and
management skills
o Excellent profiling abilities
o Understands SOP protocol
o Intermediate clinical
experience
STRENGTHS:
o Ambitious
o Extremely analytical
o Innovative thinker
o Thrives under pressure
o Natural leader
o Initiative taker
o Precise
o Adaptability
o Able to pick up software
quickly
o Problem solver
Debtors Clerk
Octogen
(January 2015 – January 2017)
Working at Octogen as a Debtors Clerk was such a rewarding experience. During my time there I became proficient in general finance work, communicating in a professional manner and working within a team under high pressure situations. It provided me with the knowledge to work between many systems and interfaces – adjusting rapidly to the challenges these bring.
My duties included:
o Invoices and credit notes
o Reconciliations
o Cashbooks
o Filing
o Cross-referencing all accounts on various programs o Purchase Orders
o Liaising with lawyers and customers on their accounts o Cross-checking SLAs with lawyers
o Liaising with suppliers
o Importing and exporting processes
o Resolving any queries
o General administrative functions
I am fully proficient in Pastel Evolution, LegalSuite, Maximus, Microsoft Excel and Word.
During these two years I vastly improved systems and protocols for importing and exporting systems. I quickly adapted and learnt how to fulfil numerous tasks and duties within the department. I chose to leave Octogen to pursue my studies at the University of the Witwatersrand.
EDUCATION
University of the Witwatersrand
Master of Science in Medicine
(2021 – Present)
Via Dissertation:
Research will be aimed at using disability to try and identify skeletal remains to an individual. This will be done by creating a disability model which can be used to identify a disability on remains and then use this as an identifying characteristic along with age, sex, ancestry and stature.
CONTACTABLE
REFERENCES:
Forensic Tools
Sietze Albertse
Business Development
Manager
Email:
adnosa@r.postjobfree.com
Telephone: 082-***-****
Octogen
Duncan Tee
Financial Manager
Email: adnosa@r.postjobfree.com
Telephone: (0-11-451-****
University of the
Witwatersrand
Dr Rogers Orock
Lecturer in Social
Anthropology & Postgraduate
Coordinator
Email: adnosa@r.postjobfree.com
Telephone: (0-11-717-****
Dr Craig Keyes
Department of Forensic
Science Honours Course
Coordinator
Email: adnosa@r.postjobfree.com
Telephone: (0-11-489-****
Bachelor of Health Science Honours
(2020)
In Forensic Science:
o Forensic Anthropology
o Forensic Psychology
o Forensic Entomology
o Forensic Toxicology
o Forensic Medicine
Forensic Research: Testing if the estimation methods used for biological profiling (Sex, age, ancestry & stature) of forensic anthropological cases was accurate.
Completed qualification.
General Bachelor of Arts Degree
(2017 – 2019)
With a triple major in:
Anthropology
o Culture Today
o Cultural Citizenship
o Youth and Nationhood
o Race, Ethnicity and Culture
o Development of Anthropological Thought
o Anthropology of Material Culture
o Anthropology of the State (Secrecy and Conspiracy) Archaeology
o Fundamentals of Archaeology
o Guide to Human Evolution
o World Hunter-Gatherers
o Origins of Civilisation
o Earlier and Middle Stone Age
o Archaeology of the Last 2000 years
o Osteoarchaeology
o Geoarchaeology
o History of Archaeological Thought
o Forensic Archaeology
o Experimental Archaeology
o Archaeological data analysis and report writing
Psychology
o Introduction to Psychology
o Psychological Research Design and Analysis
o Developmental Psychology
o Cognitive Psychology
o Social Psychology
o Abnormal Psychology
o Psychotherapeutic Interventions
o Cognitive Studies
o Cognitive Neuropsychology
Additional Mathematics Courses
o Algebra I
o Calculus I
o Applied Computational Mathematics
Completed qualification with distinction
Secondary School
School Of Merit
(2010 – 2014)
Grade 12 Prefect
o Mathematics, English, Afrikaans, Life Orientation, Business Studies, Biology, Physical Science
VOLUNTEER WORK
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg Identification Unit
(January 2020 – Present)
I serve as a member of this unit, with its aim to hopefully identify unclaimed bodies. This unit is in collaboration with the Wits Department of Forensic Medicine and Pathology, Gauteng Southern Cluster Forensic Pathology Services, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and the South African Police Service’s (SAPS) Victim Identification Centre (VIC).
I not only completed the duties required of me at this time, but volunteered my services, working additional hours on mass identifications which occurred due to the COVID-19 National Lockdown.
I currently still offer my services in this work as I think it is vital to provide these deceased individuals with a final resting place and to bring peace to their loved ones.
School of Geography, Archaeology and
Environmental Studies – Student Council
Member
(March 2018 – March 2019)
In my second and third year of study at Wits University I was nominated and chosen as a GAES Student Council Member. During my term I served as the Head Secretary and Communications Officer.
School of Geography, Archaeology and
Environmental Studies – Transformation
Committee Member
(March 2018 – March 2019)
During my time on the student council I was invited to join the transformation committee for the GAES school. This afforded me the opportunity to represent individuals in the school with disabilities in order to address concerns surrounding accessibility and inclusivity. AWARDS AND ACCOLADES
University of the Witwatersrand
Golden Key International Honours Society
Member
During my first, second and third year of university I was awarded membership into the Golden Key International Honours Society. This membership is exclusively given to academic students who fall within the top 15% of their degree.
Certificates and Awards
I have received numerous accolades whilst at Wits University. These being Certificates of First Class - indicating that I obtained a 75% and above average for various courses. Additionally, I received the University Council Merit and Postgraduate Merit Award Scholarships in 2019 and 2020, respectively.
TRAINING COURSES
Forensic Psychology: Witness Investigation
(March 2021)
Certificate of Achievement from The Open University for participating in an 8 week course with an overall score of 97%.
The course syllabus included:
o Eyewitness testimony
o Witness memory
o Inattentional blindness and observation of criminal incidents o Interviewing witnesses
o Facial recognition
o Visual identification
International Humanitarian Law
(June 2021)
An introductory course on the basics of International Humanitarian Law. It is principally addressed to humanitarian practitioners, policy makers and other professionals who are keen on understanding how and when this body of law applies, and whom it protects. The course syllabus included:
o What is IHL?
o Main sources of IHL
o When IHL applies
o Wounded and sick
o Civilian population
o Deprivation of liberty
o Conduct of hostilities
o Implementation of IHL
o International crimes
Crime Scene Management & Evidence
Handling Course
(June 2021)
Training completed during my time at Forensic Tools. The modules included:
o Crime scene management protocols
o Evidence dynamics & evidence handling
o Looking for, identifying, marking and collecting of physical evidence
Collection & Analysis of Fingerprints
(June 2021)
Training completed during my time at Forensic Tools. The modules included:
o The history of fingerprints
o 1st, 2nd and 3rd level detail of a fingerprint
o Comparison techniques
o ACE-V methodology
o Persistence and uniqueness of fingerprints
o Bias in latent print comparison
o Legal standards and challenges.
School of Social Sciences – Anthropology
School of Social Sciences • Private Bag 3, Wits, 2050, South Africa • Tel: +27-11-717-**** • Fax: +27-11-717-**** E-mail: adnosa@r.postjobfree.com • Website: http://ssocial.wits.ac.za/anthropology.htm 20 January 2020
To Whom It May Serve
Letter of Reference for Ms. Jessica Gavin
It is my pleasure to write in recommendation of Ms. Jessica Gavin. Ms. Gavin has been an excellent student in our department of anthropology here at the University of the Witwatersrand. During her studies, Ms. Gavin displayed her qualities as a brilliant scholar, achieving marks that place her within the top 2 per cent of students in the BA class in the Faculty of Humanities for 2019. Let me be more specific about Ms. Gavin’s excellent scholarly achievement. It is both the result of her excellent skills as a student and her more general qualities as a person. As a scholar, Ms. Gavin is a thoughtful and articulate speaker who communicates her ideas in a clear and measured fashion. During class discussions, she regularly initiated and led discussions that generated vigorous debates about the questions being studied. In her written work, Ms. Gavin demonstrated her skills as a careful and critical thinker about some of the major questions related to inequality, power, and development that define our current global condition. Throughout, she displayed a careful attention to Africa’s situation in these conditions.
In terms of her more general qualities as a person, Ms. Gavin possesses great organizational skills and she was very assiduous throughout her studies. She also possesses a tremendous amount of emotional intelligence. She showed a great amount of warmth, generosity, and empathy toward her peers while making her own views and positions known with clarity, even when these seemed markedly different from those held by her colleagues. Working in a highly diverse setting, Ms. Gavin also displayed these social skills as an excellent teammate during group work. She served as a very good leader who steered her colleagues effectively toward the timely completion of assigned tasks. For all these qualities Ms. Gavin has earned both the respect and admiration of her peers and Faculty in our department. We think that she has a promising professional future in any setting. I am therefore very happy to strongly recommend her for postgraduate studies and the award of any financial support toward her postgraduate studies. With very kind regards,
Lecturer Rogers Orock, in Social PhD Anthropology & Postgraduate Coordinator Department of Anthropology,
University Email: Postal Private Physical rogers.Address: Bag Address: of 3, the orock@WITS, Witwatersrand wits.2050, ac.South za Africa Robert Sobukwe Building Room 14
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa
Office: (+27) (0-11-717-****
Mobile: +27 (0-71-31-21-296
25A Hospital Street, (c/o Kotze Street), Braamfontein. Private Bag X9, Braamfontein, 2017
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University of the Witwatersrand
Faculty of Health Sciences
Department of Forensic Medicine & Pathology
Mr. Craig Keyes, MSc (Med)
Lecturer: Forensic Science/
Honours Course Coordinator/
Research Coordinator
Department of Forensic Medicine and Pathology
School of Clinical Medicine
Faculty of Health Sciences
University of the Witwatersrand
(w) 011-***-****
(c) 083-***-****
E-mail: adnosa@r.postjobfree.com
19 November 2020
To whom it may concern,
LETTER OF REFERENCE FOR JESSICA GAVIN
Jessica Gavin was a 2020 BHSc Honours (Forensic Science) student in the Department of Forensic Medicine and Pathology, University of the Witwatersrand. Jessica is one of the top students in the class and has exhibited exceptional skill, self-motivation and has been an asset to the department.
Apart from her academic duties, Jessica was also a member of the Johannesburg Identification Unit (JHB ID Unit) throughout the year of 2020. The JHB ID Unit is a humanitarian effort in collaboration with the Wits Department of Forensic Medicine and Pathology, Gauteng Southern Cluster Forensic Pathology Services, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and the South African Police Service’s (SAPS) Victim Identification Centre (VIC). Jessica also volunteered to work additional hours during the COVID-19 National Lockdown and assisted in the mass disaster victim identification processes. Jessica was an invaluable team member and proved to be eager, reliable and hardworking.
Jessica has distinguished herself from amongst her peers and has exceeded our expectations, academically and in the JHB ID Unit. I highly recommend her to any organization that is considering employing her. If you require any more information, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Yours sincerely,
Mr. Craig A. Keyes
Department of Forensic Medicine and Pathology
School of Clinical Medicine
Faculty of Health Sciences
University of the Witwatersrand
FORENSIC TOOLS
adnosa@r.postjobfree.com Stonehill Office Park
www.forensictools.co.za Wapadrand, Pretoria
+27(0)12-941-****-**** 1
7 June 2021
To whom it may concern,
Letter of Reference for Jessica Gavin
Jessica Gavin started working at Forensic Tools as an intern on the 15th of March 2021. Because of her passion for forensic crime scene investigations, it was her focus to gain experience in the field of crime scene processing and evidence handling. Forensic Tools, as a company, focusses on three types of service deliveries to clients namely training, investigations and equipment. Therefore, Jessica had to immediately become involved in training curriculum development, investigation of evidence recovered from crime scenes, and also preparation of marketing and sales documentation for our equipment and consumables. Jessica showed unprecedented work ethic and drive as well as the ability to not only involve herself in the different aspects of the company but also identifying shortcomings and giving vital inputs on different aspects.
Her ability to immediately understand and proceed with projects shows incredible insight and ability which normally comes with years of experience and skill in a specific field. It was expected from Jessica to master new software programs with steep learning curves in order to be able to perform various tasks within the company. She, for example, had to learn how to prepare comprehensive tutorial video material on programs that she had never used before. Jessica can meet extreme deadlines and had to prepare documents for presentations numerous times on short notice.
Jessica Gavin has become an unmissable part of our team within a few months and I highly recommend her for employment in any organization.
Please do not hesitate to contact me personally for more information Yours Sincerely,
Sietze Albertse
Product development Manager
Forensic Tools
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