Associate Professor/ Senior Lecturer/ Lecturer: Financial Risk Management

Duties/Pligte **For appointment as Associate Professor**: - Teaching and developing undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Financial Risk Management. - Participating and taking a leading role in the Department's research activities in Financial Risk Management. - Supervision of postgraduate students. - Administration of the Financial Risk Management programme. - Assisting the Department with liaising with the financial industry and enhancing and expanding industry ties and collaboration. **For appointment as Senior Lecturer**: - Teaching and developing undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Financial Risk Management. - Participating in the Department's research activities in Financial Risk Management. - Supervision of postgraduate students. - Administration of the Financial Risk Management programme. - Assisting the Department with liaising with the financial industry and enhancing and expanding industry ties and collaboration. **For appointment as Lecturer**: - Teaching and developing undergraduate courses in Financial Risk Management. - Participating in the Department's research activities in Financial Risk Management. - Supervision of honour's students. Job Requirements/Pos Vereistes **The Associate Professor incumbent must meet at least requirements (1), (2) and (3) below**: - A PhD**in**the Mathematical Sciences (Financial Risk Management, Mathematical Statistics, Financial Mathematics or related fields). - An established research career, including publications in peer-reviewed journals. - Suitable experience supervising postgraduate students, including, but not limited to, master's students and full theses or dissertations. **The Senior Lecturer incumbent must fulfil any of requirements (1), (2) or (3) below**: **1**.**A master's degree in the Mathematical Sciences (Financial Risk Management, Mathematical Statistics, Financial Mathematics or a related field): - ** Including**at least five years' experience and engagement with public or private organisations, consulting activities, or policy that demonstrates management, leadership, expertise and/or thought leadership in the field of Quantitative Financial Risk Management/Analysis; and - A commitment to commence with a PhD in Mathematical Sciences (Financial Risk Management, Mathematical Statistics, or Financial Mathematics) within 18 months of appointment. 2. OR has**a PhD**in**the Mathematical Sciences (Financial Risk Management, Mathematical Statistics, or Financial Mathematics). 3. OR is**a recognised fellow of the Actuarial Society of South Africa with at least a master's degree. **For appointment as Lecturer**: - Completed/submitted for examination (by the time of appointment) of at least a Master's degree in Mathematical Sciences (Financial Risk Management, Mathematical Statistics, Financial Mathematics or a related field). - The ability to teach Financial Risk Management at undergraduate level. - Proven experience in discrete-time processes ("P quant"), including computer programming competencies in the same. Recommendation/Aanbeveling **For appointment as Associate Professor**: - Teaching experience at undergraduate and postgraduate level. - A reasonable history of publications in accredited journals, some international. - Computing skills in at least VBA, MATLAB, R, Python or SAS. - The ability to function effectively in a multilingual environment where Afrikaans and English are the dominant languages. **For appointment as Senior Lecturer**: - Teaching experience at undergraduate and postgraduate level. - An early career history of publications in peer-reviewed journals. - Computing skills in at least VBA, MATLAB, R, Python or SAS. - The ability to function effectively in a multilingual environment where Afrikaans and English are the dominant languages. **For appointment as Lecturer**: - Teaching experience at undergraduate level. - Computing skills in at least VBA, MATLAB, R, Python or SAS. - The ability to function effectively in a multilingual environment where Afrikaans and English are the dominant languages.