Learnership: Technology & Digital

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 Learnership:

The Road Accident Fund (RAF) is committed to empowering South African youth by providing skills development and workplace learning opportunities. Applications are now open for the Technology and Digital Learnership Programme, aimed at unemployed young people who have completed Matric (Grade 12) only and are between the ages of 18 and 23 years.

This learnership offers participants the opportunity to gain valuable workplace experience and develop digital and technology-related skills over a period of 12 months.

As part of the selection process, verification checks will be conducted to confirm applicants' employment history and determine whether they have previously been employed within the Republic of South Africa.

Work based exposure may include the following: 

• Troubleshooting hardware, operating systems, software, user profiles, connectivity & general desktop-related issues
• Installing, configuring, troubleshooting, and supporting business applications used by employees
• Monitoring and managing devices through Intune and checking device compliance against organizational policies
• Identifying non-compliant devices and taking corrective actions to bring them back into compliance
• Performing manual security patches, software updates, and ensuring devices have the latest required security updates
• Responding to and resolving user calls and incidents logged with the regional ICT team
• Providing technical assistance directly to users and learning how to diagnose and resolve IT problems efficiently
• Identifying and resolving issues with computers, monitors, keyboards, mice, docking stations, and other ICT equipment
• Conducting asset verification and ensuring that ICT equipment is correctly recorded, assigned, and accounted for
• Troubleshooting printer connectivity, driver, configuration, printing, and hardware-related issues 

Qualifications and other Requirements

• A copy of Grade 12 / Matric certificate/ statement of results with Mathematics
• A copy of your ID
• Your CV and motivational letter.

Technical and behavioral competencies required

The successful candidate will be required to display the following competencies in this role:

• Written and verbal communication skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Detail orientation
• Desire and potential to learn
• Self-motivated
• Basic computer skills
• Prioritize tasks as needed. 

Remuneration

The Learners will be awarded a monthly stipend

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

No hand delivered applications will be accepted.

INSTRUCTION TO PROSPECTIVE APPLICANTS

1. Submit a short CV and a motivational letter as to why your application should be considered with a maximum of 3 pages.
2. Applicants must be unemployed, were never employed in the field of the post and never participated in a learnership programme in the relevant field of the post previously.
3. Should it be found that the applicant previously served as a learner and did not disclose that information and it is discovered later, the applicant will be disqualified.
4. Please note that the prospective employees will be subjected to security vetting
5. We encourage applicants to apply in their respective regions where they are based.
6. Only the first 100 applications will be considered.

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.