The Department of Employment and Labour invites unemployed graduates to apply for Graduate Internships / Internship Programme for 2026 / 2027.
Location: South Africa (Nationwide)
Job Type: Graduate Internship
Salary: R7 860.50 monthly stipend
Closing Date: 05 December 2025 at 23:59
GRADUATE INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME FOR 2025 TO 2027 (24 MONTHS)
The Department of Employment and Labour would like to invite qualifying graduates to apply to participate in an internship programme in the 2025 to 2027 financial year. Applicants must be unemployed graduates, should not have participated in an internship programme previously and must be a South African citizen. The Department of Employment and Labour is an equal opportunity employer.
Equity Considerations: Priority will be given to applicants from previously disadvantaged background, in line with the Department’s Employment Equity Plan, those living with disability will be considered.
Qualifying South African Youth and People living with disability will be given advantage.
The following Internship Opportunities are open for applications:
POST 43/43: INTERN: ICT SERVICE DESK AGENTS REFNO: HR/P20K/ISDA/HO (X4 POSTS)
(24 Months)
STIPEND: R7 860.50 per month
CENTRE: Pretoria Head Office: Laboria
REQUIREMENTS:
- National Higher Certificate/College Diploma (NQF5) as recognized by SAQA in Information Technology (ICT)/ A+ certificate.
DUTIES:
- Log incidents on IT Service Management (ITSM) system from incoming calls and emails.
- Ensure that all related documentation is attached to the logged incidents and requests. Manage call assigning and escalation.
- Follow up and update all user and engineer activity on the logged calls where applicable.
- Provide call management for all incidents logged on the system.
POST 43/44: INTERN: CONTRACT AND LICENCE CONTROLLER (ICT) REF NO:
HR/P20K/CLC/HO (X5 POSTS)
(24 Months)
STIPEND: R7 860.50 per month
CENTRE: Pretoria Head Office: Laboria
REQUIREMENTS:
- A three-year National Diploma (NQF6)/ Undergraduate Degree (NQF7) in Business Management / Administration / Logistics / Financial Management / LLB / Commercial Law / Information Technology.
DUTIES:
- Assist in coordinating and developing ICT service level agreements.
- Assist in monitoring the implementation of service level agreements.
- Assist to coordinate information to ensure improvement on management of contracts and service level management.
- Assist to coordinate software procurement lifecycle.
- Assist to administer software throughout the software lifecycle.
POST 43/45: INTERN: ASSET MANAGEMENT OFFICER(ICT) REF NO: HR/P20K/AMO/HO (X3 POSTS)
(24 Months)
STIPEND: R7 860.50 per month
CENTRE: Head Office, Pretoria
REQUIREMENTS:
- A three-year tertiary qualification National Diploma (NQF6)/ Undergraduate Degree (NQF7 in Supply Chain Management / Asset Management / Public Management / Public Administration / Business Management / Business Administration / Financial Management / Accounting / Taxation/Internal Auditing.
DUTIES:
- Assist in provide Store administration.
- Assist in management of ICT inventory and assigning tasks to engineers.
- Assist in liaise with Supply Chain Management in relation to procurement and disposal.
POST 43/46: INTERN: ADMINISTRATION CLERK (ICT) REFNO: HR/P20K/IADC/HO
(24 Months)
STIPEND: R7 860.50 per month
CENTRE: Head Office, Pretoria
REQUIREMENTS:
- A three-year tertiary qualification National Diploma (NQF6)/ Undergraduate Degree (NQF7) in Management/ Public Management/ Public Administration/ Business Management/Business Administration/ Management Assistant/ Office Management and Technology/Administrative Management/ Public Management and Governance.
DUTIES:
- Provide administrative duties.
- Identify order and issue stationery to the directorate.
- Administer and file documents and submissions within the directorate accordingly.
- Update users’ database.
- Type submissions, letters and memoranda as per instructions.
POST 43/47: INTERN: FIELD ICT TECHNICIANS (X50POSTS)
(24 Months)
STIPEND: R7 860.50 per month
CENTRE:
Head Office: Pretoria Ref No: HR/P20K/FIT/HO (X5 Posts)
Provincial Office: Gauteng Ref No: HR/P20K/FITGP (X5 Posts)
Provincial Office: KwaZulu-Natal Ref No: HR/P20K/FIT/KZN (X5 Posts)
Provincial Office: Eastern Cape Ref No: HR/P20K/FIT/EC (X5 Posts)
Provincial Office: Western Cape Ref No: HR/P20K/FIT/WC (X5 Posts)
Provincial Office: Limpopo Ref No: HR/P20K/FIT/LP (X5 Posts)
Provincial Office: Mpumalanga Ref No: HR/P20K/FIT/MP (X5 Posts)
Provincial Office: North-West Ref No: HR/P20K/FIT/NW (X5 Posts)
Provincial Office: Free State Ref No: HR/P20K/FIT/FS (X5 Posts)
Provincial Office: Northern Cape Ref No: HR/P20K/FIT/NC (X5 Posts)
REQUIREMENTS:
- Three-year National Diploma (NQF6)/ Undergraduate Degree (NQF7) in Information Technology / Information Systems / Computer Engineering / Computer Science.
DUTIES:
- Assist to provide Desktop, technical and Printer support to end-users. Assist to provide Call management on Information Technology Service Management System (ITSM).
- Accept, update, resolve or reassign incident and task calls on ITSM.
- Assist to provide Local Area Network (LAN) Support. Assist to handle device install, move, add, change and DE install (IMACD) task calls. Assist to install and troubleshoot desktop applications. Assist to provide troubleshooting for desktop and printer hardware faults.
POST 43/48: INTERN: LABOUR MARKET INFORMATION AND STATISTICS REF NO: HR/P20K/LMIS/HO (X2 POSTS)
(24 Months)
STIPEND: R7 860.50 per month
CENTRE: Head Office, Pretoria
REQUIREMENTS:
- Three-year Qualification National Diploma (NQF6)/ Undergraduate Degree (NQF7) in: Economics/ Statistics/ Data analytics/ Social Sciences.
DUTIES:
- Assist with data collection at provincial and national level. Facilitate the compilation of data (Collating, verifying, analysing, coding, interpreting data trends).
- Produce statistical report on labour market information.
- Dissemination of the labour market information data.
- Liaise and coordinate with all relevant stakeholders to facilitate collaboration & partnership.
POST 43/49: INTERN: LABOUR MARKET MONITORINGAND LABOUR MARKET INFORMATION REF NO: HR/P20K/LMM & LMI/HO (X2POSTS)
(24 Months)
STIPEND: R7 860.50 per month
CENTRE: Head Office, Pretoria
REQUIREMENTS:
- Three-year tertiary qualification National Diploma (NQF6)/ Undergraduate Degree (NQF7) in: Economics/ Statistics/ Data analytics/ Social Sciences.
DUTIES;
- Assist with data collection at provincial and national level.
- Facilitate the compilation of data (Collating, verifying, analysing, coding, interpreting data trends).
- Produce statistical report on labour market information.
- Dissemination of the labour market information data.
- Liaise and coordinate with all relevant stakeholders to facilitate collaboration & partnership.
POST 43/50: INTERN: LIBRARY REF NO: HR/P20K/IL/HO
(Sub-unit in LMIS) (24 Months)
STIPEND: R7 860.50 per month
CENTRE: Head Office, Pretoria
REQUIREMENTS:
- Three-year tertiary qualification National Diploma (NQF6) or Degree in Library and Information Science (NQF7) or relevant field.
DUTIES:
- Assist with daily library operations.
- Processing and maintaining library collections through cataloguing, classifying and shelving.
- Updating library databases and managing digital and physical materials.
- Providing customer service and assisting patrons with inquiries.
POST 43/51: INTERN: DIGITAL CONTENT CREATOR REFNO: HR/P20K/DCC/HO
(24 Months)
STIPEND: R7 860.50 per month
CENTRE: Head Office, Pretoria
REQUIREMENTS:
- Three- year tertiary qualification National Diploma (NQF level 6) in Graphic Design, Multimedia, Visual Communication, or equivalent qualification.
DUTIES:
- Assist in designing digital posters, banners, and templates for campaigns and reports.
- Adapt existing designs for web or mobile formats.
- Support layout adjustments for presentations and documents using approved. templates.
- Ensure content accuracy and CI compliance in design outputs.
- Help prepare visuals for digital content and marketing campaigns. Assist with capturing and editing photos or videos for communication purposes. Upload graphics and videos to platforms and help monitor engagement.
- Maintain a task list and keep up with design trends.
- Apply brand guidelines in all content produced.
POST 43/52: INTERN: RESEARCHER REF NO:HR/P20K/RSC/HO
(24 Months)
STIPEND: R7 860.50 per month
CENTRE: Head Office, Pretoria
REQUIREMENTS:
- Three-year tertiary qualification National Diploma (NQF6)/ Undergraduate Degree (NQF7) Public Administration / Social Sciences / Economics.
DUTIES:
- Assist reviewing research reports. Facilitate the compilation of data (Collating, verifying, analysing, coding, interpreting data trends).
- Analyse historical reports produced by the Branch and develop required reports.
- Produce analytical reports on the effectiveness of historical research output.
- Dissemination of research and analytical outputs.
- Liaise and coordinate with all relevant stakeholders to facilitate collaboration & partnership.
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