Campus Academic Head, Parktown, Johannesburg

Region: Parktown
Full-time Position

Reporting to:

Head of Teaching

The successful applicant will meet the following requirements:

• A minimum of a relevant Master’s degree is a prerequisite; a Doctorate is preferred.
• A minimum of 5 years of working experience in the education field, including at least 3 years’ experience in a middle management role focused on academic management within a tertiary environment.
• Proven leadership and collaboration skills.

Competencies:

The successful applicant will have the following competencies:

• Have a sound understanding of the private Higher Education environment.
• Have a critical understanding of the most effective teaching, learning and assessment strategies, including how to select and use teaching approaches to create opportunities for students to achieve their potential.
• Excellent ability to guide and collaborate with staff with timely, accurate and constructive input, feedback and development that promotes overall progress.
• Strong people skills and a team player.
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving ability.
• Digital literacy and knowledge of learning management systems.

Academic Management

• Initiate the process of recruitment for full-time academic staff and independent contractors across all relevant campuses, in conjunction with the respective Programme Coordinator/s.
• Ensure that new staff are trained efficiently to understand their role, processes, policies and procedures.
• Responsible for the line management of Lecturers at the campus, ensuring clear communication of the roles and responsibilities of each academic team member.
• Supervise all learning and teaching activities throughout the campus.
• Oversee the implementation of learning and teaching strategies and quality assurance procedures.
• Supervise and coordinate all academic affairs and ensure a high level of excellence as regards academic activities daily.
• Supervise the schedule of duties of all academic staff in collaboration with the campus and Student Support Centre administrative teams.
• Ensure the compliance of students and academic staff to policies, rules and regulations.

Performance Management and Assessment

• Manage the implementation of the performance plan with the Head: Teaching, Programme Coordinators, Head Lecturers, and Lecturers.
• Devise an efficient timetable schedule for all relevant campuses.
• Ensure the effective performance of all academic staff.
• Oversee and monitor the adequate planning of teaching plans by the Lecturers.
• Contribute to the refinement of the teaching evaluation instrument.
• Ensure equity of academic delivery across all sites of delivery by liaising with other Campus Academic Heads and the Programme Coordinators.
• Report on academic delivery to the Head of Teaching.
• Ensure that the academic standard of the IMM Graduate School is of the highest quality and excellence.
• Regularly appraise the Lecturers, Librarian, and Academic Success Coach and submit reports to the Head: Teaching and the Campus Head.
• Conduct regular formal classroom visits for both lectures and tutorials.
• Facilitate greater student success via ongoing analysis of academic results, reporting on and addressing areas of risk, and implementing early academic intervention measures.
• Ensure the improvement of student retention rates through the management of student support interventions and strategies to improve student perseverance/resilience.
• Monitor and measure the effectiveness of academic support interventions on an ongoing basis.
• Be held accountable for compliance with the policies and procedures of the IMM Graduate School.
• Build and promote an active community of best academic practices on campus.
• Handle student disputes and complaints.
• Handle Lecturer queries.

Administration Management

• Coordinate the activities of all academic staff on campus and Student Support Centres relating to their performance and yielding good academic results.
• Maintain and update all records on academic activities.
• Ensure that all academic staff update their knowledge and keep abreast of developments in their respective discipline through active participation in skills development in the Academic Community, 1st Tuesdays, seminars, workshops and conferences.
• Responsible for deploying human resources effectively to meet specific objectives in line with the organisation’s objectives.
• Ensure that all materials required for the smooth operation of academic activities are available and used efficiently.

Communication and Relationship Management

• Ensure that constructive working relationships are formed between staff and students.
• Communicate directly with parents as required.
• Provide monthly reports to the Head: Teaching on key responsibility areas, including but not limited to performance management of academic staff, student results, student attendance, and escalated academic queries.

Lecturing

• Lecture (Preferably Head Lecturer) on one module.
• Supervise Postgraduate students.

Research & Scholarship

• Promote a culture of scholarship on campus and report to the Executive Academic Head on the research points achieved and qualifications completed by the permanent academic staff and independent contractors.
• Plan, manage and review the research target deliverables on campus, and make the necessary adjustments throughout the year to ensure that the required research outputs are achieved.
• Contribute to research output by achieving the prescribed annual research output unit/s target.

Quality Assurance and Policy

• CHE Audit – QAF documentation in collaboration with the Learning and Teaching Manager.
• Provide input into new policy.
• Ensure quality.

Institutional Committees

The Campus Academic Heads will serve on the following committees (but not limited to):

• Academic Executive Committee (AEC)
• Community Engagement Committee

Application Information

Closing Date: 27 October 2025
Commencement: 1 December 2025

To Apply:

Please submit your application by following the instructions on the application form available at this link:

https://forms.gle/ZwMqGr3TRY8UxhPE7

The form can also be found below.

Successful applicants will be contacted within 2 weeks of the closing date.

Should you receive no communication, please consider your application unsuccessful.