Research Manager

**Direct Reporting Line**:
Head of School: Research and Postgraduate Studies Unit

IIE MSA, formerly known as Monash South Africa, was founded in 2001 by Monash University. Since April 2019 we are part of The Independent Institution of Education (The IIE), a leader in the higher education sphere. The IIE is internationally recognised by the British Accreditation Council. IIE MSA, located on a 100-hectare campus in Ruimsig, Johannesburg, in the province of Gauteng. In addition to domestic (South African) students, IIE MSA is home to a diverse of cultures of students from 50 African countries.

**The IIE MSA Ruimsig campus in Roodepoort has a vacancy for a Research Manager.**

**Duties and Responsibilities**:
**Embed the practice of research**
- Build the research capacity of the academic staff to ensure that academic staff achieve targeted individual research output unit/s (as outlined in each academic staff members' KPA) through the development and maintenance of a programme of training, peer support and mentoring.
- Promote and develop a programme of research by facilitating and supporting the development and implementation of a programme of research projects on the campus.
- Undertake and organise training and development of academic staff through research-related workshops and/or the provision of appropriate resources and interventions.
- Mentor active researchers by providing support and supervision for approved projects inlcuding but not limited to providing consultation and feedback on queries.
- Accountable for monitoring brands compliance with The IIE 018 Academic Conditions of Service, including training Academic staff on the provisions and policy guidelines and dissemination of the policy in line with annual updates and escalating for management as appropriate any instances of non-compliance.

**Promote and build a culture of scholarship**
- Promote and develop a culture of scholarship within the academic team by identifying and driving research questions and projects based on the work being done by the team.
- Actively support academic staff who are studying postgraduate qualifications at Masters and Doctoral level.

**Own research output**
- Contribute to research output by achieving own annual research output unit/s target.

**Lecturing and/or supervision**
- Lecture a postgraduate research module per year or supervise at least 1 POD of postgraduate students.

**Other**
- To assist the Head of School in ensuring the correct policy, process and procedure is applied across certain postgraduate qualifications, in alignment with the relevant regulatory frameworks.
- Develop supervisors in order to improve the quality of postgraduate supervision.
- Provide support and guidance to the campus *Research Specialists (*role to be piloted).
- Ensure all academic staff capture research activity on the Research Academic Tracking System (RATS) database on the Tertiary Hub.
- Collate and provide the information due for the monthly research progress reports.
- A member of the IIE Research and Postgraduate Committee.
- A member of the national Research Manager's Group.

**Competencies Required**:

- Strong interpersonal skills
- Exceptional communication skills - both verbal and written
- Analytical and problem solving skills
- Leadership abilities to guide, influence, motivate and develop staff
- Strong organisational, planning and time management skills

**Minimum Qualification Required**:

- Doctoral Degree / PhD (NQF Level 10)

**Minimum Work Experience Required**:

- A minimum of 5 years relevant work experience in tertiary education sector. Must be an established academic leader and scholar with an excellent publication research record and successful supervision of postgraduate students.