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Trade & Investment KwaZulu-Natal... “Walking The Journey With You."

Operating in a highly competitive business environment, Trade & Investment KwaZulu-Natal recognises the importance of attracting, developing and maintaining high-calibre talent, with the requisite skills and passion to make a meaningful impact on the trade and investment environment.

The organisation employs a sound recruitment and selection practice to attract, develop and retain well-qualified and ambitious members of staff - vital to maintaining the organisation's competitive edge in the global trade and investment sector.

The organisation's strategic intent is to enable high levels of staff satisfaction and motivation, translating to heightened productivity levels and the achievement of client satisfaction. This, the organisation achieves by continuously striving to enhance the internal organisational climate in the overriding quest to develop a high-performance culture within Trade & Investment KwaZulu-Natal.

The organisation considers itself fortunate to have in place a motivated staff complement, the members of which embrace the importance of continuous learning and the need to constantly up-skill themselves.

Our Value Proposition

The Human Reasouse Unit's value is to support & enable the CEO, Managers & all Teams in building a high-performance culture & organisation through maximizing TIKZN’s Human Potential.

Our Human resource unit supports the following TIKZN business units :

1. Office of the CEO
2. Investment Promotion
3. Export Development and Promotion
4. Knowledge Management
5. Corporate Services
6. Finance

Learnerships

Trade & Investment KwaZulu-Natal recognises the daunting challenge of limited employment opportunities facing school-leavers and young graduates in South Africa.

In view of this Trade & Investment KwaZulu-Natal strives, wherever possible and appropriate, to requests for experiential learning and internships.

An Internship provides an opportunity by an employer to host graduates who have completed their qualifications in particular fields of study and who require work experience. Experiential learning involves under-graduates in the process of completing their qualifications and where experiential learning is a prerequisite.

The organisation has, over the years, hosted numerous interns and experiential learners, affording them the opportunity to gain invaluable work exposure and experience in a range of business fields within the trade and investment environment. Internships last for up to 12 months, enabling participants in this time to experience various sectors of the industry and the undoubted benefits of being closely mentored and groomed in such areas of the business.

These two programme offerings are mutually beneficial to both students and the organisation - the organisation from the young, innovative techno-savvy ideas introduced, and the students from the wealth of know-how and expert knowledge they are able to absorb while experiencing the real world of work first-hand.

Importantly, almost all the students which Trade & Investment KwaZulu-Natal has assisted with experiential learning to date have secured employment elsewhere and/or successfully completed their qualifications.

Taking care of our staff

Trade & Investment KwaZulu-Natal recognises the importance of creating a culture conducive to the overall well-being and development of its members of staff.

In giving effect to the development of such an internal culture, the organisation provides - amongst others - the following programmes:

Employee Wellness Programme: Productivity and healthy living go hand-in-glove. Accordingly, Trade & Investment KwaZulu-Natal embraces staff wellness as a business imperative, and has put in place a well-structured wellness programme designed to encourage an equitable work-life balance.

The programme provides health screenings, an employee assistance programme, healthy lifestyle information, educational talks and physical activities. Annually-designed surveys provide valuable feedback to the organisation with regard to the lifestyles followed by its members of staff. Responses are used to continuously develop and redefine the wellness programme for the ongoing benefit of staff.

Skills Development: Trade & Investment KwaZulu-Natal operates in a business environment constantly competing for limited talent not readily available in the labour market.

Trade & Investment KwaZulu-Natal recognises that in order to be able to deliver against its mandate, it must invest significantly in staff development interventions. Accordingly, the training and development of staff plays a crucial role in ensuring that the skills and competencies of its members of staff are advanced on an ongoing basis.

Rewards, Recognition and Long Service Awards: Trade & Investment KwaZulu-Natal ensures that it recognises and rewards members of staff who demonstrate that they live the values of the organisation, as entrenched in its Culture Charter.

Recognition and reward are bestowed on members of staff who deliver continuous outstanding performance; performance which advances the organisational goals and is linked to specific accomplishments, ensuring that it is meaningful to both Trade & Investment and the individual.

Rewards are designed to reflect the unique nature of both the organisation's work and organisational culture. Recognition of Long Service is an initiative geared to ensuring that the continued contributions of members of staff over an extended period of time are recognised and celebrated by the organisation and its entire staff complement.

UKZN MOU

University of KwaZulu-Natal Memorandum of Understanding: The signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the University of KwaZulu-Natal and Trade & Investment KwaZulu-Natal facilitates the transfer of new knowledge and technologies to relevant markets, so giving effect to development of the South African economy.

It also provides, where necessary, for a review of certain existing programmes and the re-alignment of such programmes in line with the requirements of the economy.

In the long-term, there exists an opportunity for the development and introduction of an academic Executive Programme in trade, investment and economic development in Africa. In the short-term, the university's Extended Learning Unit has agreed to develop a customised programme for Trade & Investment KwaZulu-Natal in order to address the needs of stakeholders and for the up-skilling of professionals in the field of trade and industry promotion and which addresses Africa’s specific development needs in this regard.

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