Lecturer: Financial Accounting and Management at Mancosa

CORE PURPOSE:

• To provide Academic Leadership, Strategic insights of the sector and overall Programme quality Management across a range of Undergraduate/Postgraduate education programmes. This position focuses on Accounting and Corporate Finance.

CORE FUNCTIONS

• The successful candidate will be appointed to offer their Accounting expertise to ensure overall academic delivery of the Accounting programmes
• Conduct lectures Online webinars and Face-to-Face lectures (when required)
• Responsible for design, development and maintenance of teaching and learning material and deliver either across a range of modules or within a subject area material (where relevant), including on-line and web-based materials.
• Use appropriate teaching, learning support and assessment methods.
• Designing assessments, setting, marking, and grading assessments, and giving students feedback are all parts of assessment preparation.
• Ongoing research and analysis to identify required updates and additions to the programme curriculum
• Provide information to assist with the implementation and maintenance of accreditation with various quality assurance bodies and professional bodies
• A combination of analysis and reporting as well as hands-on application in order to ensure alignment to industry standards and academic relevance
• Conduct reviews and updates of all Accounting and Finance and Taxation programmes to ensure alignment to industry norms and identify areas where current provision needs revision or improvement.
• Ensure programmes remain relevant to both local and international industry expectations and the quality of student experience is highly rewarding.
• Review and manage student academic performance.
• Promote multi-stakeholder engagement towards programme advancement.
• Advocate for, promote, and advance the institution's Accounting education offerings to industry.
• Provide academic support, consultation, and guidance to students.as required.

Minimum requirements

QUALIFICATION:

Minimum Requirements

• A Master’s degree in the relevant discipline

Preferred Requirements

•  Affiliation to Professional Body relating to Finance, Accounting, Taxation and or Risk Management

EXPERIENCE:

• Advance computer literacy
• At least 3 years’ lecturing experience in a similar higher education role at a tertiary institution
• 3 years’ experience in industry
• Demonstrate research engagement over the last 3 years.
• Commercial or industrial related experience (minimum 3 year).
• Demonstrate innovative thinking towards teaching and learning skills.

RELATED KNOWLEDGE, COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS:

• Candidates must be familiar with higher, distance and online education.
• Demonstrated capability to lecture, conduct webinars at tertiary level in an effective manner in the core courses stipulated at the highest academic level.
• Up-to-date knowledge of curriculum areas being taught at the highest academic level.
• Demonstrated capacity to design set and evaluate assessments at the appropriate level for the relevant modules.
• Ongoing communication and feedback to students, team members and programme manager.
• High level of communication skills in verbal, written and electronic modes.
• Proven high-level administrative abilities.
• Possess sufficient breadth or depth of specialist knowledge in the discipline to develop teaching and/or research programmes and the provision of learning support.
• Use a range of delivery techniques.
• Candidates must display familiarity with the use of learning management systems.
• Candidates must have a working knowledge of the South African Higher Education Regulatory Framework.
• Curriculum and Programme content research, instructional design and development for online learning, and internal moderation.
• Assessment design, development, moderation and implementation.
• Student support and relationship management, effective and disciplined self-management, problem solving and creativity, critical thinking, and decision-making abilities.
• Candidates are expected to comply with pre-determined periods and deadlines.
• Candidates must present themselves confidently and demonstrate professionalism.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Project, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Internet and Email)
• Excellent writing and reporting skills
• Possess a high level of ethics and confidentiality.