Senior Lecturer -Architecture at Nile University of Nigeria

We are currently looking to engage a highly competent and result-oriented  Senior Lecturer with strong personal & professional integrity to join our dynamic Architecture Department.

1)  Senior Lecturer (NUN-FENG-001)

The Role

Reporting to the Head of Department of Architecture, Candidate should have a strong interest in teaching upper-year level design studios, and an interest in one or a combination of Contemporary Practice and Urbanism and Digital Media & Digital Workflows.

Other Specific duties include:

• ·Ensure that course design and delivery comply with the quality standards and regulations of the university and department        
• Supervise undergraduate, postgraduate and research students.
•   Design, develop and deliver a range of programmes of study (sometimes for entirely new courses) at various levels.
•   Advancing a rigorous research, creative activity and/or community engagement agenda, including collaborating across disciplines on research and outreach initiatives
•   Teaching undergraduate and graduate architecture courses including special topics seminars, lecture courses and design studios
•   Design and maintain virtual learning content and environments.
•   Review on a regular basis course content and materials, updating when required.
•   Develop and apply appropriate teaching techniques and material which create interest, understanding and enthusiasm amongst students.
• Lead research and/or innovation proposals and projects with the potential to generate income, to manage project deliverables, deliver outputs and secure impact.

Qualifications, experience, and attributes

• Candidates must hold a PhD in Architecture or in a related field.
• Minimum of 8 years teaching and research experience with at least 10 publications in national and international journals.
• Regular and consistent incorporation of innovation into teaching including development and implementation of new programmes especially involving innovative methodologies.
• Emerging record of research productivity or evidence of contributing to a successful design practice.
• Candidates must possess demonstrable competence to provide academic leadership with evidence of collaborative research work with academics within the university and elsewhere.
• Record of peer-reviewed research, patents, competition awards, design awards or other publicly acknowledged design or community engagement work.
• Demonstrated ability to teach design studio and related courses in a professional degree program, evidence of outstanding design skills, evidence of research/creative scholarship or the ability to develop and maintain an active research/creative scholarly program, and candidates holding a professional license in Architecture.
• Must have membership/registration with relevant professional bodies such as NIA and ARCON
• Ability to identify opportunaities for strategic development/improvement e.g., research projects, new courses, consultancy.
• Ability to identify (through the analysis of appropriate management information) areas requiring improved performance e.g., student numbers, and student satisfaction.