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HR191 JOB DESCRIPTION

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POSITION DETAILS Position Title (current title) Senior Research Officer Status of Post (tick) New Post X Re-evaluation Job Grade (current grade) Faculty (if applicable) EBE Department Mechanical Engineering Section (if applicable) Energy Research Centre Date of Compilation FOR OFFICE USE Position Title Job Title Date of Grading Grading Result

ORGANOGRAM Programme Leader

Senior Research Officer

PURPOSE To conduct and to lead research in energy, poverty and development and contribute to and shape the research programme of the Energy, Poverty and Development Group.

The post is contingent on continued funding through research proposals and cannot be guaranteed if funding is not available.

19 June 2012 Page 1 of 4 HR191 JOB CONTENT: Core responsibilities include but are not limited to:

% of Key Performance Areas (4 – 6) time Activities / Objectives / Tasks Results / Outcomes Competencies spent 1) Guiding and contributing to the As  Attending and contributing to  Sustainability of the  Knowledge of current research strategy and direction of required group meetings/ ERC staff EPD group issues in area of energy, the Energy, Poverty and (1<>15) meetings  Relevant research poverty and development Development programme and the  Keeping up to date with current projects in South Africa, Southern Energy Research Centre research/methodologies by  Well formulated Africa and globally attending ERC seminars, reading research  Ability to assimilate journal, books, reports, etc information 2) Maintaining, developing and As  Maintaining good client  Sustainability of the  Proficiency in English building professional relationships required relationships EPD group  Good writing skills with other researchers, research (1<>15)  Manage research groups  Increased profile of  Willingness to travel units and networks as well as  Leading and collaborating on EPD locally and abroad locally and abroad communities projects within and between  Ability to work in a team groups at ERC and researchers in other institutions 3) Proposal and research As  Conceptualising new projects and  Successful proposals  Understanding and programme development required programmes  Relevant research knowledge of energy, (1<>15)  Writing and assisting with the projects poverty and development writing of new proposals  Sustainability of the issues in Southern Africa EPD group  Proficiency in English  Good writing skills 

4) Guiding and conducting As  Energy, poverty and development  Well defined  Experience with research within the Energy, Poverty required research with clearly stated methodologies methodologies relevant and Development programme (20<>80) concepts and objectives developed and for data collection in EPD  Policy research to inform local, implemented  Ability to interact with regional and national government  Professional collection communities on appropriate options of and analysis of data  Experience of analyzing development based on research  Successfully completed EPD data findings projects

19 June 2012 Page 2 of 4 HR191  Policy relevant results

5) Communicating research As  Writing reports  Successfully completed  Proficiency in English outcomes required  Attending and presenting at reports  Good writing skills (20<>70) project workshops  Satisfied clients/funders  Willingness to travel  Attending and presenting at  Increased profile of locally and abroad conferences ERC and EPD  Writing research publications 6) Administrative task specific to As  Willingness to take up  Sustainability of EPD  General computer EPD group required administrative tasks within EPD group literacy (1<>30)  Attending and coordinating  Administrative skills meetings, workshop etc in ERC and EPD 7) Capacity building for energy, As  Lecturing in masters course,  Interesting, well  Interest in academic poverty and development, including required further development of course structured masters teaching and training teaching and supervision at (1<>10) content, tutorials, marking, theses and relevant masters level logistics, admin etc masters course  Supervision of postgraduate dissertations and theses

19 June 2012 Page 3 of 4 HR191 MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS Minimum Qualifications Master’s

Minimum Experience 5 years

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