Undergraduate: Business Administration (UNISA) Appointed to a secretarial post in the COO’s office in 2006 at the Department of Social Development. Over the past 7 years Lorraine Mubayi has worked in the Department as an Administrator in the COO’s office from 2007 to 2009 and her duties amongst others were to organise and help coordinate strategic planning sessions. This involved the event planning and facilitating during the events. In 2009 the political leadership of the department changed and she was moved to an Executive Assistant in Ministry, an Assistant Director level post assisting the Chief of staff, Minister’s 2 Special Advisors and the Administrative Secretary for the Minister, the post she currently holds.