About Milpark Education

Address

Claremont, Cape Town

Company Size

201-500
Summary

Who we are

On its establishment in 1997, Milpark Education was one of the first private providers of higher management education in South Africa. Today, it remains a leading provider of Higher Education and Further Education and Training qualifications. Our flagship qualification, the MBA, has been ranked number 1 amongst private providers of the MBA in South Africa by PMR.africa for three consecutive years (from 2013 to 2015). Milpark Education was recently aquired by Stadio Holdings.

Why Work For Us

Our Vision is to be the First Choice for excellent Education Solutions, and our Mission of equipping students to achieve their aspirations through excellent education solutions that are tailored to meet the demands of modern life. In order to give life to our Vision and Mission, we are committed to creating an environment where teamwork and collaboration is valued and sharing ideas is encouraged, as this creates the right environment to thrive.

As a provider of higher education, we are also committed to the learning and development of our employees, and offer a number of training opportunities and time off to complete learning interventions.

Our Employee Health and Wellness Programme empowers our employees to take control of their wellbeing, living more productive work lives and more enhanced private lives. With the EHWP, all our employees and their immediate dependents have access to 24/7/365 counselling services, provided in any of the 11 official South African languages.

Our Culture

Our Values guide our behaviour, and is key to the culture of our business:

INTEGRITY: We focus on providing quality education to our students; we take personal accountability and responsibility

RESPECT: We work together with integrity and respect.

EXCELLENCE: We focus on excellent customer service.

INNOVATION: We create value for our stakeholders through innovation and operational excellence.

Our Engineering Processes

We are a small IT team, focused on providing exceptional support to the business through bespoke development, integration of products and services, and support of our existing application stack. Each member of the team has a wide range of responsibilities and opportunities. Our dev process is highly agile and very responsive to business needs. We use tools and processes within Visual Studio Team Services to plan, code, integrate and deliver new functionality and resolve issues. In addition to the DEV environment, we maintain a complete UAT environment comprising a fully integrated app stack.

Our Hiring Process

Typically, applicants are required to answer a set of screening questions directly linked to the job requirements of the position. The feedback from the screening questions is used as the first step in our shortlisting process. The hiring manager reviews the shortlist, and then selects applicants who are invited for a panel interview. In some instances, a second interview is arranged if further contact with an applicant is required. Reference checks with previous employers are conducted for applicants who show potential during their interview. This feedback is then assessed along with the interview, in order to select a successful applicant. Once this decision is made, a formal offer of employment is made to the successful applicant.

Perks
Employee health and wellness programme
Generous leave policy
Company contribution to pension
Education and training opportunities
Medical Aid Subsidy
Tech Stack

Application and Data

Javascript
MySQL
PHP
Java
Spring Framework
memcached
jQuery
C#
Bootstrap
Microsoft Azure
ASP.NET
MS SQL
Cassandra

DevOps

Ansible
Git
Team Foundation Server

Utilities

Google Analytics

Business Tools

Trello
Microsoft Sharepoint
Salesforce