Progarmme Lead at University of Cape Town

The Hasso Plattner d-school Afrika at UCT is an education, training, and research school offering design-led thinking programmes to undergraduate and post graduate students registered at UCT and other higher education institutions. The school also offers professional executive programmes to the private and public sectors and community-based development practitioners.

• The d-school ‘s overall objective is to promote, train and capacitate individuals and organisations in the practice of design thinking as an enabler of innovation and new outcomes that can meet users' needs in complex socio-political and economic contexts.
• As a member of the d-school team, the Programme Lead will join an existing team responsible for the planning, managing and delivering of d-school programmes which include the Foundation programme, DT Week and the
• DTinAfrika programmes, as well as other programmes via face-to-face, online and hybrid teaching formats. This is a 3-year full-time contract position. As part of the successful delivery of programmes the role will work closelywith the other Programme Leads and coaches (full time and part time) and will report directly to the d-school’s
• Head of Programmes.

Closing date: 04 February 2026