Standard Bank invites unemployed youth to apply for 12 to 24 months Learnership Programme 2022 – 2023.
With a Standard Bank Group Learnership, you earn while you learn. You will be supported to develop your skills and reach your goals – and be inspired to work towards better.
About Standard Bank
Standard Bank Group is a financial institution that offers banking and financial services to individuals, businesses, institutions and corporations in Africa and abroad.
Through a work-based approach to learning, you’ll gain a real-world understanding of Standard Bank Group, as you’re guided and supported to achieve the goals you’ve set for yourself.
The programme integrates practical and theory, and includes both structured work experience and structured learning with an accredited training provider – leading to an SAQA accredited qualification.
What you can expect
You can choose from a number of learnerships, offering between 12 to 24 months’ fixed term employment.
Learners earn an allowance rather than a salary. This enables you to travel to and from the workplace or training institution, is in line with The National Minimum Wage Act 9 of 2018 (NMWA), and is determined by the cost and complexity of the programme.
You’ll receive a monthly stipend, plus invaluable coaching and mentoring while you’re studying for your qualification.
- Fixed term employment with the bank for 12/18/24 months (depending on the programme)
- Monthly stipend
- Performance rewards and benefits
- SAQA accredited qualification
- Practical meaningful workplace experience
Who can apply?
You can apply for a Standard Bank Group Learnership if you’ve completed a Grade 12 (matric) or a 3-year post grade 12 (matric) qualification (role dependent).
To apply, you must:
- Be a South African citizen
- Be between the ages of 18 and 30
- Be able to speak, read and write English
- Have completed Grade 12 (matric) or a 3-year post grade 12 (matric) qualification (role dependent)
- Be computer literate
- Not be permanently employed
- Not be studying at another tertiary institution
- Not be registered for any other learnerships
Learnerships available
Group-wide Learnerships: Data Science, 24-month programme
Data interpretation,analysis and insights are key to our operations. You’ll help us make sense of the huge volume of data available, and provide key insights to customer needs and demands.
Wholesale Banking Learnerships: Wholesale Clients Operations, 12-month Programme
This learnership is designed to help you gain experiences in processing, solution design, delivery and maintenance across investment banking.
Consumer and High Net Worth Learnerships: Universal Banker: Voice Branch, 12–18 month Programme
On this programme you’ll get valuable work experience in customer interactions and transactional banking, with a strong focus on sales and service. There’s also a unique opportunity to get hands-on in a call centre environment.
Engineering Learnerships:
Salesforce, 18-month programme
On this programme, you’ll gain both theoretical knowledge and practical experience, while working closely with the leading thinkers around the future of banking and platform business.
You’ll work with our developers to write app customisations, develop a testing and debugging framework, and extend an application’s capabilities. And at the end of the programme, you’ll have the core skills needed to design and develop custom applications on the Salesforce platform.
Cloud Computing, 18-month programme
Want to develop technical expertise in cloud computing, and be fully prepared for the technical role you’d love? In this learnership, you’ll be working with developers to gain hands-on build experience in AWS/Azure cloud platforms – as well as acquiring related cloud certifications.
Data Engineering, 18-month programme
This practical learnership will see you working with our engineers to provide technical solutions by interpreting business requirements.
You’ll have the opportunity to define and construct solutions, define build and test tasks, perform solutions testing, deploy solutions and provide third tier support, as well as construct enhancements to systems in production.
At the end of the programme, you’ll have the core skills to be able to construct data acquisition, warehousing and report solutions.
… and more learnerships which you can view here.
How to apply
Click here to apply online for Standard Bank: Learnerships 2022 / 2023
Learnership Application Closing Date: 30 June 2022
Learnership Location: Gauteng
Yibanathi Nhlakanipho has 6 years experience writing and curating verified entry-level jobs, internships, bursaries and career resources for South African youth. Every month, her articles on Scholarly Africa reach at least 1 million job-seekers.
