Senior Lecturer: Botany(P6) x1

Post specific requirements for Senior Lecturer:

• PhD or equivalent in Botany (Plant Science), NQF level 10 (foreign qualifications to be evaluated by SAQA).
• [Applicants are required to provide the title of their PhD thesis in the application form.]
• An undergraduate degree in Botany.
• Able to discuss their teaching reflection and statement.
• Seven (7) years’ experience in leading teaching and learning activities at departmental, college or university level (work lead, formal offering programme convenor etc.)
• Experience in teaching postgraduate courses or postgraduate project leadership.
• A research reflection and portfolio (all candidates).
• A minimum of 5 research output unitsӿ during the previous 5 years (academia) OR 3 research output unitsӿ during the previous 3 years OR rated by NRF as a researcher (academia) OR a minimum of 3,5 research output unitsӿ during the previous 5 years OR 1,5 research output unitsӿ during the previous 3 years (other than academia). (Waived if Doctoral degree obtained within last two years (all candidates)).
• Involvement in engaged scholarship, with evidence of how such participation will be, or has been, transferred into teaching and learning and/or research (academia) and demonstrate potential to participate in engaged scholarship (other than academia).
• Evidence of involvement in departmental, school, college, university committees, workplace committees or task teams and voluntary associations (academia).
• Evidence of participation in workplace committees or task teams and voluntary associations (other than academia).
• ӿ (It is an accredited output as recognized in the Research Output Policy, 2015

(Government Gazette 38552 of 11 March 2015)).
Recommendations:

• NRF rating will be an advantage
• Completed an assessor training programme (attach certificate)
• Experience with teaching in an ODeL environment.