CORE FUNCTIONS INCLUDE:

Programme Management and Leadership

·        Programme Management and Leadership (within the confines of MANCOSA’s vision, mission, and strategy)

·        Establish and maintain Programme philosophy, including link to vision and mission

·        Lead the rollout and readiness of new and existing programmes

·        Ensure quality assurance processes are in place and compliant with regulatory requirements.

·        Programme lifecycle management

·        Monitor and report on trend analysis and benchmarking undertaken, student throughput, retention, articulation and dropout rates

·        Monitor academic progress and implement interventions for at-risk students

·        Collaborate with academic support services to improve student performance

Programme Planning and Academic Administration

·        Conduct induction of academic staff

·        Manage comprehensive student orientation

        Contribute to Programme budget management

·        Identify and communicate programme value proposition as an integrated effort with marketing and student enrolments

        Programme Planning and Administration in collaboration with the Institutional Planning and other relevant Departments

·        Identification of suitable academics for content development, delivery, and assessment activities.

·        Quality control of programme information available on website and prospectus

        Programme Admissions and Delivery

·        Management of semesterly admissions in line with enrolment plans

Teaching and Learning and Student Engagement

·        Facilitate webinar

·        Assessments – development, moderation and grading

·        Supervise postgraduate students

·        Stakeholder engagement, development and recognition

·        Student Engagement and Success

·        Develop and monitor programme teaching and learning strategies

• Ensure alignment of teaching and learning activities with programme outcomes.
• Promote academic integrity and quality in curriculum delivery.

Programme Intelligence and Governance

·        Application of programme and institutional SOPs and rules

·        Programme Intelligence on Gathering longitudinal programme and student performance data to feedback into lifecycle management

·        Monitor and address programme conditions and recommendations from the regulatory bodies

·        Compile and submit timely reports on programme performance, student success rates, and academic operations.

·        Use data to support continuous improvement initiatives

Programme Enhancement and Quality Assurance

·        Complete Programme and Module cyclical Reviews

·        Monitoring, Evaluation and manage risk for the assigned programme/s

• Oversee Programme teach-out plans and ensure quality in transitional academic processes.
• Support Programme re-alignment efforts in line with institutional strategy

·        Monitor Work Integrated Learning components (Where applicable)

Community engagement

• Promotion of appropriate Community Engagement initiatives and activities
• Programme specific career guidance in collaboration with Career Centre

Ad Hoc 

•     Participate in institutional academic committees, audits, and events.

•     Undertake additional responsibilities as assigned by faculty leadership