Internship: State Attorney at Road Accident Fund

Purpose of the Internship: The Road Accident Fund is committed to youth skills development by providing graduates with an opportunity to gain work experience. Applications are invited for the

State Attorney Support Internship in our Pretoria (x4), Mafikeng (x2), Nelspruit (x2) and Polokwane (x2) offices from unemployed graduates between the age of 18 and 23. The Internship program will run for a period of Eighteen months (18).

We encourage the applicants to apply in their respective regions where they are based.

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 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, was never employed in the field of the post and never participated in an internship programme in the relevant field of the 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