Associate Professor P6/professor P5: Statistics/mathematical Statistics

**Purpose**

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

**Minimum Requiremen**t

**Associate Professor**
- PhD/Doctorate in Statistics/Mathematical Statistics
- At least 6-8 years relevant experience
- Demonstrate evidence of continuous research output in the form of: Publications in DHET accredited journals and peer-reviewed conference proceedings; research papers presented at national and/or international conferences; patents and/ or similar product of research; contribution to scholarly books published by a recognized publishing house; citation record (e.g. Scopus h
- Approach to teaching; leadership contributions to curriculum development, design of learning materials, and innovative pedagogy and/or SoTL; student and junior staff mentoring; successful supervision of postgraduate students including PhD students; formal participation in teaching and learning development courses; Student and/or peer evaluations of own teaching.
- Demonstrate evidence of: Significant involvement in discipline, departmental and/or institutional official activities and processes which includes active academic participation in workshops/forums in higher education as well as community engagement activities and CE as a scholarly activity; External examining/moderating at other HEIs at UG and PG levels.

**Professor**
- PhD/Doctorate in Statistics/Mathematical Statistics
- At least 8-10 years relevant experience
- Demonstrate evidence of continuous research output in the form of: continual and sustained research outputs in high impact DHET - accredited journals in a mix of local and international journals; scholarly contributions to books published by recognized publishers; evidence of external research funds raised; Establish and maintain productive research linkages and networks with leading scholars at national and international level; Presentations of research papers as invited or keynote speaker at scholarly
- Evidence to teaching; leadership contributions to curriculum development, design of learning materials and innovative pedagogy; student and staff mentoring; successful supervision of postgraduate students including PhD students; formal participation in teaching and learning development courses; contributions to presenting teaching and learning courses; scholarly contributions to teaching and learning development; Student and/or peer evaluations of own teaching.
- Evidence of Leadership and contribute positively towards the discipline, department, school, faculty and the institution; Actively involved in professional and/or discipline societies; Play an active role in leading of academic citizenship activities in the broader community; acknowledged and referred to as respected leader in their field by the broader scientific community; frequently evaluate articles for good journals and/or serve on editorial board for such journals; contribute to scientific
and organising committees of significant conferences; external examining/moderating at other HEIs at undergraduate and postgraduate levels

**Recommendations**
- NRF rating or demonstrate the potential for obtaining an NRF rating.

**Duties and responsibilities**
- Teaching and Learning
- Community Engagement
- Curriculum Development and Accreditation
- Student Academic Development
- Administration
- Quality Assurance
- Academic Management
- Personal/ Professional Development. Engage in current professional development activities
- Monitoring, evaluation and reporting. Develop relevant reports as and when required

**Women and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.**

**Note: Sol Plaatje University (SPU) is dedicated to meeting its Employment Equity targets.