Senior Lecturer: Leadership Coaching

Duties/Pligte

• Designing and facilitating assigned leadership coaching modules within the MPhil in Leadership coaching programme and within other postgraduate programmes at Stellenbosch Business School.
• Collaborating with academic staff to create and deliver transformative learning experiences for students in leadership coaching and across the broader Stellenbosch Business School portfolio.
• Developing, reviewing, and continuously improving curricula to ensure academic quality, relevance, professional accreditation alignment, and responsiveness to developments in coaching theory and practice.
• Building and maintaining relationships with coaching professional bodies, industry partners, organisational clients, and the broader coaching community to support teaching, research, supervision, and social impact.
• Providing individual and group coaching supervision to students and contributing to the development of reflective and ethical coaching practice.
• Contributing to academic leadership, programme management, quality assurance, and service to Stellenbosch University and Stellenbosch Business School.
• Conducting, publishing, and disseminating high-quality research in leadership coaching, coaching psychology, leadership development, and related fields through internationally recognised peer-reviewed journals, books, book chapters, and case studies.
• Promoting the social impact of Stellenbosch Business School through teaching, research, coaching supervision, and engagement with organisations and communities.
• Supervising postgraduate research at master's and doctoral levels.
• Actively engaging in and contributing to Stellenbosch University's academic, research, and institutional activities and to the intellectual life of Stellenbosch Business School.

Job Requirements/Pos Vereistes

• PhD or doctoral equivalent at NQF 10 in organisational/executive/leadership/managerial coaching or related field from a recognised university; OR a master's degree and current enrolment in a PhD or doctoral equivalent programme with substantial progress towards completion.
• Evidence of practicing as an organisational/executive/leadership/managerial coach.
• Membership of a recognised coaching body such as EMCC, ICF, COMENSA.
• Experience in teaching, delivery, assessment, and student support at the postgraduate level in the relevant subject area.
• Experience in the design and development of coaching module content.
• An established record of research, or publication in nationally and internationally recognised peer-reviewed journals.
• Good organisational and personal management skills.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills.
• Commitment to creating impact through research and scholarship

Recommendation/Aanbeveling

• Accredited in Coaching Supervision.
• Accredited coach with one of the main coaching bodies.

Closing Date: 14-Sep-2026