Reporting to: Head of school film and TV

Employment Type

Fixed Term

Salary

Based on experience

Location

AFDA Durban Campus

Industry

Private Higher Education

Start date

13 January 2020

Background

AFDA (The School of the Creative Economy) is the leading school of its kind in South Africa, offering undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Motion Picture Medium, Live Performance, Business Innovation and Technology. AFDA is a full member of CILECT, the association of the world’s major film and television schools. The AFDA values are passion, self-discipline, integrity, reliability and humility.

AFDA is inviting applications for the position of production design lecturer.

As the Discipline Lecturer for Production Design AFDA is looking for a committed and dedicated academic/industry professional to lecture and provide support to undergraduate students. The position requires someone with drive and initiative who is able to motivate students and guide them into the world of Production Design for the screen/stage. The candidate needs to demonstrate a willingness to embrace AFDA’s unique pedagogy which is the basis of the interdisciplinary teaching at AFDA. There is also a strong emphasis on cultural relevance within the teaching, and the need to help the students identify and develop a distinctive African voice to their productions. In this way, we hope to be able to contribute to nation-building and build the foundations for a sustainable local film industry.

Roles and responsibilities

• Lecturing Production Design for 1st, 2nd and 3rd-year-degree film students
• Conducting student consultations and reflective meetings
• Preparing and developing content and lesson plans for each term
• Contributing to the registration for the term’s assessment tasks.
• Working with counter-parts to ensure parity across all AFDA campuses on term outcomes
• Attendance registers and class management administration

Selection criteria:

• A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree (Honours) with production design as discipline or skill.
• At least five years’ experience in the film and entertainment industry

Competencies

• Computer literacy
• A high degree of professional competency in Production Design
• Highly developed organisational skills
• Maturity to handle a range of situations
• A meticulous and thorough nature
• An ability to work to tight deadlines
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills
• Loyalty and a high level of confidentiality
• Honest and trustworthy – committed to high integrity of excellence.
• Culturally aware and sensitive

Application procedure

Closing date: 31 October 2019.

Applications must be submitted by email to

az.oc.adfa@soroham

by the closing date. Applicants wishing to apply for this position are required to submit:

1. A letter of application and motivation, concisely detailing his/her suitability for the position.
2. A comprehensive and up to date curriculum vitae.

All applications will be treated as highly confidential. Correspondence will be limited to short-listed candidates only. If you have not been contacted within two weeks after the closing date of this advertisement, please accept that your application was not successful.

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If you are an organised, smart and enthusiastic individual looking to make a career move, this could just be the right move for you.

CANDIDATE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Education:

• Grade 12 or equivalent
• Accommodation Certificate/ Hotel School diploma is advantageous

Work experience:

• At least 2 years’ previous experience in the same or similar position in a 4/5 star hotel
• Familiar with all duties and procedures in Front Office Department
• MS Office (Word, Excel and Email) is essential
• 1 years’ Opera experience is essential
• Valid Drivers licence
• Third language is advantageous

Other:

• Friendly and service orientated
• Reliable, responsible and dependable to fulfil obligations
• Excellent communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Willingness to lead, take charge and offer direction
• Ability to multitask
• Show initiative by taking control of task

Tasks (include but not limited to):

• Check in and check-out of guests
• Ensure accurate billing
• Make travel arrangements for sightseeing and tours
• Receive, store and deliver luggage and mail
• Relieve night audit when necessary
• Perform office duties
• Receive reservations for accommodation from clients, either in person, online or by telephone, fax or email
• Take guests’ details and allocate their rooms
• Talk to transport carriers (such as airlines, bus companies and rental car agencies) to make and confirm travel arrangements for guests
• Inform guests of the hotels services and facilities, policies and procedures
• Provide tourist information to guests

• Make reservations for sightseeing tours, restaurants, the cinema and live entertainment
• Deal with enquiries and requests from guests
• Take messages for guests
• Finalise guests’ bills and issue receipts upon payment
• Perform cashier duties and exchange foreign currency
• Place guests’ possessions in a safe if requested
• Coordinate the cleaning of guests’ personal laundry and room service deliveries
• Follow in-house procedures to help ensure the security of guests and employees
• Perform general secretarial duties, such as preparing correspondence and attending to incoming calls

To apply for the position, please forward a motivational letter, an updated CV with a picture of yourself to consultant2@careercustodians.com

**Please note that only successful candidates will be contacted. Should you not hear from us within 14 days – please consider your application unsuccessful**
To browse all our vacancies, please log on to our website – www.careercustodians.com

Job description

As a member of our Go to Market team, you will be part of a fast-paced, customer-centric, sales orientated environment, providing efficient skills in the area of sales. 

As a Sales Graduate, you will have the support and resources to grow and develop your career in sales. You will have the guidance’ input; mentorship and support from senior managers, executives, colleagues, and resources to develop a tailored path in a successful career in sales. You will learn the various elements of what goes into being a successful sales individual.

More so, you will be exposed to a leading Software as a Service company being exposed to complex sales with multi-product/service and integrated solutions.

You will have the opportunity to be exposed to a variety of blue-chip companies across industries. You will become integrated into our Go to Market team.

Key responsibilities:

• Market development and “cold calling”
• Pipeline, forecast and lead management
• Qualify sales meetings using tools such as LinkedIn, Internal CRM systems and lists provided by Marketing.
• Responsibility for the Channel Partner CRM system (updating of contract details and other important information)
• Be involved in all training activities and provide assistance to trainers
• General support to the Go to Market team.
• Facilitate and attend Partner events 
• Supporting sales marketing campaigns
• Preparation and consolidation of sales enablement content
• Assist with sales enablement research and market analysis
• Respond and escalate inbound partner queries

Essential qualification/s: 

The successful graduates must have completed the following in the last two years:

• Business Degree
• BCom Degree

Essential personal characteristics: 

• Composed
• Strategic
• Analytical
• Task-driven
• Goal-oriented
• Ambitious;
• Tenacious;
• Energetic and enthusiastic;
• Goal and solutions orientated;
• Passionate about Technology;
• Passionate about learning and self-development;
• Resilient;
• Adaptable and flexible; 
• Well-spoken; 
• Professional and presentable;
• Curious and problem solving

NB!! Graduates who have not completed their relevant degree or diploma in the last 2 years will not be eligible for the program. Graduates in their final year will be considered based on their academic transcripts.

Requirements

Please note: In order to apply for this and other internships, please click on the apply button which will take you to the interns’ platform – www.trustedinterns.co.za. Register your profile, and once approved, you can go ahead and apply.

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