Manager: Academic Programmes
1 week ago
Duties/Pligte
**Management responsibilities: Directly managing the undergraduate and postgraduate managers and the contractors supporting them**:
Tasking, reviewing, adjusting and monitoring the activities and workload of the undergraduate and postgraduate managers;- Performance management of the undergraduate and postgraduate managers;- Reviewing and continuously improving the effectiveness of all academic administrative processes;- Providing status reports on the activities of the undergraduate and postgraduate managers;- Planning resource loading of the undergraduate and postgraduate managers;- Assisting the undergraduate and postgraduate managers during peak times;- Identifying additional resource(s) to contract in if required.
**Postgraduate management of the Department's PhD students**:
Managing the admissions process of PhD students;- Managing the PhD proposal acceptance process;- Managing the PhD examination process;- Maintaining the PhD student data on internal systems and the annual calendar of PhD events;- Optimising and integrating the management of PhD students into existing postgraduate processes as part of the overall management optimisation process.
**Departmental marketing**:
Responsible for the recruitment of postgraduate students, utilising the relevant postgraduate managers and coordinators of all postgraduate programmes in the Department;- Responsible for the marketing and recruitment of short course programmes by using the relevant postgraduate manager;- Responsible for the recruitment of undergraduate students by using the relevant undergraduate manager and coordinator. This includes marketing the programme, school campaigns,- Marketing to alumni and industry by interacting with staff and the chairperson. This includes organising the Department's participation in the Faculty industry open day,
*** the alumni database, and social media presence;- Being the liaison in the Faculty's Marketing Committee, representing the Department.
**Performing ad hoc duties determined by operational imperatives.**:
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A full job description for this position is available upon request._**
Job Requirements/Pos Vereistes- Bachelor's and postgraduate qualification, with at least five years' relevant experience in academic programme management,
- **OR** a BEng with at least five years' experience in process improvement and / or
project or programme management in a business environment;Previous management experience;- Past administrative experience of undergraduate or postgraduate programmes;- Planning, organising and prioritising skills;- The ability to work under pressure;- Intermediate-level skills in MS Word, MS Excel, and MS Teams;- Intermediate-level skills in cloud computing, including MS SharePoint;- Interpersonal skills and an engaging personality;-
- The ability to be physically present in the office in Stellenbosch full-time.
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Applicants must supply a cover letter detailing how they satisfy the requirements listed above._**
Recommendation/Aanbeveling- The ability to function effectively within a multilingual environment;- Understanding the student administrative systems at SU (SUN Student and Legacy);- Experience in marketing academic programmes and successfully recruiting students;- Marketing experience through various marketing channels.
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