Position: Manager (Academic Administration)
Location: Nairobi
Our client, a private non- profit international University with 13 teaching sites in 8 Countries seek to fill in a position of Academic Manager.
Location: Nairobi
Our client, a private non- profit international University with 13 teaching sites in 8 Countries seek to fill in a position of Academic Manager.
Key Responsibilities and Duties:
Reporting to the Provost, the Manager Academic Administration
will support the Provost in the development of academic strategy and
implementation plans.
S/he will also manage annual budgets, monitor academic
performance and participate in reviews including special projects.
Specific responsibilities will include:
- Supporting
the development of the University’s overall academic strategy,
especially shaping and guiding the work of ad hoc task forces or working
groups set up to further the Academic Strategy design and implementation,
including setting up and facilitating discussions; articulating and
synthesizing concepts, ideas, and generating feedback and responses for
further consideration
- Designing
a portfolio of projects in close consultation with the Provost that
support the development and implementation of the Academic Plan, measure
its quality and outcomes and/or fine-tune its direction
- Undertaking
key Projects as required or oversee and monitor the successful delivery of
agreed projects undertaken by others
- Establishing
program office functions to manage large projects and/or institute structured
Project management methods to ensure that projects are successfully
delivered on time and within budget
- Undertaking
feasibility studies, option appraisals and project evaluations as required
- Overseeing
the development of annual budget and activity plans from respective
academic entities, and for the Provost’s office, which support the
delivery of the academic strategy and its implementation plans
- Working
with the Provost and the Deans, strengthen the process and measures for
quarterly and annual monitoring and review of departments performance
against their annual plan goals and deliverables within the academic
strategy.
Qualifications:
- Masters
Degree from a recognized university
- At
least 5 years in Management preferably within an academic setting or
developmental sector
- Must
be a strategic thinker
- Excellent
interpersonal, team-working skills and project management skills
- S/he
should be flexible, creative and have the ability to work under pressure
with attention to detail.
To apply
Please send your curriculum vitae to
recruitment@careerdirections.co.ke before Monday 8th April 2013 indicating the
minimum salary expectation on the subject line.
