Permanent Appointment
EE/AA POSITION
Purpose:
The South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), is a national research infrastructure hosted as a research entity by the North West University. It forms part of the flagship South African Research Infrastructure Roadmap project (SARIR) of the Department of Science and Innovation. SADiLaR initiates and co-ordinates dedicated projects being executed by the centre itself, as well as by the nodes comprising the University of Pretoria, University of South Africa, the CSIR, CTexT as well as a partnership (ICELDA) of four South African universities. The position of Director is part of the contractual requirement with the DSI to oversee the activities of the Centre over the medium to long- term.
The director will in principle be responsible for all activities taking place within the Centre and its nodes, whilst overseeing the attainment of strategic goals as determined by the steering committee of SADiLaR, and/or advised by the Scientific Advisory Committee. The director will further be responsible for building the image of the Centre by creating an environment for national and international research co-operation. The attainment of international and national research funding to augment current funding sources will be amongst the items on the working agenda of the Director.
Given the nature and activities of the Centre, the director should have experience (either practical and/or theoretical) in two seemingly distant domains, i.e. the technical domain involving either computer science, machine learning, machine translation, natural language and speech processing, or computational linguistics, and the human domain related to language and literary studies as well as to the broad field of social studies. Ideally a person with a background and proven experience in the domain of Digital Humanities research and development would partially suit such a position. However, leading this Centre will require a long term vision of the scope and potential of this interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary domain with outputs that are bound to permeate all walks of life. From an organisational point of view this person should therefore have insight and appreciation of the actual and potential contribution of different domains to the Centre as a whole. Apart from having excellent research acumen, the leader should also have a demonstrated record of organisational skills, either within large research or development projects, or as leader of a similar research infrastructures.
The leader should be an academic entrepreneur with the experience and ability to raise funds, and establish partnership to ensure long term sustainability of SADiLaR.
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*Candidates invited to the interview will be required to undergo appropriate psychometric testing.
REMUNERATION:
Market Related
ENQUIRIES:
Prof A de Lange 018-.285 2751
CLOSING DATE:
19 January 2019
COMMENCEMENT OF DUTIES:
1 April 2020
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