Deputy Dean: Faculty of Law

**Varsity College**, **Vega School**, and **IIE MSA** are educational brands of **The Independent Institute of Education (The IIE)**. The IIE is widely recognised as a leader in private higher education in South Africa. It is registered with the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) and offers qualifications accredited by the Council on Higher Education (CHE).

**We are looking to appoint Deputy Dean: Faculty of Law.**

**Overall Job Purpose**:

- To support and assist the Dean in providing academic and strategic leadership, sound governance, development of academic capacity, and representation for the Faculty across the institution, its campuses, and other stakeholder groups.
- To support and assist the Dean in the alignment of the Faculty strategies, tactics, and operations, to the vision and mission of the Institution.
- To forge and strengthen links with external partners such as professional bodies, industry players, academia, and government in order to grow the Faculty’s academic credibility, gravitas and market share.
- To provide qualification-specific and discipline-specific focus to the Faculty, developing team cohesion and collaboration within these contexts.

**Duties and Responsibilities**:
**Academic leadership and management**
- Lead and manage the Academic Excellence of the Faculty in the Institution.
- Provide academic leadership for future-focused, innovative, and relevant undergraduate, post-graduate, and continuing professional development (CPD) of the Faculty if applicable.
- Facilitate collaboration with the Academic Centre of Excellence (ACE), internal and external institutions, and across Campuses.
- Inform the curriculum for qualifications and disciplines in the Faculty.
- Ensure timely delivery of academic material.
- Oversight of quality assurance within all aspects of the Faculty.
- Participate in key governance structures, processes, and committees.
- Ensure Faculty decisions reflect in Senate and other appropriate governance structures and processes to enable implementation.
- Ensure relevant, future-focused, innovative, and responsive Academic Community Engagement strategy and initiatives across the Faculty.
- Drive integration between the areas of Research, Teaching and Learning, and Community Engagement, as well as relevant evidencing.
- Facilitate alignment between the Faculty and other Institutional portfolios such as the Career Centre, Alumni, Student Engagement.
- Facilitate student engagement and participation in quality assurance.
Inform and oversee the implementation of relevant teaching and learning initiatives.
- Ensure Academic and Industry relevance (research, new/updated qualifications, professional bodies, industry/market research, innovation).
- Collaborate with team members to analyse, report on, and improve students’ academic results and success and guide appropriate interventions where necessary.
- Develop, implement and align the strategic plan for the Faculty in conjunction with the long-term vision of the Institution as a quality higher education provider.
- Contribute to/or assist in the development of new qualifications in collaboration with Faculty teams and ACE.
- Collaborate with Faculty teams, and National and Campus portfolios to develop appropriate initiatives within the Faculty school based on current industry, academic, and research trends.
- Collaborate with ACE, Faculty teams, and National and Campus teams to design an appropriate teaching model for the Faculty to provide optimal delivery of curriculum, teaching, learning and assessment.
- Provide leadership, in collaboration with the Faculty teams, to plan relevant resource allocation and budgeting for all aspects of running successful qualifications.
- Collaborate with National portfolios and ACE to develop the National and Campus academic teams for Faculty-aligned academic excellence
- Coordinate Heads of Qualification (HoQ), Discipline Leads (DL), and Module Leads (ML) across the Faculty, in conjunction with the Deputy Dean (DD).
- Provide specialist knowledge and support to the national marketing team for the development of a marketing strategy for the Faculty.
- Actively teach or supervise to serve as an exemplar in best teaching practice including scholarly activities such as setting and marking of assessments
- Oversee all aspects of the successful execution of the functions of the Deputy Dean(s) and Faculty Manager(s).
- Drive and participate in the development and implementation of academic and operational policies, strategies, and governance processes for the Faculty/School, at national, regional, and campus levels, aligned with the long-term vision of the Institution as a quality higher education provider.
- Provide input into broader institutional policies, strategic planning, and governance processes.
- Ensure that academic programs meet accreditation standards and other regulatory requirements, in collaboration with AQA.
- Prepare reports and documentation for accre