University of Nigeria, Nsukka Is Hiring

The Job
The Vice-Chancellor is the Chief Executive and Academic Officer of the University as well as the ex-officio Chairman of Senate and Member of the Governing Council. He is responsible to Council in matters of policy implementation in the areas of finance, property/facilities, general administration and good governance of the institution. The Vice-Chancellor is also responsible to Senate for the admission of students, administration of academic programmes and student discipline, in consonance with extant rules and regulations.

The candidate for the post of Vice-Chancellor is required to possess a good University education and should be a proven manager of human and material resources.

Specifically, the candidate shall be expected to:

• Be highly distinguished and self motivated academic of the rank of Professor with ability to provide academic leadership; be a successful scholar well rooted in the finest academic traditions;
• Be a seasoned academic who has attained a position of distinction and excellence in his or her chosen field of study;
• Be a person with good grasp of information and communication technology skills and appreciates its significance in the contemporary knowledge industry;
• Be a person of courage, but humane, who can take decisive action on the merit of facts and principles. and not on the basis of sentiments or pressures from individuals and groups;
• Possess high reputation nationally and internationally and be able to command the respect of the national and international academic communities through his or her track records;
• Be a person of proven integrity and courage and administrative leadership so as to successfully lead a group
• of well-informed and articulate local academic community;
• Possess ability to create the needed bridges between staff and students on one hand, and between the University community on the other, and be above petty ethnic, religious and local loyalties and biases;
• Be able to serve the full term of five years before attaining the retirement age of 70 years, and must be of good physical and mental health;
• Be able to perform any other lawful duties and responsibilities as may from time to time be directed by Council and its statutory Committees.