Collections Administrator Internship at Skills Academy

Hi there
Do you want an Internship in a busy, fast-growing Student Accounts and Collections Department?
Do you need practical work experience to complete your qualification? Or are you looking for work exposure that can improve your CV, while also learning real job-skills?

We need an extra pair of hands to help us cope with the accounts of our fast growing student body. You will support our (Student Accounts and Collections) team by doing their administrative work for them and assist with making calls. That means doing things like compiling information, reporting, collecting outstanding fees on student accounts, dealing with individual student account queries, allocating student payments properly to the correct student accounts, and ongoing admin support and clerical assistance to our team.
Are you super organised? Do you love helping others succeed? Are you a naturally positive person? Do you want to learn from people who are driven to succeed and love chasing collections targets? Can you keep up when we need to work extra hours or weekends at month-end? When the going gets tough, do you get going?

Are you multilingual? With good skills in English? Are you computer literate?

We run an internship programme where you work with us for 3 months. We pay a stipend of R3000 per month. And we train you on our great culture and give you real work-skills. If you absolutely stand out, then we might even offer you a full-time position at the end of your internship with us.

Collections Administrator Internship at Skills Academy:
If you are meticulously organised and systematic, and computer literate,
If you like proper planning so as to ensure proper delivery,
If you can keep going till all the work is done,
If you like doing the job right, every time,
If you are able to work with a widely diverse group of students and co-workers,
If you can communicate clearly in English with students who has English as a second or third language,
Then this opportunity is for you!

The ideal candidate will:
Learn how to operate the Debit Order system - Real Pay. If you have experience of debit order systems, that will be to your advantage!
Learn how to implement the student communications plan for the department.
Compiling data, and create reports.
Provide administrative support to the department.
Assist with allocating fees to student accounts when needed.
Speak clearly, concisely and effectively; listen to, and understand information and ideas as presented verbally. You will work with your team members, and also directly with students.
Work in a fast-paced, team oriented environment.
Be able to change quickly with the needs of a growing company.

Some things you should know about us:
We are obsessively focussed on creating the biggest distance learning group in South Africa in the next five years. Our founders have a record of successfully building and selling distance education businesses. We have deep knowledge and decades of experience in the education industry.
We are obsessively focussed on creating the best distance learning offering. We are successful when our students are successful.
In this position, you can make a real impact in our Collections Team, by helping them do more and do it better.

We are a start-up business… We can give you the experience and culture that you won’t find anywhere else.
This is a 3 months Internship Position in Bellville South, Cape Town, Western Cape.