Senior Lecturer

4 days ago


Johannesburg, South Africa AFDA Full time

Roles and responsibilities

**A senior lecturer: directing is expected to**:
Acquire and maintain an up-to-date understanding of the BA/BCom/BCW programme by completing the AFDA onboarding process and attending all staff training sessions
Lecture 2nd and 3rd year directing students.
Experience specifically in factual, television directing is preferred.
Provide support to other lecturers in the department.
Complete the timeous delivery of administrative deliverables of the discipline.
Conduct research and interface with other disciplines to continue delivering up-to-date content and lesson plans.
Implement and review the above with the purpose of improvement.
Liasing with industry as appropriate.
Have an advanced acquired understanding of the theoretical and practical aspects of their discipline.
Have a thorough understanding of their discipline curriculum.
Deliver lectures according to timetabled sessions and do the required consultations.
Have a thorough understanding of all assessment instruments and use them appropriately for all learning activities.

**Manage their discipline students by ensuring that**:
Students understand the term’s assignments, assessments and associated assessment instruments and deadlines
Students stay on track with the term’s deliverables through regular follow ups where required
All facilities and equipment for the term’s teaching and the term’s project are available, functional and maintained
The term’s resources are adequately planned for
All assignments, formative and summative, are marked and all marks are submitted timeously to the Registry for moderation and report generation.
Participate in Quality Assurance and Quality Enhancement practices
Participate in working with counter-parts to ensure parity across all campuses on term outcomes and assessments.
Participate in all required marketing activities such as Open Days and consultations with prospective students where required
Key competencies
Willingness to adapt to AFDA's curriculum, syllabus, schematics and methodologies and pedagogy
Willingness to adhere and embody AFDA values
Ability to work co-operatively with other teaching staff
Excellent time and deadline management skills
Excellent communication skills
Physically and emotionally well adaptable to change
Basic computer skills, including Microsoft Office Suite, Teams and Zoom
Inter-personal skills
Ability to research independently
Ability to manage a budget
Ability to manage inventory of facilities and equipment
The capacity to research and adapt to new developments in technology
Personal Attributes [role associated]
Highly developed organisational skills
Excellent interpersonal skills
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Assertive
Emotionally intelligent
Integrity, cultural awareness and sensitivity.
Focused
Professional
Responsible
Internally motivated and independant
Loyalty and a high level of confidentiality
Maturity to handle a range of situations
Honest and trustworthy - committed to high integrity of excellence
Initiative
A meticulous and thorough nature
An ability to work to tight deadlines
Willingness to support student development

**Selection Criteria**:

- Experience in teriary educational sector/academy with at least 3 years industry experience in Film/Television Directing in Fictional and Factual productions.
- Minimum required Qualifications: BA Honors in Film, Motion Picture or a related
- Established work experience in tertiary education or training and development (not pre
- requisite but would be beneficial)



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