Registry Clerk
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About the role
The Department of Land Reform and Rural Development is hiring a Registry Clerk in Corporate Services, based in Western Cape (Cape Town). This is a permanent post, paying R237,453 a year. How to apply: Applications can be submitted by hand delivery during office hours to: 4th floor, No 2 Riebeeck Street, ABSA Building, Cape Town or by email to Post268@dlrrd.gov.za Reference number to quote: 3/1/1/1/2026/268 Closing date: 23 October 2026 at 16:00 Use the new Z83 form and attach a detailed CV. Note: EE Targets: African, Coloured, Indian and White Males, and Coloured, Indian and White Females, and Persons with Disabilities.
Responsibilities
- Manage operations to achieve planned outcomes.
- Provide registry counter services.
- Attend to clients.
- Handle telephonic and other enquiries received.
- Receive and register hand delivered mail/files.
- Handle incoming and outgoing correspondence.
- Receive all mail.
- Sort, register and dispatch mail.
- Distribute notices on registry issues.
- Render an effective filing and record management service.
- Open and close files according to record classification system.
- Filing/storage, tracing (electronically/manually) and retrieval of documents and files.
- Operate office machines in relation to the registry function.
- Process documents for archiving an/disposal.
- Electronic scanning of files.
- Sort and package files for archives and distribution.
- Compile list of documents to be archived and submit to the supervisor.
- Keep records for archived documents.
Requirements
- Minimum requirements: A Grade 12 Certificate.
- Job related knowledge:
- Knowledge of registry duties, practices as well as the ability to capture data, and operate a computer
- Working knowledge and understanding of the legislative framework governing the Public Service
- Knowledge of storage and retrieval procedures in terms of the working environment
- Understanding of the work in registry
- Job related skills
- Planning and organisation
- Computer literacy. communication (verbal and written)
- Interpersonal relations
- Ability to work within a team