Head of Academics

**Responsibilities**:
The successful incumbent will be expected to:

- Monitor and ensure the implementation of the academic strategy, standards, and policies on the campus.
- Build the academic culture on the campus.
- Be responsible for ensuring and promoting parity between the Academic Schools operating on the campus.
- Perform quality oversight of academic engagements.
- Support the Student Support function in developing the plan for student support and success on the campus.
- Take responsibility for managing the academic budget on the campus.
- Ensure that the academic resources on the campus, including the library and related systems, meet the CHE and academic programme standards.
- Manage, in collaboration with the Discipline Leaders, the lecturing staff requirements for the Academic Schools represented on the campus.
- Coordinate the effective and efficient roll-out of the general academic delivery on the Campus, based on the directives from the Head of School and the respective Discipline Leader.

**Minimum Requirements**:
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- Master’s degree
- 5+ years in an academic management position in a higher education environment
- 5+ years of lecturing experience in the appropriate mode

**Key Attributes**:
Knowledge of:

- Meticulous planner able to coordinate a multifaceted operation.
- Understanding change management and team building in the context of organisational culture

**Skills and Abilities**:

- Integrity
- Service delivery
- Outcomes-oriented management
- Strong leadership skills
- Strategic thinking
- Written and verbal communication and presentation skills