Facilities Management Intern

The Road Accident Fund’s mission is to provide timely and equitable assistance to those affected by motor vehicle accidents through the provision of appropriate social benefits to ensure financial relief and recovery for qualifying individuals.

Purpose of the Internship: The Road Accident Fund is committed to youth skills development, providing graduates with an opportunity to gain work-based experience. Applications are invited for the Facilities Management Space & Projects Internship from unemployed graduates between the age of 18 and 25. The Internship program will run for a period of eighteen (18) months. Verification process will be undertaken to verify whether you have previously worked anywhere within the Republic of South Africa.

Work based exposure may include the following:

• Space planning principles and parameters
• Drafting of drawings including detailed working drawings
• Building codes and regulations, Occupational Health and Safety (OHS)
• Measuring premises, extracting information from drawings, simple building cost estimating.
• Drafting of documentation, specifications, finishing schedules, database collection, creation and upkeep of the database, elementary project management, drawing pivots and graphs using database information, etc.

Qualifications and other Requirements

• • Certified copy of Grade 12/ Matric certificate.
  • Certified copy of B degree/ B-Tech Diploma in Interior Design or Architecture/ Interior Architecture.
  • Certified copy of your ID.
  • Certified copy of Academic transcript (applications with no transcripts will be eliminated).
  • Your CV and
  • A motivational letter as to why your application should be considered.

Technical and behavioral competencies required

• • Technical and behavioural competencies required:
  • The successful candidate will be required to display the following competencies in this role:
  • Written and verbal communication skills in English.
  • Interpersonal skills.
  • Technically orientated.
  • Detail orientation.
  • Desire and potential to learn.
  • Self-motivated.
  • Computer literate.  MS Excel and MS Project proficiency would be an added advantage.
  • Experience and qualification to do architectural drawings using Autodesk AutoCAD and Revit Architecture would be an added advantage.
  • Prioritize tasks as needed

NB: Applications can be forwarded to the RAF website, e-recruitment platform.

INSTRUCTION TO PROSPECTIVE APPLICANTS

1. Indicate the province and the reference number for the Internship you are applying for on the subject line. 
2. Submit a short CV and a motivational letter as to why your application should be considered with a maximum of 3 pages, applications with no academic transcript will not be considered.
3. Applicants are restricted to apply for a maximum of 3 positions only (to complete an application for each ref number)
4. Applicants must be unemployed, were never employed in the field of the post and never participated in an internship programme in the relevant field of the post previously
5. The applicant must not have previously served as intern before.
6. Should it be found that the applicant previously served as an intern and did not disclose that info and it is discovered later, the applicant will be disqualified.
7. Please note that the prospective employees will be subjected to security vetting

The Road Accident Fund subscribes to the principles of employment equity and preference will be given to people with disabilities

The Road Accident Fund subscribes to the principles of employment equity and preference will be given to People with Disabilities.

Applicants who have not received any correspondence from us within six weeks from the closing date can consider themselves unsuccessful.

Security Vetting shall be conducted on all prospective employees.

It is the applicants’ responsibility to have foreign qualification evaluated by the South African Qualification Authority (SAQA) and to provide proof of such evaluation.