Intern: Adjudication

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 Adjudication 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:

•   Apply funeral benefit adjudication rules to determine quantum
•   Generate funeral product offer using relevant offer template.
•   Receive and record medical management bill review assessment outcome.
•   Check substantial compliance with RAF Act.
•   Check and activate pre defined injury specific undertaking from accident information centre.
•   Confirm and record Medical management recommendations.
•   Review the claim against the general damages adjudication standards.
•   Produce documents, briefing papers, reports and presentations.
•   Review the claim against the loss of earnings adjudication standards.
•   Adjucate the LOE product claim in line with the approved policy/SOP.
•   Review the claim against the loss of support adjudication standards
•   Deal with/and respond to correspondence.

Qualifications and other Requirements

• Certified copy of Grade 12 / Matric certificate
• Certified copy of Relevant Diploma/ Advanced Diploma/ Bachelor’s Degree in Law
• Certified copy of your ID
• Certified copy of Academic transcript
• 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 interns will be awarded a monthly stipend.

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

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.

1. Applicants are restricted to apply for a maximum of 3 positions only (to complete an application for each ref number)
2. 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
3. The applicant must not have previously served as intern before.
4. Should it be found that the applicant previously served as an intern and did not discose that info and it is discovered later, the applicant will be disqualified.
5. 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 disabilties

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

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.