Lecturer P8/ Senior Lecturer P7: Statistics

**Purpose**

Responsible for teaching and learning, research and community engagement and to provide support to the department/faculty in pursuit of its academic objectives. Responsibilities may also include curriculum development, student academic development, administration and quality assurance to contribute to the academic initiatives undertaken by the department/school.

**Minimum Requirement**

**Lecturer P8**
- Master’s degree in Statistics/Mathematical Statistics.
- Relevant teaching experience at a university or work experience in the industry related to Statistics/Mathematical statistics.
- Demonstration of drive/ability for community engagement and for research in the form of publications in DHET accredited journals,
- Excellent computer skills (MS Office Suite)
- Experience of using Statistical Packages (e.g. SAS, SPSS,R,etc)

**Senior Lecturer P7**
- PhD/Doctorate in Statistics/Mathematical Statistics.
- At least five years of relevant teaching experience at university.
- Proven track record in teaching at a university, research (including publications in accredited journals), and community engagement.
- Proven track record of supervising postgraduate students at the Master's and/Doctoral levels.
- Excellent computer skills (MS Office Suite)
- Significant involvement in discipline or departmental official activities and processes which includes active academic participation in workshops/forums in higher education as well as community engagement activities.
- Experience of using Statistical packages (e.g., SAS, SPSS,R, etc)

**Recommendation**

**Lecturer**
- PhD or considerable progress towards PhD completion.
- Proven track record of supervising postgraduate students at the Honors level.
- Publications in DHET-accredited journals.

**Senior Lecturer**
- NRF rating or demonstrate the potential for obtaining an NRF rating.
- Curriculum design and review.
- Success in acquiring research grants.

**Duties and Responsibilities**

**Teaching**:

- Develop and present a reflective teaching portfolio which covers: Approach to teaching; contributions to curriculum development; design of learning materials; innovative pedagogy; student and junior staff mentoring; successful supervision of postgraduate students; formal participation
in teaching and learning development courses; Student and/or peer evaluations of own teaching; Evidence of scholarship of Teaching and Learning would be beneficial.
- Provide evidence of teaching modules at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, as well as evidence of postgraduate supervision.
- Contributions to curriculum development.
- Design of learning materials.
- Innovative pedagogy.
- Demonstrate knowledge and experience in implementing quality assurance requirements.
- Evidence of national and/or international collaboration within the Natural and applied sciences fraternity.
- Student and junior staff mentoring.
- Formal participation in teaching and learning development courses.

**Research**:

- Demonstrate evidence of continuous research productivity in the form of:

- Publications in DHET accredited journals and peer-reviewed conference proceedings, research papers presented at national and/or international conferences.
- Contributions to scholarly books published by reputable publishers, in good standing with DHET and not linked to predatory practices.
- Highlight evidence of managing a research program.
- Evidence of external research fundraising.
- Proof of citations ( e.g. Scopus H-index); Evidence of scholarship of Teaching and Learning would be beneficial.
- NRF rating is recommended OR demonstrate potential for obtaining and NRF rating within the next five 5 years.

**Community Engagement**:

- Significant involvement in discipline or departmental official activities and processes.
- Active academic participation in workshops/forums in higher education.
- External examining/ moderating at other higher education institutions at UG and/or PG levels.

**Curriculum development and accreditation**
- Contribute to curriculum development and participate in curriculum review to ensure alignment with sector /discipline norms and requirements.

**Student academic development**
- Identify, report, and support student at risk timeously.
- Develop intervention strategies.

**Administration**
- Keep attendance registers.
- Record student results.
- Assist with registration of students.
- Invigilate test and examinations.
- Implement policies and procedures applicable to the teaching and learning community engagement research, SHE and academic administration functions.
- Participate in departmental School /Faculty committees.

**Quality Assurance**
- Contribute to quality assurance through committee meetings and submission of relevant documents.
- Implement appropriate interventions.

**Personal /Professional Development**
- Keep abreast of development within own field of study.
- Register as member of professional bodies.
- Attend conferences, seminars and workshops