Associate Professor​/Professor And Head Of Department​/Director : Centre Human Rights, Fa

Overview Of The Department

The Centre for Human Rights is, on the one hand, an academic department in the Faculty of Law, running five pan-African master's programmes and supervising a large cohort of doctoral candidates, and, on the other hand, engages in donor-funded research, capacity-building, advocacy and training projects to advance human rights in Africa.

• Provide strategic leadership on the projects and programmes of the Centre for Human Rights, to enhance and advance human rights in Africa and globally;
• Provide managerial oversight, lead fundraising and enhance partnerships of the Centre;
• Maintain and ensure the financial sustainability of the Centre;
• Provide intellectual leadership to Centre projects;
• Ensure a transformative and inclusive institutional culture in the Centre;
• Provide strategic leadership to frame and implement the Centre's research agenda;
• Conduct and publish research outputs in line with Faculty policy;
• Provide strategic guidance on Centre publications;
  Represent the Centre in high-profile events;
• Maintain and forge further collaborations with the African Union human rights system;
  Scope and forge new partnerships in furtherance of the mission of the Centre;
  Represent the Centre in international fora;
• Promote African and global research partnerships and collaborations;
• Responsible for human resource management and related activities;
• Provide leadership to the Centre's academic programmes;
• Teach on the Centre's post-graduate academic programmes, and human rights short courses;

Supervise master's and doctoral candidates and postdoctoral fellows.

The candidate must possess the requisite qualifications and experience to be eligible for appointment as Associate Professor or Professor in the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria, the assessment of which is based on several factors, including excellence in teaching, extensive, impactful research and postgraduate supervision, community engagement, academic administration and academic citizenship.

• A doctorate in Human Rights law or a related field;
• 6 years' tertiary teaching or vocational experience, or 8 years' post-qualification experience in the legal profession or related field, or a proportionate combination of the aforementioned experience;
• Evidence of a successful teaching practice, teaching excellence and compliance with applicable Faculty and University performance standards on teaching;
• Substantial experience in curriculum development and curriculum transformation;
• 12 accredited or peer-reviewed publication outputs, of which at least 6 must be sole-author;
• 6 Conference papers delivered at conferences, of which 2 must be international;
• An NRF research rating, or a positive substantive peer review support, or other proof of academic standing, indicating local and some recognition in the field of expertise;
• Successful master's supervision of at least 2 research master's or 4 coursework master's mini-dissertations;
• Strong record of academic and / or legal administration and academic citizenship;
• Participation in departmental / Faculty / University committees;
• Journal review and editing;
• Serving as external moderator or reviewer for other academic and non-academic institutions;
• Guest lectures at other academic and non-academic institutions;
• Any other engagements and activities which may broadly demonstrate academic leadership and citizenship;

• A doctorate in Human Rights law or a related field;
• 8 years' tertiary or vocational teaching experience, or 10 years' relevant post-qualification experience in the legal profession or related field, or a proportionate combination of the aforementioned experience;
• Evidence of a successful teaching practice, teaching excellence and compliance with applicable Faculty and University performance standards on Teaching;
• Extensive Experience in curriculum development and curriculum transformation;
• 25 accredited or peer-reviewed publication outputs of which at least 12 must be sole-authored;
• 8 Conference papers delivered at conferences, of which 4 must be international;
• An NRF research rating, or a positive substantive peer review support, or…