Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor/Professor - Department of Public Law Faculty of Law (One Post) at University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria

Responsibilities
The incumbent will be responsible for:

• Teaching in and coordinating the following modules offered by the Department of Public Law at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, which involve taking a contextual and transformative approach:

1. Constitutional Law;
2. Human Rights Law;
3. Socio-Economic Rights.

• Conducting academic scholarly research;
• Engaging with the community through teaching, supervision and research that is embedded in and responsive to the African and South African social context;
• Having an in-depth understanding of own area of specialisation to enable development of new knowledge, innovation and understanding within the field;
• Supervising masters and doctoral students;
• Mentoring students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels;
• Academic administration and management;
• Performing other duties as delegated by the Head of the Department.

Lecturer

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• LLM (preferably by full dissertation) in the discipline of Constitutional Law or related areas in law;
• Evidence of community engagement being embedded in the candidate's research and/or teaching;
• Relevant tertiary teaching experience;
• At least two accredited publications in the last three years.

Senior Lecturer

• LLD / PhD degree in one of the abovementioned fields or related fields;
• At least five years’ tertiary teaching experience;
• At least eight accredited publications in peer-reviewed journals of which three should have been published in the three years preceding the year of application;
• Conference papers delivered;
• Evidence of successful supervision of at least two research master’s degrees or four coursework master’s mini-dissertations will be a strong recommendation;
• Evidence of community engagement;
• Proven record of academic administration and academic citizenship.

Associate Professor (Same As For Senior Lecturer, Plus)

• At least eight years’ teaching experience, including curriculum development, at a tertiary education institution;
• Experience in curriculum development;
• At least 16 accredited publications in peer-reviewed journals or chapters in scholarly books;
• Evidence of successful postgraduate supervision: four research master’s or six coursework master’s mini dissertations will be strong recommendations, as will be evidence of completed successful doctoral supervision or co-supervision;
• An appropriate NRF rating or identified by peers as an independent established researcher, at least at a national level.

Professor (Same As For Associate Professor, Plus)

• At least ten years teaching experience, including curriculum development, at a tertiary education institution;
• At least 30 accredited publications in peer-reviewed journals or chapters in scholarly books;
• Evidence of successful postgraduate supervision: six research master’s or 10 coursework master’s mini dissertations, or at least two completed successful doctoral supervisions;
• An appropriate NRF rating or identified by peers as an independent established researcher with international recognition;
• Active memberships of academic relevant local and international subject-related bodies, where applicable;
• Conference papers delivered internationally.

Required Competencies (skills, Knowledge And Behavioural Attributes)

• Ability to work independently and as part of a dynamic team;
• Good communication skills;
• Experience in national and international academic conferences, seminars and workshops;
• Ability to plan independently and initiate discipline-related research;
• An established network of collaborative researchers.
• Ability to prepare proposals and submissions to external bodies for funding and accreditation purposes;

Closing Date: 24th, June 2022