Company Profile

HD Human Resource & Services (HD HR&S), a leading Innovative and client-centric management entity, has been retained to find highly motivated and qualified group of professionals and academics with significant experience in Tertiary Education.

Overview
With a solid and prestigious foundation, our client has been established as a leading indigenous tertiary education institution with global perspective in Ghana, West Africa. With high standard quality tertiary education noted for Ghana, our client intends to offer programmes of supreme standards in a range of subject areas.

Vision
Our client holds the vision of becoming the premier technology-based higher education institution in Ghana and Africa with international reputation for accelerating the achievement of aspiring students.

Mission
To create an academic environment that genuinely uses technology and innovation to provide teaching, learning, and research that is practical to the needs of Ghana, Africa, and beyond.

Job Description

Job Functions

• The Rector is the academic and administrative head and the chief disciplinary officer of the University.
• The Rector is the Chief Executive Officer of the University and is responsible and accountable to the governing council for organising and conducting the academic, financial, and administrative businesses of the University, as well as ensuring the efficiency of the University. All other functions of the rector are as prescribed by the statutes of the University terms of appointment.
• The Rector is charged with the responsibility of initiating new directions in academic development of the University to achieve its vision, mission, academic excellence fiscal soundness, market visibility and competitiveness.

Required Skills or Experience

• A candidate seeking appointment as Foundation Rector for the University must;
• Possess a terminal degree (PhD etc).
• Be an internationally acclaimed academic and or a distinguished scholar.
• Have a proven track record of motivating, managing, and directing staff and faculty.
• Have rich administrative experience.
• Must be visionary, business minded, and capable of establishing rapport between industry, stakeholders, and other universities.
• Must have capacity to raise funds and other resources for research and other developmental activities of the University.
• Must have good understanding of current developments and trends in university education at the national and international levels.
• Must possess the capacity to manage and control crisis situations within the University.

Terms of Appointment

• The appointment shall be for a tenure of four (4) years in the first instance and may be renewed, subject to satisfactory performance, for another four (4) years.
• Salary and conditions of service attached to the position is very attractive.