Director, Faculty Affairs Office at Strathmore Business School

JOB PURPOSE:

This position is responsible for providing management of all faculty matters at the school and in particular be the liaison between the faculty teams and administration teams.

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Ensure the quality of the SBS faculty.

• Participate in the recruitment of SBS faculty to ensure that the staff recruited meets the standards and requirements of SBS.
• Identify recruitment needs in the school and escalate the needs to the People and Culture department for recruitment purposes.
• Supports People and Culture in matters relating to faculty contracts for all SBS full-time and adjunct faculty.

Cultivate a high-performance culture at SBS.

• Support performance target-setting process for SBS faculty members.
• Conduct appraisals for all SBS full-time and adjunct faculty on a quarterly basis in collaboration with departmental heads and the people and culture department.
• Frequently track the performance of the SBS full-time and adjunct faculty.

Ensure proper faculty orientation at the school level.

• Properly induct new faculty members in SBS, provide explanation and guidance on the processes that directly or indirectly affect the faculty member i.e., claims process; proper introduction of faculty to SBS staff members.
• Induct the new faculty members on the University ethos, school’s teaching methodology, and exam setting among other procedures.

Oversee SBS faculty development.

• Facilitate development opportunities for faculty by identifying recognition awards, scholarships and fellowships, teaching enhancement activities and courses, and leadership, coaching and professional development programs.

Guide and support faculty in preparing for promotion

• Actively support the vision, and ethos of the school/university and contribute to a school culture that is positive, purposeful, and professional
• Coordinate and maintain the sabbatical structure for the school for all faculty.

Communication

• Communicate Faculty specific information across the school e.g., calendared events
• Conduct frequent faculty meetings

Administrative

• In charge of all the claims process of all faculty (both full-time and adjunct) in the Business School.
• Sitting in the relevant academic committees in the school (Ph.D. Committee, SBS Academic Committee and SBS Research Committee).
• Coordinate faculty workload allocation and rationalization for both Academic and EE programs.
• Oversee visiting faculty. Coordinate all processes and procedures related to the visits.
• Develop the school’s Faculty budget and manage it.
• Maintain an accurate faculty database.
• Support the School in all the strategic matters as well as in the day-to-day running by sitting in the Management Committee.
• Support the Executive Education Department in the approval of timetables and ensuring the right faculty are engaged.
• Supports SRCC in matters relating to faculty Contracts.
• Any other duties that may be assigned by the Executive Dean, Deputy Dean and Associate Deans

JOB REQUIREMENTS

The post holder will be required to have and to demonstrate evidence of the following qualifications, attributes, and skills:

• An earned Ph.D. or equivalent degree in a relevant field from an accredited and recognized university
• A Minimum of 32 publications points, of which at least twenty-four (24) should be from refereed scholarly journals
• At least 6 years of relevant experience with at least 2 years at the level of a senior lecturer
• Organization skills
• Excellent communication skills
• People skills
• Dynamic and innovative
• Team player
• Good supervisory and managerial skills
• Excellent teaching/lecturing skills