Education Professor

Purpose

• A PhD or relevant Doctorate and Masters and Honours degrees in Public Management or a cognate discipline.
• Demonstrate evidence of continuous research productivity in the form of publications in DHET accredited journals and peer-reviewed conference proceedings; research papers presented at national and/or international conferences; contributions to scholarly books published by reputable publishers, in good standing with DHET and not linked to predatory practices; evidence of external research fund raising; student and junior staff mentoring; successful supervision of postgraduate students; formal participation in teaching and learning development courses; evidence of scholarship of teaching and learning would be beneficial.
• Significant involvement in discipline or departmental official activities and processes which includes active academic participation in workshops/forums in higher education, as well as community engagement activities; movement towards recognition in the broader subject/discipline community; external examining/moderating at under- and postgraduate levels.

As a senior academic, the incumbent will be expected to teach undergraduate and postgraduate modules, establish a research programme in this discipline, as well as be involved in growing a research community in the faculty, and raise the necessary funds to support such research. In addition, the incumbent will also serve as a Head of Department in Management Sciences for a period of 3 years.

Minimum Requirements

• A PhD or relevant Doctorate and Masters and Honours degrees in Public Management or a cognate discipline.

Senior Lecturer

• At least five (5) years relevant experience, where three (3) years must have been as lecturer in Higher Education.
• Demonstrate evidence of continuous research productivity in the form of publications in DHET accredited journals and peer-reviewed conference proceedings; research papers presented at national and/or international conferences; contributions to scholarly books published by reputable publishers, in good standing with DHET and not linked to predatory practices; evidence of external research fund raising; student and junior staff mentoring; successful supervision of postgraduate students; formal participation in teaching and learning development courses; evidence of scholarship of teaching and learning would be beneficial.
• Significant involvement in discipline or departmental official activities and processes which includes active academic participation in workshops/forums in higher education, as well as community engagement activities; movement towards recognition in the broader subject/discipline community; external examining/moderating at under- and postgraduate levels.
• Demonstrate evidence of continuous research output in the form of publications in DHET accredited journals and peer-reviewed conference proceedings; research papers presented at national and/or international conferences; contributions to scholarly books published by recognized publishing houses; evidence of research leadership in publication/grant application; external research funds raised; national and/or international research publications.
• Demonstrate evidence of significant involvement in discipline, departmental and/or institutional official activities and processes which includes active academic participation in workshops/forums in higher education, as well as community engagement activities and CE as a scholarly activity; external examining/moderating of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.
• Demonstrate evidence of continuous research output in the form of continual and sustained research outputs in high impact DHET-accredited journals in a mix of local and international journals; scholarly contributions to books published by recognized publishers; evidence of external research funds raised; productive research linkages and networks with leading scholars at national and international levels; presentations of research papers as invited or keynote speaker at scholarly local and international conferences; have a notable citation track record (evident through a Scopus H-index commensurate to the period as active research); research leadership demonstrated through authorship position on publications.