Lisa Scholtz

I live in a quiet little farming town on the West Coast of South Africa.

Keeping busy can be hard, but I work part time at the local pizza joint, help out at the church, help a few under privileged children with their English language skills, learn Spanish and do some gardening. I recently completed an advanced TEFL (Teaching English to Foreign Language students) certificate. I also have an advanced diploma (N6) in Public Relations and a matric.

I have been typing for almost 40 years. I love it! I feel like Liberace playing the piano. It's a skill I never want to lose. I work on MS Word, PowerPoint, am comfortable with social media platforms and of course email.

People are really important to me. I treat them I in the way I like to be treated - with empathy, a willing ear and the with the excellence I would expect if I were in their shoes.

I love solving problems and will go to the ends of the earth to find a solution.

BLIKEMMER PIZZAS 

(October 2022 to Present)

 

Part-time Waitress

 

 

 

 

NG KERK AURORA 

(Jan. 2020 to present)

 

Voluntary Assistant Part-Time

INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME TECHNOLOGY

(A division of Armscor)

(1 Aug. 1995 to 15 Jul. 2015)

 

Public Relations Officer/ Executive Secretary

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

Duties include:

• Waitressing and ensuring that any problems which may arise, are taken care of immediately.
• Ensuring money balances at the end of the evening.
• Paying staff.

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Duties include

• Counting money before banking.
• Assisting Pastor with translation from Afrikaans to Chichewa sermons for Malawian members and Afrikaans to English. 
• Attending committee meetings.
• Organise and assist in congregational functions.
• Finding donations from the local farmers and members to fund such functions.
• Sunday school teacher to grade 1 – 3 and grade 4-7 learners.

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Duties included

• Public Relations

1. Taking all visitors including school children and university students (as part of our social development programme) on tours of the facilities.
2. Organising conferences which included calls for papers, catering, invitations, advertising, designing and printing programmes for the day, assistance with accommodation and invoicing.

• Organising and working at defence and career exhibitions 

1. Ensuring that the logistics for transporting exhibition materials were in place. 
2. Ensuring that import/export agreements for defence materials were in place. 
3. Setting up at career exhibitions at various colleges around Cape Town to give advice to graduates in the fields of science and engineering in the maritime environment. 
4. Planned mini exhibitions at the Institute in conjunction with scientists and engineers. 
5. Worked bi-annually at the African Aerospace and Defence Exhibition, Non-Destructive Annual Conference and the SA Navy Maritime Exhibition. 

• Clients

1. Building close relationships with South African Naval Admirals and Captains and local government ministers.
2. Liaising and receiving overseas generals, princes, sheiks for meetings and conferences.
3. Local maritime community, universities and schools.
4. Writing for Armscor’s internal magazine on staff news and other happenings. 
5. Editor for the IMT Small Talk internal newsletter.
6. Designing advertising material. 
7. Having banners, t-shirts, caps, business cards and letterheads printed.
8. Handling donations made to various naval units. 
9. Organising teams and donating to the Navy Golf Days.
10. Advertising upcoming local community talks.

• Executive Secretary

1. Attending management meetings and taking minutes.
2. Diary management.
3. Making travel arrangements for local and overseas travel. 
4. Ensuring stakeholders have correct information for visa applications.
5. Making accommodation bookings.
6. Typing correspondence, presentations and agreements for managers.
7. Assisting with applications for Intellectual Property developed by the Institute’s engineers and scientists.
8. Answering and screening telephone calls.
9. Switchboard relief.
10. General administration such as travel claims, payments, invoicing and filing.
11. Arranging year-end lunch for 80 staff members.
12. Typing own correspondence, minutes and agendas of meetings, forms, PowerPoint presentations and technical and scientific reports on MS Word, PowerPoint and E-mail. 

• Reason for leaving: My husband retired and ask me to join him.

FISHHOEK HIGH SCHOOL 1983 – 1986

• Qualification: Matric (Grade 12)

FALSE BAY COLLEGE 2000 - 2002

• Qualification: 3-year Public Relations National Diploma (N6)

TEFL ADVANCED CERTIFICATE (2023)

• Teaching English to Foreign Language Students