Company:
University of the Witwatersrand
Industry: Education / Teaching
Deadline: Nov 17, 2025
Job Type: Full Time
Experience: 5 years
Location: Gauteng
Province:
Field: Education / Teaching
Brief Description
The successful candidate will:
- Hold a professionally accredited M.Arch (Prof) degree.
- PhD will be an advantage.
- Be registered as a Professional Architect with the South African Council for the Architectural Profession (SACAP), or eligible for registration, and have at least 5 years of experience post-professional registration.
- Experience in working in both professional practice and in academic setting.
- Demonstrate an ability to communicate conceptual design principles and application of architectural tectonics and detailing to a wide variety of projects.
- Be able to provide conceptual and detailed architectural design feedback to students, coupling it with theoretical and practical instruction, in a manner that is commensurate to the level of teaching.
- Demonstrate an eagerness to engage with the School, students, and contribute to a positive and rigorous intellectual culture, perform related administrative duties, and generally promote the programmes offered at Wits.
- Demonstrate ability to developing public space, rehabilitating buildings and projects that would stimulate growth in underprivileged neighbourhoods.
- Mentor early career academics and develop consultant and design build culture in the programme.
- Evidence of working with heritage buildings, and interest in developing heritage courses and conservation proposals for buildings at WITS at CIL.
- Evidence of work in diverse communities and mentoring students and staff in designing and constructing structures with recycled materials.
- Evidence of exhibitions, attendance of international and national conference, securing research grants, peer review publications and leadership in an institute will be advantage.
The following will also be advantageous to the candidate:
- Have a good working knowledge of sustainable design practices.
- Be willing to teach a lecture-based course in architectural structures or professional practice.
- Demonstrated research skills, as applied either to design work or to text-based publication.
- Have a passable working knowledge of software typically used in the production of architectural drawings.
Closing Date 31 October 2025
