Procedure: Adding a Professional Position

Introduction

The Professional Positions sub-category is where any professional position you may have held with any society or organisation may be listed.

You may enter information relating to your role within the society, the years you were involved in this professional position and whether it falls within engaged scholarship.

Each Professional Position entry requires at least the Role to be entered.

Each entry is listed by Society / Organisation and Role. There is no restriction on the total number of entries you may add.

Procedure

Log in to the UCT Research Portal website with your UCT network credentials.
In the Researcher Profiles – Home page, click Professional Positions sub-category.
The Researcher Profiles – Professional Positions page opens.

Adding a professional position

Click Add New under Professional Positions.

The Add a Professional Position dialog box appears.

Enter the role in the Role field.
Enter the society or organisation in the Society / Organisation field.
Enter the year or years in the Year/s field.
If this falls into the category of engaged scholarship, ensure that the Engaged Scholarship check box is selected.

Saving and adding another professional position, if applicable

If you want to add another professional position, click Save & Add Another and repeat from Adding a professional position.
Click Save & Close.
The following message displays briefly: “Information was successfully saved.”

The Researcher Profiles – Professional Positions page reopens.
If necessary, click up / down arrows under Change order to sort the Professional Positions listing by priority.