RESPONSIBILITIES:

It will be expected of the successful candidates to:

• Teach undergraduate and postgraduate modules in the Department;
• Supervise final year undergraduate project students and postgraduate Honours, Masters and PhD students;
• Conduct research as a member of a research group in the Department and publish in leading accredited journals;
• Raise and manage additional funding from national and international funding agencies and industry to support the activities of the relevant research group;
• Expand existing research programmes or initiate new research programmes;
• Perform assigned departmental duties (e.g. of an administrative nature).

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

Lecturer:

• A BEng degree in Civil Engineering from a university of which the undergraduate programme is recognised by the Washington accord or is recognised by ECSA to be equivalent;
• A Masters’ degree in Civil Engineering that follows on the previous qualification;
• Teaching or industry related experience;
• 1 Publication (peer reviewed article or peer reviewed conference paper) or
• Book chapter(s), recognized articles outputs or industry recognized outputs in a commensurate field.

Senior Lecturer:

• Same as for Lecturer, plus;
• A PhD degree in Civil Engineering that follows on the previous qualification;
• At least three years tertiary education experience or three years industry experience with some involvement in tertiary education;
• At least 2 articles published in DHET accredited journals or a DHET accredited book;
• At least 2 other publication outputs (peer reviewed conference paper(s) / book chapter(s) / industry recognized outputs in a commensurate field;
• Supervision / co-supervision of Master’s students to completion or proven management experience in industry.

Associate Professor:

• Same as for Senior Lecturer, plus;
• At least 6 years tertiary education experience or 6 years industry experience with some involvement in tertiary education;
• Experience in curriculum / strategy development and innovation;
• Evidence of sustained publications output;
• Majority of recent publications should be in WoS / Scopus / IBSS journals (past 7 years);
• Evidence of at least 3 research Master’s OR 6 coursework Master’s mini-dissertations successfully completed (supervised or co-supervised);
• Evidence of Doctoral student supervision;
• Evidence of conducting reviewer duties for journals and/or conferences.

ADDED ADVANTAGES AND PREFERENCES:

• Evidence of teaching excellence;
• Preference will be given to candidates who have teaching and research expertise that complement the Department’s needs;
• Related industry work or consulting experience;
• Candidates registered or registerable as Professional Engineer with ECSA;
• NRF rating or have applied for one.