The Independent Institute of Education is South Africa’s largest registered and accredited private provider of higher education. The IIE is also internationally recognised by the British Accreditation Council.
Varsity College, a brand of The IIE, leads in the provision of these exciting learning initiatives of The IIE. The IIE is registered with the Dep...
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Duties and Responsibilities:
Student Life
- Contributes to the identification of co-curricular, extracurricular, and meta-curricular campus activities, with final decisions made by the line manager, and takes the lead in planning and executing approved initiatives that support the Institution’s strategic objectives.
- Identifies and selects of student life: social and cultural groups, clubs, associations and affiliation groups and services and applies insights to improve student participation, sustainability and longevity.
- Plans and executes student life: social, cultural groups, clubs, associations, affiliation, and interest groups and services and applies insights to improve student participation, sustainability and longevity.
- In collaboration with the Head: Student Experience, student experience, operations and academic portfolios ensures the campus calendar of events reflects equitable academic and non-academic offerings on the campus calendar.
- Identify and analyze current and potential non-curricular participation initiatives.
- Works with internal academic stakeholders to improve participation opportunities commensurate with faculty goals and objectives.
- Collaborate with the Head: Student Experience and academic stakeholders to co-design and deliver inclusive student life initiatives such as clubs, societies, and affiliation groups that support both academic goals and a sense of belonging. These initiatives are guided by participation insights, align with the institutional calendar, and are designed for long-term relevance and impact.
- Evaluates and mitigates health, safety and risk protocols and procedures against campus events, offerings, and programmes.
- Ensures non-curricular offerings uphold the Combined Institution/University commitments to equality, diversity and inclusion.
- Support the Manager: Student Life with interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary projects, events and activities.
- Support the Head: Student Experience with interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary projects, events and activities.
- Engage with external stakeholders, networks and partners (both current and potential) in order to enhance opportunities and pathways for engagement of social, cultural, clubs, societies, associations and interest groups.
- Identify, recruit and onboard the campus Student Life Squad to ensure student receive an inclusive and comprehensive student/campus life experience.
- Provides mentorship and leadership opportunities for the campus Student Life Squad such as workshops, developmental training and events.
- Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure successful event planning and execution.
Awareness and Communication
- In collaboration with the line manager, develops, contributes, and implements effective communication strategies to promote campus activities, events, and opportunities, with the aim of maximizing awareness and participation.
- Brief campus staff and external services providers on events. This includes but is not limited to photographers, printers, sound technicians, venue providers.
- Utilize omnichannel communication platforms, to promote, maintain and market student life: social, cultural, clubs, societies, associations and interest groups.
- Plan and develop multimedia communication elements for usage on omnichannel communication platforms.
- Support internal roll out of communication and awareness campaigns and elements.
- Liaise with national marketing and communications teams to support brand exposure targets.
- Support and ensure student awareness and communication elements are brand identity aligned.
Budget Management
- Analyzing the resources needed to fulfil social, cultural, clubs, societies, associations, and interest group support obligations.
- Monitoring expenditures compared to budgets and taking needed corrective action to assure budgetary integrity
Reporting and Advocacy
- In collaboration with the Head: Student Experience ensures sustainable student representation and governance of student life: social, cultural, clubs, societies and association student leaders on student representative councils.
- Monitor and reporting on student life, social, cultural, clubs, societies, associations, affiliations and interest trends and factors against establish success metrics.
Minimum Qualification Requirements:
- Minimum of Bachelor’s degree (NQF Level 7) or equivalent in areas such as education, communication psychology or business.
Minimum Work Experience Requirements:
- Minimum of 2 years event management, stakeholder management and Project management experience.
- Minimum of 1 year Budget management experience
- Minimum of 1 year risk assessment and management experience.
Ideal Work Experience
- Proven experience in co-curricular programme offerings and student governance
- Occupational Health and Safety experience advantageous.
- Experience in communication elements development and execution
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Duties and Responsibilities:
Presentation Target
- Deliver engaging presentations at targeted schools, showcasing the benefits of our institution.
- The ability to deliver a great presentation to potential students is crucial.
- Distribute marketing materials and interact with students to generate interest and enquiries.
- Represent our brand at career expos and other stakeholder events.
- Achieve monthly presentation targets as per school priorities.
Database Collection
- Meet monthly targets for collecting school databases to expand our reach.
Interview Target
- Make proactive calls to prospective students, scheduling interviews to meet daily and weekly targets.
- Follow up on online applications, ensuring proof of payments and scheduling appointments.
- Provide prompt responses to online and telephonic enquiries.
- Conduct interviews following an established script, building rapport with students and parents.
- Achieve individual targets for weekly, monthly and annual interviews.
Application Target
- Assist students with the online application process during interviews, securing applications on the spot.
- Follow up with unpaid online applications and ensuring payment is completed.
- Conduct regular calling campaigns to convert interviews into applications.
- Drive application acceptance and pre-registration fee payment.
- Achieve individual targets for weekly, monthly and annual applications.
Registration Target
- Support the campus by converting applications to registrations to achieve the annual campus registration target.
Administration and Reporting
- Maintain accurate daily reports, including call reports and interview booking trackers and the CRM system.
- Ensure interview forms are completed correctly and applications have valid supporting documentation.
- Update relevant systems and reports as required by the Head: Student Recruitment.
Minimum Qualification Requirements:
- 3 Year Diploma / Bachelors Degree (NQF level 7) in Business / Marketing / Public Relations / Communication field or similar
Minimum Work Experience Requirements:
- Minimum of 2 years sales experience
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Duties and Responsibilities:
Presentation Target
- Deliver engaging presentations at targeted schools, showcasing the benefits of our institution.
- The ability to deliver a great presentation to potential students is crucial.
- Distribute marketing materials and interact with students to generate interest and enquiries.
- Represent our brand at career expos and other stakeholder events.
- Achieve monthly presentation targets as per school priorities.
Database Collection
- Meet monthly targets for collecting school databases to expand our reach.
Interview Target
- Make proactive calls to prospective students, scheduling interviews to meet daily and weekly targets.
- Follow up on online applications, ensuring proof of payments and scheduling appointments.
- Provide prompt responses to online and telephonic enquiries.
- Conduct interviews following an established script, building rapport with students and parents.
- Achieve individual targets for weekly, monthly and annual interviews.
Application Target
- Assist students with the online application process during interviews, securing applications on the spot.
- Follow up with unpaid online applications and ensuring payment is completed.
- Conduct regular calling campaigns to convert interviews into applications.
- Drive application acceptance and pre-registration fee payment.
- Achieve individual targets for weekly, monthly and annual applications.
Registration Target
- Support the campus by converting applications to registrations to achieve the annual campus registration target.
Administration and Reporting
- Maintain accurate daily reports, including call reports and interview booking trackers and the CRM system.
- Ensure interview forms are completed correctly and applications have valid supporting documentation.
- Update relevant systems and reports as required by the Head: Student Recruitment.
Minimum Qualification Requirements:
- 3 Year Diploma / Bachelors Degree (NQF level 7) in Business / Marketing / Public Relations / Communication field or similar
Minimum Work Experience Requirements:
- Minimum of 2 years sales experience
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Duties and Responsibilities:
Lecturing
- Lecture on Management specific programmes (must lecture on an IIE qualification) across various modes of delivery where relevant.
- Marking of assessments and feedback to students in subjects lectured. May be required to internally moderate assessments scripts that fall within their subject fields, where necessary across IIE sites of delivery.
Lecturer Development and Support
- Assist in lecturer development and support processes and procedures. This may include conducting peer reviews, facilitating workshops and one-on-one consultations.
Student Development & Support
- Championing/leading and managing academic development and support for a specific programme and its students.
- Tracking student success and implementing support interventions where required.
Research & Scholarship
- The incumbent is required to promote a culture of scholarship within their practice, discipline and campus/team and is also required to contribute towards IIE Varsity College achieving its annual research output targets.
Minimum Qualifications Requirements:
- Masters degree / MBA in Business Management or related discipline - Marketing Management, Strategic Management, Project Management and Financial Management.
Minimum Work Experience Requirements:
- Minimum of 2-3 years Teaching and Learning experience at a tertiary level.
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Duties and Responsibilities:
Lecturing
- Lecture on programmes (must lecture on an IIE qualification) across various modes of delivery where relevant
- Marking of assessments and feedback to students in subjects lectured. May be required to internally moderate assessment scripts that fall within their subject fields, where necessary across IIE sites of delivery
Lecturer Development and Support
- Assist in lecturer development and support processes and procedures. This may include conducting peer reviews, facilitating workshops and one-on-one consultations
Student Development & Support
- Championing/leading and managing academic development and support for a specific programme and its students
- Tracking student success and implementing support interventions where required
Research & Scholarship
- The incumbent is required to promote a culture of scholarship within their practice, discipline and campus/team and is also required to contribute towards The IIE’s Varsity College achieving its annual research output targets
Minimum Education Requirements:
- Minimum of a LLM
- Preferably an admitted attorney/advocate or in possession of any relevant legal professional title
Minimum Work Experience Requirements:
- Minimum of 2 to 3 years of lecturing experience (on law qualifications)
- Minimum of 3 years industry experience
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Duties and Responsibilities:
Academic Leadership, Management & Campus Support
- Overall leadership and management of the School on campus.
- Manage the interface with the Head of School.
- Plan resource allocation for the academic operations of all programmes within the School on campus.
- Review academic results of all students within the School on campus and implement an appropriate teaching and learning strategy for "At risk" students and "At risk" modules.
- Manage academic counselling and support to students within the school on campus.
- Report on the academic performance of the School on the campus to Head: Academic, Campus Head and Head of School, and any other relevant national staff member.
- Drive the implementation of relevant teaching and learning initiatives within the School on campus.
- Support the development of new programmes for accreditation.
- Support development of academic material and assessments on programmes within the School by acting as developer, module leader, moderator or head of programme for the Central Academic Team (CAT).
- Performance management and development of permanent academic staff within the School on campus.
- Manage lecturer development in consultation with the Teaching and Learning specialist.
- Ensure representation of the school on the Programme Co-ordination Committee (PCC) calls.
- Discipline Module Support role.
- Support the Teaching & Learning Specialist in the management of the peer review process and the internal moderation model.
- Provide specialist support to the campus senior management team for all programmes within the School.
- Provide specialist support to the campus operations team responsible for the operation of all programmes within the School on campus.
- Lead the recruitment, selection, and appointment of the academic team of the School within the campus.
- Provide support to the campus marketing team with specialised knowledge of the programmes with the School.
- Manage the Development Task.
- Manage plagiarism offences and disciplinary procedures.
- Manage and oversee the school's role in National/campus initiatives, such as Summer School, Saturday School, Speed Week, RESTART, 6 Week Student Engagement Programme, Numeracy Tutorial Sessions, Elevate.
- Involvement in, and management of, academic support and administrative duties during the campus registration period.
- Supervision of students on Honours programmes (where applicable).
- Manage the student tracking process.
- Conduct Student consultations.
Industry, Professional Management & Building Partnerships
- Develop and maintain relationships with professional industry to support placement of students, bursaries and sponsorships and access to professional expertise.
- Facilitation of and involvement in professional and scholarly activities e.g. Conference Papers and Higher Degree Studies.
- Organise campus events for the School to promote professional industry relationships.
- Represent The Independent Institute of Education (The IIE) and The IIE's MSA at professional institutions, on external partner faculty boards and other relevant committees.
Lecturing
- Lecture up to 100 hours OR 2 modules per semester (including supervision). If engaged in approved formal research activity then you will be required to lecture 1 module per semester.
Research & Scholarship
- The incumbent is required to promote a culture of scholarship within their practice, discipline and campus/team and is also required to contribute towards The IIE’s MSA achieving its annual research output targets.
Minimum Qualification Requirements:
- Masters or equivalent in relevant School (NQF Level 9) in Information Technology or Computer Science.
- Specialist in Programming is advantageous
Minimum Experience Requirements:
- Minimum of 3-5 years Teaching and Learning experience (preferably in teaching environment).
- Minimum of 2 years management experience
- Must have an understanding of the current regulatory framework and its impact on higher education and private colleges.
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Duties and Responsibilities:
Support & Development of Lecturers on campus
- Design of the lecturer development process through the following:
- Analyse LMS analytics and facilitate feedback to lecturers.
- From LMS Analytics, ensure benchmarks are in place to improve lecturer LMS engagement.
- Provide input for peer reviews evidencing continuous Tech development plans.
- Implement training workshops for Independent Contractors (IC's) and permanent lecturers development on LMS.
- Implement On-boarding training for new IC lecturers and permanent academics.
- Collaborate with Other Educational Technologists in the team: in planning, brainstorming and problem solving on Blended Learning matters & LMS issues, as well as providing support for each other due to leave, vacancy or capacity issues.
- Engage and collaborate with the Ed Tech team, campus Academic team and National Educational Technologist to ensure a planned and effective training strategy.
Quality Assurance of EDTECH Experience on Campus.
- Assess effectiveness of LMS training for students across programmes.
- Evaluate the ability of students to log on, navigate and engage on LMS.
- Assess level of progress made by lecturers on development plans and report on areas of improvement and risk.
- Evaluate effectiveness of workshop material for student support workshops (LMS, SafeAssign, etc.), and provide updated material where necessary, including material for the Knowledge Base Resource Centre on LMS.
Promoting Online Engagement Culture on Campus.
- Implements and supports policies and The IIE Teaching and Learning (T&L) strategy regarding Ed Tech adoption.
- Assist in the management of change related to the educational technology strategy.
- Promote online engagement on campus by building communities of best practice.
- Adopts evidenced based decision making and planning.
- Drives uptake of contemporary developments in T&L for the lecturers with a focus on blended learning strategies.
- Supports T&L discussion on campus amongst peers through a range of mediums, focusing on the blended mediums but supporting the T&L drives.
Online Facilitation
- Lecture one module per semester. Facilitates 1 module per year for the Online Centre (optional)
EDTECH Development
- Keep up-to-date with current local and international industry benchmarks (in relation to teaching in Blended Learning environments), attending online courses (e.g. MOOCs, Conferences, etc.), training and reading material related to this.
Research & Scholarship
- The incumbent is required to promote a culture of scholarship within their practice, discipline and campus/team and is also required to contribute towards The IIE’s Varsity College achieving its annual research output targets.
Minimum Qualification Requirements:
- Bachelors Degree with either Postgraduate Diploma/ Bachelors Honours Degree (PGDip with IT related subjects in the curriculum, or PGCE or equivalent)or appropriate experience. Higher postgraduate qualification (Med; MA; Mphil; PhD) Ideal.
Minimum Work Experience Requirements:
- If no Postgraduate qualification, Minimum 2 years as Educational Technologist experience, and 1 year lecturing/teaching experience.
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Key Performance Areas:
- Prepare for lectures based on provided content. Supplement content with own expertise. Deliver assigned modules to the stated outcomes and contracted hours. Mark student assessments and provide constructive feedback. Support student academic success by implementing workshops where needed. Perform academic admin, such as capturing assessment marks and reporting on student success. Provide content feedback. Engage with professional development opportunities and attend initial training sessions.
Minimum Qualification Requirements:
Ideal:
- Honours qualification (HEQS 8) with Photography as a 3-year stream/ major in undergraduate qualification.
- Experience in different genres of photography and introduction to video for DSLR, understanding natural light, studio, video lighting and speed light photography. Experience with using a LMS to teach in a blended learning context. Sound recording for video. Understand social media application for self-promotion.
Minimum Work Experience Requirements:
- The candidate needs to have a strong portfolio and at least 3 years working experience as a photographer and a social media content creator for video.
- Strong portfolio on different genres of photography as well as video productions (Needs to show active portfolio)
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