Faculty Head – Business Management

Duties and Responsibilities:

Leadership:

• Provide academic leadership by creating and executing strategies to establish the Department as a leader in the discipline vis-à-vis competing with national and international entities
• To create and manage a positive educational environment for Head of Programme’s, Programme Co-ordinators and Facilitators and Lecturers.
• To be the visionary example for your faculty by leading the development of new innovative and future job content
• Establish professional relationships with international and national stakeholders.

Human Resource Management:

• To manage the recruitment, selection, and appointments of faculty members nationally.
• Manage and control the professional development of all faculty members.
• Quarterly Performance Reviews of Faculty members. Performance Manage staff as required by the  Performance Management policy and use the process to dev Coaching and mentoring of all faculty members, including disciplinary issues.
• Develop the personal and professional effectiveness of the appraisee(s).

Research:

• Fostering the pre-eminent role of research in the faculty and enhancing the capacity for outstanding research across all represented programmes.
• A minimum of 2 research output is to be produced annually in coordination with the HOPs and lecturers of the institute.

International Partnerships:

• Undertake, coordinate, implement and manage  academic -operational contributions and participation in agreed international partnership activities such as:
• lecturer exchange,
• student exchange visits and forums.
•  online events.
• meetings; and other actions.
• Liaise and coordinate with appropriate University/institutions contributing departments and stakeholders, and the Marketing and Communications Advisory teams and Marketing Events team as required

Quality Assurance:

• QA conducted on implementation of all academic policies and procedures per Faculty.
• Reporting as per the QA Calendar
• QA of LMS per Faculty.
• QA self evaluations completed in preparation for QA audits
• Comply to all criteria in the Faculty Internal QA Audits

Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in a relevant field within the faculty
• PhD degree is a recommendation.

Experience:

• Minimum of five years of relevant work experience at an Academic institution.
• Experience working with learning management system (LMS) platforms is preferred; familiarity with LMS requirements preferred.
• Experience working with Microsoft Dynamics and Microsoft Office 365.
• Relevant research and publications issued.
• Demonstrated experience managing projects and teams and working cross-functionally with technical and non-technical teams