DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
FACULTY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
POST NUMBER: 2280
URBAN PLANNING & DESIGN
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor/Professor
The National University of Lesotho invites applications from suitably qualified candidates for the above position:
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS
The Department of Geography & Environmental Science, within its Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning programme, wishes to appoint a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor/Professor in Urban Planning and Design. The post involves teaching and research supervision at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, with potential for supervision of students up to PhD level in the near future. It also involves research and publications.
Interested candidates must be specialists in urban planning and design practice and be able to:
- run lectures, seminars, studio-type teaching, design-oriented laboratories and co-manage the studio teams of Lecturers within and outside the Department, as well as guest lecturers;
- deliver urban design projects through technical and applied studio-based approaches;
- be teaching/deliver contextually responsive urban design interventions at multiple spatial scales; and
- possess skills in using and delivering instructions in a wide range of urban design techniques and software in the development and delivery of design proposals.
As part of their application, all candidates should include an Urban Design Portfolio that demonstrates their appreciation of the urban design process and practice. The portfolio may be in the form of the candidate’s own design work and/or student work that the candidate has directly supervised [the applicant must clarify if portfolio is own work or supervised work]. The portfolio should provide clear evidence of the candidate’s technical skills in applied urban design techniques and application of relevant software programmes, technical drawing and hand/urban-sketching, urban design analysis, design development and proposals visualization and presentation skills. It should be presented in A3 landscape format and be a maximum of 12 pages – It must not exceed a file size limit of 20MB. Ensure that your respective role(s) in each project/page you present as part of your portfolio is sufficiently described.
Prospective applicants must possess a minimum of a Master’s degree in Urban Design or Planning or related field for a lecturer level; PhD is needed Supervisor. for Senior Lecturer/ Associate Professor and Full Professor levels. Urban design is a highly practical and skilled profession; therefore, a minimum of 2 years of practical professional experience or design and delivery of taught courses in urban design and landscape planning is essential. A PhD in urban design or planning will be an added advantage for a lecturer level. Applicants must clearly state in their covering letters the post position/ level that they are applying for.
INFORMATION REQUIRED FROM CANDIDATES
- Signed application letters stating relevant qualifications and experience and provide other information that will assist the University to determine the candidate’s suitability for the position;
- Applicants should quote the vacancy number of the post applied for;
- Provide current CV’s (including telephone and e-mail contact details) and certified copies of educational certificates and transcripts;
- Provide names and contact details of three (3) contactable professional referees;
- Certified copy of an Identity Document.
All applications should be e-mailed to [email protected] and addressed to:
Director Human Resources
National University of Lesotho
Roma 180
Lesotho
The closing date for receiving full applications for the position is 14TH November, 2022.
ALL THE ATTACHMENTS (APPLICATION LETTER, CV, CERTIFICATES, & ID) SHOULD BE COMBINED AND EMAILED AS ONE PDF DOCUMENT
DISCLAIMER: If you do not receive any response within three months after the closing date, you must consider your application unsuccessful.