Internship: Litigation & Mediation X1

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 Litigation & Mediation 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 previous work anywhere within the Republic of South Africa.

Work based exposure may include the following

• Interns will be given practical workplace structured training and on the job training and development, this will be combined with the theoretical training already acquired regarding Delictual Law, Civil Procedure, Law of Evidence
• Practice Management
• Service and filing of documentation at Court
• Attendance at Pre-Trial Conferences and compilation of Pre-Trial Minutes
• General administration work
• Drafting of correspondence, pleadings, notices, affidavits and applications
• Observation of and assistance for State Attorneys at Court
• Service and filing of notices
• Judgment monitoring and case outcomes reporting
• Filing Bills of costs upon receipt as well as assistance in opposing taxations
• General administrative work on LMS

Qualifications and Experience

• Certified Grade 12/ NQF 4 level certificate.
• Certified NQF level 7 bachelor’s degree in law 
• Certified copy of Academic transcript applications with no academic transcript will not be considered.
• Certified copy of your ID
• Your CV and motivational letter
• Applicants must be unemployed, were never employed in the field of post and never participated in an internship programme in the relevant field of post previously.
• The applicant must not have previously served as an intern.

Technical and behavioral competencies required.

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

• Customer orientation and Customer focus
• Communication 
• Computer literacy
• Team player

Remuneration

The interns will be awarded a monthly stipend.

No hand delivered applications will be accepted.

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, was 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.

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.