Responsibilities

• JOB PURPOSE

  1. Support the activities of the Faculty and oversee the execution of academic programs in line with the school's objectives.

  2. Work closely with faculty members to ensure effective teaching methodologies and curriculum alignment, address faculty concerns and provide professional development opportunities.

  3. Act as the primary point of contact for all Faculty-related affairs and serve as a liaison between faculty, administration, and external stakeholders.

  4. To develop and maintain effective communication, collaboration, and a commitment to continuous improvement are key to successfully fulfilling these responsibilities. Regularly assess the effectiveness of your strategies and adapt as needed to meet the evolving needs of the student body and faculty.

  KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Support the Dean in the design of operating procedures across key functional areas. o Build and maintain a robust database of current and potential faculty across all subject areas. o Facilitate the design and implementation of a robust faculty onboarding process.
  • Ensure that formal invitation and appreciation letters are issued to all faculty.
  • Ensure meaningful performance evaluations of faculty and staff are regularly conducted.
  • Enhance a culture of collaboration to include meaningful engagement with faculty, staff and student liaison, Admission and FixPolitic Group.
  • Conduct regular and meaningful consultation, dialogue and engagement with faculty, students, and Student Liaison Team.
  • Support periodic review of the curriculum to ensure that contents are aligned with the objective of the school and have a national context and relevance
  • Contribute to improving the retention rate and reduce attrition to no more than 10% per cohort.
  • Recruit and onboard class coordinators for all classes
  • Engage class coordinators for general feedback, and maintain a tracking system for all feedback received.
  • Ensure all learning materials, including assignments and course work from facilitators are timely distributed to SLO and Technical team and responses are collated and made available to Facilities by the agreed-upon date.
  • Plan lecture schedule with confirmed date and facilitator for all courses. Ensure facilitators are adequately notified of their schedule, reminders are sent, lecture coordinators are assigned and communicated to facilitators, coordinators provide adequate support to facilitators, appreciation emails are sent at the end of every class, build a contingency plan around guest facilitators
  • Facilitate the development of a robust program calendar for each cohort.
  • In collaboration with SLO, design and execute multilocation in-person events to foster deeper student relations and enhance the organisational experience
  • Identify job roles, create hiring plans and participate in the recruiting and hiring process for faculty and staff.
  • Exemplify good governance by working closely with the management team and ensuring departmental adherence to internal policies.
  • Recommend internal policy reforms where needed, by concisely referencing relevant student and faculty feedback and consequential outcomes to management.
  • Ensure timely production of periodic and Adhoc department activity reports.
  • Provide Faculty Input to the monthly report for #FixPolitics Meeting.
  • Oversee department interns.
  • Constantly seek to enhance the overall student/participant experience of The organisation through continuous training recommendations for Faculty Staff.