Associate Professor / Professor : Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the African Arts and Humanities

CORE PURPOSE OF JOB

Nelson Mandela University’s Humanities Faculty seeks to develop graduates who are not only employable, but who will be able to create job opportunities for themselves and others.

The core purpose of the job is :

To lead the establishment and nurturing of the faculty’s transdisciplinary strategic focus areas focusing on the intersection between the arts, humanities and social sciences and technological innovation and entrepreneurship. Further, it seeks to undergird creative practices, resources and facilities at the institution and frame them in an African @context.

KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS

Academic leadership

• Provide strategic academic leadership in the development of sustainable transdisciplinary scholarship intersecting the arts, humanities and social sciences, and technological innovation and entrepreneurship with rootedness in the African @context, and with a focus on art forms and visual cultures.
• Guide and support curriculum development initiatives that support entrepreneurship and technological innovation in the faculty academic programmes.
• Position the Faculty as a place for development of entrepreneurial and innovative skills in our graduate training

Engagement

Fundraising

CORE COMPETENCIES

REQUIREMENTS

Associate Professor :

PhD in the field related to the core purpose of the job

Professor :

PhD in the field related to the core purpose of the job

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Disclaimer : Nelson Mandela University is a designated employer committed to pursuing excellence, diversity, inclusion, and redress in achieving its employment equity targets. Preference will be given to suitably qualified candidates in accordance with the University's employment equity targets.

No applications will be accepted after the closing date Friday, 14 November 2025.

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