Associate Professor: Department of Mercantile and Labour Law at University of Limpopo

Requirements:

• LLD/PhD in Mercantile and or Labour law fields.
• At least ten (10) years of teaching experience in the legal field at a tertiary institution.
• Eight (8) points (research output through journal articles and or conference proceedings) (published in DHET accredited journals/ platforms.
• Successful supervision record at postgraduate level and evidence of external
• examination of mini dissertation /dissertation/theses.
• Certified assessor and moderator in higher education will be an added
• advantage.
• Evidence of mentoring junior academics will be an added advantage.
• Track record in pensions law will be an added advantage.

Duties:

The incumbent will be required to:

• Conduct lectures in LLB and LLM programmes in the School of Law.
• Conduct assessments, mark assessments and provide timeous feedback to students.
• Provide supervision of research works of LLB, LLM and LLD students.
• Attend and participate in training workshops concerning assessment, moderation, teaching and learning, legal pedagogy, research and community engagement.
• Provide academic leadership through mentoring of junior academics.
• Serve in various School and Faculty committees.
• Creatively develop innovative academic activities.
• Present papers at conferences.
• Publish articles in accredited peer-reviewed journals.
• Improve the research output, postgraduate throughput and thus, the research standing of the School and the Faculty.
• Contribute chapters in books.
• Contribute papers in conference proceedings.
• Participate in and perform designated community engagement duties, as well as branding and marketing of the department.
• Participate in specific administrative and managerial duties as may be necessary, and per directive of the Head of Department.
• Continuously participate in research, teaching and learning and community engagement.