The Department of Law, Safety and Security Management in the Faculty of Humanities invites applications for the position of Associate Professor at the Soshanguve South campus.

INSTRUCTIONS: Applicants are required to submit, together with the CV’s, a fully completed standardized application form available from the university intranet as well as recently certified copies of qualifications, Identity Document and scoresheet. Failure to comply with this instruction will disqualify the candidate. Candidates may be subjected to appropriate psychometric testing and other selection instruments.

Key performance areas/Core functions:

• Coordinate and teach Law, Policing, Corrections, Traffic, Criminology and related fields at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
• Lead research activities including publications, presentations and writing of research proposals for funding.
• Oversee and lead the supervision of postgraduate (M & D) students.
• Form part of the strategic partnership engagements with industry and other higher education institutions.
• Provide leadership in strategic and community engagements.
• Manage the human, financial and infrastructure resources of the research committee to ensure maximum efficiencies in the research and student outputs.
• Demonstrate academic leadership among peers in the faculty and the department.
• As a senior member of the department, a professor must be active in promoting excellence and quality in teaching and learning, community engagements and research activities.

• Assist the leadership of the department to advance and manage staff development and equity.
• Engage in and oversee the Professional Learning Community function of the department as a marketing and recruitment strategy.
• Work in collaboration with other Higher Education institutions to maintain higher standards of qualifications to attain graduate attributes.

• Assist the department's leadership to manage student enrolment plans and success rates.
• Engender a collegial environment of intellectual exchange and infuse critical scholastic rigor in the department, in general, and in all the academic programs of the department in particular.
• Contribute research articles in the accredited journals.

Minimum requirements:

Academic qualifications:

• NQF 10 Professor/ Post-doctoral Research Degree/ Doctorate in Law/Policing/Criminology/Corrections/Traffic from an accredited institution of higher education/university).

Experience:

• 5 years’ relevant experience at Senior Lecturer level and compliance with the policy on Academic appointments and or promotions.
• The applicants must have experience in teaching Law/Policing/Criminology Law Traffic content areas.
• Applicants are expected to understand HEQSF and related activities.
• Applicants are expected to have experience in curriculum development and/or instructional design for their teaching disciplines.
• Applicants must demonstrate a proven collaborative and individual record of research publications in accredited academic journals and conference proceedings, community engagement, and postgraduate students' supervision up to the doctoral level.
• As a proven experience in teaching, the applicants must have taught at undergraduate and Honors level in Law/ Policing/Criminology/Corrections/Traffic.
• In addition to the experience of teaching, applicants must have at least 3 years of general management in an academic department including the management of research in an academic department.

Knowledge and skills:

• Basic computer skills such as Microsoft Word, Excel and Power Point are recommendations.
• Communication skills

Please Send your resume/CV