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POSITION INFO:
Position description / overview:
This role reports into the Head: Academics, and has 8 subordinates. It is a WFH (work from home) role, with intermittent travel required as and when needed.
The core focus of this role is to:
- Ensure the execution of sound teaching and learning practices, in the Short Course Department.
- Increase student participation and throughput rates to culminate in a successful student experience.
- Drive towards increased digitization of learning experiences in the Short Course Department.
- Manage the human capital of the Short Course Department, to ensure high quality deliverables.
Minimum Requirements:
- Degree (NQF 7) in the Business Management discipline OR Honours degree with a postgraduate qualification in education
- A postgraduate qualification in a Business Management discipline or a cognate field will be advantageous
- eLearning development courses completed
Minimum work experience:
- Six years teaching/lecturing at a recognised tertiary institution in the field of Business Management or a cognate discipline.
- Successful track record in the operational management of a high student volume digitised learning environment.
- Successful track record in the operational management of lecturing staff.
- Proven track record in executing online teaching and learning.
- Previous application of learning management systems, such as Moodle, Blackboard, etc, and other relevant digital education technologies.
- Familiarity with the role of technology in education management and course delivery.
- Previous experience in leading successful change initiatives and projects in education.
- Managing executive and external stakeholder relationships.
Responsibilities / Functional Accountabilities:
Teaching and Learning
- Ensure the successful preparation and execution of teaching and learning plans and practices, by all course lecturers, to ensure successful cohort performance.
- Lead the production and expansion of digital assets in support of teaching and learning.
- Drive a successful student experience through improvement to our academic service levels to students.
- Review and quality assure lecturers performance throughout the cohorts and evaluate quality of content.
- Implement continuous improvement strategies to improve throughput rates within all short course programmes.
- In collaboration with the course lecturers, implement strategies to support students at risk.
- In collaboration with internal and external stakeholders, ensure the successful roll out of new short course programmes.
- Report on measures taken in respect of student performance improvement and monitoring.
Management and coordination of people
- Ensure lecturers are in place for programmes as per the human resource and programme allocation plan.
- Be a critical inductor to new lecturing staff to ensure they are orientated and able to seamlessly begin teaching on short course programmes.
- Be the critical contact point for part time lecturers.
- Coordinate the full time and part time lecturer’s duties and responsibilities to ensure quality of teaching is maintained.
- Work with Faculty management to ensure adequate and talented employees are recruited.
- Ensure policy compliance within the lecturer pool.
Leadership and Management
- Monitor financial resource allocation in the short courses, to ensure efficient expenditure in line with budgetary requirements.
- Ensure continuous training and development of full and part-time course lecturers to increase competence in the use of Institutional systems and teaching and learning practices.
- Conduct quarterly reviews of lecturers’ performance as part of the continuous assessment and remuneration framework.
- Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure departmental success metrics are achieved.
- Prepare and present reports at various Institutional forums, on the performance of the short course programmes.
Competencies / Skills:
Computer / Digital Skills:
- Demonstrable competencies in MS Office Suite.
- Proficiency in basic data analytics and reporting.
- eLearning authoring and content production tools.
- Moodle LMS.
- Multimedia software.
Competencies:
- Self-driven and performance focused.
- Outgoing individual with great relationship building skills
- Strong management competencies, with a team-centered approach.
- Critical thinker and problem solver.
- Strong creative and innovative thinking style.
- Digitally literate, focusing on applying educational technology.
- Strong administrative and coordination ability
- Effective planning, prioritizing, and organizing of resources.
- Excellent verbal and written communicator.
- Strong data analytics and reporting skills.
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