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The Department of Computing Sciences (CS) is looking to fill a position of Associate Professor / Senior Lecturer within the department with an enthusiastic, forward-thinking person who will contribute to the vision and mission of the Department in the role of a leader in the Department. The field of Computing Sciences includes Computer Science and Information Systems. There are three key areas of performance that academic staff members in the department need to meet, namely: 1) learning and teaching; 2) engagement and 3) research generally focused within the Department's research areas (descriptive topics available upon request).
The main purpose of this post is therefore to facilitate and administer the learning process for students in modules presented by the Department at both Undergraduate and Postgraduate levels, to supervise Postgraduate students, to mentor junior colleagues in the Department in the three key areas, to conduct research and regularly publish on such research, to contribute to community engagement and to be involved in core organisational functions of the Department, Faculty and University.
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Learning and Teaching
- Facilitate learning and teaching for assigned module(s) in accordance with principles of good teaching practice, which includes material development, engaging with students and module administration.
- Participate in the development and review of new modules/curricula.
- Mentor junior colleagues.
- Represent the Department at relevant Faculty and University learning and teaching forums.
Research
- Provide research supervision to Postgraduate students, Honours, Masters or Doctoral levels.
- Manage or participate in research projects for the department.
- Generate research outputs for publication in the department's research areas.
- Mentor emerging researchers.
- Represent the department at relevant Faculty and University research forums.
Engagement
• Participate in Departmental engagement activities, which could include engagement with schools, industry, and other external stakeholders.
• Represent the Department at relevant Faculty and University engagement forums.
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Associate Professor
- A Doctoral degree in Computer Science or Information Systems.
- Minimum of 3 years of experience working as a Senior Lecturer, incorporating teaching experience (e.g. lecturing, setting and marking of assessments, curriculum development, postgraduate supervision) and conducting relevant research activities.
- An academic background in programming languages such as C#, Java, Matlab and data structures.
- Involvement in institutional organizational functions at a management level.
- Supervised or co-supervised Masters and Doctoral students to successful completion.
- Research publications in accredited journals in the last five years in a relevant field.
Senior Lecturer
- A Doctoral degree in Computer Science or Information Systems.
- Minimum of 3 years related or relevant working experience as an academic or in a relevant industry in the field of Computer Science and/or Information Systems.
- An academic background in programming langu
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