The Groen Sebenza Phase II Internship Programme for South Africans

Deadline: Varies

The Groen Sebenza Phase II Internship Programme for South Africans

Applications ongoing for The Groen Sebenza Phase II Internship Programme for South Africans for South Africans.The Groen Sebenza Phase II Programme is a bridging-into-work programme funded to the value of R300m for the next 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 the environment/biodiversity.

The programme goals:

1. Enable workplace-based learning for graduates to build and strengthen 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.

About SANPARK

SANParks is working towards being a major connector between societies. This has seen the vision of “Custos Naturae” slowly, but surely progressing to the vision of today as “A Sustainable National Parks System, Connecting Society.”