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The University of the Free State (UFS) is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in South Africa. It opened its doors in 1904 on the Bloemfontein Campus with a mere six students in the Humanities. Since then, our institution has grown to more than 34 127 students, spread across seven fac… read moreulties over three campuses. https://www.ufs.ac.za/about-the-ufs
Duties and responsibilities:
Project Coordination and Administration
Provide leadership for implementing an exemplary, multilingual and comprehensive blended learning academic tutorial support programme in the designated faculty.
Provide ongoing developmental support for the improvement of teaching and learning interventions between CTL and the Faculty.
Lead the monitoring and evaluation of the tutorial programme in collaboration with CTL.
Develop and maintain relationships with lecturers in the faculty involved in A_STEP
Lead customisation and expansion of tutorials in the faculties using a range of data sources.
Manage and implement the tracking and monitoring of tutors’ academic and professional performance.
Plan, design, implement and evaluate tutors’ development initiatives for the of Faculty.
Perform administrative duties as determined by the Teaching and Learning Manager/Vice Dean Teaching and Learning.
Coordinate and manage the faculty tutorial timetables in collaboration with the Teaching and Learning Manager/ Faculty Manager/Timetable office.
Inspect teaching and learning facilities used by the A_STEP in collaboration with the Faculty Managers and/or relevant faculty staff.
Lead one or more of the identified A_STEP processes.
Financial Management
Manage the faculty tutorial budgets.
Manage tutor payments in alignment with the approved budgets.
Manage tutor salary tracking.
Provide monthly reporting on actual expenditure.
Research
Contribute to research output in teaching and learning for the CTL and the Faculty (conference presentations and publishing of articles).
Provide data-driven and timely feedback on trends, impact and quality of student development initiatives.
Coordinate and facilitate the measurement of assigned teaching and learning interventions and campaigns in the faculties.
Collaboration
Provide accurate and detailed solutions to the Faculty’s Teaching and Learning needs in collaboration with the relevant Teaching and Learning stakeholders.
Collaborate with Blended Learning Innovation Support and Services (BLISS) focus area in CTL to facilitate staff development programmes for the faculty staff (academic and support).
Training and Development
Facilitate capacity development and ongoing training support for tutors.
Identify areas of improvement and organise ongoing development workshops/sessions during the semester.
Collaborate with the A_STEP team in the creation of tutor training materials.
Inherent Job Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree or an Advanced Diploma/B.Tech degree/Postgraduate Certificate on NQF Level 7.
Minimum of two (2) years’ experience in student academic development in a higher education environment.
Minimum of one (1) year of experience in the use of Learning Management Systems.
Recommendations:
Honours degree or Postgraduate Diploma on NQF Level 8.
Programme coordination experience in the area of academic support.
Minimum two (2) years’ experience in coordinating student academic development initiatives in higher education (tutoring, lecturing, mentoring etc).
Knowledge of data management.
Knowledge of action research.
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