Dean
The University of the Free State’s Faculty of Health Sciences is considered one of the best in the country and it is
renowned for its outputs and the high-quality health professionals it has produced over its five schools. Key to its success is a consistent approach to Higher Education and service to its community, through the delivery of integrated health projects. The Faculty hosts the only vaccine-testing laboratory in South Africa evaluated to conduct vaccine-testing for the World Health Organisation. Similarly, housed in its Department of Pharmacology, is the Sports Laboratory, charged with testing samples for prohibited substances, while the new next generation GMO unit in Biomedical Science and Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Clinical Medicine is part of the School of Biomedical Sciences’.
Dean
P4 • 5-year contract with a possibility of renewal • Ref: AP1136
As a Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences you are accountable for providing strategic and visionary academic leadership which ensures the faculty achieves its teaching, research, and engaged scholarship goals. You will report to the Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Academic and be held responsible for the management and advancement of educational and research programmes, the implementation of community-based health initiatives, and the development of strategic partnerships that enhance the faculty’s impact at local, national, and international levels. By nature, you are a results-orientated individual and strategic thinker who sets high standards and consistently achieves significant outcomes. Coupled to your medical knowledge and prowess is your business acumen, qualities that combine to making you the outstanding leader that you are. Innate in you is an ability to build meaningful coalitions.
Your proven faculty management expertise includes finance, human resources and strategic planning, seen in the
context of transformative initiatives that align with the university’s goals, including curriculum innovation and equity. Your Doctorate (NFQ Level 10) in a Health Sciences discipline is relevant to the core offerings of this Faculty. Your full Professor status is undergirded by your substantial contributions to teaching, research, engaged scholarship and academic leadership, while your NRF rating (or similar) is as a result of achieving outstanding research outputs.
Complementing the above is your five years’ experience in senior management within higher education, preferably within a research-led institution. It goes without saying that you are registered with an appropriate professional body in South Africa, like the Health Professions Council of South Africa, South African Nursing Council, the Allied Health Professions Council of South Africa or similar. You have demonstrable experience in obtaining external funding for research and academic initiatives, while you are keenly familiar with academic initiatives focused on the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) and digitalisation. You have an extraordinary knowledge of relevant national and global health agendas.
Our Head of Assessments, Genevieve Michel, is keen to receive your credentials and answer any questions you may have. Please provide her with a short letter of motivation, together with your Curriculum Vitae to [email protected]
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