CHIEF DIRECTOR P001551
Listing reference: nwu_001054
Listing status: Under Review
Apply by: 24 September 2022
Position summary
Industry: Education & Training
Job category: University and Academy
Location: Potchefstroom
Contract: Fixed Term Contract
Remuneration: The annual total remuneration package will be commensurate with the level of appointment as advertised and in line with the NWU policy guidelines.
Introduction
NORTH-WEST UNIVERSITY (POTCHEFSTROOM CAMPUS)
FACULTY/ DIVISION: NWU BUSINESS SCHOOL
POSITION NUMBER: P001551
VACANCY: CHIEF DIRECTOR
PEROMNES GRADE: P3
EMPLOYMENT TYPE: 5 YEAR FIXED-TERM POSITION
Job description
BACKGROUND TO NWU BUSINESS SCHOOL
The NWU offers more than just an education: we offer people a place in the business world of the future. Academically, students benefit from great choice and flexibility, enabling them to fulfill their potential and advance their careers. At the NWU Business School we shape executive minds in Africa. We want our students to become manager-leaders, show citizenship behaviour and exit with real-world experience and skills from an internationally accredited institution. The school is recognised for its innovative teaching and learning and engagement practices with emphasis on relevance, sustainability and impact.
As an operationally autonomous school, we offer postgraduate and executive development programmes that are relevant to our students’ graduateness, industry and societal needs. We provide opportunities to our students and staff to expand, explore and evolve in the world of business and entrepreneurship. The business school is aspiring for triple crown accreditation within the next accreditation cycle. There is a strong strategic focus on developing our international relationships with excellent international academic and business institutions and footprint in Africa. Further areas of expansion are entrepreneurial development, corruption and integrity studies as well as a strategic intent to serve the most prominent industry sectors in the NW province, which are agricultural and mining. The NWU Business School is also striving to become a preferred service provider for Executive Education in Africa.
THE CHIEF DIRECTOR - CORE JOB REQUIREMENTS
The North-West University is seeking to appoint a dynamic and experienced strategic business leader-manager who is suitably qualified to head up the NWU Business School. The successful candidate will possess experience in all facets of
strategic and operational management applicable to a Business School. The next chief director will have a strong, sustained record of performance excellence, academic experience in postgraduate and executive education, and business research capability. The candidate will be an engaging communicator with empathetic and respectful listening skills; will have sound interpersonal and communication skills, be entrepreneurial and possess a sound knowledge and understanding of the future of business education in an African context.
Reporting to the vice-principal, the chief director will be part of the institutional senior management and will have to provide strong leadership and managerial support to all academic-, support- and administrative staff by developing talent,
inspiring innovation and advance a shared vision towards the business school’s future. The chief director will nurture living the institutional values and create a positive, engaged, and inclusive organisational culture within the school, enabling students and staff to excel on all levels.
Minimum requirements
TO BE CONSIDERED FOR APPOINTMENT TO THIS POST CANDIDATES MUST POSSESS:
- A relevant Doctoral qualification plus at least 10 years relevant senior management experience, of which a minimum of 5 years has been in an academic leadership role in the higher educational environment with emphasis at a postgraduate level.
- Commercial/corporate business experience of at least 5 years.
- Strategic and operational management capabilities applied in a postgraduate academic context.
- An in-depth knowledge of business trends and executive education at a higher education level – regionally, nationally and internationally.
- Academic leader-manager capabilities with known expertise in a relevant academic discipline, both from a teaching and learning and applied business research perspective, including research publications, which would preferably warrant appointment at least at an associate professor level.
- Knowledge and skills to commercialise the school’s capabilities ensuring financial viability.
- Sound interpersonal and excellent communication skills on all levels of the organisation and society.
- Good business networks and networking skills.
- Authentic leadership characteristics.
More about the NWU Business school on their website: https://commerce.nwu.ac.za/business-school
REMUNERATION:
The annual total remuneration package is negotiable and will be commensurate with the level of appointment as advertised and in line with the NWU policy guidelines.
ENQUIRIES REGARDING JOB CONTENT MAY BE DIRECTED TO: Prof Linda Du Plessis on 016 910 3100
ENQUIRIES REGARDING RECRUITMENT PROCESS MAY BE DIRECTED TO: Mr Lolo Boyana on 018 299 4803
CLOSING DATE: 24 September 2022
PLANNED COMMENCEMENT OF DUTIES: As soon as possible
Kindly take note: applications must be submitted online through the official nwu vacancy website.
Incomplete applications and those submitted through any other platform will not be considered.
The University subscribes to and applies the principles of Employment Equity (EE) Act and is committed to transformation. Preference will be given to candidates from the designated groups, in accordance with the principles of the EE Act and NWU Employment Equity Plan.
The University reserves the right not to make an appointment. Communication will be limited to shortlisted candidates only.
If you are not contacted within two months from the closing date of this advertisement, please accept that your application was unsuccessful.
