Vice Chancellor at Nnamdi Azikiwe University

Responsibilities

•     The Vice-Chancellor of Nnamdi Azikiwe University is the Chief Executive and Academic Officer of the University, ex-officio Chairman of the Senate and a member of the Governing Council.
•     The Vice-Chancellor shall be competent at all times to advise the Council on any matter affecting the policy, finance and administration of the University;
•     The Vice-Chancellor shall be generally responsible to the Council for maintaining the efficiency and good order of the University and for ensuring discipline and the proper enforcement of the statutes, ordinances and regulations of the University; and
•     The Vice-Chancellor shall regulate admission of students, subject to guidelines and procedures approved by the Senate of the University.

Requirements

•     The Vice-Chancellor shall a person of unassailable integrity
•     The Vice-Chancellor shall be a Professor of at least SEVEN years standing who understands the contemporary demands of leadership of the University. He/She should have had a wide academic/administrative experience of at least 15 years in the University system and be capable of giving dynamic leadership to this University
•     A person with high scholastic and academic credentials who must have outstanding accomplishments in academics and in public life generally
•     A person who must command both national and international respect particularly in the academic world to enhance the good reputation of the University
•     A person who is likely to command the respect and loyalty of members of staff, students and community neighbours of the University, and not likely to foster personal, racial, ethnic, political, religious or other sectional interests and must be free from financial embarrassment;
•     A person of courage who can take decisions on the merit of facts and principles and not on the basis of pressures from individuals or groups
•     A person who has the competencies to begin to reorientate the University mandate from a purely liberal to a more utilitarian mode; and
•     A person who can maintain the highest standards of transparency and accountability and who can forge the entire University community into a cohesive unit.

Terms and Conditions of Service
The salaries and conditions of service are as applicable to the post of Vice-Chancellor in Nigeria Federal Universities as determined by Government from time to time. The Vice-Chancellor shall hold office for a one-term period of five (5 nos.) years only. The candidate shall not be more than sixty five (65) years of age at the date of possible assumption of duty as Vice-Chancellor on 4th June, 2014.