Research Coordinator at IIE MSA and IIE Varsity College

About the Job

• The IIE MSA Ruimsig Campus in Roodepoort has a vacancy for a Research Coordinator.

Duties and Responsibilities:
Embed the practice of research

• Support a culture of research scholarship at a campus level.
• Identify topics and drive campus research projects and implement regional interventions.
• Support the development and implementation of at least 2 collaborative research projects a year for the campus that will result in the submission of articles to peer-reviewed accredited journals on the DHET list and/or conference presentations.
• Responsible for compiling and chairing campus ethics committees and will report the outcomes to the NHDPM.
• Support research active staff with ethics clearance, identifying appropriate Journals to publish in or conferences to attend, Quality assurance and feedback.
• Work with campus librarians to support research active staff.

Promote and build a culture of scholarship

• Ensure that staff attend training and development sessions and provide formal and informal training, advice, and support to researchers and research administrators.
• Provide administrative support to research staff and contracts transcribers, statisticians, etc. to support research active staff where required.
• Organise a campus writing retreat during one of the semester breaks.
• Evaluate and coordinate requests to conduct research at campus level for academic staff and students.

Monitoring, Tracking and Coordination

• Monitor research output progress against campus targets.
• Follows up on the campus academic staff capture research activity on the Research Activity Tracker Database (RATS).
• Ensure that the Postgraduate Research Tracker is updated and that the required documents are uploaded.
• Organise campus colloquiums where staff planning on presenting at conferences will be able to present on campus to get input and feedback from experienced academics.
• Work with line-managers to plan when research-active academic staff can take research leave.
• Identify critical readers on campus who will provide constructive feedback on articles that will be submitted to accredited journals as part of quality assurance and will assist in contracting an editor if required.
• Collate, check and provide campus information for the biannual research progress reports.
• Build relationships with local industry and other Higher Education providers to work on collaborative research projects.
• Planning/Scheduling research related activities in the PG space.
• Liaise with the relevant schools to identify key role players (i.e. supervisors, readers, external examiners) as part of the M processes.
• Appointment of key role players (i.e. supervisors, readers, external examiners).
• Liaising with the relevant IIE CAT departments regarding external examination, sharing of reports etc.
• Following up with the relevant PMs in terms of student submissions.
• Assist with Turnitin reports and other relevant documentation require for examination.
• Assist with Turnitin reports for Research Associates prior to publishing.
• Keep academic training tracker updated for the RPGSU events.
• Ensure all students final research reports are available in the Information Centre.
• Ensure all student reports are available in the IIE Repository.
• Administer surveys to relevant parties after obtaining the required approvals.
• Coordinate PCC meetings with National and minute taking of RPGSU meetings.

Competencies Required:

• Strong Interpersonal and skills
• Exceptional communication skills-both verbal and written
• Analytical and problem solving skills
• Leadership abilities to guide, influence, motivate and develop staff
• Strong organisational, planning and time management skills.

Minimum Qualification Requirements:

• A Bachelors Degree (NQF level 7)

Minimum Work Experience Requirements:

• Minimum of 2 years relevant work experience in tertiary education sector. Must be an established academic leader and scholar with an excellent publication research track record.