Research Director: Dces

2 weeks ago


Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa HSRC Recruitment Full time

Job Advert Summary:

Minimum Requirements:

  • A doctorate (PhD) in Social Sciences or related disciplines
  • Additional Management Qualifications
    _(e.g. MBA or equivalent)_ will be an added advantage
  • At least ten (10) years'
    _experience in managing and leading_ in senior research teams.
  • At least
    _5 years' experience at a strategic and senior management_ level in an academic environment or research institution
  • An academic leader with an
    _impressive and strong_ publishing record of at least 20 peer reviewed publications (books, books chapters, journal articles) of which several must be international and
    _first_ or
    _sole authored._

Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Lead, manage and coordinate various research themes, senior researchers and teams in the areas of Democracy, Governance & Citizenship, Sustainable Security.
  • Build visible national, continental and international research partnerships in the HSC area of specialisation that result in collaborative and multidisciplinary studies, high quality publications, evidence reviews and policy briefs.
  • Coordinate and review strategic plans and opportunities for fund raising to meet agreed upon targets for the team.
  • Together with the team and supported by the division's business development team foster concrete plans and activities for meeting the divisional goals and targets.
  • Ensure that grants obtained are strategic and focussed on publicoriented research in keeping with the HSRC's vision.
  • Manage the outputs of researchers in the team to ensure maximum impact of the HSRC.
  • Together with the Divisional Executive and Strategic Leads, spearhead formal government engagements through joint projects, partnerships, secondments, workshops and research dissemination.
  • Drive and enable a relationship of trust and influence in appropriate ways amongst all levels of research staff.
  • Actively forge research collaborations with Universities and Science Councils.
  • Ensure that each team member aligned to the designated theme of leadership is capacitated, managed, supported, mentored (if they are trainees) and motivated to ensure a highperformance team that meets strategic targets.
  • Actively promote and support talent management, succession planning, retention strategies and achieve equity targets.
  • Ensure that fair conflict and consequence management takes place.
  • Oversight for achieving delegated designated targets for the theme / subdivision.
  • Contribution to the division's risk profile and mitigation strategies.
Ensure that research grants are well managed and that good relationships with collaborators and grant making organisations/institutions are maintained.

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