Senior Lecturer (One Post),Department of Private Law,Faculty of Law at University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• The incumbents will be responsible for:
• Undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in Family Law, International Child Law, the Law of Persons and Education Law offered in the Department;
• Developing a research programme in an appropriate area of expertise or expanding existing research programmes in International Child Law and Education Law;
• Publishing research articles in the foremost national/international accredited journals;
• Participate in national and international conferences within the research focus areas;
• Supervising postgraduate master’s and doctoral students within the research focus areas;
• Performing assigned departmental duties (e.g. of an administrative nature);
• Community engagement in relation to the research focus areas;
• Representing the Department on Faculty committees as assigned.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• A doctoral Degree in International Child Law or closely related field;
• Three (3) years’ relevant Tertiary or vocational teaching experience, or five (5) years post-qualification experience in Child Law, Family Law, Education Law and Law of Persons or related field or proportionate combination of the aforementioned;
• Five (5) accredited or peer-reviewed quality publication outputs of which at least 2 must be sole authored;
• Two (2) conference papers delivered at either national or international conferences.

ADDED ADVANTAGES AND PREFERENCES:

• Experience in curriculum development and curriculum transformation is recommended;
• Successful supervision of at least 1 research master’s degree or 2 coursework master’s mini-dissertations will be a strong recommendation unless there are subject-specific factors that require deviation;

Other indicators of the quality and impact of a candidate’s research which will contribute significantly to the candidate advantage include (but are not limited to): 

• prestigious scholarly awards; 
• fellowships and research collaborations; 
• contribution to educational material in the field; citation by courts; 
• membership of national and international academic bodies and invitations to present keynote lectures. 
• Evidence of community and public engagement being embedded in the candidate's research and/or teaching will be a strong recommendation 

Proven record of academic and / or legal administration and academic citizenship will be a strong recommendation. This could include the following: 

• Journal review and editing; 
• Participation in departmental committees;
• Serving as external moderator or reviewer for other academic and non-academic institutions; 
• Guest lectures at other academic and non-academic institutions; 
• Any other engagements and activities which may broadly demonstrate academic leadership and citizenship.