Intern - Bookkeeper

About this opportunity

Internship programme: Youth Employment Service (YES) Workplace host: Green Corridors NPC Work location: Green Hub – 31 Stiebel Place, Blue Lagoon, Durban Position Availability: 01 December 2026 Internship period: 12 months Eligibility: Black South Africans between 18 to 30 years old, with weighting towards women and people with disabilities. The candidate must be currently unemployed and not having participated in a previous YES programme. About the internship: The intern will work on the East Coast Recycling Partnership initiative supporting the bookkeeping needs of a small portfolio of “Buy Back Centres” that recycle packaging waste. Reports To: ECRP Project Manager Supported by: · ECRP Finance Administrator (YES Programme graduate) · ECRP Project Manager · Professional Sage consultant for set up of SMMEs Accounts and enquiries · Professional Enterprise Development Financial Consultant Key Duties: Some small and micro businesses have no financial administration system, or at best some hard copy books. ECRP is offering Sage (cloud) Accounting subscriptions and support to capture and maintain a set of electronic books for better financial management, compliance and reporting, including to ECRP funders. The duties of the post include: · Supporting the Administrators at a small portfolio of SMMEs to use Sage (Cloud) Accounting · Other bookkeeping support to these SMME administrators. · Monitoring these SMME clients’ record keeping. · Extracting financial report