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Our client based in Pietermaritzburg is looking for a Delivery Manager
Education and Minimum Requirements
8 Years’ experience as a Service Delivery Manager
Extensive knowledge and experience (but not limited to)
Good knowledge and experience in providing a proactive approach in assisting to improve the ICT service availability and stability
Good knowledge and experience in identifying maintenance and support related trends through analysis and review of incidents and developing proactive improvement plana to reduce the impact
Good knowledge and experience in providing leadership, management and technical insight/overview to members of the support team to ensure quality of work and related output/deliverables
Proven track record in ensuring that the level of ICT service performance meets and exceeds requirements with all aspects of maintenance and services provided
Good knowledge and experience in developing monthly performance reports and action plans when performance falls below expected objectives
Please visit our website at www.boardroom.co.za for more details and to register your C.V.
For people very sick with the new coronavirus, access to a mechanical ventilator can mean life or death. Trouble is, they’re in short supply in the United States and around the world.
Now, research suggests that a widely used clot-busting stroke drug might help coronavirus patients who can’t access a ventilator or who fail to improve even when they do gain access.
Blood-clotting disorder
The research focuses on a drug called tissue plasminogen activator (tPA), which is normally used to quickly dissolve blood clots that cause strokes or heart attacks.
New data from China and Italy suggest that people with Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, have a significant blood-clotting disorder.
Patients in respiratory failure develop blood clots in the lungs and tiny blockages in the lung’s blood vessels. These tiny clots keep blood from reaching air spaces in the lungs, and that’s where blood normally receives oxygen from the lungs.
“This is a way to repurpose a drug for which there is already widespread clinical utility,” said senior researcher Dr Michael Yaffe, a professor of biology and biological engineering at Massachusetts of Institute of Technology.
Dr Hunter Moore, a transplant fellow at the University of Colorado Denver, is a study co-author.
“Everyone is looking for ways to mitigate the threat of this disease, and there’s a lot of investment and interest in new drugs,” Moore said. “But if this disease gets out of control, those drugs won’t have had safety evaluations. TPA has.”
While well-studied in stroke and heart attack, the use of tPA for acute respiratory distress syndrome has mostly been investigated in animals. A small human trial was conducted in 2001 on people with severe respiratory distress who weren’t expected to survive.
Potential therapeutic value
Moore said tPA reduced the death rate in those patients from 100% to 70%.
The researchers noted that further studies haven’t been done because people typically improve well with the support of ventilators. But as Covid-19 overwhelms the health care system, there may not be enough ventilators for patients who need them.
“TPA may potentially hold therapeutic value in treating severely ill Covid-19 patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome that is unresponsive to typical ventilation strategies,” said Dr Robert Glatter, an emergency physician at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.
He said the science supporting its use is sound.
“Tiny clots block small blood vessels in the lungs, preventing adequate oxygenation and ventilation,” said Glatter, who wasn’t part of the study. “The drug also prevents clots from blocking blood vessels in the kidney and heart, leading to kidney and heart failure. TPA dissolves the clots, opening up small blood vessels, improving the ability of the lungs and other critical organs to function normally.”
A ‘compassionate trial’
While bleeding is a potential risk of tPA, Glatter noted that this didn’t happen in the one study that was done.
Yaffe said researchers are planning a “compassionate use” trial of the drug on Covid-19 patients, possibly beginning within a week, to see if tPA helps these patients. They will be assessing both intravenous tPA and inhaled tPA.
A compassionate use trial allows patients with a serious or life-threatening illness to receive an investigational therapy.
Patients selected for the trial will either be on ventilators or appear to need ventilation. They will be high-risk patients who have potentially deadly acute respiratory distress syndrome.
The researchers hope to test tPA in 12 people, but will evaluate its effectiveness and safety after four patients.
Extraordinary measures
The dose of tPA they’ll use is lower than that typically prescribed for stroke or heart attack patients. It will also be delivered over a longer time period.
Yaffe said tPA’s manufacturer, Genentech, is providing the study medication for free. If the trial is successful, the drug maker has told researchers it is prepared to ramp up production.
Given the increasing rate of Covid-19 infections, the researchers hope the trial might begin as soon as next week.
“Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. If an observational trial of this treatment in the first series of patients is effective and safe, the approach could be readily broadened. This would have multiple patient-related and public health benefits,” the researchers said in their study.
*Published online in the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery.
Proteas spinner Dane Piedt has ended his South African cricketing career and will relocate to the United States of America.
Piedt took to Twitter on Friday and revealed that he has signed a deal to play professional cricket in the States.
The 30-year-old is expected to compete in the new Minor League Cricket T20 tournament, which sees 22 teams battle in a 9-week season.
Last year October, Piedt was recalled to the national set-up for the Proteas’ three-match Test series against India after a three-year long absence.
He featured in two Tests in India and could only manage two wickets as the Proteas’ suffered a 3-0 whitewash.
Piedt, who made his Proteas debut in 2014, played 9 Tests for South Africa, ending on 26 wickets.
This also brings an end to his 10-year career with his franchise, the Cape Cobras.
Piedt, who captained the Cobras, was the leading wicket-taker (52) in the 2018/19 4-Day Franchise Series, which saw him pick up two awards at last year’s Cricket South Africa awards.
“Never easy leaving. But I love every second, trophies won and life-long friendships made,” wrote Piedt on Twitter.
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A pastor’s wife, the first person to be diagnosed with the coronavirus in the Northern Cape, says the pandemic is a warning to everyone.
Her husband has also tested positive.
Berna Kruger (43) confirmed to YOU that she and her husband, Henk, of the Light the World Ministries in Hartswater, Northern Cape, had tested positive on Friday, 20 March. They’d attended the Jerusalem Prayer Breakfast at a Bloemfontein church on 10 and 11 March.
Berna says she and Henk didn’t immediately experience any symptoms.
“At first, it felt like a typical flu to me,” she said from quarantine in the family’s home in Hartswater.
“I’m feeling much better now than I did last week! But remember God knows everything. He is in charge.”
Berna said they got back home on Thursday, 12 March, but that she only started feeling unwell on Tuesday, 17 March.
“I had a bad fever and my body was very sore,” said Berna, who never thought it would be because of the coronavirus. “I just went to bed.”
Berna said Henk also started feeling ill – but it was only when they got a call informing them that five of the foreign speakers at the rally had tested positive that they were officially tested and immediately quarantined on Friday, 20 March.
Henk was tested along with Berna, but his results were lost. It was later found, and on Tuesday they heard that he, too, was positive.
The couple’s four teenage daughters have also been tested, but their results aren’t known yet.
“We all have symptoms, but we’re still okay.”
She said her fever broke on Thursday, 19 March, but this past Sunday – 22 March – she started having dry cough symptoms.
“I now feel weak and I have no energy. Almost like when you have malaria.”
Berna said as soon as she and Henk learnt about their possible exposure to the virus, they cooperated fully with the health department.
“We made a list of everyone we had contact with and they were all followed up and tested. Everyone should cooperate.”
She also said that the church where the gathering took place acted responsibly and took the trouble to make sure people were tested. The couple are very grateful for this.
Don’t fear the virus
“We’re confident that everything will turn out okay. More than 80% of people recover fully. I hear how people are going crazy about the virus, but nobody fears eternity without God in the same way?
“I’m not afraid of death. I regard it as my ticket to go straight to Jesus and I’m excited about going to Jesus. It breaks my heart that people are this scared of the disease, but not of sin.
“People should fear Hell more. I think this is a reality check for the whole world about the end times and that our creator is on the way. Now is the time to set things right with Him.”
Quality time
Berna’s advice to people around the country is to spend quality time with their families and God.
“People should use the time with Jesus, read the Bible, and learn more about our creator. Even though this virus has hit our country, no one can take away our peace.”
She believes people should also enjoy and appreciate having time to spend with their families.
“Spend time with your family, make the most of this opportunity. Everyone at home should put away their phones.”
Minister’s urgent call
At a media conference in Pretoria on Wednesday, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize appealed to everyone who attended this event at the Divine Restoration Ministries to urgently contact the Free State health department, so they can be tested for the coronavirus.
He referred specifically to the Bloemfontein rally and cautioned people who did not heed the call. He said the department would be compelled to publish their names to ensure that they came forward to be tested.
A representative of the church referred YOU to the health department for official comment.
Mondli Mvambi, spokesperson for the department in the Free State, confirmed to YOU that a total of 360 people had reported on 21 and 22 March to be scanned for symptoms.
They included mostly people who had attended the rally or had been in contact with people who had. A total of 39 people, who displayed preliminary symptoms, were officially tested for Covid-19.
“It’s not our intention to damage the image of the church or stigmatise it. The virus can hit any place or person. We appreciate the cooperation the church has given us so far.
“Covid-19 isn’t a death sentence, but we have a responsibility to test everyone who was there or had contact with those who were there. People can report to their nearest community clinic – all they have to do is be open and make it known that they might have been in contact with someone with the virus. We all have to work together to ensure that the virus doesn’t spread any further.”
The minister confirmed to the media on Wednesday that two people from the Northern Cape, linked to the church rally in Bloemfontein, had tested positive for Covid-19. In total, at the time of publication, the city had 18 confirmed cases of the coronavirus.
Angus Buchan, who also was a speaker at the event, confirmed in his last post on Facebook on Tuesday that he and his wife, Jill, had tested positive.
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Hours are 8am to 5pm. You will be expected to supervise 5 cleaners and 2 maintenance workers for a student residence. You must also create work schedules and meticulously record work done by cleaners and maintenance workers. Minimum Matric Cetificate. Must arrange for your own transport. Must have supervision skills. Must also be proficient at recording and organising paperwork. Microsoft Office skills is preferred, you will be provided a work PC. You will be employed on a trial basis for 3 weeks and then your salary and continued employment will be reviewed based on your performance. To start ASAP after lockdown after an interview.
Experience: Supervision : 1 year (Preferred). quin@lutoria.co.za
Faculty of Economics and Management Sciences – University of Stellenbosch Business School, Marketing Division
Corporate Brand and PR Manager – Ref. EBW04/086/0320
The University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB), which falls under Stellenbosch University’s Faculty of Economics and Management Sciences, has established itself as one of the top providers of internationally accredited business management programmes in South Africa. The School enjoys the status of three international accreditations – AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA – reserved for only a few schools in the world. Our vision is to be globally recognised as a source of value for a better world. We aim to achieve this by developing responsible leaders who can positively impact society.
Duties:
Developing a communication/public relations strategy for the USB brand;
Effectively managing discrepancies between corporate identity and corporate reputation by using an appropriate marketing mix of elements;
Developing annual implementation plans to deliver the strategy;
Identifying customer segments and stakeholder-focused marketing innovation (internal and external);
Developing appropriate performance metrics against set objectives;
Budget management for advertising and promotion;
Managing the brand’s CI and collateral;
Developing and managing corporate advertising campaigns for the USB brand;
Working with other team members to create compelling text, image and video content;
Assisting with the optimal utilisation of SEO opportunities;
Ensuring that relevant content is posted in accordance with the content calendar;
Establishing and managing relationships with media/industry journalists;
Managing incoming media requests;
Working with the internal team to deliver events, within budget, that meet expectations;
Networking/participating in industry events to build a brand profile;
Customer experience management;
Managing partnerships and sponsorships;
Managing relationships with USB related brands;
Monitoring the USB and competitors’ activities and suggesting improvements;
Undertaking research, extracting insights and recommending improvements.
Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree in marketing or business management, or equivalent qualification;
Minimum of five years’ experience in marketing, marketing services, or brand management;
Ability to work under pressure;
Proven ability to take initiative and to make independent judgement in performing tasks;
The delivery of outputs that comply with the highest quality standards;
Professional conduct and a professional appearance;
Enthusiastic, self-motivated, organised and methodical;
A proactive problem-solving outlook;
The ability to function in a multilingual environment;
Computer literacy in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook);
Willingness to work after hours if necessary.
Recommendation:
Work experience in the business or university sector.
Commencement of duties: 1 June 2020
Closing date: 17 April 2020
Enquiries regarding this post: Owen Mbundu on 021 918 4225, or at
az.ca.bsu@udnubm.newo
Enquiries regarding remuneration/benefits as well as technical assistance with the electronic application process: Human Resources Client Services Centre on 021 808 2753 or at
az.ca.nus@rh-e-nus
.
The University is committed to employment equity (EE), and appointments will be made in line with the EE plan for the specific environment as well as Stellenbosch University’s institutional EE Plan.
The University reserves the right not to make an appointment.
Your application, comprising a comprehensive curriculum vitae (including the names and e-mail address of at least three referees), must reach the University before or on the closing date of the advertised post.
Health-e News Services is looking for a highly dedicated, diligent, and motivated Financial Accountant with a successful track record as financial management, payroll, accountancy and other related experience, in non-profit or international organisations. The financial accountant will work with financial records to ensure that they’re properly maintained and classified. They will also be responsible for tax reporting, inventory processing and program administration 1. Maintain the books of accounts, i.e. ledger, sub-ledger, cash book and all other records as required
Capture all transactions, including payroll transactions in the system
Processing payment of contractors’ and suppliers’ claims and check for the compliance of the claims
Maintain the paid vouchers in chronological order for future reference and auditing purpose
Prepare bank reconciliations for all bank accounts, based on a full set of bank statements
Analyse and reconcile all other balance control accounts.
Prepare standard financial reports from the financial records.
Prepare and submit VAT returns bi-monthly on e-filing.
2. Monthly payroll processing
Preparation of monthly payroll, from authorised source data provided by the organisation by the 15th of each month. This will result in the issue of payslips and other payroll reports by the 20th of each month.
Electronically send payslips to organisational employees on monthly basis
Monthly e-filing with SARS.
3. Preparation of annual financial statements
Process accruals, prepayments, depreciation and other year-end journals.
Prepare draft annual financial statements and other supporting schedules.
4. Preparation of IRP5’s and bi-annual EMP501 reconciliation together with submission to SARS
5. Financial management support and other specific services as requested by the supervisor
Requirements
Competencies:
Professionalism: Shows pride in work and in achievements; Demonstrates professional competence and relevant subject matter knowledge; Is conscientious and efficient in meeting commitments, observing deadlines and achieving results; Is motivated by professional rather than personal concerns; Shows persistence when faced with difficult problems or challenges; Remains calm in stressful situations. Proven knowledge of non-profit organisation project; Program management process and procedures is an additional asset.
Teamwork: Works collaboratively with colleagues to achieve organisational goals; Is willing to learn from others; Places team agenda before personal agenda; Supports and acts in accordance with final group decision, even when such decisions may not entirely reflect own position; Shares credit for team accomplishments and accepts joint responsibility for team shortcomings.
Planning and organising: Develops clear goals that are consistent with agreed strategies; Identifies priority activities and assignments; Adjusts priorities as required; Allocates appropriate amount of time and resources for completing work; Foresees risks and allows for contingencies when planning; Monitors and adjusts plans and actions as necessary; Uses time efficiently.
Communication: Speaks and writes clearly and effectively; Listens to others, correctly interprets messages from others and responds appropriately; Asks questions to clarify, and exhibits interest in having two-way communication; Tailors language, tone, style and format to match audience; Demonstrates openness in sharing information and keeping people informed.
Information Technology: Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.
Education
University degree in accounting and finance.
Bachelor’s degree in accounting, business or equivalent
Work experience
At least five years of experience as an accountant or financial officer, ideally with a development project. Experience working with Governments, donors, or international organizations is an asset.
At least five years relevant continuous work experience in finance and administrative functions;
Experience with donor-funded projects will be an added advantage;
Demonstrated experience in procurement and preparation of financial reports and budget variance analysis;
High integrity, strong result orientation, drive for excellence and takes initiative;
Good communication skills;
Fluency in English required;
Excellent communication and analytical skills;
Be a team player and have client focus.
Good interpersonal skills and result orientation;
Work experience with MS Office applications is a musthj
To apply for this position, submit your CV and motivation letter to
az.gro.e-htlaeh@ofni
. For more about Health-e News Service refer to www.health-e.org.za. For more information on this position email Charity Ndhlovu on
az.gro.e-htlaeh@ofni
.
Closing Date: 13 April 2020
Posted on 27 Mar 12:55
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Do you consider yourself a highly proficient product manager? If so, then your next exciting opportunity may just be this one!
One of the country’s largest online retailers is looking for a talented and experienced product manager to join their wonderful team, located in the Cape Town CBD. As a product manager in this environment, you will be a vital component in the overall vision and roadmap of features for the company’s customer service platform. It is a new and exciting venture and one that is ideal for someone looking for a real and thrilling challenge.
The role is inherently cross-functional, working closely with customer service, engineering, design, operations, and executive teams to bring about product enhancements that will benefit the company’s customers and/or business. You will work with business owners to understand their strategy, requirements, and priorities in order to translate needs into recommended initiatives and projects that affect the product. You will define and track the metrics and data that will inform all decisions on product features and functionality, and create business cases to motivate the prioritisation of these initiatives. The process-driven, data-loving kind of person will flourish in this role.
The ideal person musthave a proven track record of execution and have the ability to formulate a detailed product roadmap, and to execute on that plan. This requires the ability to wear multiple hats to guide junior product managers, business analysts, UX experts and engineering, in order to deliver world-class products.
Do you believe that you are this champion candidate? If so, these are the other requirements you will need to fulfill:
Minimum bachelor’s degree
At least four years of product management experience of which at least two years in a product development environment
Experience in an e-commerce environment would be to your advantage
If you feel that you have everything you need to apply for this role, apply now.
Posted on 27 Mar 11:35
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