Teaching and Learning Specialist
2 weeks ago
The Faculty of Community & Health Science has a growing reputation as leading educational provider for both undergraduate and postgraduate professional programmes. The Faculty seeks to appoint a Teaching and Learning Specialist (Senior Lecturer level) who will be responsible for developing and facilitating the implementation of the various Teaching and Learning initiatives with the Faculty. The Teaching and Learning specialist forms part of the Inter-Professional Education unit who operationalises the Inter-Professional Education and collaborative practice initiative in the Faculty.
- Working closely with Departments with regards to the design and implementation of the teaching and learning strategies and interventions e.g. digitisation, learning technologies, cross universities collaborations etc.
- Assist Departments to internally review and reflect on their Teaching and Learning strategies.
- Collaborating with Departments to implement curriculum and academic literacy initiatives as well as facilitating the integration of academic literacy onto undergraduate and postgraduate curricula.
- Facilitating the development of disciplinary and faculty graduate attributes and monitor the incorporation of these into Teaching and Learning activities and assessment tasks.
- Facilitating and disseminating innovative prerogative practices with the Departments of the Faculty.
- Initiating and implementing professional staff development in the area of Teaching and Learning.
- Conduct research into the barriers of Teaching in the Faculty and developing strategies to address these.
- Promoting the scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the Faculty by publishing as well as collaborating with academics to publish in the field of Teaching and Learning.
- Limited relevant teaching and supervision.
**Minimum Requirements**
**Qualification and Experience**:
- A PhD degree preferably in cognate discipline and preferably in a Health Sciences Faculty.
- Evident of experience in key areas of Teaching and Leaning practice and theory in a higher education context.
- Record of publications in Teaching and Learning.
- Engagement of Scholarship on higher educational pedagogies and teaching.
- Experience in staff development and supporting the integration of teaching and learning activities into undergraduate and postgraduate curricula.
- The incumbent will also need to have a strong understanding of academic complexities of the Tertiary education environment.
**An added advantage**
- A PhD specifically in the area of Learning and Teaching.
**Key competencies**:
- Sound communication and interpersonal skills
- Facilitation and presentation skills
- Coaching and mentoring skills, with the ability to develop others
- Student focused approach
- Quality orientation
- Ability to use initiative and be innovative
- Planning and organising skills
- Computer literacy and e-learning skills-
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