If you are a dynamic, self-starter who is passionate about lending, financing, sales, client service and attention to detail, we have an exciting 12-month Internship available at iMasFinance, commencing in February 2025. Successful candidates will be placed at one of our regional branches and client service office in Vanderbijlpark.

Responsibilities & Learning Outcomes:

• Process personal loans, and vehicle financing applications as well as other iMasFinance products
• Analyse customer financial position and recommend solutions
• Conduct customer affordability and assess repayment ability
• Liaise with members, customers, employer groups, stakeholders and dealerships
• Generate leads, convert leads, sell, and conclude sales deals
• Resolve complaints received and manage customer service experience and service delivery
• Establish, retain and maintain relationships with existing members, customers, stakeholders and dealerships
• Identify possible risks and communicate to relevant parties
• Handle inbound and outbound calls and email queries from members, customers and stakeholders
• Adherence to Credit Policies and other corporate policies and procedures
• Implement actions to mitigate and prevent risk, fraud, and money laundering

What are the requirements?

• A Degree or Diploma in Sales and/or Marketing, Business Management, or related.
• Computer Literacy-MS Office (Essential)
• Driver’s license is advantageous

Other Requirements:

• Must be unemployed and currently not registered for any studies.
• Opportunity is available to previously disadvantaged youth
• Must have interest in working in financial services sales environment
• Applicants must be available to start with the internship in February 2025
• Must reside in the local town or surrounding areas

How to apply?

To apply for the iMasFinance 2025 Lending & Financing Learnership CLICK HERE

Closing date: 31 December 2024

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What you will be responsible for:

• Develop standardised dashboards & analytical reports for the African Parks portfolio based on large datasets from community surveys, security patrols and/or animal tracking. These will primarily be developed using ArcGIS, R, Python and Microsoft Power BI, and serve to support park management teams in making strategic, data-driven decisions. An example could be to develop dashboards for and unpack the interface between human-wildlife conflict and animal movement data, or patrol and poaching data;
• Ensure data integrity by auditing and cleaning key data from the protected areas. This includes managing geospatial layers and databases, cleaning up tracking data and detecting outliers or discrepancies for park teams to validate;
• Developing and managing data pipelines – for example, from surveys in Esri Survey123 to Esri Webmaps/Dashboard/StoryMaps;
• Managing user accounts in customized apps, Esri tools, and Power BI;
• Digitising and managing spatial datasets and databases across the African Parks portfolio;
• Researching and comparing open-source datasets for integration into measuring key African Parks metrics and targets; and
• Support the development and roll-out of new data collection tools and recommend improvements to existing ones. This includes writing up guidelines and technical manuals, providing training to park teams and designing surveys or other data collection tools.

What are the requirements?

• Pursuing or completed a degree in ecology, conservation, sustainability, or social sciences;
• A passion for nature conservation and keenness to apply knowledge to tangible work being done in protected areas across Africa;
• Skilled in analyzing and cleaning large data sets;
• Familiar with coding languages for analysis and/or integrations like, in order of preference: Python, R, JavaScript, SQL;
• Working knowledge of ArcGIS Pro and the Esri online environment;
• Keen attention to detail and desire to take ownership of projects and datasets;
• Good data visualization and presentation skills;
• Affinity and experience with ecological data collection; and
• Experience in designing training materials and training individuals/groups with various skill levels.

Desirable

• Clarity in spoken and written communication;
• Comfortable working in small teams but also working on tasks individually;
• Experience with designing dashboards (ideally PowerBI and ArcGIS);
• Experience in Google Earth Engine, SharePoint and QGIS.

Please note that this position is only open to South African citizens or valid work permit holders.

Location: Bryanston, Johannesburg

Start date: 1 March 2025

How to apply?

Please email your CV and Cover Letter (please include your likely availability in terms of days per week) to [email protected]

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