Head of Department –HET at Educor Holdings

Job Description

Head of Department –HET 
Randburg. Johannesburg
Market Related

The Head of Department – HET is responsible for full programme management for the portfolio of programmes in the Department. This means accountability for programme development and curriculum reviews, assessment alignment and development, module material updates and prescribed textbook lists.  THE HOF is expected to ensure academic integrity and regulatory compliance of programmes and assessments offered by the respective sites, and assure all programmes, programme factsheets and programme curriculum structures and assessments are aligned in accordance with regulatory requirements.

Educational Requirements:

• Post Graduate qualification in cognate field. Masters is preferred
• 5 years’ experience in higher education is required and experience in programme management preferred
• Advantageous: familiar with formal assessment and moderation practices, design and development and programme structuring
• Excellent computer literacy essential
• MS Office

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Programme Management, Development, and review
• Identify module leaders and programme managers
• Update module materials annually, collect module and programme feedback annually
• Represent department on Faculty boards
• Ensure contrastive alignment of assessments to learning outcomes of all programmes and short courses
• Development of programme documents
• Coordinate department programme PIPO
• Work integrated learning/workplace (EL) based learning for each programme
• Develop experiential learning material related to each programme or amend each programme to include credit bearing WIL module
• Facilitation of training on EL to EL coordinators at campus level
• Student recruitment, selection, placement, RPL and CAT
• Provide academic leadership through training of sales teams on programmes and admission criteria
• Teaching and learning
• Ensure teaching and learning strategy is reflected in module materials so student engagement and support learning is promoted in all our programme materials
• Academic staff capacity
• Provide guidelines on minimum qualifications are required per programme and module to meet the one up qualification regulatory requirement
• Ensure sites are capacitated with qualified academic staff as per the HET/TVET requirements
• Support Dean of Academic Operations and T& L Manager with academic development workshops for capacity building
• Institutional planning, resource allocation and governance
• Stakeholder surveys on the quality of provision
• Benchmarking of standards

Qualifications
Educational Requirements:

• Post Graduate qualification in cognate field. Masters is preferred
• 5 years’ experience in higher education is required and experience in programme management preferred
• Advantageous: familiar with formal assessment and moderation practices, design and development and programme structuring
• Excellent computer literacy essential
• MS Office