Officer: Travel Management

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 Job: Reporting to the Senior Officer: Logistics Management the successful incumbent is responsible for facilitating tactical procurement operations for the procuring of travel bookings for RAF employees.

Key Performance Areas

Effectively and Efficiently Administering the Tactical Procurement Function

• Request quotations.
• Process Purchase Orders, submit them for approval.
• Scan and file purchase documents.
• Prepare requests for travel based on requisitions from different departments and business units.
• Record transgressions in transgressions register.

General Purchasing Administration

• Close off of booking transactions on SAP.
• Practice compliance to policy and regulations.

Expediting of Travel Bookings

• Provide feedback to end users regarding issuing of their travel documents.
• Produce weekly statistics on travel requests and orders.
• Implement effective travel management processes.

Risk Management Contribution

• Assess business and travel management risks.
• Draft risk management strategies and processes for risks identified.

Reporting

• Assist in the preparation and submission of regulation reports.
• Contribute to the development of functional reporting systems, for management, project or performance reporting.

Stakeholder Relations

• Assist with inquiries and requests for information from both internal and external stakeholders.
• Contribute to the maintenance of relationships with vendors, service providers or procurement teams and ensure that all relevant procured items are invoiced and paid on time.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree/ Advanced Diploma in Logistics Management/ Supply Chain Management/ Finance related qualification.
• Relevant 3 years’ experience in a Travel Management related environment.
• Experience in procurement or supply chain management within State Owned Entities (SoEs) will be an added advantage.

Technical and Behavioral Competencies Required

• Planning, organising and coordinating.
• Personal mastery.
• Judgement and decision making.
• Ethics and values.
• Client service orientation.
• Travel management.
• Planning and organizing.
• Administration.
• Basic risk management.
• Logistics Management.

NB: “RAF offers Total Employment Cost packages with no additional contributions from the Employer, successful candidates are required to structure their packages in a manner that will suit their needs”.

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.