Academic Administrator

Academic Administrator

Role Description

The successful candidate will be appointed as an academic administrator in the Academic team. They will be responsible to support the Academic team with implementation of learning, teaching and assessment and with the provision of academic support on all qualifications and other training programmes. Duties will include co-ordination and implementation of scheduled activities; proofreading and editing, administration tasks on Moodle including uploading, testing and maintaining learning material and assessment; assisting the academic team with student support and communication; and record-keeping.

Job Specification 

• Responsible to support the academic team with proofreading and editing of learning material, assessments, Moodle Import documents, etc.
• Responsible to support the academic team with uploading, testing and maintaining learning material and assessment on qualifications.
• Responsible to assist with the maintenance and updates of appropriate templates for instructional design and assessment, and for standard student course communications.
• Responsible to assist the programme co-ordinators with planning and documenting required academic activities according to the semester schedules and timetables.
• Responsible to assist with Moodle administration tasks for qualifications, for example, preparing LMS import documents, creating question banks, creating quizzes and importing questions as well as preparing settings for proctored exams, etc.
• Responsible to assist the academic team with assessment on allocated modules/subjects, for example, marking scripts as per memorandum on selected modules/subjects, checking and recording results, preparing moderation reports and any other progress reports as required by the academic team.
• Responsible to assist with learning and teaching processes, for example reviewing recorded lectures, editing these and then uploading them in the LMS, sending student announcements on the LMS.

Skills

• Planning and organising skills to assist the academic team with implementation of the qualifications and other programmes
• Interpersonal skills to communicate effectively with internal staff and external contractors, management and clients (students)
• Interpersonal skills to check, proofread and edit documents
• Driven to delivering results and meeting customer expectations
• Adapting and responding well to constant change and development
• Analytical thinking
• Working well in a diverse team

 Qualifications

• Financial or Insurance or other similar post matric qualification at minimum NQF Level 6

Experience

•             1 years’ working experience in higher education or similar training environment