Dean: Faculty of Education

Join Our Team at IIE Rosebank College

The Independent Institute of Education, Rosebank College, is part of the ADvTECH Group, Africa's leading private education provider. From our humble beginning in 1909, Rosebank College has grown to a student population of more than 30,000 students nationwide.

As we continue to expand and innovate, we invite passionate professionals to become part of our dynamic team. If you are driven by the desire to make a meaningful difference in students' lives and wish to contribute to an institution that values academic excellence, connection, and student success, we would love to hear from you.

Join us on our journey of shaping futures

**Overall Job Purpose**:

- To provide 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 ensure 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.

**Duties and Responsibilities**:
**Academic leadership and management**
- 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.
- Lead and manage the Academic Excellence of the Faculty in the Institution.
- Provide academic leadership for future-focused, innovative, and relevant undergraduate, post-graduate curricula, 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.
- 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 alignment of 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 Centre, Student Engagement etc.
- 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.
- 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.
- Provide strategic oversight and guidance to Deputy Dean(s) and Faculty Manager(s) to ensure the successful delivery of their functions.
- 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 docu