Faculty Of Community & Health | Sciences School of Public Health – Senior Lecturer

ROLE CLARIFICATION & KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS

The Faculty of Community & Health Sciences has an international reputation for innovative teaching, learning and research, in programmes which are inter-professional, community-based, and service learning orientated. Within the Faculty the School of Public Health hosts several post-graduate programmes and a large portfolio of research aimed at capacitating policy makers and implementers who are knowledgeable and skilled in the principles and practice of public health, whose practice is based on research, influenced by informed and active communities, and implemented with a commitment to equity, social justice and human dignity. The School of Public Health is also a WHO Collaborating Centre for teaching and research in human resources for health.

The Faculty of Community and Health Sciences seeks to appoint a Senior Lecturer within the School of Public Health for a permanent position, who will teach, supervise and conduct research in two or more of the following areas of public health: human resources for health and development management; health systems development; scholarship of teaching and learning in postgraduate education in the field of Public Health with specific expertise in doctoral program management.

Academic responsibilities will include:

Teaching and supervision at postgraduate level
Curriculum and materials development and assessment
Developing and implementing continuing professional development courses
Managing and coordinating activities in postgraduate academic programmes
Research and publishing in national and international journals
Grant-writing and third-stream income generation
Working with external stakeholders, including policy support and community engagement

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• A doctoral qualification in Public Health or a related field; or a qualification as a registered Public Health Specialist
• Five-years’ experience in an academic, research or appropriate practice environment
• Experience with postgraduate curriculum, materials and program development
• Experience with teaching at the postgraduate level
• Experience with postgraduate supervision to completion at least at the Master’s level
• Scholarship/publications in reputable referred journals in the relevant fields

Added Advantages:

• Experience with teaching in the field of human resources for health management and leadership
• Experience with research in the relevant fields of capacity building for public health scholars and professionals
• Experience with managing doctoral studies program in public health
• Experience with regional professional public health and development associations, agencies and bodies
• Experience in institutional partnerships and collaborative initiatives at the national and international levels
• Scholarship on institutional partnerships and collaborative initiatives at the national and international levels
• Experience with grant-writing and securing third-stream income in the relevant fields

For further information about the position (but not applications), please contact the Director of the School of Public Health ,  Professor Olagoke Akintola, via email at oakintola@uwc.ac.za

In your application, you are encouraged to highlight your strengths and also include anything else that you feel may be pertinent to the selection panel.

Please attach your covering letter, a detailed curriculum vitae and highest qualification to your online profile.

To be considered for this vacancy, you must click on the Apply for this Job link below or apply directly via UWC Careers at

https://uwc.hua.hrsmart.com/hr/ats/JobSearch/viewAll.

For any queries, please contact the Human Resources Department at

+27 21 959 4063/9763/9708/3551/3756

or email:

e-recruitment@uwc.ac.za

CLOSING DATE

30/07/2025