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Principal Clerk

Full Time

Website Bergrivier Municipality

Bergrivier Municipality is a local municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It governs the towns of Piketberg, Velddrif and Porterville, as well as the surrounding villages and rural areas.

Qualifications:

  • Grade 12 with Accounting as subject;

Experience:

  • Two (2) – Five (5) years’ relevant experience

Requirements:

  • Code B drivers licence
  • Computer literacy (MS Office Applications)
  • Proficiency in at least two (2) of the official languages of the Western Cape (Afrikaans/English/isiXhosa – Speak, Read, Write)
  • Good supervision, human relations, interpersonal and communication skills
  • Ability to give attention to detail
  • High level of responsibility
  • Must work overtime when required
  • Incumbent must be physical fit
  • Must perform duties in any area of the Municipality when required

Job purpose:

  • Performs specific administrative and accounting procedures against laid down procedural instructions/ guidelines ∙
  • Handling all debtors enquiries regarding their service accounts ∙
  • Completion of forms for consumers ∙
  • Issuing of duplicate statements ∙
  • Perform relief cashier duties when required.

Key Performance Areas:

  • Help consumers to complete connection and disconnection forms correctly ∙
  • Help consumers to correctly complete debtor related forms like for example applications for new water/electricity connection, change of meters from conventional electricity to prepaid , rebates, change of postal address ∙
  • Attend to the issuing of duplicate accounts for consumers ∙
  • Deal with enquiries related to debtor accounts ∙
  • Receive and receipt payments ∙
  • Attend to the issuing and updating of journals ∙
  • Responsible to part take in the Municipality’s Performance
  • Management and Development System.

Core Professional Competencies

  • Written Communication
  • Oral Communication
  • Attention to detail
  • Influencing
  • Ethics & professionalism
  • Organisational awareness
  • Problem solving
  • Planning & organising
  • Business processes
  • Use of technology
  • Data processing & analysis
  • Interpersonal relationships
  • Communication
  • Service delivery orientation
  • Client orientation & customer focus
  • Action orientation
  • Resilience
  • Change readiness
  • Cognitive ability
  • Learning orientation
  • Impact & influence
  • Team orientation
  • Direction setting
  • Coaching & mentoring

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