Associate Professor/Professor (In Education) at University of the Free State

Duties and responsibilities: 

• Provide formal teaching for undergraduate and post-graduate programmes in the relevant department of the Faculty of Education.
• Act as a supervisor for postgraduate students, especially Masters and Doctoral candidates in the relevant department.
• Engage in the Work Integrated Learning Programme of the faculty (Teaching Practice).
• Ensure active involvement in research in a relevant field of Education and publish research articles in accredited national and international journals.
• Active involvement in curriculum development relating to a relevant field of Education.
• Apply for external funding grants for research and/or teaching and learning projects.
• Mentor and support junior colleagues in the department and faculty.
• Contribute to leadership and administrative tasks in the department and faculty.

Inherent requirements:
Associate Professor

• PhD on NQF Level 10 in Education with specialisation in School Management and Leadership, or Pre-service Teacher Education, or Language Education (in schools), or Early Childhood Development. 
• At least five (5) years’ relevant experience in a Higher Education Environment.
• Experience as an external examiner for postgraduate students.
• Proven experience in the presentation of research papers at national and international conferences, where there is evidence of peer review of papers.
• Acted as an editorial board member of high-quality national scholarly journals.
• Proven national recognition for specialist expertise and research leadership in a specific scientific area of scholarship.
• An NRF rating of C3 or potential for rating.
• Proven experience in the supervision of graduated master’s and/ or doctoral degree students.
• A proven research record of relevant publications in national and international accredited journals
• Served as a member of a national scholarly society OR a national committee or agency concerned with research at higher education levels OR showed evidence of service as an active member of an international equivalent.
• Proven experience in curriculum and/ or programme development.
• Evidence of attracting research and/ or training grants in the past five (5) years.
• Proven experience in co-leading one or more engaged scholarship projects.

Professor

• PhD on NQF Level 10 in Education with specialisation in School Management and Leadership, or Pre-service Teacher Education, or Language Education (in schools), or Early Childhood Development. 
• At least seven (7) years’ relevant experience in a Higher Education Environment.
• Proven experience in research and/or teaching and learning management and capacity building.
• Experience as external examiner for master’s-degree and doctoral students.
• Acted as editorial board member of high-quality international/ISI/IBSS journals.
• Proven international recognition for specialist expertise and research leadership in a particular area of academic scholarship (for example, regularly serves as a reviewer for international/ISI/IBSS journals).
• An NRF rating of C1 or C2 or equivalent status.
• Demonstrated successful supervision of graduated master’s-degree and preferably graduated doctoral students.
• Proven experience in delivering keynote addresses at national scholarly conferences.
• Served as a member of an international scholarly society OR an international committee or agency concerned with research at higher-education levels.
• Proven experience in curriculum and/or programme development.
• Evidence of attracting external research and/or training grants in the past 5-years.
• Proven experience in leading one or more engaged scholarship projects.

Recommendations:

• Proven experience in a leadership role within an academic department, research centre and/or institute.