Wits Recruitment – Academic Headship

Job Description:

The School of Clinical Medicine in the Faculty of Health Sciences seeks to appoint an Academic Head of Internal Medicine. The School invites applicants from the existing joint staff and beyond. The Academic Head of Internal Medicine will be an outstanding physician and an eminent authority in the field of Internal Medicine or its subspecialties and encompassing its clinical practice, teaching and research in its clinical aspects and in the scientific disciplines that form its basis. The appointee will be expected to make innovative and distinctive contributions to leadership in education, research and clinical practice in the University of the Witwatersrand, School of Clinical Medicine and the Department of Internal Medicine.

Job Responsibilities:

• Setting research priorities, developing research partnerships, and building research capacity within the relevant fields
• Ensuring the optimal utilization of resources (human, financial and infrastructural) to meet the school’s short- and long-term academic goals
• Development and implementation of teaching and learning programmes within the department’s discipline/s and the promotion of inter-disciplinary co- operation and innovation
• Establishing, maintaining, and extending the department ‘s contact with other academic and research institutions and with the related professions
• The head also has a duty to consult staff members throughout the department, formally or informally, in order to ensure that policies and important decisions are properly canvassed and debated.
• Maintaining teaching and examining standards within the department
• Promoting social responsibility and awareness, and engagement with external stakeholders
• Ensure the transparency of decision-making processes except where confidentiality is essential to protect an individual or the interests of the department.
• Maintenance of academic excellence in teaching and research
• Promote staff development and manage staff performance and assessment within the department.
• Provide the academic vision and leadership required to enable the department to establish and maintain a position of excellence within the
• Department and in the wider educational context.
• Ensuring that the department meets its teaching commitments, both undergraduate and postgraduate

Qualification & Experience:

• The successful candidate will be appointed as a Head of Department for a fixed term of 5 years, renewable for an additional five years based on performance
• The applicant must have excellent leadership, interpersonal and managerial skills and should have attained sufficient academic and professional standing to command respect of the members of the department.
• Research experience is a pre-requisite and possession of a PhD or strong track record of publications of original research.
• Registration as a Specialist Physician
• At least 10 years’ experience in Internal Medicine and in university administration at a senior level are essential requirements.
• The preferred candidate must be appointable at the level of Associate / Adjunct Professor or Full Professor in the University of the Witwatersrand.

Job Details:

Company: University of the Witwatersrand

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: Johannesburg, Gauteng, SA

Application Deadline: N/A

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