Bursary Officer: Registration
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About the role
The Department of Higher Education and Training is hiring a Bursary Officer: Registration. This is a permanent post, paying R413,001 – R486,501 a year. (Permanent, PERSAL appointment) How to apply: Please hand deliver or courier your applications to the reception area quoting the relevant reference number addressed to the Acting Principal, Lovedale TVET College, Corporate Office, 1 Amatola Row, Headquarters, Qonce, 5600. Please see the email address below for electronic applications. Email Address: rectruitment@lovedale.org.za Reference number to quote: BUR/01/09/2026 Closing date: 30 October 2026 Use the new Z83 form and attach a detailed CV. Note: All applications must be accompanied by a signed and fully completed NEW Z83 form obtainable from any public service Department or DPSA website, a comprehensive CV including at least three contactable references. Foreign qualifications must be accompanied by a SAQA evaluation report. Successful candidates will be subjected to a vetting and financial disclosure process (criminal record, citizenship, qualification verification and employment verification). Lovedale TVET College is an equal opportunities employer and reserves the right not to fill the posts. People living with disability are encouraged to apply. If you have not been contacted within six months after closing date, please consider your application as unsuccessful. NB Please ensure that the Z83 form is completed in full. Incomplete Z83 will be disqualified. The college reserves the right to withdraw the posts at any time. Communication will only be entered into with the shortlisted and successful candidates. All shortlisted candidates may be subjected to personnel suitability checks (criminal records, citizenship, and qualification verification). The suitable candidates will be required to annually disclose their financial interests and declare any conflict or perceived conflict of interest. All shortlisted candidates, including the SMS, shall undertake two pre-entry assessments. One will be a practical exercise to determine a candidate’s suitability based on the post’s technical generic requirements, and the other must be an integrity (ethical conduct) assessment.
Responsibilities
- Ensure overall supervision and coordination of student bursary schemes and financial aid administrative support services for the entire college.
- Ensure the overall supervision and administration of bursary and financial aid schemes application processes for the entire college in line with NSFAS guidelines, funder MOU/SLA and policies.
- Ensure overall supervision and authorisation of disbursement of funds.
- Ensure overall supervision and facilitation of other financial aid schemes.
- Ensure overall supervision, monitoring, evaluation and maintenance of database of all student applications in terms of Department of Higher Education and Training and NSFAS requirements.
- Ensure overall supervision and consolidate reports on all bursary and financial aid allocations for the entire college.
- Uploading and posting of all NSFAS student tuition remittances on the Coltech systems including reconciliation and balancing thereof.
- Prepare and conclude annual NSFAS reconciliation report in terms of advances and tuition fee receipts/remittances.
- Identify all NSFAS overpayments and credits with interest that should be repaid and refunded to NSFAS annually.
- Follow up on outstanding close reports.
- Facilitate online applications, capture student data on registration templates, and process funding lists.
- Provide financial aid awareness during registration and orientation periods for new and returning students.
- Assist with private accommodation, travel allowances, and student attendance report requisitions.
- Handle verbal and written financial queries from students, parents, and college management.