Strategic Academic Planning & Innovation Lead

Lyceum College; Randburg; On-site; ZAR 700,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Lyceum College seeks an Academic Planning and Innovation Lead to provide strategic direction for academic planning and programme architecture. The role focuses on defining institutional offerings, ensuring regulatory compliance, and guiding innovation while collaborating with Quality Assurance and Registry teams.

The successful candidate will drive curriculum standards, work-integrated learning integration, and digital transformation of offerings to meet 4IR needs and market demands in a private

Qualifications

• Honours Degree in Higher Education or related field.
• Experience in academic planning, programme development, and quality assurance in higher education.

Responsibilities

• Define institutional programme pipeline aligned to strategy, market demand, and priorities.
• Lead curriculum design and institutional standards across faculties.
• Drive Teaching & Learning framework development and CPD for staff.
• Oversee digital transformation of academic offerings and emerging trends (4IR).
• Ensure compliance with HEQSF, NQF, CHE, DHET, SAQA and RPL processes.
• Develop and monitor programme performance dashboards (enrolment, retention, attainment).
• Support academic workforce planning and partnerships.
• Foster industry alignment and internship program development.
• Govern governance and coordination across academic planning and faculties.

Skills

Project management

Academic programme design

Curriculum development

Data analysis

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Honours Degree in Higher Education

Job description

Lyceum College seeks an Academic Planning and Innovation Lead to provide strategic direction for academic planning and programme architecture. The role focuses on defining institutional offerings, ensuring regulatory compliance, and guiding innovation while collaborating with Quality Assurance and Registry teams.

The successful candidate will drive curriculum standards, work-integrated learning integration, and digital transformation of offerings to meet 4IR needs and market demands in a private