Jobs at merSETA

Purpose: 

• The purpose of this position is to ensure efficient and effective financial administration, monitoring, and recovery of mandatory and discretionary grant funds. This includes managing debit notes, performing reconciliations, preparing reports, and engaging with stakeholders, while maintaining accurate records, supporting audit processes, ensuring compliance with merSETA policies, and contributing to timely and accurate month-end and management reporting.

Key Responsibilities

• The ideal candidate should be able to fulfill and perform the following key responsibilities:
• Maintain levy income schedule ensuring reconciliation to receipts from DHET
• Assist with the processing of mandatory grants payments
• Assist with maintaining the projects and discretionary grant commitment register effectively
• Recover overpayments of mandatory and discretionary grants
• Follow-up on the SETA debt recovery process which includes liaisons with stakeholders and debt collectors
• Compile monthly reports and schedules that will assist in the finalization of monthly management pack
• Completion of general ledger reconciliations
• Sound, effective, and efficient administration of all records and information including to
• enable easy accessibility, accuracy, and comprehensiveness of information
• Assist and attend to all internal and external audit queries – produce the correct documents
• to support the audit process efficiently
• Processing of inter seta transactions, including liaising with the other SETA’s when required

Qualifications and Experience

• A 3-year Diploma (NQF Level 6) in one of the following fields—or an equivalent NQF Level 6 qualification
• that matches a 3-year Diploma in these areas:
• Accounting
• Financial Management
• Cost and Management Accounting
• Bookkeeping
• 3 years’ experience in Finance/ Accounting/ Bookkeeping within Grants or Levies environment

Advantageous

• A 3-year Bachelor of Commerce degree (NQF Level 7) in one of the following fields—or an equivalent
• NQF Level 7 Level qualification that matches a Bachelor’s degree in any of these area:
• Accounting
• Financial Management
• Management Accounting
• Cost and Management Accounting
• Bookkeeping
• More than 3 years’ experience in Finance/ Accounting/ Bookkeeping within Grants or Levies environment
• Understanding of the SETA’s financial environment, including payments of grants

Knowledge and Skills

• Customer Service Orientation Skills
• Technical Skills and Competence
• Collaboration and teamwork Skills
• Relationship Management Skills
• Attention to Detail Skills
• Communication Skills 

CLOSING DATE: 12 March 2026

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Purpose: 

• The position is responsible for administration of the merSETA SharePoint platform . This includes configuring the platform, creating and managing document libraries, developing shared storage solutions, and implementing reliable backup procedures.

Key Responsibilities

The ideal candidate should be able to fulfill and perform the following key accountabilities and responsibilities:

• Provide technical and functional SharePoint support to MerSETA users
• Administrating activities on the SharePoint platform, integrating applications and creating libraries
• Design, configure and maintain enterprise taxonomy, terms and keywords
• Adding users, controlling access to document libraries and setting permissions
• Performing maintenance of the SharePoint platform, servers and intranet
• Troubleshooting and resolving SharePoint issues or malfunctions and resolve timely
• Provide SharePoint support and end-user training
• Performing data retrieval and backup procedures to prevent data loss
• Monitoring and administrating SharePoint to enable sufficient storage space by performing clean-ups and archiving data
• Reviewing usage and activity reports and making adjustments to ensure optimized user- experiences
• Keeping up to date with SharePoint developments and performing version updates and upgrades
• Effective utilization of best practice and up-to-date knowledge to continuously support service delivery and improve performance

Qualifications and Experience

• A 3-year Diploma (NQF Level 6) in one of the following fields—or an equivalent NQF Level 6
• qualification that matches a 3-year Diploma in these areas:
• Networking
• Information Technology
• Information Systems
• Computer Science
• or related field
• 3 year experience in software design and SharePoint administration

Advantageous

• Bachelor’s degree (NQF Level 7) in one of the following fields —or an equivalent NQF Level 7
• qualification that matches a bachelor’s degree in one of these areas:
• Networking
• Information Technology
• Information Systems
• Computer Science
• or related field
• More than 3 year experience in software design and SharePoint administration

Knowledge and Skills

• Knowledge of Windows operating systems, as well as SQL Server, Power BI, PowerShell, Power
• Platform, WordPress and Office 365
• Knowledge of SharePoint tools, including ULS Logs, workflows, and SharePoint forms for tasks
• Customer Service Orientation Skills
• Problem Analysis Skills
• Attention to Detail Skills
• Collaboration and teamwork Skills
• Data collection and Data Analysis

CLOSING DATE: 10 March 2026