Job Description

My client in the Tertiary Education Industry is seeking to employ a Professor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the African Arts and Humanities at their Port Elizabeth Branch.

Job Scope:

To lead the establishment and nurturing of the Facultyxe2x80x99s transdisciplinary strategic focus areas focusing on the intersection between the arts, humanities and social sciences and technological innovation and entrepreneurship. Further, it seeks to undergird creative practices, resources and facilities at the institution and frame them in an African context.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Engagement

- Provide strategic academic leadership in the development of sustainable transdisciplinary scholarship intersecting the arts, humanities and social sciences, and technological innovation and entrepreneurship with rootedness in the African context, and with a focus on art forms and visual cultures.

- Guide and support curriculum development initiatives that support entrepreneurship and technological innovation in the Faculty academic programmes

- Position the Faculty as a place for development of entrepreneurial and innovative skills in our graduate training

• Engagement

- Identify and initiate sustainable, high-level institutional transformative partnerships within and beyond the region

• Transformation

- Contribute to the Facultyxe2x80x99s strategy in terms of technological innovation and entrepreneurship in the arts, humanities, and the social sciences

- Support the Facultyxe2x80x99s capacity enhancement programmes by mentoring graduate students and early career scholars in innovation and entrepreneurship

• Fundraising

- Develop sustainable donor partnerships in support of the Faculty strategy on innovation and entrepreneurship

Minimum Requirements:

• PhD in the field related to the core purpose of the job
• 4-7 years of demonstrable experience as an Associate Professor in the core functions of the job, preferably in a university and industry set up
• Proven research record and publishing of creative and other outputs
• In-depth knowledge and experience in transdisciplinary scholarship in entrepreneurship, innovation and the arts, humanities and/or social sciences
• Experience within the higher education or similar sector in the area of technological innovation and entrepreneurship in the arts, humanities and/or social sciences
• Capability in infusing technological innovation and entrepreneurship in the Faculty curricula
• Knowledge and experience in traditional, contemporary, and popular African arts and expressive cultures
• Capacity to conceptualise and implement sustainable impactful projects in innovation and entrepreneurship for graduate and postgraduate students
• Experience in initiating and establishing sustainable strategic partnerships
• Ability to supervise graduate students and mentor early career scholars
• Experience in working effectively with diverse people

Should you want to apply for the position, please send through your CV and qualifications to the following email address and use the reference number for the position as the subject of the email

Email: natasha@staffunlimited.co.za

Reference nr: NDProfessorEntrepreneur

Should you not get an email from us within 2 weeks, consider your application unsuccessful

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