Job Description

Our client in the Higher Education and Training industry is currently looking for a Dean (for the Faculty of Business Management Science), in Johannesburg, Gauteng.Responsibilities:

• Positioning the Programme and the Institution within the national education policy & regulatory environment and quality assures the Teaching for learning.
• Research, innovation and commercialization, relationship building and Community Engagement activities, by aligning them with the Integrated Quality Management Framework (IQMF).
• Achieving the academic and financial targets of the Department as determined in the annual strategic plan and budgets, as supplied by the GCAO.
• Promoting the Faculty locally and regionally and maintaining its viability.
• Ensuring the capacity development and quality promotion in respect of academic staff and learners.
• Authority to appoint replacement positions and recommends the promotion of staff.
• Establishment of partnerships with business, governments, academic and societal Institutions and Non-Profit Organizations (NPOs) for the creation of Work Integrated Learning opportunities.
• Ensuring that appropriate improvement plans developed through institutional or ETQA processes are implemented and progress reported monthly.
• Work collaboratively with other deans of the institution, across business units to embed standardized institutional practices and promote a cross-disciplinary research community.
• Actively support the GCAO on ongoing academic transformation projects.
• Overall planning, development, renewal, and review of Academic Programmes and qualifications allocated to the Faculty.
• Ensuring meaningful programme outcomes, quality, consistency in content curation and delivery effectiveness and financial viability.
• Responsible for implementation of the teaching and learning policy and strategy of the institute within the faculty.
• Approval of workload models at campuses offering programmes allocated to the Faculty.
• Ensuring, on a weekly basis, that the campus managers, programme managers and departmental heads are complying with the academic rollout of the programmes in the faculty.
• Ensuring that the existing Academic Programmes are in line with CHE requirements, and new Academic Programmes are designed for CHE Accreditation.
• Aligning industry professional qualifications to competency frameworks that will satisfy CHE requirements.
• Co-designing and operationalizing the Induction of new students and providing orientation regarding the activities of the faculty.
• Optimizing student access, success, throughput rates and grant credit exemption per programme within the Faculty.
• Retaining returning students in accordance with the enrolment planning objectives of the Institution.
• Ensure academic calendar is adhered to by all campuses.
• To provide leadership in programme roll out so that parity and uniformity is adhered at all campuses.
• Provide guidance in ensuring the programme outcomes are adhered to.
• To ensure that class visits and lecturer evaluation is taking place at campuses.
• To review and ensure that assessment, timetabling, exam processing and verification, etc. are in line with our organisational assessment policies and procedures.
• Ensure the Learner performance for the programme is tracked, analysed and effective intervention strategies are provided to improve the areas of weak performance.
• To engage in research activities that enhances the depth of academic deliverables in the programme.
• To prepare the Documents that are prescribed by the Curriculum Innovation, Design & Development (CIDD) process for the programme.
• Ensuring that the programme curriculum, rollout and syllabus are consistently and timeously provided to all the campuses that are offering the programme.
• Ensuring the library provisioning for the programme is adequate at every campus.
• Ensure that the Departmental heads are providing the literature and assessment instruments as per the SAQA level descriptors and aligned to the outcomes of the programme.
• Ensure the exam verification process for the programme takes place as per the organisational assessment strategy.

• Doctorate in the related discipline. Professorship is an advantage.
• Demonstrated track record as an academic and thought leader in the sector.
• Experience in high-level liaison with internal and external stakeholders and professional boards.
• An appropriate vision for the Department.
• Current and past industry experience is an advantage.
• Demonstratable thought leadership and public presence in the digital capabilities discipline is an advantage.
• Position may be based at any one of our campuses.
• Successful candidate must be prepared to relocate if necessary and be prepared to travel occasionally between campus hubs.
• Peer Review Journal Publications local and International.
• A proven Masters supervision track record.
• Strong leadership skills, as well as strong interpersonal communication skills.
• Assist in the development of relevant (Short) courses for the industry and contribute to our growing executive education portfolio.

• Dependent on qualification and experience.

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