The Junior Officer vacancy at Road Accident Fund

The Junior Officer vacancy at Road Accident Fund

Deadline: 18 February 2025

Location: Menlo Park, South Africa

The Junior Officer vacancy at Road Accident Fund

Road Accident Fund is recruiting and accepting applications for Junior Officer vacancy.

Purpose: The Junior Officer is responsible to identify, on a timely basis, those claims for which there is litigious dispute to enable settlement offers / tenders promptly and also those that require thorough, early investigation and rigorous development of the legal defence issues to enable a trial strategy which is reflective of the case’s value.

Key Performance Areas

Internal defending of all magistrate Court Summonses

• Draft Notice of intention to defend and all pleadings in preparation of trial.
• Draft pleadings, affidavits, notices and court processes.

Settle non litigious matters before they are set down for trial

• Block consultation, early assessment of files, early instructions to experts and assessors.

Attend to all litigious matters

• Prepare and proceed to trial.
• Attend to Magistrate Court litigation of claims referred to the Internal Litigation Section.
• Appoint and instruct assessors and expert witnesses.
• Keep accurate records.
• Maintain a trial register / diary.

Improve on customer satisfaction

• Regular feedback to internal and external stakeholders.

Contribute in the elimination of writs

• Ensure that all court orders are loaded timeously.
• Ensure that payment documents are correct and forwarded to finance within the prescribed period related to receipt of court order.
• Ensure all settlements are loaded timeously and forwarded to finance within the prescribed period of acceptance.

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Qualifications and Experience

• NQF 6 (National Diploma or Advance Certificate) related qualification to discipline.
• Relevant 2 years working experience in a claims / insurance / MVA environment.

Technical and behavioral competencies required

• Personal mastery.
• Emotional wisdom.
• Ethics and governance.
• Customer orientation and customer focus.
• Computer.
• Knowledge / skillful in court rules and litigation.
• A good understanding of the organization’s litigation infrastructure, services provided.
• A good understanding of the organization’s business and how panel attorneys effectively to contribute to the RAF litigation processes.
• Patience, tolerance, resilience.
• Statistical, numerical and analytical principles and processes.
• Innovative thinking with service quality, and its improvement, within limits of costs and business direction.
• Excellent communication skills orally and in writing.
• Awareness of RAF vision and strategic / business objectives.

Application Process

To apply, visit Road Accident Fund recruitment portal.

Applicants who have not received any correspondence from us within six weeks from the closing date can consider themselves unsuccessful.

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