Campus Head

**Direct Reporting Line**:
Managing Director

**Varsity College** is an educational brand of The Independent Institute of Education (The IIE). The IIE enjoys the reputation of being at the forefront of private higher education in South Africa and is registered with the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) to provide higher education qualifications accredited by the Council on Higher Education (CHE).

**The IIE's Varsity College, Westville Campus has a vacancy for a Campus Head.**

**Duties and Responsibilities**:
**Design, Implement and Monitor Progress of Overall Campus Plan**
- Compiles the annual campus plan based on the overall brand strategy.
- Sets and monitors realistic targets and forecasts for achievement of the annual plan.
- Operationalises the annual plan to support delivery.
- Tracks performance and adapts the plan to meet changing needs.
- Supports individual departmental plan development and consolidates to achieve the overall campus plan.

**Management of Academic Quality**
- Manages academic delivery for the campus by ensuring that policies and procedures are being complied with and implemented.
- Drives the improvement of modular success and throughput rates.
- Signs off on lecturer appointments, budgets and contracts working in conjunction with the Head: Academic.
- Sets standards for academic delivery and development of the Academic team to support performance requirements.

**Campus Total Marketing Strategy Management**
- Tracks weekly and monthly sales targets (Full Time and Part Time).
- Identifies medium and long terms growth opportunities for the brands and the site.
- Partners with the Sales Managers (Full Time and Part Time) to manage the sales processes by checking the methods adopted to market the campus and whether targets are being met.
- Manages site target setting with relevant national portfolios.
- Manages and plans stakeholder events to market the campus.
- Manages compliance to entry requirements and sets clear standards for achievement.

**Campus Financial Management**
- Compiles the overall campus annual budget including departmental inputs.
- Responsible for managing the budget and achieving defined goals set.
- Checks that the costs are contained within the budget allocated.
- Authorises quotes, purchase requisitions and electronic payments in line with procedures.
- Partners with the Head: Finance and Debtors Manager to ensure that debts are being collected and monitors the status of collections.
- Management of the registration contract cancellation process.

**Facilities Management**
- Manages the operation and security of computer facilities and checks that the Information Technology (IT) infrastructure is in accordance with policies and procedures.
- Oversight of Independent Contractors (cleaning and security) and compliance with Service Level Agreements (SLA's).
- Aligns the overall impression of the campus with brand equity by checking compliance to policies and procedures.
- Heads up Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) compliance on the campus.

**Student Satisfaction**
- Meets with student representatives at student forums to address student satisfaction issues.
- Monitors the sport and social offering on the campus by checking whether these are current and relevant for student satisfaction.
- Monitors the activities of the Student Services teams and sporting bodies by checking amongst other things the frequency of the activities during the year.

**Human Capital Management**
- With the support of the campus Senior Management Team the Campus Head is responsible for the overall leadership and management of the campus and ensuring that the campus is a high performing entity.
- Oversees the recruitment function for their respective campus in line with staffing capacity plans, budget and the set transformation targets.
- Oversees the performance management process for the campus in line with set deadlines.
- Driving training and development at a campus level in line with the needs identified in the Employee Development Worksheet and Talent Management System.
- Partnering with National HR to develop a succession plan for the identified critical positions on campus.
- Partnering with National HR for the annual salary increase process as well as the various incentive structures and processes.
- Responsible for dealing with and resolving all disciplinary and performance related issues on campus in a timeous manner in consultation with National HR.
- Responsible for driving and achieving the set Employment Equity targets for their respective campus.

**Competencies Required**:

- Business Acumen
- Advanced Communication
- Problem Solving
- Conflict Management
- Time Management
- Leadership

**Minimum Qualification Requirements**:

- Bachelors Degree (NQF Level 7). Bachelor Honours Degree (NQF Level 8) advantageous.

**Minimum Work Experience Requirements**

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- Minimum of 5 years Senior Academic Management Experience (Tertiary/FET) and minimum 5 yea