Professor and Academic Director (Post Level 5) at Stellenbosch University

Duties    
The Professor and Academic Director is expected to:

• Interpret and operationalise the academic components of the SBS and Stellenbosch University (SU) strategies.
• Facilitate academic strategy development and lead progress management over a five to ten year horizon, including teaching and learning, research, and programme innovation, ensuring social impact is embedded as a strategic dimension of programme design and delivery.
• Chair and shape the academic structures and decision-making processes required for responsiveness and agility.
• Lead and mentor the academic team to enable global academic excellence and high-impact research.
• Define and promote an inclusive, future-fit curriculum with articulation pathways, micro-credentials, and alignment to business and societal needs.
• Craft and enforce the academic goals of SBS's internationalisation agenda, strategic partnerships, and accreditation efforts
• Serve as the School's academic ambassador locally and internationally.
• Drive performance management, human capital development, and succession planning among academic staff.
• Work closely with marketing, operations, finance and human resources to ensure academic sustainability and strategic budgeting.
• Where required, actively engage in teaching, supervision, and scholarly research.

Job Requirements    

• PhD in an Economics and Management Sciences related discipline awarded by a recognised university.
• Senior experience and engagement with public or private organisations, consulting activities, and/or policy that demonstrate management, leadership, expertise and/or thought leadership.
• Evidence of academic leadership in a domain which may include a reasonable number of sole and/or first authored papers, evidence of publications in high impact or highly ranked journals, and the impact of the applicant's own work as reflected in h-indices such as Google Scholar, Scopus and Web of Science.
• Seven subsidy-bearing research credits based upon all credit-worthy academic output.
• Evidence of ongoing research productivity.
• International and national conference participation.
• Proven record of successfully completed PhD and Master's degree supervision.
• Evidence of international and/or national recognition as researcher (peer reviews).
• A teaching portfolio reflecting quantitative and qualitative teaching performance which displays evidence of the scholarship of teaching, as well as evidence of teaching- and learning leadership, relevant to the level of the academic rank.
• External service-rendering and social impact relevant to the academic rank.
• Three to five years' demonstrated track record of academic leadership.
• People management skills.
• Financial and operational experience in managing budgets and academic projects

Closing Date 16-Mar-2026