Ferial Davids

Ferial joined the DPRU in 2024, to assist with the administration of the Labour Market Intelligence research programme.

Ferial holds a National Certificate in Business Management from False Bay College and has a broad understanding of how businesses operate. She started her career as an EPWP Jobseeker database administrator where she provided short-term job opportunities for residents living in poverty-stricken communities. Prior to joining the DPRU she spent time at a health care organization where she was involved in a school health programme based in a resource constraint rural setting with a focus on sexual reproductive health and rights. Here, her role as Programme Administrator included overseeing and ensuring effective and correct data collection, creating and maintaining databases, assisting with data analysis, effectively co-ordinating monthly and quarterly data qualitatively and quantitively, monitoring and evaluation, report writing, and many other admin duties.