Senior Lecturer

**Job purpose**

All academics are responsible for disseminating knowledge (teaching and learning), creating knowledge (research) and community engagement, recognising that there are differences in the execution of these responsibilities within the various departments and faculties. Academics are also expected to assume administrative, management and leadership duties at the AGCLE, Department of Philosophy, Faculty and University levels.

**Key Roles & Responsibilities**

**Teaching & Learning including**
- Engaging in curriculum development
- Facilitation of learning
- Assessment of learning
- Evaluation of teaching
- Support of students in their studies
- Supervision of postgraduate students (where the person has the appropriate qualification to do this)
- Assume leadership responsibilities as they related to teaching and learning

**Research**
- Undertaking independent research and publishing research
- Participating in national and/or international fora to share research results
- Identifying and accessing funding sources to support own and where feasible, student research
- Assumes leadership responsibilities as they relate to research

**Community Engagement**
- This may be associated with teaching and learning through credit bearing service learning (SL) courses or non-credit bearing community engaged learning activities, or associated with research through engaged research

**Administrative and/or Leadership responsibilities may include**
- Assuming administrative and/or leadership duties in the department such as course coordinator; coordination of particular programmes e.g., PhD, Masters programmes; coordination of particular research projects; tutor selection and coordination
- Serving on departmental, faculty and/or University committees

**Professional Involvement**

**In addition, it is understood that the academic will contribute to the discipline and profession through**:

- Being of service to other universities e.g., external examining, assisting with curriculum reviews, organising of conferences, collaborations on inter-university projects
- Being of service to professional bodies e.g., servicing on national bodies, journal servicing (being editor or referee)
- Being of service to other stakeholders such as government or NGOs e.g., servicing on advisory bodies, contributing to policy formulation and review

**Job Requirements**

**Educational Qualifications & Experience**
- A PhD in Philosophy or in Cognate disciplines
- Teaching experience at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels required
- Expertise in teaching and researching one or more of the following fields (expertise in cognate fields will be considered): feminism, theories of race, African philosophy, philosophical psychology, social psychology, social epistemology, behavioural economics, and existential phenomenology
- Research supervision of at least Masters degrees required. Supervision at PhD level is desirable
- Emerging national profile in discipline
- Some administration, management and/or leadership experience is desirable

**Competencies**
- Ability to develop a positive rapport and promote an affirming relationship with students
- Evidence of being an engaging teacher and/or reflexive practitioner with openness to change
- Ability to plan and write innovative course materials
- Integration of own research into teaching.
- Ability to develop a positive rapport and promote an affirming relationship with students
- Teaching of teenage and adult learners
- Creative approach to curriculum development
- Creative problem solving
- Good/ability to deal with strategic matters and equity issues
- The ability to think creatively and willingness to come up with unorthodox solutions to difficult problems
- An interdisciplinary approach to teaching and research
- Expert Knowledge of ethics
- Good record of publishing
- Record of presentations at national and international conferences
- Record of delivery and commitment to social justice activities
- Leadership in inter-disciplinary research projects and publication of co-authored papers
- Ability to present at national and international conferences
- Good record of delivery and commitment to social justice activities