Post specific requirements for Associate Professor:

• A doctoral degree, NQF level 10 in Politics OR African Politics OR International Relations (foreign qualifications to be evaluated by SAQA)
• 4 years relevant experience of which 2 must be teaching experience (academics) OR 4 years relevant experience (non-academics)
• Able to discuss teaching reflection and statement (all candidates)
• Successful supervision of postgraduate (master’s and/or doctoral) candidate to completion (academics)
• A research reflection and/or portfolio (academic and non-academic)
• 6 research output units during the previous 5 years OR 4 research output units during the previous 3 years OR rated as a researcher by the NRF in any category (academics)
• 4.5 research output units during the previous 5 years OR 2.5 research output unitsӿ during the previous 3 years (non-academics)
• Evidence of the reviewed research (articles, research reports, supervision of post graduate students or any other research activity) (non-academics)
• Involvement in community engagement, with evidence of how this has been transferred into teaching and learning and/or research (academics)
• Demonstrate potential to participate in community engagement and an understanding of community engagement in terms of teaching and learning and engaged research (non-academics)
• Evidence of leading involvement in departmental, school, college and university committees including task teams and voluntary associations (academics)
• Evidence of participation in workplace committees or task teams and voluntary associations (non-academics)
• Evidence of contribution in the national wider academic community and learned societies (academics)
• (It is an accredited output as recognized in the Research Output Policy, 2015 (Government Gazette 38552 of 11 March 2015)).

Recommendation:

• Experience with teaching in an ODeL environment
• Successful supervision of postgraduate candidate to completion (non-academics)
• Involvement in the international wider academic community and learned societies (academics)
• Evidence of involvement in the national wider academic community and learned societies (non-academics)