SANSOR Graduate placement programme 2018/19

The South African National Seed Organization are inviting unemployed graduates that want to have a career in the seed industry to apply for a graduate placement. This opportunity will allow graduates to acquire practical work experience through mentoring and exposure in the seed industry.

Graduate placements will be done through SANSOR but placements will be at South African Seed Companies that are SANSOR members.

Applications are invited from candidates who are interested in acquiring work experience in the areas of specialisation or disciplines stated below:

Marketing, Supply Chain Management, Plant Breeding, Plant Pathology, Soil Science, Agronomy, Pasture Science, Biotechnology, Plant Physiology, Genetics and Molecular Plant Biology and Entomology.

WHO IS ELIGIBLE TO APPLY?

1. Unemployed South African graduates and postgraduates in the Science, Engineering, and

Technology (SET), Research and Development, Commence and Business Management.

2. South African Permanent Residents who hold a South African Identity Document qualify while non-South Africans are not eligible.

3. Applicants should not be older than 30 years old at the time of submission of an application to qualify.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Only graduates who hold an Advanced Diploma or Bachelor’s degree at NQF level 7, Honours or BTech degrees at NQF level 8 and MTech or Master’s degrees at NQF level 9 and DTech and PhD at NQF level 10, qualify to apply for this internship.
• Candidates who would be registered full-time during the 2018 academic year need not apply.
• Candidates have to be available from March 2018-April 2019 with no other commitments.
• Students that will only graduate in 2018 but complete their qualifications before 1 March 2018 are welcome to apply.

PLACEMENT IS AT VARIOUS INSTITUTIONS

Successful applicants will be placed at various participating companies throughout South Africa and should thus apply for a position available in the province where they would like to be placed.

Kindly refer to the attached and apply directly to SANSOR.

Posted by: Mahadave@ukzn.ac.za