Senior Director: Learning and Teaching Enhancement

2 weeks ago

Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa Academic Partners Full time R250 000 - R500 000 per year

Lectures teach, students learn and knowledge is sought inclusively

Our client, Stellenbosch University, advances a transformative approach to student success, ensuring that learning and teaching remain inclusive, future-focused, and globally relevant.

This internationally connected, research-intensive institution attracts exceptional students, empowers talented staff, and fosters a world-class academic environment. They are committed to delivering a transformative learning experience, fostering academic excellence, and cultivating graduates and empowering staff to contribute meaningfully to a sustainable, equitable and engaged future.

Senior Director: Learning and Teaching Enhancement

Ref: AP1151

You will report directly to the DVC: Academic
and be charged with providing strategic direction and management oversight of the Learning and Teaching Enhancement (DLTE) Division. Your key foci will be the complete academic planning for the institution, in which you will make a significant contribution to the development and implementation of the Learning and Teaching Strategy, specifically in the context of Stellenbosch University's Vision 2040.

The five units under your control include
•
Centre for Learning and Teaching

•
Centre for Learning Technologies

•
Directorate of Academic Planning and Quality Assurance

•
Language Centre

•
Student Success Programme. You will be expected to enhance a process where these units work in a matrix that combines collaborative projects and unit-based responsibilities.

Bring to the table your Doctoral degree
and at least seven years' relevant management experience in higher education, where your leadership and strategic planning are standout features. Showcase your detailed understanding of the South African higher education system and its policy framework. You are known for your ability to contribute to strategy, in the context of being a member of a senior management team.

Your interpersonal skills to lead and work in teams are exemplary,
especially in a transforming multilingual cultural environment. Conducting, supervising and communicating institutional research/data for strategic decision making is a forte of yours and is backed by your ability to think innovatively, markedly in an interdisciplinary setting. To this end, your understanding of current trends and debates in digitally mediated teaching and learning is beyond most. Your published intellectual work is testimony to your academic standing in the field of higher education studies, including but not limited to, teaching and learning. Your overall talent is against a backdrop of gaining knowledge of leading academic planning and academic renewal processes at departmental or faculty or institutional levels. Your aptitude in finance and keeping an eye on global higher education trends, is above average.

Please provide our Head of Assessments with a motivational letter and your curriculum vitae before the closing date of
21 November 2025
. This information will be received via Shireen at

.

Incomplete applications will not be considered.

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All applications will be treated as strictly confidential. We correspond with all our candidates.

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