Post specific requirements for Associate Professor:

• A doctoral degree, NQF level 10 in Sociology (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
• 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 unitsӿ 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)
• Having specialisations in medical sociology, teaching sociological theory at honour’s level, any research experience or interest in the CNAs, as well as evidence of engaged scholarship projects and grants, will be added advantages.