Job Opportunities at IIE MSA and IIE Varsity College

KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS: 

• Preparation and lecturing as per the Module Guide
• Teaching curriculum outcomes as per contract hours and stipulated per pre agreed timetable
• Briefing students for assignments and providing feedback in a timeous manner
• Presenting class marks and feedback to the MODULE DISCIPLINE LEADER and discuss appropriate interventions for improved student success
• Actively engaging with current trends in teaching and learning strategies within The IIE VEGA environment.

Competencies Required:

• Communications skills
• Organisational skills
• Time management
• Minimum Education Requirements:

​Ideal:

• Honours degree in Information Systems/ Computer Science

Alternatively:

• Honours degree in similarly related fields with programming or related field to the third-year level.

Minimum Work Experience Requirements:

• ​Lecturing experience in programming
• Work experience as a software developer/ application developer/ programmer

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KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS:

• Lecturing/Facilitation
• Marking
• Student support

Competencies Required:

• Communications skills
• Organisational skills
• Time management

Minimum Education Requirements per module:

A completed degree in the following specialisations:

• Honours in Supply Chain/Logistics Management; Business Management with a special focus on the following: Logistics; Operations and Production Management; Warehousing; Integrated Logistics and Transport Management. 

Alternatively: 

• Honours in one of the Supply Chain/Logistics Management related fields (e.g. purchasing, operations/ production, inventory; sustainable management, warehousing) with supply chain management and Logistics to the third-year level;

Minimum Work Experience Requirements:

It would be preferable if the following additional competencies are fulfilled:

• Industry experience in Supply chain/ logistics
• Lecturing experience

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KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS:

• Lecturing/Facilitation
• Marking
• Student support

Competencies Required:

• Communications skills
• Organisational skills
• Time management

Minimum Education Requirements per module:

A completed degree in the following specialisations:

• Bachelor of Arts Honours/ Bachelor of Social Science Honours/ Bachelor of Science Honours degree in Geography and/ or Environmental Science. 

Alternatively:

• Postgraduate Diploma, MA/ MPhil/ MSc, PhD/ DPhil qualification in Geography and/ or Environmental Science.

Minimum Work Experience Requirements:

Lecturing experience:

• Ideally two years in Geography and/ or Environmental Science
• Work experience in a field related to Environmental Policy Advisor or Analyst, Environmental Management, Environmental Impact Assessment Specialist, Geoinformatic Specialist.

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KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS:

• Lecturing/Facilitation
• Marking
• Student support

Competencies Required:

• Communications skills
• Organisational skills
• Time management

Minimum Education Requirements per module:

A completed degree in the following specialisations:

Ideal:

• Chartered Accountant or
• Certificate in the Theory of Accounting (CTA) or
• Honours /Postgraduate qualification in External Auditing.

Alternatively:

• NQF level 9 qualification in External Auditing.

Minimum Work Experience Requirements:

• Industry experience in Supply chain/ logistics
• Lecturing experience

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KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS:

• Lecturing/Facilitation
• Marking
• Student support

Competencies Required:

• Communications skills
• Organisational skills
• Time management

Minimum Education Requirements per module:

A completed degree in the following specialisations:

Ideal:

• A B.Ed. Honour’s degree in isiXhosa 

Alternatively:

• An Honour’s degree in the language to be lectured or
• Another Humanities/Arts/Social Science Honour’s or Postgraduate Diploma (at NQF level 8)

And:

• The undergraduate qualification must include the language to be lectured as a major (up to third-year level); or
• a Postgraduate Teaching Diploma (NQF level 8) with the language to be lectured as a didactic subject. 

Minimum Work Experience Requirements:

• Lecturing experience and work experience in the language to be lectured.

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KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS:

• Lecturing/Facilitation
• Marking
• Student support

Competencies Required:

• Communications skills
• Organisational skills
• Time management

Minimum Education Requirements per module:

A completed degree in the following specialisations:

Ideal:

• Honours bachelor’s degree in human resource management: Training and Development.

 Alternatively: 

• Honours Degree in one of the Business-related fields with Human Resource Management to third-year level, one of which focuses on training and development. 

Minimum Work Experience Requirements:

• Lecturing experience in Human Resource Management/Industrial Psychology/ Training and Development.
• Work experience in Human Resource Management, Industrial Psychology/ Training and Development.

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KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS:

• Lecturing/Facilitation
• Marking
• Student support

Competencies Required:

• Communications skills
• Organisational skills
• Time management

Minimum Education Requirements per module:

A completed degree in the following specialisations:

​Ideal: 

• Honours Degree in International Trade and Finance/ International Economics. 

Alternatively:

• Honours in one of the Business-related fields (e.g. economics, entrepreneurship, risk, supply chain or project management), with Economics to the third-year degree level. One of the economic modules must be international trade and finance/International Economics.

or 

• A bachelor's degree with Economics or a similarly related field (e.g. entrepreneurship, risk, supply chain or project management) with Economics to the third-year level One of the economic modules must be international trade and finance/International Economics PLUS either an MBA or a postgraduate diploma in business or education. 

Minimum Work Experience Requirements:

• Lecturing experience in Economics/Econometrics is critical due to the nature and complexity of this module.
• Work or lecturing experience as an econometrician or consultant in this field.

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KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS:

• Lecturing/Facilitation
• Marking
• Student support

Competencies Required:

• Communications skills
• Organisational skills
• Time management

Minimum Education Requirements per module:

A completed degree in the following specialisations:

Ideal:

• An honours degree in Tourism Management / Travel Management as a field of study

Alternatively:

• An honours degree with Management as a field of study​

Minimum Work Experience Requirements:

It would be preferable if the following additional competencies are fulfilled:

• Industry experience in Supply chain/ logistics
• Lecturing experience

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Duties and Responsibilities:

• Perform maintenance and light repairs.
• Set up venues as per instruction from Facilities Co-ordinator when needed.
• Paint and/or repair gaps or crevices (on walls, sidewalks etc.)
• Undertake light installation or carpeting.
• Look after and take accountability of tools and equipment in storerooms.
• Repair equipment or appliances where possible.
• Undertake minor plumbing or electrical work
• Assist contractors while on site with major electrical, plumbing work.
• Undertake duties as assigned or emergency tasks where needed or instructed by Facilities Co-ordinator.
• Identify and report the need for any repairs to line manager.
• Oversee subcontracted services on the campus under the direction of the Facilities Coordinator
• Perform regular inspections on the campus to identify items and areas requiring attention
• Responsible on occasion for the opening and closing of the campus.
• Responsible for sourcing quotes for campus, under direction of the Facilities Coordinator
• Will be based at the Nelson Mandela Bay campus.
• Any ad hoc duties as directed by the Facilities Co-ordinator.

Competencies required:

• Well-presented and good communication skills
• Well-organized
• Must have problem-solving skills
• Attention to detail

Minimum Qualification Requirements:

• Matric or equivalent
• Basic computer skills
• Basic math skills

Minimum Experience Requirements:

• Proven experience as handyman.
• Experience with hardware tools and electrical equipment.
• Basic understanding of electrical and plumbing.

Preference will be given to candidates that meet the below requirements:

• Basic Electrical and Plumbing certification.
• Code EB drivers license.
• Basic Firefighting certification.
• Introduction of OHS (specific to Good House Keeping) certification.
• Basic Microsoft Word & Excel skills.

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Duties and Responsibilities:

Presentation Target

• Deliver engaging presentations at targeted schools, showcasing the benefits of our institution.
• The ability to deliver a great presentation to potential students is crucial.
• Distribute marketing materials and interact with students to generate interest and enquiries.
• Represent our brand at career expos and other stakeholder events.
• Achieve monthly presentation targets as per school priorities.

Database Collection

• Meet monthly targets for collecting school databases to expand our reach.

Interview Target

• Make proactive calls to prospective students, scheduling interviews to meet daily and weekly targets.
• Follow up on online applications, ensuring proof of payments and scheduling appointments.
• Provide prompt responses to online and telephonic enquiries.
• Conduct interviews following an established script, building rapport with students and parents.
• Achieve individual targets for weekly, monthly and annual interviews.

Application Target

• Assist students with the online application process during interviews, securing applications on the spot.
• Follow up with unpaid online applications and ensuring payment is completed.
• Conduct regular calling campaigns to convert interviews into applications.
• Drive application acceptance and pre-registration fee payment.
• Achieve individual targets for weekly, monthly and annual applications.

Registration Target

• Support the campus by converting applications to registrations to achieve the annual campus registration target.

Administration and Reporting

• Maintain accurate daily reports, including call reports and interview booking trackers and the CRM system.
• Ensure interview forms are completed correctly and applications have valid supporting documentation.
• Update relevant systems and reports as required by the Head: Student Recruitment.

Competencies Required:

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills to effectively engage with students, parents and stakeholders.
• The ability to deliver a compelling presentation at schools is crucial.
• Friendly, tenacious, and target-driven mindset with exceptional organisational abilities.
• Excellent time management skills to handle multiple tasks and work under pressure.

Minimum Requirements:

• National Diploma (NQF6) with 3 years sales experience (preferred) OR,
• Alternatively, minimum of National Senior Certificate (or equivalent) with 5 years sales experience.

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Duties and Responsibilities:

Presentation Target

• Deliver engaging presentations at targeted schools, showcasing the benefits of our institution.
• The ability to deliver a great presentation to potential students is crucial.
• Distribute marketing materials and interact with students to generate interest and enquiries.
• Represent our brand at career expos and other stakeholder events.
• Achieve monthly presentation targets as per school priorities.

Database Collection

• Meet monthly targets for collecting school databases to expand our reach.

Interview Target

• Make proactive calls to prospective students, scheduling interviews to meet daily and weekly targets.
• Follow up on online applications, ensuring proof of payments and scheduling appointments.
• Provide prompt responses to online and telephonic enquiries.
• Conduct interviews following an established script, building rapport with students and parents.
• Achieve individual targets for weekly, monthly and annual interviews.

Application Target

• Assist students with the online application process during interviews, securing applications on the spot.
• Follow up with unpaid online applications and ensuring payment is completed.
• Conduct regular calling campaigns to convert interviews into applications.
• Drive application acceptance and pre-registration fee payment.
• Achieve individual targets for weekly, monthly and annual applications.

Registration Target

• Support the campus by converting applications to registrations to achieve the annual campus registration target.

Administration and Reporting

• Maintain accurate daily reports, including call reports and interview booking trackers and the CRM system.
• Ensure interview forms are completed correctly and applications have valid supporting documentation.
• Update relevant systems and reports as required by the Head: Student Recruitment.

Competencies Required:

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills to effectively engage with students, parents and stakeholders.
• The ability to deliver a compelling presentation at schools is crucial.
• Friendly, tenacious, and target-driven mindset with exceptional organisational abilities.
• Excellent time management skills to handle multiple tasks and work under pressure.

Minimum Requirements:

• National Diploma (NQF6)/ Bachelors Degree (NQF level 7) with 2-3 years sales experience (preferred) OR,
• Alternatively, minimum of National Senior Certificate (or equivalent) with 5 years sales experience..

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Duties and Responsibilities:

Final Year Presentations

• Achieve presentation target as set by Head: Student Recruitment.
• Complete presentations with final year current students promoting postgraduate studies.
• Distribute marketing material such as pamphlets and information brochures.
• Hand out interest cards to students.
• Facilitates stakeholder events and open days.

Database Collection

• Achievement of database collection target as per set final year presentation targets.
• Ensure all database (interest cards, telephonic enquiries, walk-ins) secured is captured accurately and in full on STASY.
• For leads that are integrated into STASY (e.g. website leads, online applications etc.) ensure that all additional student personal information is captured.

Consultations

• Responds telephonically to all enquiries within 48 hours of query (where telephone number has been supplied).
• After the initial telephone call, send all necessary information via email.
• Responds to and consults with, if necessary, all applications not yet consulted with.
• Conducts follow up calls with all enquiries within 5 working days of initial contact.

Applications

• Secure applications by following the consultation process with all leads and enquiries.
• Follow up with unpaid online applications to secure payment and necessary certified supporting documentation.
• Complete required weekly follow up calls to secure applications.
• Achieve set individual application targets as determined by Head: Student Recruitment.
• Drive applications to accept offer of admission and pay the required pre-registration fee.

Registration Targets

• Achieve individual registration target as determined by Head: Student Recruitment.

Stakeholder Management & Customer Service

• Internal customer points to note - interaction with his/her team members, interaction with other campus staff outside his/her team, interaction with Campus Senior management and Campus Head.
• Ensures and enables clear and open communication between the stakeholders and the brand.
• Conducts regular meetings with stakeholders.

Competencies Required:

• Interpersonal and communications skills
• Best suited to a friendly, tenacious, target driven, organised person who works accurately and is able to handle pressure
• Time management skills

Minimum Education Requirements:

• Minimum of 3 Year Diploma or Bachelors Degree in PR/Business/Marketing/ Communications

Minimum Work Experience Requirements:

• Minimum of 4 years sales experience

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Duties and Responsibilities:

Media Relations

• Identifying, building and maintaining strong media relationships within the community and region in which the campus is located.
• Output of monthly (targeted number) media releases and caption stories for internal and external use, in order to reach annual campus PR exposure/publicity target. 
• Building and maintaining relationships with the local media.
• Networking with media at campus events.
• Liaise with the National office in any crisis management situations (PR/media).

Brand Identity

• Understand the Brand identity and ensure that it is consistently applied to all campus elements including: posters. flyers and campus look and feel as well as to ensure that all campus communication is geared towards maintaining a positive Brand reputation.

Management of PR related Service Providers

• Identifying and selecting campus service providers which will provide services for the PR portfolio. This includes and not limited to: photographers, printers, sound technicians etc.
• Brief campus photographers and liaise with other campus staff to ensure an even spread of sport, social, academic, cultural and community engagement events are effectively photographed.
• Manage the campus photography including supply national office, press and online media.

General Administration

• Compiling annual and monthly events calendars.
• Compiling reports after major events.
• Managing the campus PR budget.
• Compiling monthly PR reports.

Events Management

• Ensure the planning and implementation of comprehensive and balanced social events offering both on and off the campus, that will in turn positively impact on the marketing of the campus to prospective students.
• Provide accurate reporting of all social and cultural events within the time frames provided.
• Management of the internal advertising for all social and cultural events.
• Build relationships with third parties to ensure access to practical venues for all social events and to ensure sponsorship opportunities and prizes for such events.

Team Support

• Support the Student Experience team on specific projects as required.
• Supporting the Academic Operations Centres of Excellence with events, example: graduation.
• Offer support related to public relations to other departments that may need it, when requested by a Senior Manager.

Social Committee Management

• Recruitment and management of the Social Committee to encourage student participate to ensure students receive a full and well-rounded experience at IIE Varsity College.

Competencies Required:

• High level of administration, planning and organisational skills
• Computer literacy essential
• Customer service orientation, High levels of energy and self motivation
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Must be confident and outgoing
• Shown ability to manage work and self proactively must be deadline driven
• Superior Presentation Skills
• Excellent command of the English language (both spoken and written)

Minimum Qualification Requirements:

• BA Degree in Corporate Communications, or PR/Marketing Degree or Diploma or equivalent.

Minimum Work Experience Requirements:

• Minimum of 3 years in any of the following: PR, Events Management, Social Media Management, Social Management and Media writing and liaison. 
• Experience in managing a team of people / running a team / delegating tasks would be beneficial

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Duties and Responsibilities:

Academic Leadership, Management & Campus Support

• Overall leadership and management of the School on campus.
• Manage the interface with the Head of School.
• Plan resource allocation for the academic operations of all programmes within the School on campus.
• Review academic results of all students within the School on campus and implement an appropriate teaching and learning strategy for "At risk" students and "At risk" modules.
• Manage academic counselling and support to students within the school on campus.
• Report on the academic performance of the School on the campus to Head: Academic, Campus Head and Head of School, and any other relevant national staff member.
• Drive the implementation of relevant teaching and learning initiatives within the School on campus.
• Support the development of new programmes for accreditation.
• Support development of academic material and assessments on programmes within the School by acting as developer, module leader, moderator or head of programme for the Central Academic Team (CAT).
• Performance management and development of permanent academic staff within the School on campus.
• Manage lecturer development in consultation with the Teaching and Learning specialist.
• Ensure representation of the school on the Programme Co-ordination Committee (PCC) calls.
• Discipline Module Support role.
• Support the Teaching & Learning Specialist in the management of the peer review process and the internal moderation model.
• Provide specialist support to the campus senior management team for all programmes within the School.
• Provide specialist support to the campus operations team responsible for the operation of all programmes within the School on campus.
• Lead the recruitment, selection, and appointment of the academic team of the School within the campus.
• Provide support to the campus marketing team with specialised knowledge of the programmes with the School.
• Manage the Development Task.
• Manage plagiarism offences and disciplinary procedures.
• Manage and oversee the school's role in National/campus initiatives, such as Summer School, Saturday School, Speed Week, RESTART, 6 Week Student Engagement Programme, Numeracy Tutorial Sessions, Elevate.
• Involvement in, and management of, academic support and administrative duties during the campus registration period.
• Supervision of students on Honours programmes (where applicable).
• Manage the student tracking process.
• Conduct Student consultations.

Industry, Professional Management & Building Partnerships

• Develop and maintain relationships with professional industry to support placement of students, bursaries and sponsorships and access to professional expertise.
• Facilitation of and involvement in professional and scholarly activities e.g. Conference Papers and Higher Degree Studies.
• Organise campus events for the School to promote professional industry relationships.
• Represent The Independent Institute of Education (The IIE) and The IIE's MSA at professional institutions, on external partner faculty boards and other relevant committees.

Lecturing

• Lecture up to 100 hours OR 2 modules per semester (including supervision). If engaged in approved formal research activity then you will be required to lecture 1 module per semester.

Research & Scholarship

• The incumbent is required to promote a culture of scholarship within their practice, discipline and campus/team and is also required to contribute towards The IIE’s MSA achieving its annual research output targets.

Competencies Required:

• Leadership and management skills
• Professional/advanced communication skills
• Organisational and planning skills
• Proven computer literacy competence
• Tolerance for operating in a pressurised environment and industry
• Tangible evidence of participation in the planning and/or implementation of change management interventions
• Ability to analyse and interpret data
• Attention to detail and focus on quality
• Advanced teaching and learning expertise evidenced by a Teaching Portfolio

Minimum Qualification Requirements:

• Masters or equivalent in relevant School (NQF Level 9) in Education.

Minimum Experience Requirements:

• Minimum of 5 years Teaching and Learning experience (preferably in teaching environment).
• Must have an understanding of the current regulatory framework and its impact on higher education and private colleges.