Tourism and Hospitality Internship: West coast National Park at South African National Parks (SANParks)

The Groen Sebenza Phase II Programme is a bridging into a work programme funded for three years. GS Phase II aims to recruit 1050 unemployed graduates (diploma – PhD level) and place them nationally in different organisations (government and non-governmental) where they will be incubated (trained and mentored) to further develop their competence and confidence in the management of environment/biodiversity.

The programme goals

1. Enable workplace-based learning for graduates aimed at building and strengthening their capacity at various levels.
2. Creation of job opportunities and possible permanent placement beyond funding.
3. Transformation and organisational strengthening – strengthen different organisational development aspects including transformation in its totality, mentoring, proactive skills and planning to better respond to organisational mandates and other national priorities.
4. Research informed – through research, develop a ‘live’ skills intelligence system that will enable the sector to proactively plan for skills development and track and trace the utilisation of the developed skills.

SANParks in partnership with The South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) is pleased to announce a call for applications for:

• Tourism and Hospitality :  Required National Diploma in Tourism Management

Requirements

• Must be a SA citizen.
• Young unemployed and *underemployed professionals between the ages of 18 and 35.
• Innovative, dynamic and creative
• A commitment to career development in the environmental/biodiversity sector.
• Must hold the qualifications mentioned in the table above
• Women and People with disabilities are also encouraged to apply.

* Underemployed refers to youth employed in any sector other than the one they studied for per the above-listed fields.