Lecturer at University of Cape Town

Requirements

• PhD (Completed or Under examination) in a Humanities-based or social science discipline, with strong connection to the interests of African feminist histories and debates Subject matter expertise in African queer studies, sexuality, eco-feminisms, or feminist economics
• Evidence of sufficient experience as a researcher committed to engaging questions of feminisms, African-centered issues, and continental intellectual trajectories.
• Evidence of sufficient experience in academic teaching and supervision or mentoring/coaching and academic administration
• Evidence of sufficient experience where African feminist issues have been a core part of the work, (appropriate to the level of appointment).
• Publications at the appropriate level and quality for the position
• An emerging profile of continental academic, networking, and research work
• A record of community-engaged activist work
• An interest in working to strengthen and build the Department of African Feminist Studies within UCT and beyond.

Advantageous:

• A record of academic work which bears witness to transdisciplinary interests
• Experience in digitally-based engagement with intellectual work
• Fluency in more than one South African language as a language of research/teaching
• An interest in deepening discourse and practice on the decolonial within South African higher education
• Some experience of fund-raising, to support research interests which include those of postgraduates
• Some experience in participation in academic management and leadership and university governance

Responsibilities:

• Research within the candidate’s own field, and concomitant publications at the position’s level
• Teaching, convenorship, and supervision within the Department at undergraduate and postgraduate level
• Strong participation in team building and programming within the department
• Participation in Faculty, and other UCT governance constituencies, in contributing to UCT’s transformation and growth.

Closing date: 07 May 2023