Dean of Faculty

3 weeks ago

Durban, South Africa ZBC Recruit Full time

**BACKGROUND**:
Our client commenced operations in 1990 and operates Higher Education, Technical, Vocational & Further Education Training, Distance Learning and Executive Education. Their campuses are located across major cities and burgeoning hubs in South Africa at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

**PURPOSE OF THE POSITION**:
The Dean of Faculty is the executive head of the group of programmes allocated to the Faculty and as academic leader, is accountable for the academic mission of a faculty, its strategic positioning and pursuit of strategic goals as derived from the Strategic and Business Plans of the Institution.

The Dean of Faculty is ultimately accountable for the regulatory compliance, academic delivery across sites, and responsible for the rollout of all academic programmes allocated to the Faculty. It is the dean’s responsibility to ensure that their faculty meets its goals to attract, retain and educate students for the evolving world of work and that the curriculum provisioning aligns to the changing trends and requirement. This position also will include accreditation, reaccreditation, review, delivery, academic assessments and audits. The exercise of leadership and managerial responsibility includes the following areas:

- Positioning the Programme and the Institution within the national education policy & regulatory environment and quality assures the Teaching for learning.
- Research, innovation and commercialization, relationship building and Community Engagement activities, by aligning them with the Integrated Quality Management Framework (IQMF).
- Achieving the academic and financial targets of the Department as determined in the annual strategic plan and budgets, as supplied by the GCAO.
- Promoting the Faculty locally and regionally and maintaining its viability.
- Ensuring the capacity development and quality promotion in respect of academic staff and learners.
- Authority to appoint replacement positions and recommends the promotion of staff.
- Establishment of partnerships with business, governments, academic and societal Institutions and Non-Profit Organizations (NPOs) for the creation of Work Integrated Learning opportunities.
- Ensuring that appropriate improvement plans developed through institutional or ETQA processes are implemented and progress reported monthly.
- Work collaboratively with other deans of the institution, across business units to embed standardized institutional practices and promote a cross-disciplinary research community.
- Actively support the GCAO on ongoing academic transformation projects.

**Academic Programmes**
- Overall planning, development, renewal, and review of Academic Programmes and qualifications allocated to the Faculty.
- Ensuring meaningful programme outcomes, quality, consistency in content curation and delivery effectiveness and financial viability.
- Responsible for implementation of the teaching and learning policy and strategy of the institute within the faculty.
- Approval of workload models at campuses offering programmes allocated to the Faculty.
- Ensuring, on a weekly basis, that the campus managers, programme managers and departmental heads are complying with the academic rollout of the programmes in the faculty.
- Ensuring that the existing Academic Programmes are in line with CHE requirements, and new Academic Programmes are designed for CHE Accreditation.
- Aligning industry professional qualifications to competency frameworks that will satisfy CHE requirements.
- Co-designing and operationalizing the Induction of new students and providing orientation regarding the activities of the faculty.
- Optimizing student access, success, throughput rates and grant credit exemption per programme within the Faculty.
- Retaining returning students in accordance with the enrolment planning objectives of the Institution.
- Ensure academic calendar is adhered to by all campuses.
- To provide leadership in programme roll out so that parity and uniformity is adhered at all campuses.
- Provide guidance in ensuring the programme outcomes are adhered to.
- To ensure that class visits and lecturer evaluation is taking place at campuses.
- To review and ensure that assessment, timetabling, exam processing and verification, etc. are in line with our organisational assessment policies and procedures.
- Ensure the Learner performance for the programme is tracked, analyzed and effective intervention strategies are provided to improve the areas of weak performance.
- To engage in research activities that enhances the depth of academic deliverables in the programme.
- To prepare the Documents that are prescribed by the Curriculum Innovation, Design & Development (CIDD) process for the programme.
- Ensuring that the programme curriculum, rollout and syllabus are consistently and timeously provided to all the campuses that are offering the programme.
- Ensuring the library provisioning for the programme is adequate at every campus.
- Ensure tha

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