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x735 Preppers Internship Posts: The Department of Home Affairs (South Africa)

admin February 16, 2023

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DEADLINE: 02 March 2023

Salary: R 5,000.00 per month – Stipend
Job type: Fixed-term
Reference number: DHA 782085

x735 Preppers Internship Posts: The Department of Home Affairs (South Africa)

Role description

The Department of Home Affairs, DHA, in collaboration with Harambee and the Department of Employment and Labour, DEL as the National Pathway Management Network, seeks to employ 737 unemployed youth as Preppers for the digitization of the department of home affairs records.

The DHA has started the digitization process of converting over 350 million paper records into electronic format for improved service delivery.

The DHA seeks to contribute to the employment creation goals and strategic priorities of the Presidential Employment Stimulus programme by hiring unemployed youth on a fixed term contracts to assist.

Duties include:

preparing records for digitization; separating a variety of records, preparing paper documents for digitization, removing staples, binding, and removing paperclips.
Document preppers remove staples, flag pages, fix bent or torn corners and sort documents according to specifications.
Preppers edit and amend incorrect information.
In addition to prepping documents, perform general clerical duties, such as answering phones, taking messages, making copies and other duties as assigned
Document preppers must be able to sit for extended periods of time and must have extreme attention to detail.
Preppers must be computer literate, as they utilize computers and other office equipment, such as scanners and fax machines.

Role requirement

WHO CAN APPLY?

South African citizens aged between 18-35 years old
A minimum of a Higher Certificate in Document and / or Records Management or Information Technology recognised by SAQA at NQF 5.
No criminal record.

Should you receive notice that you have been selected for shortlisting, you will be required to present the following documents:

Copy of certified qualifications.
Copy of certified identity document.

Successful candidates will be subjected to suitability checks (Citizenship, Credit, Criminal and Qualification Verification). Duration of contract: 3 years (approximately May/June 2023- May/June 2026). A contract linked to the duration of the project will be signed upon appointment. Should you not hear from DHA by May/June 2023, please consider your application unsuccessful. You may continue to look for more opportunities on sayouth.mobi.

LOCATION (NB)
All roles will be in person at the Department of Home Affairs in Gauteng Province (Pretoria) and the North West Province (Brits).