Homeoffice Senior Lecturer bei Milpark Education Pty Ltd
Milpark Education Pty Ltd · Cape Town, Südafrika · Remote
- Senior
Applications close date: 30 August 2025
The Position
In this role, the ideal candidate will be motivated to foster strong student engagement and focus on lecturing in Leadership, Strategy, or other Management disciplines within our MBA programme through a student-centric approach. The ideal candidate will bring academic expertise and practical experience, contributing to developing and delivering high-quality educational content with a strong focus on driving student engagement and learning through asynchronous teaching moments. In addition to lecturing responsibilities, the Senior Lecturer will be responsible for the research supervision of Master's and Doctoral students.
Our MBA programme aims to challenge students’ views of self, others, and the world as we create an environment where they can hone their leadership skills to address the unique challenges facing South African and African leaders in business and other contexts. The ideal candidate should thus deeply care about our context and support students on their own unique journeys.
Responsibilities
Facilitation and Learning
- Deliver engaging and high-quality synchronous lectures on assigned modules. Classes will be scheduled outside of core business hours to accommodate part-time students.
- Support the design of asynchronous content and take responsibility for updating and refreshing content, ensuring alignment with industry trends and academic best practices.
- Foster a collaborative and inclusive learning environment that encourages student participation, curiosity and critical thinking.
- Engage daily with students in the online classroom, either in the form of informing students of upcoming work or events, engaging in online discussions or assisting students with academic-related queries. As students study part-time, responding over weekends to students will be an expectation for the duration of the teaching blocks.
- Implement applicable Milpark policies and procedures on assigned modules and subjects.
- Design assessments for assigned subjects across modules within timelines as required
- Conduct marking, internal moderation and signing off of marks on assigned modules
- Arrange industry experts as guest lecturers, ensuring innovation and relevance.
- Take responsibility for correctness of all learning material as well as subject-related information loaded on myMilpark
- Assist students with content-related queries and deal with requests for extra student support
- Build good relationships with internal departments and part-time academics
- Serve on relevant academic committees
- Supervise and mentor students in their academic and professional development.
Programme Oversight Support
- Collaborate with faculty and administrative staff to coordinate course schedules, assessments, and student support services.
- Participate in curriculum development and review processes, integrating feedback from stakeholders.
- Action items that come out of specific student surveys and focus groups, in coordination with programme managers
Recruitment, performance management and people development
- Recruit adjunct faculty/part-time academic staff (guest lecturers, examiners, critical readers, authors, moderators, tutors, supervisors, markers) for assigned modules.
- Take responsibility for the quality of academic staff appointed and contracted on assigned subjects
- Manage the induction, development and performance of adjunct faculty on assigned modules/programmes to ensure that part-time lecturers meet Milpark’s standards
- Take responsibility for development of adjunct faculty or part-time academic staff according to quality assurance requirements
Customer Service
- Be available for student consultation in terms of an agreed schedule after hours (which may include sessions before 9h00 and after 16h00 on weekdays)
- Ensure the student profiles are kept up to date with all contact intervention information and/or academic info
- Address student academic queries and disputes
- Participate in HEQC/DoE enquiries
- Maintain professional relationships with all Milpark management and staff
Research and Supervision
- Conduct research and produce at least 1.5 publications and other research outputs in line with departmental objectives
- May assist with the research of students and faculty
- Act as supervisor and/or marker for student research in the field of expertise
Take accountability for own development
- Expand own expertise on a continuous basis
- Attend workshops, conferences, etc. in order to stay abreast of developments in field of expertise
- Engage with the professional and academic communities
Special projects and business consulting
- Assist in the delivery of special projects as determined by management
Education & Experience Requirements
- A DBA or PhD degree in Management or a related field.
- Teaching experience at the postgraduate level OR practical business management or leadership experience, preferably at a Business School.
- A track record of Master’s and Doctoral level supervision.
- A track record of research and publications in relevant academic journals.
Desired Behavioural Competencies
- Proven record of ability to plan and organise complex tasks
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Proven record of ability to manage time and to work to strict deadlines in a fast moving and pressurised environment
- Ability to give high attention to detail
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team-oriented environment
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Commitment to continuous professional development
- Passion for education and students
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Preference will be given to applicants from designated groups, and appointments will be made in line with our EE requirements
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