South African Reserve Bank (SARB): Internship Opportunity 2024

The South African ReserveBank (SARB) invites all passionate, innovative and talented applicants to apply for its 2025 Information Technology Internship (Grow-IT). The SARB actively contributes to addressing scarce and critical skills through this programme.

Grow-IT aims to address the current and future skills needs of the SARB’s Business Solutions and Technology Department (BSTD) in response to the departmental strategy and workforce planning. This includes capacity and capability building, succession planning and growing future talent in the department.

During the programme, interns will acquire the required technical and behavioural competencies based on their areas of specialisation.

Format of the programme

Successful applicants will be placed within the information technology (IT) environment to acquire all the required competencies. The duration of the programme is a one-year contract (the Bank reserves the right to extend the contract, based on the performance of the learner).

Requirements:

To be considered for this internship, candidates must:

• Have a National Diploma / Degree (NQF 6 or Higher) in:

1. IT,
2. Computer Systems Engineering
3. Informatics (BCom or BSc), 
4. Computer Science,
5. Data Science,
6. Information Systems,
7. Mathematics,
8. Software Engineering
9. Statistics;

• Be a South African citizen;
• Be between the ages of 18 and 35 years; and
• Be curious, self-motivated and innovative.