JOIFF SCHOLARSHIP
The Board of Directors of JOIFF is pleased to invite emergency responders who are JOIFF members or who are employed/contracted by a JOIFF member organisation to apply for a scholarship to complete the JOIFF Diploma eLearning programme, or the JOIFF Technician eLearning programme. Only one student in any JOIFF member organisation will be eligible. Three (3) scholarships will be awarded to successful applicants who apply between 01 August 2020 and 31 December 2020. These scholarships willbe subject to the terms and conditions currently in operation for these programmes which includes that students who successfully complete the studies will receive a Diploma/Technician certificate and can use the post nominals Dip.JOIFF/Tech.JOIFF as applicable. Approval of applications of the award of the scholarships will be the sole discretion of an adjudication panel set up by the JOIFF Board of Directors. Applications by candidates for the scholarship shall be made to the JOIFF Secretariat and must be
accompanied by a condensed Curriculum Vitae as well as a short motivation by the student or thestudent’s direct supervisor. When a scholarship student successfully completes the eLearning programme, their successful completion will be announced in the JOIFF Roll of Honour in the JOIFF
ABOUT THE JOIFF DIPLOMA
The JOIFF Diploma has been developed as a cost-effective way to gauge competence of emergency response personnel in dealing with the potential accidents/incidents to which they may be required to respond within their Response Area Emergency Response Plan. This programme covers key skills for operational responders to Industrial
official magazine, “The Catalyst”. The student will be expected to submit a short summary of the experience/benefits that carrying out the programme has brought to them and to the organisation in which they are employed/contracted.and knowing the facility in which the emergency responder operates. incidents, learnt and demonstrated by the student in training and exercises that allows them to deal competently with emergencies identified within the response area where they are employed. The JOIFF Diploma ensures competence within both emergency response and knowing the facility in which the emergency responder operates.
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