Jessica Malila

I am a recent master's graduate with previous experience in communications and administration, I am currently looking to expand my career into the diversity and inclusion sector, I am hard working, eager to learn, organised, and work great in a team as well as individually.

ADMINISTRATION AND COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER 01/2020 to 08/2021 Malville Boutique Hotel

Handle social media accounts and advertising.

Planned and coordinated events.

Assessed administration team's performance, feeding back key insights at staff appraisals.

Planned, coordinated and optimised administrative procedures.

Resolved team conflicts and assisted with identified problems to maintain sense of teamwork.

Partnered collaboratively with other departments to determine optimum schedules for special projects.

Designed strategic schedules, rotas and workloads to promote productivity.

INTERN 03/2019 to 08/2019 UN AIDS, Lilongwe, Malawi

• Acted as personal assistant to country director.
• Handled UNAids Malawi and country director's social media accounts. • Worked on the Health Situation Room implementation and launch.
• Took care of all administrative work.
• Managed office inventory.

INTERN 10/2018 to 12/2018

Soda Social media , Cape Town, South Africa

• Performed brand research for clients.
• Created strategic research portfolios for clients. • Worked on client brand campaigns.
• Created social media roll-out's for clients.
• Handled community engagement.

INTERN 06/2018 to 08/2018 Blackmore Creative Public Relations

• Handled social media accounts.
• Wrote blog posts for website.
• Wrote articles on passed events for newspaper.
• Attended networking events on behalf of company. • Liaised with clients on future event planning.

1st class Masters in Diversity and The Media, 2022 University of Westminster - London, ENG

POSTGRADUTEDIPLOMA: Brand contact management , 05/2019 Vega School - Cape Town

Bachelor of Social Science: Organisational Psychology, Gender Studies, and Sociology.,

04/2018

University of Cape Town - Cape Town

• Deputy Social Media Manager at Varsity Newspaper. • Member of RAG student-run fundraising association.