Senior Lecturer at University of the Western Cape/Universiteit van Wes-Kaapland

• The Faculty of Community & Health Sciences has an international reputation for innovative teaching, learning and research, in programmes which are inter-professional, community-based, and service-learning orientated. Within the Faculty the School of Public Health hosts several post-graduate programmes and a large portfolio of research aimed at capacitating policy makers and implementers who are knowledgeable and skilled in the principles and practice of public health, whose practice is based on research, influenced by informed and active communities, and implemented with a commitment to equity, social justice and human dignity. The School of Public Health also is a WHO Collaborating Centre for teaching and research in human resources for health. 
• The Faculty of Community and Health Sciences seeks to appoint a senior lecturer within the School of Public Health for a permanent appointment, who will teach, supervise and conduct research in one or more of the following areas of public health: health management and leadership; health systems development; quantitative research methodologies; epidemiology; primary health care and social determinants of health; Public Health along the life course; reproductive, child and women’s health; HIV/TB; scholarship of teaching and learning in Public Health. 

Academic responsibilities will include: 

• Teaching and supervision at postgraduate level. 
• Curriculum and materials development and assessment.
• Developing and implementing continuing professional development courses.
• Managing and coordinating activities in postgraduate academic programmes.
• Research and publishing in national and international journals. 
• Grant-writing and third-stream income generation. 
• Working with external stakeholders, including policy support and community engagement.

Minimum Requirements

• A doctoral qualification in Public Health or a related field; or a qualification as a registered Public Health Specialist. 
• Three-years experience in an academic, research or appropriate practice environment. 
• Experience with postgraduate supervision.
• Experience in research and publications in refereed journals. 

Added Advantages: 

• Experience with health sector management in LMICs.
• Experience with curriculum and materials development.
• Experience with grant-writing and securing third-stream income.

Closing Date

5/5/2023