Open Jobs at University of the Witwatersrand

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the Dean to provide strategic leadership and effective management of the faculty.
• Oversee the Teaching and Learning portfolio of the faculty, including staff development, development and implementation of academic programs, policies and practices that enhance educational quality and student success.
• Oversee the undergraduate students affairs portfolio, in line with the university’s student’s success framework.
• Enhance student engagement and support services to improve overall student experience and outcomes.
• Drive research excellence by fostering a supportive environment for high-impact research and securing external funding.
• Lead faculty recruitment, development, and performance evaluations to maintain a dynamic and diverse academic team.
• Oversee the efficient management of financial resources and budgets.
• Promote a culture of academic integrity, inclusivity, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
• Represent the Faculty of Health Sciences in local, and international initiatives and establish strong external partnerships.
• The successful candidate will be appointed as Deputy Dean for a fixed term of 5 years, which is renewable for another 5 years subject to the applicable policy of the Faculty of Health Sciences. Should the appointee be from outside the University, the appointee will be transferred to a continuous academic post at an appropriate level within the appropriate discipline, at the end of the successful term/s of office.

Qualifications & Experience:

• A Ph.D. or equivalent qualification in a health sciences-related field. A qualification in Health Sciences Education will be an added advantage.
• Relevant experience in academic leadership and administration within a higher education setting, preferably in health sciences.
• Preference will be given to applicants who qualify for a professorial academic rank.
• A distinguished record of research, teaching, and service.
• Demonstrated leadership and management skills with a proven track record of driving academic and operational excellence.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills.
• A strong commitment to promoting transformation, diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Desired Skills:

• Strategic vision and the ability to implement innovative solutions.
• Capacity to inspire and motivate faculty, staff, and students towards shared goals.
• Expertise in curriculum development and academic planning in health sciences.
• Proficiency in financial management and resource allocation.
• A sound understanding of modern educational technologies including Artificial Intelligence.
• Experience in student governance, leadership and support.

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Brief Description        

• The Department of Interdisciplinary Arts and Culture Studies in the School of Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg, South Africa, is recruiting a Senior Lecturer.
• We invite applications from qualified candidates who share our lens of decoloniality and interdisciplinarity as the animating approaches across research and pedagogical interests. This encompasses interconnections between various professional degrees within the school and disciplines and beyond its borders.  These include, but are not limited to, studies traversing culture, identity politics, aesthetics, economics, science and technology, and an ability to engage broadly with these intersections in terms of representation and socio-political, historical and contemporary constructions of power relations. 

Minimum requirements:

• Candidates should hold a PhD in cultural studies, film or media studies, visual cultures, or disciplinary background related to the core teaching areas in the academic major, Film, Visual & Performing Arts. Candidates are expected to be active researchers with an established publication record, and have expert critical and current knowledge in one or more fields related to:
• modes of storytelling across media and cultures
• media / cultural studies, orientated towards South Africa and /or a Global South perspective
• the intersections of creative and traditional research modes
• creative practices and the creative industries
• Teaching experience at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels is essential and candidates should have experience in postgraduate supervision. 
• Candidates should also have relevant experience with administrative responsibilities at the departmental management level.

Recommended skills and experience:

• Experience in curriculum development in interdisciplinary culture studies and the creative arts as well as evidence of expertise in the scholarship of teaching and learning would be an advantage. 

Responsibilities:
The successful candidate will be required to:

• offer wide-ranging teaching across all years of study; 
• implement student-centred pedagogies for student development and growth; 
• supervise postgraduate students at Honours, MA and PhD level; 
• be research active in areas related to their expertise; 
• carry out administrative duties for the department, school and faculty (including a rotation in the role of Head of Department on confirmation of appointment)
• contribute to curriculum design and development 
• contribute to academic citizenship in the department and school
• take part in the intellectual and public life of the university

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Brief Description        

• The school is seeking a suitably qualified and experienced mining engineer for a Lecturer position in Mining Engineering.

Requirement:

• Applicants must possess a minimum of a Master's degree in mining engineering.

Advantages considered include:

• A Doctoral degree in mining engineering; Experience in different mining methods or environmental management;
• Registration as a candidate engineer or professional engineer or eligibility for professional registration;
• Teaching experience at university level; Research experience evidenced by an NRF rating, supervision and/or co-supervision of postgraduate research students, peer-reviewed publications, local and/or international collaborations;
• Evidence of any academic citizenship and service.

Duties:

• Duties will include undertaking personal research; undergraduate and postgraduate lecturing; supervision and/or co-supervision of postgraduate research students; participation in administrative activities of the school.

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Department Description        

• The Faculty of Commerce, Law, and Management (CLM) seeks to appoint a Quantitative Research Methodologies and Statistics Specialist at senior lecturer level within its Teaching and Learning Unit (TLU) on a three-year contract. 
• The primary focus of the job will be to develop strategies for enabling postgraduate students in the faculty to design and conduct research. This is primarily a teaching role that will focus on postgraduate researcher education. 
• Successful candidates must have: i) wide-ranging knowledge and experience of quantitative research methodologies, 
• a working knowledge of qualitative and mixed methods research methodologies, and
• an excellent command of research statistics and the use of statistics software. 
• The candidate would be expected to conceptualise, implement, and manage a range of faculty-wide initiatives/programmes to promote student success and throughput at postgraduate level.  
•  Whomever comes into this role will be required to work with the Head: CLM TLU and other key stakeholders from across the faculty (e.g., Qualitative Research Methodologies and Mixed Methods Specialist, CLM Head of Postgraduate Writing, Academic Director: Digital Learning, Assistant Dean: PG Affairs, research degree coordinators, and supervisors).

Brief Description        
Applicants are expected to have:

• a PhD
• exceptional quantitative methodologies and statistics knowledge and skills,
• a working knowledge of qualitative and mixed methods research methodologies,
• demonstrated experience of teaching research methodologies and statistics to postgraduate students with varying levels of aptitude  (experience in CLM disciplines would be an advantage),
• demonstrated experience of online and blended teaching (experience of working with Canvas would be an advantage),
• experience of supervising master’s students and/or PhD candidates to completion,
• an interest in teaching and/or research, which may be evidenced by research and publication in higher education (broadly), and/or research methods and/or the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL).

Key Responsibilities

• Conceptualise, implement, and manage a range of faculty-wide initiatives/programmes on quantitative research     methodologies and statistics that are responsive to the needs of postgraduate students, research coordinators,   supervisors, and relevant members of senior management.
• Support CLM postgraduates to learn how to conceptualise, design, and conduct research.
• Support CLM postgraduates to learn how to analyse, interpret, and consolidate quantitative data using relevant   statistics software.
• Consult with CLM postgraduate students and their supervisors about research and statistical analysis.
• Stay at the leading edge of contemporary thinking in higher education broadly and research methodologies specifically.
• Engagement and Interaction
• Participate in training, workshops, and symposia.
• Participate in relevant committees, working groups, and task teams.
• Build networks with relevant stakeholders, including supervisors, research degree coordinators, and relevant members of senior management.
• Interact with School and Faculty Graduate Studies Committees.
• Work with other members of the CLM TLU around strategy and crosspollination of initiatives

Key Competencies

• Evidenced proficiency in a range of quantitative research methodologies.
• A working knowledge of qualitative and mixed methods research methodologies.
• Proficiency in using and teaching SPSS and STATA (knowledge of or proficiency in other relevant statistics packages, including the        use of SAS, R, and/or Python, would be an advantage).
• Proficiency in the use of data collection tools (e.g., Qualtrics) and data management tools.
• Highly developed interpersonal skills appropriate to working effectively in a range of contexts and settings with students and staff           from  diverse backgrounds.
• Excellent English oral presentation, facilitation, and communication skills.
• Experience of working with online and digital technologies.
• Excellent organisational and project-management skills.
• Reliability and conscientiousness, with the ability to follow through with responsibilities.
• The ability to be self-directed: anticipating needs and taking initiative.
• The flexibility to adapt, and to optimise resources in an emerging/changing environment.
• The ability to work independently or in a team, and to manage multiple concurrent responsibilities.
• A high level of proficiency in MS Office and related applications, and in using learning management systems.

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Job Description

• The Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery in the Department of Surgery, invites suitably qualified Joint staff, interested in being part of a dynamic, growing academic division, to apply for this Academic Headship. This position would be suitable for those with a commitment to academic excellence and educational leadership in a multi-disciplinary environment, exceptional interpersonal skills, capacity for innovative and original thinking, ability to exercise a high degree of personal initiative in organising his/her own responsibilities and a commitment to working to deadlines calmly and efficiently.

Brief Description        
Qualifications:

•  A medical qualification, registerable with the HPCSA,
•  The candidate must be a specialist in Cardiothoracic Surgery and a full-time employee within the Wits Teaching platform (Current employees and Joint staff).
•  At least 5 years' experience as a Cardiothoracic Surgeon,
•  At least 5 years’ experience at mid-management level,
•  Appropriate teaching and research experience are essential requirements for the position, whereas a PhD would be advantageous.
•  The applicant must have demonstrated well-developed proven communication, organizational, problem solving, leadership and project management skills.
•  Must have the ability to manage change in the division.
•  Management experience, in particular academic activities of postgraduate and undergraduate students is a requirement,
•  Be at least at the level of Adjunct or Associate Professor, or qualify to be awarded the academic title, although other Cardiothoracic Surgeons, meeting all the above criteria may apply as well.

Duties:

• Lead and manage the discipline across all training facilities,
•  Formulate an academic vision and designs and execute both undergraduate and post graduate teaching in line with the vision,
•  Strengthen research in the division,
•  Provide tools and create an academic environment for optimal teaching and training for all categories of staff (academic and professional) and students, both under – and postgraduate,
•  Set teaching, training and research goals in collaboration with other members of the academic and clinical service staff,   
•  Formulates assessment tools for all academic programmes,
•  Benchmark academic outputs against national performance and identify opportunities to approve,
•  Collaborate with clinical heads in improving academic outputs,
•  Establish and maintain academic excellence,
•  Promote staff development and manage staff performance and assessment within the division,
•  Mentor academic and professional staff for promotion in the university,
•  Provide support to the divisions that are part of the department,
•  Work with divisional heads to ensure sound financial and Human Resources management,
•  Encourage collaboration between divisions working across the teaching platforms,
•  Chairs academic meetings in the division,
•  Attend divisional meetings at each of the academic training facilities,
•  Attend division/departmental/faculty and University committee meetings,
•  Participate in Faculty Board meetings,
•  Contribute to the leadership of cluster A by participating in the management structures,

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Brief Description        

Key tasks and responsibilities:

• Teaching of various Immunology topics to undergraduate and postgraduate students across various disciplines in the Faculty of Health Sciences, development of a research programme, writing grant applications and participation in all academic activities of the Department. 

The successful candidate must meet the following criteria:

• Lecturer Level
• Academic Qualifications
• PHD in Immunology, or any biomedical related field.  

Teaching Experience

• Teaching Immunology within a university setting (1-2 years). 
• Experience in employing various delivery modes to ensure high-quality teaching, learning practices and student experiences.
• Successful postgraduate supervision or co-supervision of at least one (1) postgraduate students at Master’s level.

Research

• Demonstrated research capability. A record of independent research publications would be advantageous.

Senior Lecturer Level

Academic Qualifications

• PhD in Immunology, or any biomedical related field.

Teaching Experience

• Teaching Immunology within a university setting (over 3 years).
• Experience in employing various delivery modes to ensure high-quality teaching, learning practices and student experiences. 
• Successful postgraduate supervision or co-supervision of at least two (2) postgraduate students at Master’s or PhD level.

Research

• At least eight (8) accredited original research publications, of which the applicant has to be first or senior author on at least four (4) publications.

Advantages:

• Evidence of grantsmanship.
• Research experience in immunology, tissue culture, working with human samples, flow cytometry or immunoprofiling assays.
• HPCSA registration.
• A formal qualification in Health Sciences Education.