Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (1-Year Contract, Renewable up to 3 Years) (Job ID: 5831) - (1526) at University of the Free State

Duties and responsibilities:

• Design, initiate, lead and implement a project that benefits predominantly women from low-income, rural communities or emerging farmers.
• Supervise PhD, Masters and honours students to collaborate with the project, assist in the research design, ethical clearance, proposals and implementation of research projects, and preparing theses/dissertations.
• Investigate, identify, draft and submit funding proposals.
• Conduct quantitative and qualitative consumer-led research that involves innovative product development, sensory evaluation, farmer and consumer training and other strategic intervention strategies.
• Analyse data statistically to demonstrate patterns, trends and relationships.
• Author/co-author at least three (3) publication outputs per year in the form of DHET-accredited scholarly journal articles or books/chapters in books. 
• Assist in lecturing under and post-graduate modules and offering support to students through mentoring, coaching, advising and motivating.
• Participate in international and national conferences, presenting original research through oral and poster presentations.
• Register and reside as a postdoctoral research fellow at the UFS and participate in relevant activities of the Centre for Graduate Support and the Directorate of Research.
• Prepare and submit an annual progress report. The renewal of the fellowship beyond the first year depends on satisfactory performance, as evidenced in the annual progress report.

Competencies

Eligibility criteria

• Open to all South African and foreign nationals for full-time research at the University if the Free State. 
• Graduated with a PhD degree in a relevant discipline within the last five years.
• Successful applicants may not hold full-time salaried employment during the fellowship.
• Successful applicants must be able to relocate to the UFS for the duration of the fellowship. This is a residential fellowship: the successful applicant is required to spend 80% of her/his postdoctoral period at the UFS.

Recommendation:

• A valid driver’s licence.