Associate Professor/Professor (Job ID: 6611)

University of the Free State · Free State

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Duties and responsibilities

Teach Local Government Management, Public/Municipal Finance, or Public Administration modules to undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Perform academic administration of undergraduate and postgraduate modules pertaining to learning, teaching, research and assessments.
Contribute to curriculum development in the department and faculty.
Provide supervision in postgraduate programmes to Honours, Masters or PhD students.
Conduct high-quality research, publish in accredited journals, and deliver quality research outputs in line with the faculty's research strategy.
Provide leadership in pursuit of the department and faculty's strategic plan with regard to research, learning and teaching, engaged scholarship, as well as leadership and administration.
Participate in additional academic activities including, but not limited to, presentation of research papers at national and/or international conferences as well as involvement in departmental/faculty research projects.
Serve as a member of various academic and research committees and perform any other tasks allocated by the Dean and Head of the Department.
Develop and maintain strong collaborative relationships with relevant research, civil society, government, industry, and professional organisations.

Inherent requirements: Associate Professor

PhD on NQF Level 10 in Public Administration and Management or a related field.
Proven record of teaching Public Administration and Management related modules at an undergraduate and/or postgraduate level, with a specific focus on Local Government Management, or Public/Municipal Finance, or Public Administration modules.
Experience as external examiner for postgraduate students.
Proven experience in the presentation of research papers at national conferences, where there is evidence of peer review of papers.
Proven national recognition for specialist expertise and research leadership in a specific scientific area of scholarship.
An NRF rating of C3 or a research record of equivalent status.
Proven experience in the supervision of graduated master's degree students.
A proven research record of relevant publications in national and international accredited journals
Served as a member of a national scholarly society OR a national committee or agency concerned with research at higher education levels OR showed evidence of service as an active member of an international equivalent.

Professor

PhD on NQF Level 10 in Public Administration and Management or a related field.
Proven record of teaching Public Administration and Management related modules at an undergraduate and/or postgraduate level, with a specific focus on Local Government Management, or Public/Municipal Finance, or Public Administration modules.
Experience as external examiner for master's-degree and doctoral students.
A proven research record of relevant publications, including in high-quality e.g., Q1 and Q2, national and international accredited journals.
Proven international recognition for specialist expertise and research leadership in a particular area of academic scholarship for example, regularly serves as a reviewer for international/WoS/Scopus journals.
An NRF rating of C2 or a research record of equivalent status.
Demonstrated successful supervision of graduated master's-degree and preferably graduated doctoral students.
Served as a member of an international scholarly society OR an international committee or agency concerned with research at higher-education levels

Member of a or registration with a professional body.
Acted as an editorial board member of high-quality national scholarly journals.
Proven experience in delivering keynote addresses at national scholarly conferences.
Experience as a departmental leader/ manager in a higher education environment.
Sound knowledge of the South African Public Administration and Management environment.
Sound knowledge of the South African public sector environment.
Proven work experience in the South African public sector environment.