Jobs at Office of the Chief Justice South Africa

REQUIREMENTS :

1. Applicants should be in possession of a National Diploma in Legal Interpreting or equivalent qualification at NQF level 6 with 360 credits as recognized by SAQA. A minimum of two (2) years’ experience as a Court Interpreter, or Grade twelve (12) certificate with at least ten (10) years practical experience in Court Interpreting.
2. Two (2) years supervisory experience, Proficiency in English, isiXhosa, and (isiZulu or Sesotho). A valid driver’s license will serve as an added advantage. All shortlisted candidates shall undertake a pre-entry practical exercise as part of the assessment method to determine the candidate's suitability based on the post's technical and generic requirements.

DUTIES :

• render interpreting services in high profile matters: interpret in complex cases. interpret in criminal, civil, and labour court. control, supervise and attend to personnel administrative aspects of interpreters: provide mentoring and coaching to junior/ senior interpreters. manage performance agreement contracts. draw a schedule for replacement of court interpreters. translate legal documents and exhibits: study and analyse the source documents.
• conduct necessary research and consult. check, edit and revise the translated documents. procure foreign language interpreters and casuals in line with pfma and the relevant policy: report statistics to be generated and escalated to the cluster manager for consolidation. authorise payment of foreign language interpreters and casuals. develop terminology: harvest of terminology and database development. provide terms and their respective meanings in the glossary register. supervise and develop staff: ensure general supervision of employees. allocate duties and perform quality control on the work delivered by officials. 

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REQUIREMENTS 

• applicants should be in possession of grade 12, no experience is required. LLB Degree will serve as an added advantage 

DUTIES :

• conduct legal research for the regional court: conduct legal research or research on any other topic requested for by the regional court presidents/ chief magistrate, download the cases in the monthly notifications from juta, download for distribution to the magistrate of all judgements as well as any amendments to relevant legislations.
• provide administration functions to the regional court president/chief magistrate: compile court performance statistics monthly/quarterly/annually or as required by regional court president/ chief magistrate, verify and validate statistics, provide support with production of the court performance reports, provide support with the presentation and dissemination of the court performance information. provide support to case flow management: forward case flow challenges report to relevant stakeholders as it is reported and the monthly incidents to each relevant stakeholder.
• compile provincial efficient, enhancement committee (PEEC), regional efficiency enhancement committee (REEC) and district efficiency enhancement committee (DEEC) court performance report and related matter. provide support in the regional court registrar: provide support to assistant registrars in civil issuing offices with issuing, capturing etc, provide support in the regional court registrar as requested with reports and inspections and provide support with the training of the court clerks.