Senior Lecturer/Lecturer: Faculty Of Humanities

Overall Job Purpose

• To lead and manage the successful delivery of assigned qualifications and disciplines.
• To oversee one or more qualifications and core discipline modules within assigned fields, across which module content, assessment strategies, key themes, and overall student experience must be aligned both within and beyond the curriculum across all applicable years and modules.
• To provide academic leadership in the planning, design, and delivery of high-quality, innovative qualifications that align with the requirements of the Council on Higher Education CHE, students, and stakeholders across various sectors.
• Accountable for curriculum and material, capacity building and support including quality assurance, within the assigned qualifications and modules.
• To ensure the vertical and horizontal alignment of modules and effective assessment strategy across the qualification s.
• To enhance the overall student experience both within and beyond the curriculum.
• To collaborate with the experience design and teaching and learning teams to enhance the student experience while ensuring governance and quality assurance standards are met. Additionally, the role includes providing Lecturing and campus support as needed and participating in research and scholarship activities.

Duties and Responsibilities

Qualification-related and discipline-related academic leadership, management, and governance

Leadership

• Responsible for the curriculum leadership, development, and alignment of a qualifications and disciplines. This includes qualification and discipline design, module development and ensuring programme/s meet academic requirements.
• Accountable for the timeous development, quality assurance and maintenance of fit-for-purpose, up-to-date curricula and the planning of the learning experience across the assigned qualifications and disciplines.
• Create a curriculum that is innovative, forward-thinking, and meets stakeholder needs and relevant regulatory requirements.
• Identify opportunities for curriculum innovation and enhancements relevant to the assigned qualifications and disciplines and according to institutional requirements and development cycles.
• Provide guidance and input to the ACE Instructional Designers on the design of learning experiences and assessments suitable to the discipline.
• Ensure subject matter experts SMEs and experience designers to ensure curricula align with industry needs and offer positive learning experiences.
• Manage Module Leads nationally in the implementation of module material and assessments within the qualifications and disciplines.
• Integrate academic citizenship in curricula.
• Integrate the Institutional and Faculty Academic Community Engagement CE strategy in curricula.
• Lead, in collaboration with campus teams and campus management, to co-ordinate and plan resource allocation for running a successful programme e.g. prescribed books, equipment and facilities needed, qualification and discipline-related initiatives and interventions.
• Prepare evidence-based motivations for changes to current curricula to serve at Faculty Board meetings and maintain accurate records of any curriculum changes.
• Accountable for and track student performance in designated programs and modules, offering specialist input for necessary interventions.
• Analyse feedback and data driven evidence to develop and communicate problem-solving strategies as needed.
• Sustain a community of practice CoP for engaging campus and other stakeholders and fostering collaboration.
• Participate in key governance structures and committees as required.
• Contribute towards development, implementation and monitoring of all Institutional policies.
• Maintain academic standards and curriculum integrity through continuous engagement and capacity building.
• Host yearly Qualification Communities of Practice QCoP meetings with stakeholders such as lecturers and other stakeholders.
• Review the development and implementation of the qualification- and discipline-specific curriculum, subject to the policies and governance procedures of the institution.
• Provide expertise to the national marketing and sales teams.
• Review qualification and discipline-specific marketing material.
• Establish and maintain effective interaction between the campuses and the Faculty National team concerning the assigned qualifications and disciplines.
• Acts as the interface between the ACE Quality Assurance Team, the National and Campus Academic teams and, where applicable, Operations teams.
• Perform other relevant duties as may be required and mutually agreed upon.

Governance and quality management

• Provide quality assurance for all curriculum-related content.
• Conduct programme reviews and SAQA comparisons.
• Prepare self-evaluation reports on the designated qualifications and modules as required.
• Analyse and provide responses to Quality Assurance feedback such as Programme Reviews and external moderation reports and provide evidence-based guidance relevant to the qualifications and disciplines.
• Identify external moderators and address their feedback on assessment instruments and final evaluations.
• Identify moderators for the designated qualifications and discipline modules, review and address moderators' feedback on assessment instruments and final evaluations, and advise problem-solving strategies in collaboration with Module Leaders,as relevant and required.
• Track changes to curricula over time and action necessary changes in consultation with relevant stakeholders.
• Ensure that the qualification and discipline curricula meet industry needs, given external and internal stakeholder inputs.
• Continuously track local and global developments that inform and ensure delivery of relevant and current curricula.
• Review contents and assessments to ensure quality and alignment with NQF level and curriculum.
• Act as a central point for resolving all material and assessment queries and escalate these as required, in conjunction with the Faculty Manager and National Academic Operations.
• Analyse, respond or provide advice on assessment queries and incidents when requested, escalating when needed.

Management and administration

• In collaboration with the Heads of Discipline and Deputy Deans, iIdentify Module Leads and SMEs/ module and assessment developers.
• Oversee all modules across the qualification, and delegate briefing and monitoring of SMEs/ module and assessment developers to Head of Disciplines where appropriate.
• Accountable for the timely delivery of curriculum contents and assessments.
• Support, respond to, and/or escalate academic incidents related to assessment, in conjunction with the Faculty Manager.
• Provide input on academic calendars, timetable planning, and assessment structures.
• Review qualification guides in collaboration with Faculty Managers to ensure seamless delivery of qualifications.
• Guide lecturer requirements and approve lecturers on the Academic Approval system when required, ensuring appropriate experience and qualifications.
• Review and workflow assigned assessments, module contents, and administrative processes.

Campus support

• Provides campus support in matters related to academics and issues that may impact students' and lecturers' experience of the assigned qualifications, disciplines, and associated modules.
• Serve as a liaison between campuses and the Faculty to ensure effective coordination of the assigned qualification, discipline, and or modules, distance on a cyclical basis within the discipline.
• Work with Module Leads to guide module lecturers nationally in the implementation of module material and assessments.
• Accountable for and track student performance in collaboration with relevant Faculty National team members, Teaching and Learning Managers, Module Leads, and Campus team members, in the designated qualifications and disciplines.
• Advise on and assist with the development of qualif