Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer (Faculty of Science: Academy of Computer Science & Software Engineering) at University of Johannesburg

Description: As an academic within the Academy of Computer Science and Software Engineering you will be required to undertake a variety of teaching and learning, research, and administrative duties to help the Academy, Faculty, and University meet its key performance indicators in pursuit of their respective missions.

Responsibilities:

• Overall: To perform academic, research, and associated administration activities in the department
• Teaching and Learning: As per allocated timetable and required additional time for preparation
• Research: All activities related research conducted in the department with a specific emphasis on quality publications.
• Administrative: All related administration to teaching and learning and research, wherever appropriate
• Community Engagement: Ensure involvement for the betterment of the institution and community. Some time may be allocated to this in consultation with HOD on a case by case basis.
• Personal Development: Continuously develop oneself in the scientific field

Minimum requirements

• A Doctoral Degree in Computer Science or Information Technology with a preference for specialisation in one of the following fields:
  • Cyber Security.
  • Artificial Intelligence (especially multi-agent systems / biologically inspired AI / computational intelligence).
• Having a proven track record of international, peer-reviewed, accredited published research outputs exceeding 2 Department of Higher Education and Training research publication units annually in the above field over at least 3 years.
• The successful applicant must have a proven track record as main supervisor of PhD degrees supervised to completion.
• The successful applicant must have a proven track record as main supervisor of Master’s degrees supervised to completion.
• The successful applicant must have an excellent academic record in both Teaching and Learning as well as Research.
• Must have successfully contributed to projects days (within the Academy the Annual Projects Day is a showcase of senior student practical software development projects – approximately 60 projects annually).
• Must have a record of successfully offering undergraduate modules over a wide range of the body of knowledge pertinent in the field of discourse.
• Must have successfully mentored and assessed the marking of third year practical year projects on a level acceptable to the British Computer Society.
• Must have experience of the BCS accreditation process or equivalent academic certification processes.
• Must pass a practical programming assessment as determined by the Academy of Computer Science and Software Engineering.
• NRF rating highly desirable (or of an equivalent internationally accepted standing covering the same criteria as the NRF system).

Competencies and Behavioural Attributes:

• The proven ability to teach both Computer Science and Informatics courses, advanced data structures on an undergraduate level using programming languages used within the Academy.
• The proven ability to teach both Computer Science and Informatics courses on an Honours (4th year) level.
• The ability to teach effectively in English is a prerequisite. Should English not be the home language a certification of competence in English will be required.
• Sufficient lecturing experience with professionally evaluated outcomes.
• Exposure to TurnitIn for checking the integrity of research assignments.
• Experience of managing the auditing of all answer scripts for all examinations of both Computer Science and Informatics on both undergraduate and postgraduate level is a strong recommendation.
• The proven ability to supervise both doctoral and master’s studies as main supervisor to completion.
• The ability to successfully supervise at minimum 10 honours research projects, according to the standards of the BCS.
• The proven ability to supervise both doctoral and master’s studies as main supervisor to completion.
• Must supply proof of formal evaluation, including student evaluation, as a successful teacher/lecturer by an academic institution.
• Must have proof of a good class pass rate in undergraduate courses
• The above competencies may additionally be assessed via live lectures and programming ability assessments.

Recommendations:

• Membership of the BCS is a strong recommendation.
• At least 10 years' experience of organizing and managing student assistants and tutors for both Computer Science and Informatics is a strong recommendation.
• Having a strong media presence as well as engaging actively in the popularization of science