Dean of Faculty Business Management Sciences

The Dean of Faculty is the executive head of the group of programmes allocated to the Faculty and as academic leader, is accountable for the strategic positioning and pursuit of strategic goals as derived from the Strategic and Business Plans of the Institution.

The Dean of Faculty is ultimately accountable for the regulatory compliance, academic delivery across cites, and responsible for the rollout of all academic programmes allocated to her Faculty.

This will include accreditation, reaccreditation, review, delivery, assessment, and audit, managing heads of departments, lecturers, quality assurance of curriculum and marks processes as well as performance management.

• • Positioning the Programme and the Institution within the national education policy & regulatory environment and quality assurance.
• • Teaching for learning.
• • Research, innovation and commercialisation, relationship building.
• • Community Engagement activities, by aligning them with the Integrated Quality Management Framework (IQMF).
• • Achieving the academic and financial targets of the Department as determined in the annual strategic plan and budgets, as supplied by the CAO and GCAO.
• • Promoting the Faculty locally and regionally and maintaining its viability.
• • Ensuring the capacity development and quality promotion in respect of academic staff and learners.
• • Authority to appoint replacement positions and the promotion of staff.
• • Establishment of partnerships with business, governments, academic and societal Institutions and Non‑Profit Organisations (NPOs) for the creation of Work Integrated Learning opportunities.
  • Ensuring that appropriate improvement plans developed through institutional or ETQA.

• • Overall planning, development, renewal, and review of Academic Programmes allocated to the faculty.
• • Ensuring meaningful programme outcomes, quality, effectiveness, and financial viability.
• • Responsible for implementation of the teaching and learning policy and strategy of the institute within the faculty.
• • Approval of workload models at campuses offering programmes allocated to the faculty.
• • Ensuring, on a weekly basis, that the programme managers and departmental heads are complying with the academic rollout of the programmes in the faculty.
• • Ensuring that the existing Academic Programmes are in line with CHE requirements, and new Academic Programmes are designed for CHE Accreditation.
• • Induction of new students and providing orientation regarding the activities of the faculty.
• • Optimizing student access, success, throughput rates and grant credit exemption per programme within the faculty.
• • Retaining returning students in accordance with the enrolment planning objectives of the Institution.

• • Obtaining the necessary approval of the CAO and GCAO prior to dealing with regulatory agencies.
• • Shared approval with CAO and GCAO with regards to staffing forecast - both long and short term – for each programme allocated to the faculty.

• • Undergrad and postgraduate.
• • Monitor the preparation and quality of lesson plans.
• • Monitor and evaluate master video recording.
• • Monitor and evaluate preparation of Power Points.

Please note that only applicants who meet the minimum requirements will be considered.

Please be advised that should you not be contacted within 30days kindly consider your application to be unsuccessful.