RAF Vacancies

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Senior Officer: Forensics Investigation x2

Division:  Governance

Reference No:  6577

Location:  

Durban, Kwazulu-Natal, ZA

Employment Type:  Permanent

Disability (EE targeted role):  Yes

T.A.S.K Grade:  12

Job Posting Salary:  R579,259.00

Job Posting End Date:  19 May 2026

The Road Accident Fund’s mission is to provide timely and equitable assistance to those affected by motor vehicle accidents through the provision of appropriate social benefits to ensure financial relief and recovery for qualifying individuals.

Purpose of the Job: The Senior Officer: Forensics Investigation is responsible for the investigation of irregular business activities including misconduct by RAF employees and crime against the RAF.

Key Performance Areas

Conducting Investigations

• Planning and conducting the investigation of cases as assigned to by respective supervisor or management.
• Maintain partnership relationship with the prosecuting authorities, Law Enforcement agencies and internal stakeholders.
• Drawing of monthly /weekly reports for the office for transmission to the manager.
• Conduct interviews with claimants and/or witnesses internally and externally.
• Obtaining statements and documentary evidence relevant to the investigation.
• Uphold confidentiality of information and records.
• Interaction with regulatory bodies i.e. HPCSA, SASSA, PRASA, SA Nursing Council etc.
• Identify the loopholes in the process that may lead to abuse and report such to the Senior Forensic Officer.
• Investigate irregularities identified or brought to his attention with a view of securing prosecution of parties involved.
• Maintain healthy working relationship with Assessors.
• Opening/registering of criminal cases with SAPS/Hawks and keeping proper records thereof.
• Preparation of criminal or disciplinary cases with the prosecutor or initiator and presenting of evidence in court or department hearings.
• Assist and attend to any other requests from Law Enforcement Agencies in relation to any investigation in accordance with any applicable law.
• Support other RAF departments in relation to the civil liability of the RAF in matters under investigation or completed investigations.
• Meeting targets as set down by a forensic Manager/Senior Forensic investigator and performing his/her duties according to the set standards.
• Maintaining and updating of tracker spreadsheet for effective record keeping and analysis during investigation.
• Investigation of reports received from Tip-Offs anonymous and giving feedback to the Senior Forensic investigator timeously.
• Regular feedback and updates to complainants
• Involvement in the external fraud campaigns initiated by Forensic Department or in conjunction with Communication Department.
• Effective case management and record keeping i.e. case books, vehicle registers.
• Produce investigation files for quarterly/monthly inspections and brought forward dates.
• Establishment and maintenance of informer networks.
• Implementation of RAF fraud prevention strategy.
• Participation in Forensic projects.
• Reporting the outcomes of investigations to the RAF Forensic management and SAPS and making

Stakeholder Relations Management 

• NPA and other external stakeholders.
• Establish and maintain strategic alliances with all relevant stakeholders including law enforcement agencies.
• Develop and maintain good working relations with all the stakeholders including staff, the claimants, lawyers, government departments, the SAPS.
• Aid in proactive and progressive relationships with key stakeholders.
• Deal with inquiries and requests for information from both internal and external stakeholders.
• Aid in the maintenance of relationships with vendors, service providers or procurement teams and ensure that all relevant procured items are invoiced and paid on time.

Reporting

• Contribute to the preparation and submission of Regulation reports.
• Aid in the development of functional reporting systems, for management, project or performance reporting.
• Report regularly and periodically perform necessary submissions as and when required to provide progress updates and/or inform management decisions.  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree/ Advanced Diploma in Law/ Policing related equivalent.
• Certification in Forensic Investigation and Criminal Justice will be advantageous.
• Valid Category B or above driver’s license.

Experience

• Relevant 4 years’ experience in a fraud investigation or MVA claims investigation environment.

Technical and Behavioural Competencies

• Planning, Organising and Coordinating
• Personal Mastery
• Judgement and Decision Making
• Ethics and Values
• Client Service Orientation

• Technical investigation skills
• Experience in preparation of cases of court
• Demonstrate understanding of the criminal procedure act and law of evidence. Investigation of crime and knowledge of criminal justice system.

NB: “RAF offers Total Employment Cost packages with no additional contributions from the Employer, successful candidates are required to structure their packages in a manner that will suit their needs”.

The Road Accident Fund subscribes to the principles of employment equity and preference will be given to People with Disabilities.

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

Security Vetting shall be conducted on all prospective employees.

It is the applicants’ responsibility to have foreign qualification evaluated by the South African Qualification Authority (SAQA) and to provide proof of such evaluation.

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Manager: Database Administration

Division:  Strategy and Transformation

Reference No:  6548

Location:  

Centurion, Gauteng, ZA

Employment Type:  Permanent

Disability (EE targeted role):  No

T.A.S.K Grade: 

Job Posting Salary:  R1,028,791.00

Job Posting End Date:  19 May 2026

The Road Accident Fund’s mission is to provide timely and equitable assistance to those affected by motor vehicle accidents through the provision of appropriate social benefits to ensure financial relief and recovery for qualifying individuals.

Purpose of the Job: Reporting to the Senior Manager: Data and Analytics, the successful incumbent is responsible for effectively managing, securing, and optimising RAF’s database environment by ensuring data integrity, high-availability and performance, whilst adhering to best practices and regulatory compliance.

Key Performance Areas

Database Availability

• Overseeing the establishment of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with stakeholders.
• Directing proactive system health checks and monitoring strategies.
• Leading the team in rapid issue identification and resolution processes.
• Ensure rapid recovery from any unplanned downtimes.

Database Maintenance and Design

• Provide oversight and guidance on enterprise database architecture.
• Define and enforce database design standards, naming conventions, normalisation practices, and schema design principles.
• Review and approve logical and physical data models developed by DBAs or application teams.
• Forecast future database growth and scalability needs.
• Lead risk assessment and continuity planning for database infrastructure.

Database Performance Optimisation

• Strategize performance tuning and optimise processes, including indexing and query optimisation.
• Guide the team on capacity planning and ensuring resource allocation aligns with performance goals.
• Advocate the use of advanced techniques like caching and data partitioning.
• Reduce latency and improved efficiency in data processing.

Data Security

• Set direction for access control and authentication mechanisms.
• Ensure that regular updates and patches are applied to safeguard against vulnerabilities.
• Lead security audits and compliance checks to uphold data integrity.
• Increase trust amongst stakeholders in RAF’s data handling and storage.

Database Backup and Recovery

• Establish comprehensive backup and disaster recovery strategies.
• Decide the use of off-site and cloud storage solutions for enhanced data safety.
• Establish confidence in data integrity and availability among users.

Database Compliance

• Ensure adherence to relevant data protection laws and regulations through policy development.
• Oversee the implementation of data governance policies.
• Conduct regular audits to ensure ongoing compliance and addressing gaps.
• Facilitate training and awareness programmes to maintain a high-level of compliance awareness among RAF personnel.

Database Automation

• Lead the adoption of automation for routine database maintenance and monitoring tasks.
• Champion the use of scripting and orchestration tools to streamline operations.
• Manage the implementation of automated scaling solutions, particularly for cloud-based resources.

Database Capacity Planning and Scalability

• Manage the development of scalable database architectures.
• Guide the use of cloud services for flexible resource allocation.
• Lead strategic planning efforts to ensure database capabilities align with long-term business objectives.
• Align database capabilities with future business growth and demands.

Policy Review and Implementation

• Contribute to the development and implementation of departmental policy, procedures and processes.
• Keep up to date with effective policy and practice execution strategies.
• Enforcing policies for high-availability solutions (e.g. clustering, mirroring, replication, etc).

Reporting

• Ensure thorough preparation and prompt submission of all regulatory reports concerning the Database Administration team’s activities.
• Provide weekly, monthly and quarterly updates outlining the progress of implementing operational plans for Database Administration initiatives.
• Report on the effectiveness of the agile database management and possible improvements.

People Management

• Manage staff in the department to ensure that they achieve their objectives in line with the strategic objectives of the RAF.
• Manage the implementation of people management processes and procedures to control/regulate workplace conflict and/or institute corrective measures and consultation processes to address deviations from standards.
• Establish partnerships with technology providers and industry groups to stay ahead of technology trends.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree/ Advanced Diploma in Information Technology or Computer Science or Business Administration or Commerce/ Business or Engineering.
• Postgraduate in Information Technology/ Computer Science/ Business Administration/ Commerce/ Engineering related qualification will be advantageous.
• Professional certification in any DBMS platform (for e.g., MS SQL, Oracle, etc.) will be advantageous.
• Relevant 6 – 8 years’ experience in IT or Business Development, or a related field of which 2 years must be on management/ supervisory level.
• Experience in a developing and building databases, warehouses, reporting and data integration solutions.

Technical and Behavioral Competencies Required

• Resilience.
• Network and alliance.
• Employee engagement.
• Ethics and values.
• Change management.
• Critical and innovative thinking.
• Policy conceptualisation and formulation.
• Risk Management.
• Stakeholder development and relations.
• Reporting.
• Ability to diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks.
• Deep understanding of RDBMS (e.g. Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g. MongoDB, Cassandra, etc.).
• Knowledgeable in ensuring high availability of database services.
• Knowledge of Capacity Planning and Scalability.
• Knowledgeable in database performance tuning and query optimisation.
• Familiarity with cloud-based database services (e.g. AWS RDS, Azure SQL Database).
• Knowledge of database replication, partitioning, and sharding techniques.
• Knowledge of data security practices, including encryption and access control.
• Proficiency in designing and implementing backup and disaster recovery strategies.
• Skilled in Scripting and Automation.
• Understanding of compliance regulations (e.g. POPIA).

NB: “RAF offers Total Employment Cost packages with no additional contributions from the Employer, successful candidates are required to structure their packages in a manner that will suit their needs”.

The Road Accident Fund subscribes to the principles of employment equity and preference will be given to People with Disabilities.

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

Security Vetting shall be conducted on all prospective employees.

It is the applicants’ responsibility to have foreign qualification evaluated by the South African Qualification Authority (SAQA) and to provide proof of such evaluation.

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Database Administrator

Division:  Strategy and Transformation

Reference No:  6546

Location:  

Centurion, Gauteng, ZA

Employment Type:  Permanent

Disability (EE targeted role):  No

T.A.S.K Grade:  14

Job Posting Salary:  R771,969.00

Job Posting End Date:  19 May 2026

The Road Accident Fund’s mission is to provide timely and equitable assistance to those affected by motor vehicle accidents through the provision of appropriate social benefits to ensure financial relief and recovery for qualifying individuals.

Purpose of the Job: Reporting to the Manager: Database Administration, the successful incumbent is responsible for the efficient administration of database by conducting an analysis, design, creation and maintenance of all database.

Key Performance Areas

Database Maintenance and Design

• Administration of existing enterprise databases and creation of new databases.
• Proactively monitor database related dependent systems for optimum performance and capacity constraints.
• Upgrade database software version and environment upgrades
• Migrate data and data environment.
• Define and/or implement access controls to the database
• Provide support to the engineers in relation to database development.
• Ensure integration of business applications and databases. 

Security Administration

• Monitor and administer DBMS security.
• Administer quotas, audit trails and check for security problems.
• Verify and assist in ensuring data integrity.

Availability

• Ensure maximum uptime.
• Ensure regular backups and test recoverability.
• Ensure testing of standby services.

Policy Review and Implementation

• Contribute to the development and implementation of departmental policy, standards and procedures and processes.
• Keep up to date with effective policy and practice execution strategies.

Reporting

• Provide up-to-date and accurate systems reports and activity reports
• Provide Database Performance statistics.
• Provide capacity reports of all hardware components.
• Audit trails and Logs.
• Ensure systems performance management and capacity planning.

Stakeholder Management

• Facilitate and manage communication with relevant internal and external stakeholders in relation to investments and proactively and progressively manage the relationships.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree/ Advanced Diploma in Information Technology related qualification.
• Relevant database certifications (e.g., Oracle OCA/ OCP, Microsoft SQL Server certifications/ IBM/ Informix certifications) will be an advantage.
• Relevant 5 – 7 years’ experience in Database Administration (design/ implementation/ maintenance) in a multi database environment.
• Experience database availability.
• Experience in monitoring DBMS security.
• Experience working with cloud database solutions is an advantage.

Technical and behavioral competencies required.

• Communication.
• Network and alliances.
• Planning, organising and coordinating.
• Ethics and values.
• Data modelling, database optimization, understanding and implementation of schemas, and the ability to interpret and write complex SQL queries
• Create, Alter or Update Tables and Indexes
• Triggers and stored procedures
• Understanding database standards and best practices.
• Analysis
• Information Monitoring
• Judgment/ Problem Solving
• Planning and Organizing/ Work Management
• Extensive knowledge on SQL Databases

NB: “RAF offers Total Employment Cost packages with no additional contributions from the Employer, successful candidates are required to structure their packages in a manner that will suit their needs”.

The Road Accident Fund subscribes to the principles of employment equity and preference will be given to People with Disabilities.

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

Security Vetting shall be conducted on all prospective employees.

It is the applicants’ responsibility to have foreign qualification evaluated by the South African Qualification Authority (SAQA) and to provide proof of such evaluation.

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We wish you all the best with your applications