Zanele Stimela

I am a registered Social Worker with extensive experience engaging diverse stakeholders across the non-profit, business, and government sectors. I hold a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in HIV/AIDS Management from the University of Stellenbosch, where my research examined the psychological effects of HIV on children who are infected or affected by the disease. In addition, I completed Psychology up to third-year level, providing me with a strong foundation in human behaviour, mental health, counselling, and psychosocial support.

I have over five years of management experience and more than five years of experience implementing TB and HIV programmes in South Africa. Throughout my career, I have successfully led programme implementation, strategic planning, stakeholder engagement, and operational management, ensuring the effective delivery of services and compliance with organisational and donor requirements. My strengths include stakeholder engagement and relationship management, strategic planning, programme management, compliance, monitoring and evaluation, report writing, case management, counselling, training and facilitation, customer service, complaint resolution, and organisational capacity building.

I am committed to delivering high-quality programmes that achieve measurable outcomes while fostering strong partnerships across sectors. I hold a valid Code 08 driver's licence, have my own reliable transport, and am willing to travel extensively as required.

National BO Development Manager - FoodForward SA

(2020-03)

• Assess and approval of NPO applications for surplus food donations.
• Manage Beneficiary Organizations membership nationally.
• Manage compliance of Beneficiary Organizations nationally through quarterly monitoring site visits
• Ensure that all Beneficiary Organizations participate in the quarterly meetings, provide support, and encourage reporting of the food waste received from the retailers as well as beneficiaries fed.
• Develop and deliver professional presentations for the partners and potential partners and speak about the food loss and waste that we distribute to Beneficiary Organizations.
• Respond to queries, complaints regarding the donated surplus food in relation to collection, application, monitoring and reporting.
• Coordinate Stakeholder engagement that includes other organisations such as NPOs, Government department and donors through stakeholders' meetings and NPOs site visits.

Training Coordinator - TB HIV CARE

• Coordinate training within the company and outside the company
• Facilitate training of staff and social auxiliary workers.
• Communicating with managers to identify training needs and mapping out development plans for teams and individuals.
• Managing, designing, developing, coordinating, and conducting all training programs.
• Put together training curriculum and facilitate training programs.
• Analyse training progress and suggests additional training modules as needed.

Psychosocial-Social Support Coordinator - TB HIV CARE

(2018-07 - 2019-03)

• Coordinating Psychosocial support component of the global fund program and referral to other institutions.
• Providing individual and partner counselling of client from the school program and the HTS hot spots.
• Facilitating meeting with stakeholders and collaboration with other local organisations.
• Facilitating and coordinating the community and school activation such as men's dialogues in the community.
• Managing and supervising 5 social auxiliary workers who are working in the school program and HTS hot spots.
• Assisting in the managing of the HTS program to meet targets.
• Provide presentations to the community stakeholders steer com.
• Coordinating training of CHW, HTS teams as well as social auxiliary workers for the global fund program.
• Assisting with the report writing for Global Fund and Department of Health.
• Work closely with the linkage officer, HTS team on linkage to care of clients.

Social Work Supervisor - NICRO

(2017-09 - 2018-03)

• Managing 8 Social workers and 6 social auxiliary workers, working at 8 courts on diversion programs.
• Managing and facilitation of diversion programs by social workers and social auxiliary workers on issues such as, anger management, substance abuse, adult life skills and community placements.
• Managing all the staff work plans and performance.

Project Manager - WOMEN OF DESTINY

(2016-01 - 2017-08)

• Facilitating workshops for young women on HIV/AIDS, sexual health, pregnancy, STI and relationships.
• Facilitating life skills programs for young women in the community of Khayelitsha.
• Facilitating dialogues sessions for young women and girls in the community.
• Facilitating dialogues sessions for mother and daughter in the community.
• Facilitating individual counselling to young women and girls in the community that are part of the program.

Assistant Director - GAUTENG DOH, HAST Directorate

(2009-04 - 2016-12)

• Assisting with the development of plans and guidelines for program implementation.
• Facilitating programs with the women's sector such as the DREAMS project.
• Monitoring NGO's and sectors implementing HIV and AIDS prevention programs.
• Monitoring service delivery performance and financial expenditure of NGO's funded by the department.
• Providing support services to the funded NGO's as well as non-funded NGOs on prevention programs.
• Monitoring of progress reports, facilitating quarterly meetings as well as site visits.
• Analysing submitted reports and making follow ups when needed.
• Coordinating quarterly NGO's forums where issues relating to the program are discussed.
• Compiling site visits reports as well as program reports that will give a picture of the performance of NGO's
• Facilitating capacity building of NGOs on issues of governance, financial management and programme management.
• Assisting in the management of resources and finances of the audits.
• Assisting with developing of the unit operational plans and business plan.
• Coordinating and managing sectoral and civil society sectors in the province.
• Monitoring sectors of civil society and peer educators (WBOT)
• Provide technical support to NGO funded organisation providing prevention programs
• Provide technical support sub-contracted NGOs through funded NGO's.

Data Manager - Right to care

(2007-09 - 2009-03)

• Provide capacity building of data captures on data quality management and collection tools.
• Managing and maintaining quality of electronic patient Register/Database of all CCMT patients.
• Compiling, Verifying, submitting and storing regular reports relating to RTC-supported HIV services at the clinic.
• Supervising and managing RTC Data captures.

Social Worker - Provincial Department of Social Development, Western Cape – HIV/AIDS Sub-directorate

(2004-02 - 2007-08)

• Facilitate, coordinate and designing of Home Community Based care programs & expanded public works program.
• Provide technical support on training needs analysis, capacity building and programme implementation of funded NGO's
• Facilitating capacity building of HIV/AIDS coordinators, funded and non-funded organisations around home community-based care programs.
• Facilitating commissions during workshops and conferences during stakeholder meetings.
• Present policy and guidelines of the programs to funded and non-funded NGO's and HIV/AIDS coordinators on issues pertaining to home community-based care programs.

Social Worker - Cape Mental Health Society

(2003-01 - 2004-01)

• Managing cases of intellectual disabled people suffering from schizophrenia and people with intense depression.
• Provide counselling to clients and their families to cope with the mental illness.
• Recommending social grants to eligible clients and fast track their applications with the Department of Social Services.
• Liaising with other health and other social professionals working at the schools for placements of intellectual disabled children and work on a development plan for each child.
• Refer to the school psychologist children who are struggling to cope for assessment.
• Liaising with the court prosecutors for update and follow up of clients' cases.
• Provide morale support to rape victims and their families during the court appearances.
• Conducting home visits to the clients as well as their families.

Social Worker - Yabonga Children's Project in Africa

(2001-12 - 2003-01)

• Facilitating capacity building for woman living with HIV, on HIV related issues.
• Facilitating Skills development and personal development programs for women living with HIV.
• Facilitating support groups for women living with HIV and AIDS partners.
• Provide individual, couple and family counselling for the clients.
• Facilitating debriefing for staff as well as the clients.

Master of Philosophy (MPhil) - HIV/AIDS Management - University of Stellenbosch (2007 - 2007)

Bachelor of Arts - Social Work - University of the Western Cape (2000 - 2000)

Matric Certificate (Exemption) - Gugulethu Comprehensive School (1995 - 1995)