The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) invites all passionate, innovative and talented applicants to apply for its 2027 Information Technology Internship (Grow-IT). Through this programme, the SARB actively contributes to addressing scarce and critical skills needs.

Grow-IT is an internship programme aimed at addressing the current and future skills needs of the SARB’s Business Solutions and Technology Department (BSTD), supporting departmental strategy and workforce planning. This includes capacity and capability building, succession planning and developing future talent within the department.

During the programme, learners will gain the necessary 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 (with an option to extend).

Requirements:

To be considered for this internship, candidates must;-

• Either have a National Diploma in IT (NQF 6); a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics or IT, with exposure to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data engineering;  or a BTech Degree in Computer Science Engineering, AI and Machine Learning or Data Science (NQF 7);
• Be a South African citizen;
• Be between the ages of 18 and 35 years; and
• Be curious, self-motivated and innovative.

The following will be an advantage:

• Familiarity with working in cloud platforms (Google, AWS, Microsoft Azure)
• Python programming language
• Basic understanding of Model Context Protocol (MCP)

The focus for this intake would be AI.