Business Lecturer

**FACULTY OF: BMS**

**POSITION**:
LECTURER

**PURPOSE OF THE POSITION**:
**JOB DESCRIPTION AND RESPONSIBILITIES**:
**1. General**:

- Preparing and delivering lectures, tutorials, workshops, and seminars.
- Setting and grading assignments, tests, and exams.
- Attending and participating in meetings, conferences, and other events in and outside of the

Institution.
- All academic staff are expected to engage in activities associated with the Institution's promotion, marketing, and public outreach.
- Contribute to student recruitment, placements, and student retention.
- Administrative duties in areas such as admissions, timetabling, examinations, and assessment of progress and student attendance.
- Collaborating with other academics and lecturers to improve teaching methods and expand knowledge base.
- Participating in training opportunities and initiatives at the Institution.

**2. Student learning experience**:

- Use appropriate learning, teaching, support and assessment methods.
- Developing curricula and course material that can be used across several platforms.
- Supervise student projects and the academic elements of field trips, and, where appropriate, placements,

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University.

**3. Pastoral care**
- Be responsible for the pastoral care of students within a specified area.
- Providing support to other colleagues.
- Act as a mentor, giving first-line support to students.
- Appreciate the needs of individual students and their circumstances.
- Use listening, interpersonal and pastoral care skills to deal with sensitive issues concerning students and provide support.

**PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES**:

- Positive and enthusiastic and high personal standing and integrity.
- Ability to inspire students with your passion.
- An excellent communicator, both verbal and written.
- Results-driven, able to evaluate performance, provide the necessary support, take difficult decisions and hold people accountable.
- A team player paired with leadership skills and intellectual capacity to improve standards and student achievement/outcomes.
- Someone who drives excellence through valuing and developing others.
- An innovative thinker with an informed and critical awareness of the prevailing and evolving global trends in education.
- Able to work under pressure, with excellent organisational and time-management skills and high attention to detail with a willingness to take on multiple tasks.
- Proactive and able to prompt others to ensure deadlines are achieved.
- Adaptable with a flexible mindset and openness to new ideas.

**MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS**:

- A relevant Honors degree (NQF 8) in related field of study with sufficient breadth or depth of specialist knowledge in the related field.

Must be able to lecture the following modules:

- Economics
- Business Communication
- Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management
- Marketing Management
- Commercial Law

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Polokwane, Limpopo: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (required)

**Education**:

- Masters (preferred)