Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor/Professor at University of the Free State

Duties and responsibilities: 

• Teach Industrial Psychology and Human Resource Management modules to undergraduate and postgraduate students.
• Conduct high-quality research, publish in accredited journals, and deliver quality research outputs in line with the faculty's research strategy.
• Provide supervision to postgraduate students, namely Honours, Master’s, PhD students, and professional industrial psychology interns.
• Provide leadership in pursuit of the department and faculty strategic plan with regard to research, teaching, engaged scholarship and leadership and administration.
• Perform academic administration pertaining to undergraduate and postgraduate subjects – this may include typing, setting, and marking all question papers and memorandums, recording marks and handling student complaints.
• Serve as a member of various academic committees and perform any other tasks allocated by the Dean and the head of the department.
• Develop and maintain strong collaborative relationships with relevant research, civil society, government, industry, and professional organisations.
• Contribute to curriculum development within the faculty.

Inherent requirements:

Senior Lecturer

• A relevant doctoral degree on NQF Level 10 in Industrial Psychology/Human Resource Management, or an equivalent doctoral qualification coupled with a Master’s degree in Industrial Psychology. 
• Proven record of teaching at undergraduate and/or postgraduate level.
• Proven experience in the presentation of papers/posters at national scholarly conferences.
• Proven national recognition for specialist expertise and research in a specific area of scholarship.
• An NRF rating or demonstrated potential for obtaining an NRF rating.
• Proven experience in supervision to completion of master’s degree students, and if registered as an Industrial Psychologist, industrial psychology interns.
• A proven research record of relevant publication/s in peer-reviewed national and international accredited scientific journals. 
• Proven experience of service as an active member of a national or international scholarly society or committee or agency concerned with research at higher-education levels.

Associate Professor

• A relevant doctoral degree on NQF Level 10 in Industrial Psychology/Human Resource Management, or an equivalent doctoral qualification coupled with a Master’s degree in Industrial Psychology. 
• Proven record of teaching at undergraduate and/or postgraduate level.
• Experience as external examiner for postgraduate students.
• Proven experience in the presentation of research papers at national conferences, where there is evidence of peer review of papers.
• Experience on the editorial board of a scholarly journal.
• Proven national recognition for specialist expertise and research leadership in a specific scientific area of scholarship.
• An NRF rating of C3 or equivalent status.
• Proven experience in supervision to completion of master’s degree students, and if registered as an Industrial Psychologist, industrial psychology interns.
• A proven research record of relevant publications in national and international accredited journals.

Professor

• A relevant doctoral degree on NQF Level 10 in Industrial Psychology/Human Resource Management, or an equivalent doctoral qualification coupled with a Master’s degree in Industrial Psychology. 
• Proven record of teaching at undergraduate and/or postgraduate level.
• Experience as external examiner for master’s-degree and doctoral students.
• Experience on the editorial board of a scholarly journal.
• Proven international recognition for specialist expertise and research leadership in a particular area of academic scholarship (for example, regularly serves as a reviewer for international/WoS/Scopus journals).
• A research record of relevant publications in high-quality national and international accredited journals.
• An NRF rating of C1 or C2 or demonstrate potential for obtaining the rating.
• Proven experience in supervision to completion of master’s degree and preferably doctoral students, and if registered as an Industrial Psychologist, industrial psychology interns.
• Proven experience in delivering keynote addresses at national scholarly conferences.
• Serve as a member of a national or international scholarly society or committee or agency concerned with research at higher-education levels.

Recommendations:

• Member of the South African Board of People Practices or the Health Professions Council of South Africa (attach a copy).
• Proven experience in supervising the completion of PhD students.
• Evidence of professional supervision of intern industrial psychologists.
• Evidence of application for funding in (multidisciplinary) research projects.
• Demonstrate potential in wider public engagement and dissemination of research.