Road Accident Fund - Junior Officer x2
Junior Officer x2
Division - Operations
Reference No - 5305
Location - Menlo Park, Gauteng, ZA
Employment Type - Fixed Term Contract
Disability (EE targeted role) - Yes
T.A.S.K Grade - 08
Job Posting Salary - R326,151.00
The Road Accident Fund’s mission is to provide appropriate cover to all road users within the borders of South Africa; to rehabilitate and compensate persons injured as a result of motor vehicle accidents in a timely and caring manner; and to actively promote safe use of our roads.
Note: ThIS IS AN EIGTEEN (18) MONTHS FIXED TERM CONTRACT
- Purpose of the Job: 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 pleadings, affidavits, notices and court processes.
- Draft Notice of intention to defend and all pleadings in preparation of trial.
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
- Appoint and instruct assessors and expert witnesses.
- Maintain a trial register / diary.
- Attend to Magistrate Court litigation of claims referred to the Internal Litigation Section.
- Keep accurate records.
- Prepare and proceed to trial
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 all settlements are loaded timeously and forwarded to finance within the prescribed period of acceptance.
- Ensure that payment documents are correct and forwarded to finance within the prescribed period related to receipt of court order.
About You:
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- Relevant 2 years working experience in a claims / insurance / MVA environment.
- NQF 6 (National Diploma or Advance Certificate) related qualification to discipline.
Technical and behavioral competencies required
- Patience, tolerance, resilience.
- Awareness of RAF vision and strategic / business objectives.
- Emotional wisdom.
- Innovative thinking with service quality, and its improvement, within limits of costs and business direction.
- Ethics and governance.
- Computer.
- Knowledge / skillful in court rules and litigation.
- A good understanding of the organization’s litigation infrastructure, services provided.
- Customer orientation and customer focus.
- Statistical, numerical and analytical principles and processes.
- Excellent communication skills orally and in writing.
- Personal mastery.
- A good understanding of the organization’s business and how panel attorneys effectively to contribute to the RAF litigation processes.
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