Head: Creative Studios and Communication

**UP Professional and Support**:
DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION INNOVATION

POST TITLE: HEAD: CREATIVE STUDIOS AND COMMUNICATION (ONE POST)

PEROMNES POST LEVEL: 05- The University of Pretoria's commitment to quality makes us one of the top research Universities in the country and gives us a competitive advantage in international science and technology development._

RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Provides strategic leadership in managing a functional team, overseeing graphic, and video support while managing the Creative Studios;
- Responsible for Institutional Teaching and Learning (T&L) marketing, including publications, reviews, and website management, in collaboration with Faculties and the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (DVC) Academic;
- Collaborate with Faculties and Deputy Deans T&L to align marketing initiatives with faculty-specific teaching and learning priorities;
- Develop and implement strategies to enhance the visibility of the University’s Teaching & Learning achievements across multiple platforms, including social media, institutional publications, and the University’s website;
- Leads Education Innovation (EI) departmental marketing, including managing the website, Annual Report, and key teaching and learning events, such as the Flexible Futures Conference;
- Manage institutional multi-stakeholder projects;
- Benchmark trends in the field of video and technology and related areas;
- Compile divisional personnel, capital, and operational budgets on an annual basis;
- Ensure that appropriate financial processes and controls exist for the management of funds;
- Manage annual budgets and control income and expenditure through monthly reports;
- Manage and guide contractual agreements with service providers.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

- Relevant Masters’ degree or equivalent qualification;
- Six years of work experience in video/visual technology, marketing /communication, preferably in a Higher Education environment;
- Five years of project/line management experience in the field, preferably in a Higher Education context.

REQUIRED COMPETENCIES (SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND BEHAVIOURAL ATTRIBUTES):

- High level of ICT skills in Higher Education;
- Knowledge of IT networking;
- Financial knowledge;
- The integration of Technology in Education;
- High level of marketing and communication knowledge;
- Ability to develop and maintain effective relationships with others to encourage and support communication and teamwork;
- Skill and ability in coordinating, facilitating, and participating in a collaborative approach to the completion of tasks or assignments;
- Ability to motivate and engage employees through effective communication;
- Ability to identify and develop objectives, methods, and quality control measures;
- Ability to assign work and to establish work rules and acceptable levels of quality and quantity of work;
- Ability to measure and evaluate work processes, services, and products to achieve organisational goals;
- Ability to identify problems, determine possible solutions, and actively work to resolve the issues;
- Ability to make decisions without regard to personal prejudices, biases, and experiences;
- Ability to explore alternatives and positions to reach outcomes that gain the support and acceptance of all parties;
- Possesses the initiative and drive to set and achieve goals independently;
- The ability to project confidence and a trustworthy image with a combination of all the qualities that are connected with trained and skilled people;
- The ability to prioritise tasks to ensure their completion within designated timeframes;
- The ability to allocate attention and resources to complete multiple tasks simultaneously;
- Ability to use the results of strategic analysis to establish and commit to a course of action to accomplish long-range goals or the vision of the organisation;
- Ability to take action consistent with available facts, constraints, and anticipated consequences;
- Knowledge of appropriate policies and procedures for recruiting, selecting, developing, counselling, disciplining, and evaluating the performance of employees to retain a diverse workforce;
- Ability to provide guidance and feedback to help an employee or groups of employees strengthen their knowledge, skills and abilities to accomplish a task or solve a problem, which in turn should improve job performance;
- Ability to convey information orally and in writing to individuals or groups to ensure that they understand the message;
- Ability to plan and monitor the use of expenditures to meet organizational objectives and compliance;
- Ability to prepare budget documents and reports;
- Ability to listen to symptom descriptions; analyse problems; respond effectively and provide constructive feedback to the client on problem resolution.

ADDED ADVANTAGES AND PREFERENCES:

- A relevant Doctorate;
- Six years of work experience in:

- Higher Education environment;
- Ergonomic design of education venues;
- Database design and management