OFFICE OF THE VICE CHANCELLOR

EAST AFRICAN UNIVERSITY RWANDA (EAUR) VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT

 East African University Rwanda (EAUR) has two campuses where the headquarter is located in Nyagatare District and its branch at REMERA, in Gasabo district nearby Airtel Building across the national Amahoro Stadium. EAUR is an innovative higher learning institution which offers Bachelor degree, diploma and certificate in its unique and Market driven academic programs such as film making and production, leisure Tourism, and Hotel Management, Mass communication and Journalism, Industrial Arts and Design, Education and Business Administration. To remain a leading university in quality of education, locally and internationally, EAUR wishes to recruit staff of high caliber and with a wide range of experience to fill the positions listed below:

Key Responsibilities

• Management and enhancement of the institutional quality and standards framework essential to maintaining the quality of student learning and teaching and the standing on reputation of the University.
• Provide the overall leadership of the quality assurance directorate by monitoring and evaluating the environment for quality teaching, learning and administrative procedures.
• You will be responsible to lead and coordinate implementation policies, curriculum development and transformation at EAUR.
• Monitor trimester and annual workload implementation.
• Take overall responsibility for oversight for quality assurance and standards tasks, internal and external examination systems and regulation of the university
• Ensure the development/formulation and enforcement of the university quality assurance policies, practices, academic regulations, as well as coordinating the elaboration of annual academic reports across the University.
• Your will be responsible for setting and enforce the implementation of the Standards that are needed to manage the quality of the University .
• Undertake a range of quality and standards tasks, in relation to establishing quality assessment schemes (QAS) eg Internal Audit, Monitoring, Management Reviews etc
• Formulate plans to achieve strategic objectives of the University quality assurance framework.
• Maintain institutional awareness of external quality agendas, draw these to the attention of the University, and propose appropriate institutional responses.
• Ensure that EAUR join/become a member of recognized academic and professional bodies and agencies for partnership, collaboration and advocacy purposes to enhance the university quality systems.
• Capacity building in quality assurance based on the principle of best practice, benchmarks and accreditations
• Ensure the establishment of minimum quality assurance standards, standards operating procedures, guidelines and Key Performance Indicators (KPI) Conformance to regulatory and customers’ requirements and norms both national, regional and internationally.
• Lead and oversee the identification, development and promotion of the University’s innovative quality assurance protocol and mechanisms.
• Be responsible for coordination of accreditation processes of academic programs as well as to advise the Departments and schools on matters relating to Quality Assurance and Enhancement
• Provide framework and tools for assessment of academic staff by students and the University management.
• Act as a head of quality assurance committee
• To lead the staff and the management on the preparation of documentation for program approval, (re)validation, modification and review processes
• Be responsible for formulation, development, analysis and implementation as well as monitoring of academic staff workload in line with the policy and recommendations.
• Lead, coordinate, monitor and support Technology teaching based methodologies at EAUR.
• Liaise with donors and funding agencies, to mobilize financial resources for quality assurance activities.
• Act as catalyst for change, improvement and innovation of academic quality performance.
• Promote good practices arising from quality assurance and enhancement activities;
• To coordinate and oversee university engagements of internal and external academic program review activities;
• To coordinate with HODs and ensure internal and external examination modulation process implementation across the University;
• Represent the University in conferences or events in matters relating to quality assurance and regulatory frameworks to keep up to date with national developments and to gain and share information, knowledge and working practices in the higher education context locally and internationally
• Perform any other duties as may be assigned from time to time by EAUR senior management.

Qualification and Working experience

PHD of Education or related field with 3 years’ experience IN HLIs or Masters degree of Education with 5 years’ experience on the same position

Required Document

• Copy of all degrees
• Cover Letter
• CV
• Service testimonial of previous or current employer

Only selected candidate will be called for exam and during written exam also successfully candidate will be called for Interview

N.B The duties and responsibilities, minimum qualifications, application procedure, deadlines and other job details are in the table below) for inquiries or submission of documents reach out to HR Office on the following contact addresses: (email: hr@eaur.ac.rw) or Telephone number (250)788504964.

Deadline of applications is on 29 November 2024 at 5:00 PM

Prof. KABERA Callixte, PhD

Vice Chancellor East African University Rwanda