The Southern Africa Nazarene University in Eswatini has three faculties: Faculty of Health Sciences, Faculty of Education, and Faculty of Theology. The Faculty of Health sciences (FOHS) currently offers bachelor’s degrees in the following specialties: nursing and midwifery (BSNM), nursing anesthesia, medical laboratory science and two programs that started in 2025, pharmacy, and nursing (MScN) majoring in nursing education and leadership, and management. The MScN is a three-year program offered part-time with an intake of twenty (20) students each year.
The Southern Africa Nazarene University is seeking the support of one Virtual Service Pilot Participant (VSPP) to provide support to the Faculty of Health Sciences, bringing in expertise of teaching at the post-graduate level for the MScN program. The VSPP will co-review and co-teach nursing informatics coursework, allowing for new opportunities for faculty members to engage in various ways of curriculum design, planning, and teaching. This engagement will also allow students to expand their knowledge base and learn beyond the context of Eswatini. The university anticipates admitting 20 students for the MScN program. The mode of delivery for the course is both in-person and online. The nursing informatics course is a semester module offered once per week.
The organization has previously collaborated with the Peace Corps. They understand that the role of a VSPP is very different than a Peace Corps Volunteer or Peace Corps Response Volunteer.
Post
Eswatini
Region
Africa
Desired Qualifications
Experience:
• Virtual engagement and communication
• 3 years teaching nursing informatics
• Management role at a clinical or nursing education center
Required Skills
Education: Doctorate in nursing with specialty in health/nursing informatics or related field
Experience:
• Teaching nursing informatics
• Developing online course curriculum
Intercultural skills and motivation: Flexible, strong cross-cultural agility, high tolerance for ambiguity, able to work independently, resourceful, creative, and genuinely motivated and capable to serve virtually
Language Requirement
None
Primary Sector
Health
Country
Eswatini
Accepting submissions?
Yes
Host Country Partner
Southern Africa Nazarene University, Faculty of Health Sciences
Type of Entity
Private Organization
Host Country Partner’s Mission and Goals
Vision: SANU aspires to impact communities through transformational leadership and Christ-like service in pursuit of academic excellence.
Mission: SANU affirms the Wesleyan-Holiness heritage and commits to shape and model persons of Christ-like character for community service through high quality innovative, inquiry based-interactive teaching and learning and transformational leadership.
Virtual Service Engagement and Tasks
The VSPP will engage in the following tasks, in collaboration with their host country partners:
• Review existing curriculum and determine areas for course and content enrichment
• Co-develop online content for the Nursing Informatics coursework
• Co-teach certain units in the MScN curriculum on nursing informatics coursework once per week. Classes occur once per week for 80-minute blocks. The course will last around 18 weeks. Teaching times are flexible and can be adjusted as necessary
• Co-develop and adapt teaching resources from the American context to enrich teaching and learning
VSPPs are expected to engage on the tasks listed above for an estimated 5–15 hours per week. This engagement is estimated to be 10 hours per week.
Online collaboration will generally occur between 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Eswatini time (SAST). Specific times will be determined during orientation.
The host country counterpart will have access to Zoom, WhatsApp, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams for regular communication and collaboration.
Per the Child Protection Code of Conduct, when engaging online with minors (0–18), two adults must be present.
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