STAFF COMPLEMENT

NARDEP has two categories of staff members. One is out-reach and is deployed any where in the country where she is implementing the programme. The other is the in-reach staff which is drawn from the community concerned and deployed as in-reach Community Development Practitioners and/or Project Managers within a local structure called the National Business Education Community Organization.

NARDEP staff members are carefully identified and selected through a self-selection process, (available on request) based on the services offered, demonstrated willingness to give, passion and commitment to participate in a Social Enterprise Project of this kind plus a matric qualification or equivalent.

Out-Reach Staff

NARDEP out-reach staff compliment consists of three experienced members in the following positions:

  • Executive Director who holds a doctorate degree in Education, specializing in Community Development Education
  • One Project Manager with a minimum of two years experience, and
  • One project coordinator also with two years experience

The Managing Director is responsibility to envision, direct, manage, and see to it that the Management, administration, and implementation of the programme is done maintaining a high standard, and to transfer her skills to the Project Manager in the first batch of in-reach trainees. As they develop to a position to take over these roles, their out-reach counterparts effectively facilitate while in-reach runs the programme.

In-reach Staff

As soon as the programme starts, the out-reach staff facilitates identification, selection and placement, by the community, of potential in-reach staff complement, consisting of would be CDPs and Project Managers(NABECO). They are placed in a learner-ship for one year. Successful candidates are deployed as interns for the second year under close supervision by the out-reach staff. On the third year, they enter full time employment and become the local staff compliment for the programme in their respective community. Drop–outs are replaced as soon as possible.

The CDPs Learners are trained to become Social Facilitators of social-emotional-healing, community mobilization, education and training of the initiators of the enterprises, and form a strategic link with the out-reach personnel from the social investment partners especially government, corporate, Donor Agencies. The Project Manager learners on the other hand receive education and training to become the social facilitators, watch dog, leaders, representative, support system etc of the community concerned. After graduating they are employed by the community. This ensures that the social funds invested in the programme and the income generated through the Buntu Village Market is spent in the community, where it matters most. Because the wage bill accounts for a big chunk of the budget, NARDEP keeps the out-reach staff compliment small to honor this commitment.

The third year is the exit year for the out-reach staff. It gradually pulls out living the fully qualified CDPs and Project Managers(NABECO) to continue with implementation of their community programme independently for years to come. The three out-reach members of staff move on to replicate the programme in the next community. They, however, monitor and receive reports annually from community A and give support to their programme when it is necessary.

Service Providers

Some of the functions will be outsourced tapping into the rich pool of expertise from its network of partners. The expertise needed include:

  • Curriculum development specialists and producers of training materials
  • Training providers and
  • Accounting Officer and external auditor,
  • Information and Communication Technology Experts,
  • Labor lawyers and skills development experts to advise on employment contracts, ensure alignment with Labor Legislation, occupational safety and health standards,
  • Quality assurance assessors and moderators to process for accreditation and qualifications in accordance with Skills development Act, the Qualifications Authority (SAQA) and the National Qualifications Framework (NQF), etc.