Internship: Litigation & Mediation (Pretoria x1, Polokwane x1, Thohoyandou x1)
Pretoria, Gauteng, ZA
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 Medical Management 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.
1. KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS
Work based exposure may include the following:
• Administrative work.
• Drafting of correspondence, pleadings, affidavits, notices, applications, etc.
• Practical application of court rules in practice.
• Observation of, and assistance given to State Attorneys when appearing in Court.
• Support State Attorneys in Litigation and dispute resolution.
• Filing notices
• Service of documents and Notice to Plaintiff’s Attorneys.
• Judgment monitoring and case outcomes reporting.
• Attendance of and upskilling with continuous learning professional development programs (i.e LEAD & LexisNexis)
• Filing Bolls of Costs upon receipt
• Provide support to oppose Taxations.
• Preparations for appearance and appear before the Taxing Master.
• Filing of outcomes and uploading on Litigation Management System.
• Uploading to, and maintenance of Case lines profiles (region specific to Pretoria & Johannesburg)
Qualifications and other Requirements
• Certified copy of Grade 12/Matric certificate
• Certified copy of Bachelor of Laws (LLB)/ BA in Law/ BCom in Law
• Certified copy of your ID
• Certified copy of Academic transcript (applications without transcripts will be eliminated)
• Your CV and motivational letter
2. TECHNICAL AND BEHAVIORAL COMPETENCIES REQUIRED
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
3. REMUNERATION
The interns will be awarded a monthly stipend.
NB: Applications can be forwarded to the RAF e-recruitment platform.
No hand delivered applications will be accepted.
INSTRUCTION TO PROSPECTIVE APPLICANTS
- Indicate the province and the reference number for the Internship you are applying for on the subject line.
- 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.
- Applicants are restricted to apply for a maximum of 3 positions only (to complete an application for each ref number)
- Applicants must be unemployed, were never employed in the field of Legal/Law or a related field and must not have previously participated in an internship programme in Legal/Law or a related field.
- The applicant must not have previously served as intern before.
- Should it be found that the applicant previously served as an intern and did not disclose that information and it is discovered later, the applicant will be disqualified.
- 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.
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.