Assistant Director: Comprehensive Internationalization (post level 7) at University of the Free State

Duties and responsibilities:

• Enabling Comprehensive Internationalisation at the Qwaqwa campus of the University of the Free State (UFS), and specifically:
•    Manage the Qwaqwa campus international office independently with minimum supervision.
•    Plan for and coordinate the implementation of the UFS Internationalisation Strategy in the context of the Qwaqwa Campus, as amplified by the Qwaqwa Internationalisation Plan.
•    Facilitate support for academics on the Qwaqwa campus community in their internationalisation activities.
•    Develop and provide specialised international student administration systems and services on the Qwaqwa campus.
•    Provide advice on international opportunities to staff and students on the Qwaqwa campus.
•    Develop and implement strategies to increase outbound staff and postgraduate student mobility opportunities on the Qwaqwa campus.
•    Conceptualise and coordinate international partnership management at the Qwaqwa campus.
•    Conceptualise and coordinate reporting on internationalisation for the Qwaqwa campus, and integrate it with institutional UFS reporting on internationalisation.
•    Ensure that the UFS Qwaqwa complies with new national reporting requirements for internationalisation and that the information assists in developing a better understanding of Internationalisation at the UFS and advancing the process.
•    Conceptualise and coordinate the implementation on social integration initiatives for international students and at the Qwaqwa campus.
•    Conceptualise and coordinate co-curricular internationalisation at home activities on the Qwaqwa campus.
•    Conceptualise and coordinate support for strategic internationalisation activities at the Qwaqwa campus.
•    Monitor and follow up on strategic internationalisation initiatives on the Qwaqwa campus.
•    Identify, develop and implement new strategic internationalisation initiatives on the UFS Qwaqwa campus.
•    Managing the Qwaqwa cost centre of the Office for International Affairs.
•    Managing performance of the Qwaqwa team of the Office for International Affairs.

Inherent Job Requirements:

•    Relevant Bachelor’s degree or an Advanced Diploma / B.Tech degree / Postgraduate Certificate on NQF level 7.
•    Minimum four (4) years’ relevant working experience related to the duties and responsibilities in internationalisation or international relations environment.
•    Experience within the higher-education internationalisation environment.

Recommendations:

•    Honours degree /Postgraduate Diploma/Professional Bachelor’s degree on NQF level 8 or Master’s degree on NQF level 9.
•    Relevant working experience in the higher education environment.
•        Knowledge of university systems, policies, procedures.