Critical Performance Areas:

• Providing academic leadership to staff and students in the Business School.

• Facilitating the learning processes and outcomes of the Business School.

• Lecturing on the MBA programme and involved in lecturing related activities.

• Directing and ensuring academic and industry engagement.

• Conducting, publishing, supervising and promoting research.

• Lead research activities including publications, presentations and writing of research proposals for funding.

• Manage the Human, financial and infrastructure resources of the research committee to ensure maximum efficiencies in the research and student outputs.

• As a senior member of the Business School, a professor must be active in promoting excellence and quality in teaching and learning, community engagements and research activities.

• Create a collegial environment of intellectual exchange and infuse critical scholastic rigor in the Business School, in general and in all the academic programs of the department in particular

• Assist the school’s leadership to manage student enrolment plans and success rates

• Evidence of contributions to the creation of knowledge, eg. Research and publications in accredited and non-accredited journals.

• Oversee and lead the supervision of Masters/MBA and/or Doctoral candidates.

Minimum Requirements

• NQF Level 10 (Doctoral Degree in Business Administration, Business Management, Management Sciences, Economics, Finance, Marketing, Human Resource Management, Strategic Management, Leadership, Entrepreneurship, or a closely related business-focused discipline from an accredited institution of higher education/university).

  
  

Experience:

• Five (5) years relevant experience at Associate Professor level and compliance with the policy on academic appointments and/or promotions.

• Good Business and Industry knowledge-especially in a consulting environment.

• Expert knowledge in the theory and application of relevant MBA disciplines.

• Experience at facilitating learning at both undergraduate and post graduate levels and adult learners.

• proven track record of supervising Master’s/MBA and/or Doctoral candidates to completion.

• Demonstrate capacity to lead and support postgraduate supervision in line with CHE and DHET accreditation requirements for MBA and Doctoral programmes.

• Full proficiency in English and strong written and communication skills.

• Excellent networking skills and the ability to work in a team.

• Research publications in DHET accredited peer reviewed journals.

• An NRF Rating will be an added advantage.