Company: Rhodes University
Industry: Education / Teaching
Posted: Sep 5, 2025
Deadline: Sep 18, 2025
Qualification: Masters
Experience:
Location: Eastern Cape
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Field: Education / Teaching
Main Objectives
For this position, the Academic will be responsible for disseminating knowledge (developing and teaching CE short courses), creating knowledge (engaged research and publication) and participating in community engagement and development.
There are four main objectives for this 3-year (part-time) contract post as listed below.
The first objective is to lead and manage an online open-access journal hosted at Rhodes University and to ensure:
The quality of the intellectual content of the journal and overseeing the review process to ensure it is thorough, fair, and timely.
upholding the journal’s objectives and scope and selecting papers that provide new, original, and important contributions to knowledge.
writing editorials, soliciting manuscripts on special issues, and sometimes assigning guest editors for these special issues.
promoting diversity among the journal’s contributing authors (nationally, regionally and internationally)
working with the RUCE editorial team to undertake and assist with some of the responsibilities
The second main objective is to make critical and original contributions to CE scholarship at local, national and international levels by generating community engagement knowledge through publishing scholarly papers for accredited/peer-reviewed academic journals, and writing articles for newspapers and other publishing spaces.
The third main objective is to work with Academics and Academic Departments to:
Promote Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR), Critical Service Learning (CSL) and Engaged Citizenry (EC)
Ability to design and facilitate short courses in CE (CBPR, CSL and EC)
The fourth objective is to manage and coordinate the UCDP Collaborative Grant Project with four participating Universities by:
Working with RUCE staff, take overall responsibility for the communication with the participating academics and oversee the coordination of activities
Assisting with the open access publication of two books as part of the project and the organisation of the international conference in May 2026
Responsible for the grant outcomes and reporting.
The Requirements
A Master’s Degree in a relevant discipline, preferably Humanities or Social Science (register for a PhD)
Experience in Community Development (CD) and Community Engagement (CE) (partnership development, Service Learning, Engaged Citizenry and Engaged Research)
Tutoring, facilitation, or conference presentation experience required. Experience in developing short courses and teaching diverse groups in the University and the broader community
Experience in conducting Community-Based Participatory Research
No research supervision is required.
Experience in managing an online open-access journal.
Some administrative experience, albeit in informal contexts, e.g., student or sports clubs, work experience.
Closing Date 12 September 2025
