New National Director for World Vision South Africa

Paula A Barnard has been appointed as the new National Director for World Vision South Africa with effect from 1 February.

Paula is a South African citizen with diverse experience in management and marketing. She is a dynamic entrepreneur and leader with proven successes in creating and implementing successful business strategies as well as managing cross-functional teams and multi-million rand budgets. She has experience in managing projects in various sectors including retail, financial services and engineering, property development, public sector and IT/technology.

She is currently CEO and owner of Thoughtfrontiers Consulting and a new company, DigiBox.

Before venturing into running her own businesses, Paula worked at First National Bank (FNB) in various positions from 2003 to 2007. She started at FNB as a Programme Manager for Strategic Growth Segments (2003 – 2004), Strategy Analyst for Strategic Growth Segments (2004-2005), Business Strategic Marketer (2005 – 2006) and left the organisation as the Head of Strategic Marketing a position she held from 2006 – 2007.

She also worked for Nedbank as Wholesale Product Owner in the Corporate Division (2002) and Commercial Division Project Manager (2001). In 1998-1999, Paula was an educator at Gauteng Department of Education (The Glen High Schools) where she taught physics, biology and chemistry as well as coached hockey, cricket and softball teams.
She also worked for South African Defense Force in 1992 as Second Lieutenant, specializing in military intelligence. Paula holds a Masters in Business Administration and Botany & Zoology from North West University.

Please welcome Paula on board and pray that her leadership and your support will continue to make WV South Africa a formidable service provider to children and communities. We are blessed to have her and her immense skills come to the organisation at a time when we are in the process of re-engineering our national resource development capacities.

The process of re-engineering the national resource development capacities has seen us revamping our website to this new look.