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Bring your skills as a School Librarian to Giyani and join a team that moves fast. This Limpopo role is one to watch.
Overview
This School Librarian role sits within the teaching jobs function in Giyani. It offers a defined scope, clear measures of success, and the support of an experienced team across Limpopo.
Expect a structured first ninety days, with onboarding milestones, regular check-ins, and an early focus on getting comfortable with the systems and processes that underpin the Giyani team.
Reasonable working hours and respectful planning are part of how the role runs. The team values strong delivery, and load is balanced fairly across the teaching jobs group in Giyani.
Stakeholders for this position include line managers, peers across the teaching jobs team and trusted external partners. Building those relationships early makes the next twelve months in Giyani much easier.
Your Workplace
The environment is school-based, with structured timetables, a strong focus on learner well-being and a culture of professional collaboration across phases and subjects.
Notably, the working environment is set up to give the team the focus needed for deeper work, while keeping collaboration and quick problem-solving close at hand.
Health, safety and well-being are taken seriously. Current policies and procedures are maintained, and the Giyani site adheres to the standards expected of a responsible South African employer.
A respectful, professional environment is the standard in Limpopo. Bullying, harassment and unfair conduct have no place here, and managers are trained to act decisively when concerns are raised.
Our Commitment to Transformation
Inclusion is a core part of how the team operates. This is an equal-opportunity employer, and candidates from all communities — including women, youth and persons living with disabilities — are encouraged to apply for this role in Giyani.
Practical steps back the words. Structured EE reporting, transformation initiatives and learnership programmes give real opportunities to candidates from across Limpopo.
B-BBEE compliance is more than a scorecard here. It informs how the business invests in skills development, supplier diversity and community engagement across the country.
Inclusive hiring extends through onboarding and into how teams operate every day. Respectful, fair conduct is expected from every team member in Giyani.
Growing With Us
Practically speaking, this role can grow with you. Strong performers in the teaching jobs team in Giyani have moved into senior, supervisory and specialist positions, and that journey is supported through coaching, training and exposure to bigger projects.
Training is a mix of formal courses, structured on-the-job learning and exposure to broader projects, all geared at building practical skills.
Internal mobility is encouraged. People who start in Giyani have moved into roles in other branches, specialist functions and project teams across Limpopo.
Growth conversations happen at a regular cadence — not just at year-end — so the path forward stays current and realistic for every Giyani team member.
Based in Giyani
Giyani continues to grow as an employment hub in Limpopo, with in the heart of the Tzaneen agricultural belt. This role gives you a foothold in one of its busier business communities, with access to the local services, suppliers and partners that keep the work moving.
Accessibility is taken seriously: where the role allows, the team works toward a balance of in-office presence and flexibility for candidates based in and around Giyani.
If you are relocating, the team can share practical pointers on neighbourhoods, transport and the typical pace of life in Giyani, Limpopo.
Many candidates already living within reach of Giyani cite the location as one of the role’s quiet wins, with shorter commutes and a real sense of being plugged into the local Limpopo economy.
Key Responsibilities
- Supervise extra-mural activities, study sessions and excursions
- Foster a safe, inclusive and disciplined classroom environment
- Provide individualised support to learners with diverse needs
- Contribute to the school’s enrichment programmes and community outreach
- Assess learner progress through formative and summative assessments
Who We’re Looking For
- Strong classroom management and discipline strategies
- Current SACE registration or proof of application
- Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) or PGCE in the relevant phase
- Commitment to continuous professional development
- 2+ years’ classroom experience (less for early-career roles)
- Experience integrating technology into lessons is an advantage
- Willingness to participate in extra-mural activities
Practically speaking, if most of these boxes are ticked, you are encouraged to put your name forward.