Curriculum Transformation Specialist - Higher Education at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

Job Description & Summary

A career within People and Organisation services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients reset their talent strategies and deliver extraordinary business results through their people. We focus on evaluating and managing their unique challenges so our clients can maximise their return on the overall investment in human capital. You’ll gain a tremendous depth of expertise in all aspects of human capital, including creating sustainable value through people culture and change, designing compensation and retirement strategies, and improving human capital operations.

To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

As a Senior Manager, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

• Encourage everyone to have a voice and invite opinion from all, including quieter members of the team.
• Deal effectively with ambiguous and unstructured problems and situations.
• Initiate open and candid coaching conversations at all levels.
• Move easily between big picture thinking and managing relevant detail.
• Anticipate stakeholder needs, and develop and discuss potential solutions, even before the stakeholder realises they are required.
• Contribute technical knowledge in area of specialism.
• Contribute to an environment where people and technology thrive together to accomplish more than they could apart.
• Navigate the complexities of cross-border and/or diverse teams and engagements.
• Initiate and lead open conversations with teams, clients and stakeholders to build trust.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Role Summary:

HE institutions are under pressure to keep pace the with the demands of producing skills that are relevant to the workplace of today and the future. Traditional HE curricula are coming under scrutiny and require transformation.

PwC has developed a methodology and an approach to assist HE institutions to do just this.

This role will be responsible for:

• Adapting the global methodology to be applicable within a SA and African context
• Assist with the sales of a new service - Curriculum Transformation
• Deliver on such engagements, working closely with international offices
• Expand the service offerings to higher education across SA and Africa

We believe that challenges are better solved together. That's why you'll join a diverse, global community of solvers - an unexpected mix of people that come together to build trust in society and solve important problems. In a place where you are encouraged to lead with your heart and values. And where your unique skills are developed and put to work in unexpected and exciting ways, superpowered by technology.

Qualifications / Certifications required:

• PhD is teacher science, teacher education or curriculum related subjects.
• Experience required:
• Designing curriculums and teaching lecturers on these new approaches

Responsibilities of role:

This role will be responsible for:

• Adapting the global methodology to be applicable within a SA and African context
• Assist with the sales of a new service - Curriculum Transformation
• Deliver on such engagements, working closely with international offices
• Expand the service offerings to higher education across SA and Africa

Skill sets required:

• Technical skills to design curriculum for HE and deliver on such engagements
• Alignment to the requirements of the Future of Work and leapfrogging in Africa
• Very strong interpersonal skills and a sound track record of working with professors in HE

Role related attributes:

• Problem-solving
• Self-directed
• Analytical and ability to design new solutions and bring new insights to curriculum design