Position Title:  Lecturer / Senior Lecturer: Planning, School of Architecture, Planning & Geomatics

LECTURER/SENIOR LECTURER

School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics

Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment

The School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics (APG) at UCT is committed to socially-just and transformative spatial outcomes. Through our teaching, research, and administrative roles, we aim to advance APG as an established context for critical thought where students and colleagues can flourish. We are thus committed to developing outstanding graduates who can make meaningful contributions to society through their work.

The School is seeking to appoint a full-time academic member of staff at either the Lecturer or Senior Lecturer level who can dedicate the time required to assist us in steering and supporting the rich, diverse culture of the School. In particular, we are seeking someone with professional and pedagogical experience, in addition to someone who is committed to the role that planning praxis and research offers in critically redressing colonial and apartheid injustices.

The Bachelor of City Planning Honours (BCP Hon) and the Masters of City and Regional Planning (MCRP) programmes are grounded in socio-economic, spatial, and environmental justice. The applicant should demonstrate evidence of an engagement with, and a commitment to, planning in the global South. They should also be willing to assist us in building intersectional methodologies and alternative pedagogies of knowledge production.

The successful candidate will form part of a team of four full-time academic staff dedicated to the Planning Programmes in the School. The applicant will be expected to facilitate studio-based teaching at the metropolitan scale which should include aspects of governmental systems, public policy, and GIS. Applicants should be familiar with a problem-based learning approach to planning education and be able to teach theory courses such as urban infrastructure, integrated development planning, planning law, and statistical research methods. They will also be required to supervise Masters dissertations in the planning field.

Requirements for both levels:

• • A Master’s degree in city/urban and regional planning
  • Demonstrable skills in spatial planning and studio based teaching, as evidenced by representative work submitted. Evidence submitted could be in the form of work in practice and/or in teaching.
  • Evidence of social responsiveness and/or contributions to professional service
  • Qualified to register as a Professional or Chartered Planner with SACPLAN or the RTPI

     Additional requirements for Lecturer Level:

• • At least seven years of relevant post qualification experience, either in practice or in academia, or both
  • Teaching experience at a postgraduate level, including studio-based teaching, and evidence of Masters dissertation supervision
  • The establishment of a research plan (which might include being registered for a PhD)

    Additional requirements for Senior Lecturer Level

• • At least ten years of relevant post qualification experience, either in practice or in academia, or both
  • A PhD in a planning related field, or significant progress towards completing a PhD in the related field
  • A demonstrable research track record (including publications in high impact, peer-reviewed journals)
  • Substantial postgraduate teaching experience, including studio-based teaching, and evidence of Masters dissertation supervision

The annual cost of employment, including benefits, is: 

• Lecturer                 -  R901 517
• Senior Lecturer     -  R1, 084 555

To apply, please visit the UCT Internal Careers site (For Internal Applicants) and UCT Careers site (For external Applicants) to create a profile and submit your application.

Please complete/attach the following to your profile before submitting your application:

• A 1-2 letter of motivation/statement of interest specifying the relevance of the experience with a description of research, teaching, etc
• A detailed Curriculum Vitae (CV)
• Two examples of representative work, reports, teaching and/or publications, in particular work illustrating metropolitan planning experience.
• Three referee names which must include their title and name, position details, relationship to you, their e-mail address, and telephone number

Shortlisted candidates may be required to undergo competency assessments and deliver a presentation to the School. References may be requested by UCT at any stage of the selection process.

Any inquiries for this position are to be addressed to Ms Abigail Dixon at recruitment03@uct.ac.za or 021 650 1673.

Closing Date: 1 November 2024                                                         Website: www.apg.uct.ac.za

UCT is a designated employer and is committed to the pursuit of excellence, diversity, and redress in achieving its equity targets in accordance with the Employment Equity Plan of the University and its Employment Equity goals and targets. Preference will be given to candidates from the under-represented designated groups. Our Employment Equity Policy is available at https://uct.ac.za/media/9482.

UCT reserves the right not to appoint.