Professor - Associate Professor - Department of Statistics and Operation Research

Qualification and Requirements:

• PhD in the field of Operations Research or Data Analytics.
• At least ten (10) years for Professorship level and seven (07) years for Associate
• Professorship level of relevant research and teaching experience at tertiary level.
• Appropriate administrative experience.
• Supervised at least two (02) PhD students to completion in the relevant discipline for the Professorship level.
• Evidence of publication in DHET accredited journals, that is, at least ten (10) publications for Professorship level and at least five (05) publications for Associate Professorship level.
• Evidence of good publication track record, including recent publications.
• Record of lecturing Operations Research courses/modules at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
• Ability and evidence of sourcing third-stream income.
• Evidence of the ability to establish collaborations and raise research funds.
• Experience and expertise in the use of various statistical software packages such as
• SAS, R, Python, SPSS, STATA, etc.
• Evidence of community engagement activities.

Duties and Responsibilities:

The successful candidates will be expected to:

• Teach students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
• Teach the Operational Research modules for undergraduate levels and develop a postgraduate curriculum.
• Supervise postgraduate students at all levels (Honours, Masters, PhD).
• Conduct research in any of the branches of Operations Research or Statistics.
• Engage in community outreach programmes.
• Contribute to departmental, school and faculty administration as required.

Added advantages:

• NRF-rating will be an added advantage.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Proven research record and teaching in Operations Research.
• Evidence of proposal writing skills for funding purposes.
• Evidence of participation in academic administration.
• Evidence of academic leadership for Professorship level.