Intern: Litigation & Mediation

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 by providing graduates with an opportunity to gain work based experience. Applications are invited for the Internship: Litigation & Mediation for unemployed graduates between the age of 18 and 25. The Internship program will run for a period of eighteen (18) months.

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.
• Administration work.
• Drafting of correspondence, pleadings, affidavits, notices, applications.
• Practical Application of court rules in practice. 
• Observation of, and assistance given to, State Attorneys when appearing in Court.
• Support State Attorney in litigation and dispute resolution.
• Filing notices.
• Service of documents and Notices to Plaintiff Attorneys.
• Judgement monitoring and case outcomes reporting.
• Attendance of and upskilling with continuous learning professional development programs (i.e. LEAD and LexisNexis).
• Filing Bills of Costs upon receipt.
• Provide support to oppose Taxations.
• Preparations for appearance and appear before the Taxing Master.
• Filing of outcomes and uploading on LMS.

Qualifications and Experience

• Certified copy of Grade 12/ NQF 4 level certificate.
• Certified copy of NQF level 7 Bachelor’s degree in Law
• Certified copy of Academic transcript
• Certified 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:

• Communication
• Customer Orientation and Customer Focus
• Team Player
• Computer Literacy

Remuneration

The interns will be awarded a monthly stipend.

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, applications with no academic transcript will not be considered.
2. Applicants are restricted to apply for a maximum of 3 positions only
3. Applicants must be unemployed, were never employed in the field of the post and never participated in an internship programme in the relevant field of the post previously
4. 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.
5. Please note that the prospective employees will be subjected to security vetting
6. We encourage applicants to apply in their respective regions where they are based
7. 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.