Vice-Chancellor at Plateau State University

Responsibilities

• The Vice-Chancellor is the Chief Academic and Executive Officer of the University, Chairman of the Senate and member of the University Governing Council.
• He/she shall exercise general supervision over the University and shall be responsible to the Council for maintaining and promoting efficiently and order in the University.
• It shall be the duty of the Vice-Chancellor to ensure that the provisions of the Law and Statutes, Ordinances and Regulations of the University are observed.

The Candidate
The candidate for the post of Vice-Chancellor of Plateau State University (Solomon Daushep Lar), Bokkos must possess a good University education from a recognized University and should be of impeccable integrity and a good manager of human and material resources. Specifically, the candidate is expected to:

• Be a highly distinguished scholar of the rank of Professor of not less than five(5) years experience on the rank.
• Have a wide administrative experience; understand contemporary demands of leadership and in touch with dynamics of modem University administration to be capable of providing vision and direction towards sustainable growth and development of the University
• Be one with high scholastic and academic credentials (must be a PhD holder or its equivalent) who must have outstanding accomplishments in academic and in public life generally. The candidate must also have a subsisting teaching or research position in a University, and should not be more than 65 years of age.
• Command both national and international respect particularly in the academic world to enhance the good reputation of the University and attract scholarship.
• Be a person who is not likely to foster personal, racial, ethnic, political, religious or other sectional interests.
• Exhibits entrepreneurial and ability to attract much needed funds and mobilize other resources.
• Be free from any form of financial embarrassment.
• Be of good health and pleasant/strong personality.
• Be a courageous and assertive person who can take decisions on the merit of faith and principles and not on the basis of pressure from individuals or groups.
• Have not suffered any conviction (i.e. he/she should not be an exconvict).
• Any candidate who has served as Ag. Vice-Chancellor for a period of not less than six (6) months is eligible to apply.

Terms and Conditions of Service Applicable to the Post

• The Vice-Chancellor shall hold Office for a single and non-renewable term of tive (5) years only on such terms and conditions as may be specified in the letter of appointment.
• The remuneration and other conditions of service are as applicable to the post of Vice-Chancellor in all Nigerian Universities and as may be determined by the Government/Governing Council of the University as appropriate.