Legal Aid SA Communications Internship

Location: Braamfotein

This is an Intern position reporting to the Communications Officers. It is a fixed term contract of 1 year.

Position purpose:
The incumbent will learn theoretical and practical skills within the field of communications so as to build and gain practical and hands-on experience through experiential learning, based on the Internship agreement, and will assist the Communications Department to implement the communications outputs.

Key Outputs:
  • Receive and distribute supplies for the Communications Department

  • Assist with the co-ordination of events

  • Assist with the development of relations with the media and the communications stakeholders

  • Assist with the implementation of Legal Aid SA's public relations initiatives

  • Assist with corporate identity quality control

  • Report on all regional communications activities

  • Assist with the responsibility for media interviews and queries

  • Assist with departmental administration and finance

  • Assist with daily media monitoring

  • Liaise with the Training and Development Department to ensure that appropriate Internship documents and reports are updated monthly

  • Maintain departmental database

Competencies (skills, knowledge and attributes) required:
  • Recognised Grade 12 certificate

  • Proof of registration with a recognized tertiary institution

  • Studying towards a tertiary qualification in Communications

  • Ready to serve an Internship according to the rules and regulations of the tertiary institutions

Closing Date: 16 April 2013

A detailed Curriculum Vitae, reflecting practical application of the position outputs and required competencies as advertised, must be submitted by close of business on 16 April 2013.

Forward applications to: recruit@legal-aid.co.za

Should you not hear from us within 2 months of the closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful.
Definitions:

Internship:

There are basically two types of internships:

  • The Undergraduate Internship: Usually with bigger organisations that pick undergraduates to attend the internship. It often takes places during the holidays and the average durations is a few weeks. In most cases the intern will receive some sort of stipend or salary and this type of internship may lead to a job offer to the intern once he / she is finished with their studies.
  • The Graduate Internship: This type of internship could be paid or unpaid and it is to gain practical work experience after the qualification has been completed and in a job related to the qualification. It could be from a few weeks or even one or two years long. This type of internship could also lead to permanent employment.

Learnerships:

A learnership is an occupational qualification and it consists of theory and work-based experience and practical skills, with formal assessment and a qualification. At the end of the learnership the candidate may be offered permanent employment.

In-service training:

In-service training is to gain practical work experience during studies. It usually takes place after a few years of theory has been successfully completed. It is essential work experience that is part of the qualification and the in-service training is necessary to achieve the qualification. It could be paid or unpaid.