The South African Council for Educators (SACE) is a professional body dedicated to improving the teaching profession. It focuses on registering educators, managing professional development, and promoting a code of ethics for all teachers. SACE is seeking dedicated, passionate, and skilled people to join its team. We offer attractive benefits including a housing allowance, medical aid allowance, pension, UIF, and a 13th cheque.
To apply, please send your completed SACE Employment Application Form, a detailed Curriculum Vitae (CV), and certified copies of your ID, qualifications, and academic records. Applications must be complete and submitted by the closing date. Late or incomplete applications will not be considered. Certified copies should not be older than six months. You can download the SACE Employment Application Form from our website at www.sace.org.za. Make sure the information on the form matches your CV. If you have foreign qualifications, get them evaluated by the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) and include the evaluation certificate.
Applications should be emailed to [email protected] (include the position reference in the subject line), or hand-delivered or couriered to: Human Resource Unit, SACE Building Block 1, 240 Crossway Park Offices, Corner Jean Avenue, Centurion. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. If you do not hear from us within three months of the closing date, consider your application unsuccessful.
For queries, contact Mary Chauke at 012 663 0429 or Motsatsi Makgoba at 012 663 0423.
These positions are Employment Equity posts, and we encourage applications from designated groups. SACE’s Employment Equity Policy will apply. The closing date for all applications is 21 November 2025.
Finance Clerk – Payroll (1 Position, Head Office) – Reference: FINANCE001
Basic Salary: R233 280 per annum (plus benefits)
Salary Grade: B2
Qualifications and Skills:
- Matric certificate or NQF Level 6 qualification in accounting.
- At least 1 year of relevant experience, preferably in payroll.
- Computer skills and knowledge of Pastel Accounting.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Finance and accounting knowledge.
- Ability to handle confidential personnel information discreetly.
Key Responsibilities:
- Payroll Administration:
- Set up new employee files on the SAGE Pastel Payroll system.
- Update salary changes on employee files.
- Manage medical, pension, and other third-party documents on payroll files.
- Prepare internal and statutory reports, such as those for SARS and the Compensation Commissioner.
- Ensure compliance with Human Resources policies and procedures.
- Regularly maintain travel and subsistence allowances on employee files.
- Handle termination and appointment documentation.
- Process claims in the system.
- Process overtime claims and update employee files.
- Manage staff salary advances and ensure policy compliance.
- Data Capturing:
- Capture monthly payroll-related journals.
- Calculate employee fringe benefits according to Human Resources policy.
Receptionist (1 Position, Head Office) – Reference: COMS002
Basic Salary: R233 280 per annum (plus benefits)
Salary Grade: B2
Qualifications and Skills:
- Matric certificate or NQF Level 6 qualification in Office Administration or Management.
- At least 1 year of relevant experience.
- Basic telephone skills, word processing (30 words per minute), and office administration skills.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
Key Responsibilities:
- Switchboard and Reception Duties:
- Manage the switchboard: answer queries, direct calls to SACE staff, and take messages.
- Forward relevant calls to the Helpdesk or Call Centre.
- Ensure telephone equipment is in good working order and arrange maintenance if needed.
- Receive and greet visitors to SACE.
- Record all educators and visitors in the register upon arrival.
- General Administration:
- Handle electronic and email queries.
- Assist with boardroom bookings and management.
- File general correspondence and records related to your work.
- Perform any other duties assigned by the Senior Helpdesk Officer to support SACE operations.
Registration Data Capturer Clerk (1 Position, Head Office) – Reference: REG003
Basic Salary: R233 280 per annum (plus benefits)
Salary Grade: B2
Qualifications and Skills:
- Matric certificate or NQF Level 6 qualification in Office Administration, Management Assistant, Public Management, or Operations Management.
- At least 1 year of relevant experience.
- Practical knowledge of computerized registration systems.
- Computer literacy.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
Key Responsibilities:
- Capture Educator Data:
- Check documents for correctness and completeness.
- Capture data from application forms.
- Capture new applications and update registration status.
- Processing of Applications:
- Verify application forms and documents.
- Conduct vetting processes.
- Assist with Online Applications:
- Help applicants upload and scan documents.
- Data Capture Administration:
- Reconcile daily captured data.
- Compile registers of captured applicants.
- Scan and file application documents.
- Reporting:
- Submit daily, weekly, and monthly reports.
- Perform any occasional duties assigned by the supervisor.
Legal and Ethics Officer (1 Position, Head Office) – Reference: ETHICS004
Basic Salary: R360 318 per annum (plus benefits)
Salary Grade: C1
Qualifications and Skills:
- Matric certificate or NQF Level 7 qualification in law.
- At least 2 years of relevant experience.
- Computer literacy.
- Skills in investigation, prosecution, and alternative dispute resolution.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
Key Responsibilities:
- Investigate Complaints:
- Consult complainants to confirm jurisdiction and gather information.
- Prepare and send notices.
- Visit schools, interview principals, victims, accused individuals, and witnesses.
- Collect evidence and write investigation reports.
- Mediation of Complaints:
- Mediate where appropriate.
- Prepare notices and mediation reports.
- Prosecution in Disciplinary Hearings:
- Send summons, evidence, and subpoenas.
- Appoint presiding officers or prosecutors.
- Conduct hearings, submit arguments, and reports.
- Prepare and send sanction letters.
- Notify finance and registration divisions based on outcomes (unless appealed).
- Prosecution in Appeal Hearings:
- Prepare opposing statements, schedules, notices, and bundles.
- Appoint appeal panels and conduct hearings.
- Issue memos and sanction letters as needed.
- Administration of Case Management:
- Draft emails for all parties.
- Respond to queries via email or phone.
- Quality assure reports from prosecutors, presiding officers, and investigators.
- Provide inputs on policies, SOPs, and legal opinions.
- Open case files for media-reported complaints.
- Administer procurement processes, including BPM bookings and liaison with procurement.
Committee Secretary (1 Position, Head Office) – Reference: CORP004
Basic Salary: R414 366 per annum (plus benefits)
Salary Grade: C2
Qualifications and Skills:
- Matric certificate or NQF Level 7 qualification in Public Administration or Public Management.
- At least 3 years of relevant experience in committees or meetings.
- Computer literacy.
- Strong communication skills.
- Attention to detail.
Key Responsibilities:
(Detailed responsibilities for this position were not fully specified in the original advertisement. It involves supporting committee operations, preparing agendas, taking minutes, and ensuring compliance with governance procedures. Applicants should refer to the full job description on the SACE website or contact HR for more details.)
Finance Clerk – Revenue (1 Position, Head Office) – Reference: FINANCE001
Basic Salary: R233 280 per annum (plus benefits)
Salary Grade: B2
Qualifications and Skills:
- Matric certificate or NQF Level 6 qualification in Accounting.
- At least 1 year of relevant experience.
- Computer literacy and knowledge of Pastel Accounting system.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
Key Responsibilities:
- Handle revenue collection payments.
- Control and receipt daily payments.
- File supporting documents.
- Capture income receipt data electronically daily.
- Capture membership information, including cash receipts, debit orders, and bank deposits.
- File relevant documents in the systems.
- Respond to educators’ email enquiries about membership fees daily.
- Reconcile school accounts daily.
- Process petty cash.
- Update records of petty cash receipts and payments.
- Submit petty cash accounts to the Financial Officer for reconciliation.
- Ensure expenditure accounts and descriptions are clear on vouchers.
- Capture staff advance transactions.
Finance Officer – Bookkeeping (1 Position, Head Office) – Reference: FINANCE002
Basic Salary: R290 013 per annum (plus benefits)
Salary Grade: B4
Qualifications and Skills:
- Matric with accounting or NQF Level 7 qualification in Accounting or Finance.
- At least 2 years of relevant experience.
- Computer literacy and knowledge of Pastel Accounting system.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
Key Responsibilities:
- Payment Administration:
- Process timely payments to third parties.
- Check captured accounting data before updating.
- Verify payment requisitions against supporting documents.
- Process monthly salary payments accurately.
- Pay travel claims and subsistence allowances.
- General Ledger Accounts and Accounting Data Verification:
- Check captured data and general ledger allocations daily.
- Process daily cashbooks.
- Perform any related duties assigned by the Assistant Manager.
- Creditors Management:
- Make daily payments to reconciled suppliers.
- Prepare reconciliations of supplier/creditor accounts.
- Reconcile monthly creditors age analysis.
- Ensure suppliers are paid within 30 days.
Provincial Admin Officer (Eastern Cape, 5-Year Fixed Term Contract) – Reference: ADMIN/EC 001
Basic Salary: R290 013 per annum (plus benefits)
Salary Grade: B4
Qualifications and Skills:
- Matric or NQF Level 6 qualification in Public Administration, Management Assistant, or Office Management.
- General knowledge of South African primary and secondary education systems, registration criteria, and processes.
- Practical knowledge of registration systems.
- At least 2 years of relevant experience.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills (verbal and written).
- Product knowledge, information systems usage, attention to detail, problem-solving, planning, time management, and decision-making skills.
Key Responsibilities:
- Check registration applications for completeness and correctness.
- Verify registration documents and payment amounts.
- Capture forms into the system.
- Respond to incoming mail.
- Print letters and certificates.
- Handle applications that do not meet requirements and consult the Provincial Head.
- Verify captured forms before release.
- Search and provide educators’ registration status and details.
- Monitor registration work.
- Maintain registers for walk-in educators and collected certificates.
- Update register of reported ethics cases.
- Resolve incoming educator queries.
- Handle enquiries about educator registration.
- Manage correspondence, information, and reports on registration.
- Assist the public in reporting cases.
- Report maintenance issues to the Provincial Head.
- Arrange meetings with stakeholders.
- Assist the Provincial Head with reports.
- Perform any occasional duties assigned by the Provincial Head.
Finance Clerk – Cashier (Eastern Cape and Limpopo, 1 Position, 5-Year Fixed Term Contract) – Reference: FIN/EC 001
Basic Salary: R233 280 per annum (plus benefits)
Salary Grade: B2
Qualifications and Skills:
- Matric or NQF Level 6 qualification in Accounting.
- Computer literacy and knowledge of Pastel Accounting system.
- At least 1 year of relevant experience.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Attention to detail.
- Ability to handle confidential matters discreetly.
Key Responsibilities:
- Banking:
- Perform daily banking.
- File revenue supporting documents.
- Account for all monies received and issue receipts to clients.
- Ensure accurate and timely bank transfers from Provincial Departments to SACE accounts.
- Send bank records and receipt books to the Finance Officer for checking before banking.
- Disposal of Payments:
- Capture membership information daily.
- Capture membership, reprint, and registration information on cash customer accounts daily.
- Reconcile daily transaction analysis.
- Perform any other relevant duties assigned by the supervisor.
General Worker (Eastern Cape, 5-Year Fixed Term Contract) – Reference: GEN/EC 001
Basic Salary: R177 239 per annum (plus benefits)
Salary Grade: A1
Qualifications and Skills:
- NQF Level 1 qualification.
- At least 1 year of relevant experience.
- Ability to work in a team and maintain good interpersonal relationships.
- Skills in using modern office equipment and taking initiative.
- Team player, self-motivated, punctual, quick learner.
- Ability to follow simple written and oral instructions.
- Positive attitude, honest, and trustworthy.
Key Responsibilities:
- Clean and maintain an orderly environment.
- Keep boardrooms, offices, kitchens clean and tidy.
- Empty and replace waste bags.
- Load and offload goods.
- Dust hard surfaces, clean toilets, floors, and building windows (inside and out).
- Wash dishes.
- Operate cleaning machines and machinery.
- Prepare refreshments for meetings.
- Perform reception duties, filing, answer phone calls.
- Handle reprographic work: duplicating, collating, stapling, scanning.
- Prepare work areas and documents for meetings.
- Collect and distribute stationery and office supplies.
- Serve refreshments as required.
Provincial Head: Free State (1 Position, 5-Year Fixed Term Contract)
Basic Salary: R1,013,374 per annum (all-inclusive package)
Salary Grade: D1
Qualifications and Skills:
- Matric or NQF Level 7 qualification in Education.
- Computer, research, policy development, communication, English writing, networking, and facilitation skills.
- At least 3 years of relevant experience, preferably in training and development in the education sector.
- Managerial, interpersonal skills; ability to travel sporadically.
- Strong communication skills (verbal and written), product knowledge, information systems usage.
- Motivating others, leadership, attention to detail, problem-solving, planning, people management, time management, developing others, decision-making, and delegating skills.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage the Provincial Office, providing leadership, direction, support, and advice.
- Develop strategic and annual performance plans for the Provincial Office.
- Create operational plans aligned with SACE’s national plans.
- Monitor, evaluate, and report on operational plan implementation, taking corrective actions.
- Measure achievement of SACE’s strategic objectives in the province.
- Manage the Provincial Office budget to ensure alignment with requirements.
- Oversee human resources management efficiently.
- Plan, organize, and control activities and resources for effective functioning.
- Ensure good governance in line with legislation, regulations, and policies.
- Implement and monitor policies, processes, procedures, and tools.
- Report activities to stakeholders as required.
- Oversee complaints handling processes, systems, and procedures.
- Provide input on national MOUs and ensure provincial implementation.
- Maintain effective statistical reporting for complaints.
- Monitor compliance with service level agreements for corporate support.
- Manage facilities management services.
- Manage assets in line with PFMA, Treasury regulations, and SACE policies.
- Provide records management and archiving support.
- Manage administrative support services.
- Build SACE’s profile and communicate its vision and objectives.
- Administer public relations per SACE policies.
- Administer provincial projects per national directives.
We wish all applicants the best of luck.