Director: Business School (5 Years Fixed Term Contract), Port Elizabeth

Job Purpose:

The Director of the Business School should be a transformative and transformational leader who will ensure that the School fulfills a leading role in implementing the mandate of being a School and University in service to society, promoting academic excellence through cutting edge technologically enhanced learning, teaching and research, able to integrate the company Business School’s core focus areas more deeply with business and industry in the Eastern Cape and in South Africa and positioning the Business School as one of the leading business schools in Africa.
Reporting to the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economic Sciences, the Director is the executive head of the company Business School and is responsible for the strategic positioning of the School, nationally and internationally, and the leadership of the academic and executive education programmes of the School.

Requirements:

In order to be considered for appointment to this post candidates must possess:

• A relevant Doctoral qualification plus at least 7 years relevant senior management experience, of which a minimum of 5 years has been in an academic leadership role in the higher educational environment with an emphasis at a post graduate level,
• An in-depth knowledge of trends of learning and development in business and executive education at a higher educational level nationally and internationally,
• Must be an established academic leader with excellence in a relevant academic discipline, both from a learning and teaching as well as a research perspective, including research publications, which would preferably warrant appointment at at least at an associate professorial level,
• Commercial/corporate business experience and acumen will be an added advantage.

Key Perfomance Areas:

• Academic leadership and management including directing and coordinating learning and teaching processes and ensuring the overall quality of academic programmes.
• Lead research and innovation initiatives of the Business School including implementing its research strategy and ensuring quality of research outputs.
• Lead and direct commercialisation of the knowledge base and programmes of the Business School, whilst ensuring their relevance and quality.
• Human Resources optimisation through leading and managing Academic and Administrative Staff thus ensuring optimal deployment.
• Development and execution of successful marketing strategies of the academic programmes and to build, maintain and expand internal and external relationships and partnerships.
• Ensure stewardship and optimisation of financial and other resources.
• Conceptualisation, leadership and management of the Internationalisation strategy and processes for the School.
• Oversight of viable student access and success measures.
• Enable and advance economic viability and sustainability of the Business School.