Lecturer - Political Science & Public Administration

The Institute is a public university, established by the Act of Parliament No 17 of 1992. Since 1st January, 2007, the University has been operating under the OUT Charter Inc. of 2007, which is in line with the Universities Act No.7 of 2005. Its stated mission is to continuously provide open and distance education, research, and public services for sustainable and equitable socio-economic development of Tanzania in particular, and the rest of Africa. The Institute operates through its temporary headquarters in Kinondoni, Dar es Salaam and its 27 regional centres in each region of Tanzania Mainland and two coordination centres in Zanzibar and Pemba Islands.

The University hereby invites applications from competent and suitably qualified persons, to enhance its human resource capacity needed to fulfil its mission, as follows:

The qualifications and duties for the position above are described below:

Lecturer - Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS)
Vacancy No.: OUT2013/11

Qualifications:

• Candidates should have a PhD degree in relevant fields or equivalent professional qualifications for non PhD to be considered or relevant publications.

Duties:
He/she will be required to:

• Take face to face course and lead seminars; -
• undertake individual research and participate in bigger multi-disciplinary research projects; -
• prepare manuals and case studies for training;
• offer close supervision and guidance to students:
• manage undergraduate programmes undertake consultancy projects.
• Writing scripts for radio broadcasts, video and audio cassettes, various reports and papers, -
• Supplementing existing study materials, Editing, reviewing and translating course materials, -
• Providing support materials, guidance and counselling and other services to students,
• Helping to keep students' records correspondence and other communications,
• Helping in general academic administration as will be asked of him by seniors,
• Doing any other task as may be prescribed by one's reporting officer, Dean of the Faculty or Director of an Institute and/or the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic) from time to time.
• Writing new study materials, scripts for radio broadcast, video and audio cassettes, various reports and papers,
• Adopting and/or supplementing existing materials, -
• Liaising with course writers, editors, reviewers, producers, artists, coordinators and other members of the course team, -
• From time revising course materials and audio programmes,
• Giving public lecture, tutoring and leading academic discussions,
• Setting and marking course assignments and/or tests, examinations supervision of field work, practicals and all other related academic activities,
• Encouraging and motivating students to improve themselves academically.
• Helping to identify and set up local study groups,
• Conducting research work and disseminating research findings.

MODE OF APPLICATION
Applicants should CLEARLY SPECIFY the Vacancy Number AND Position they are applying for. Applications bearing no such information shall not be considered.

Applications should be accompanied with detailed curriculum vitae, certified copies of relevant certificates, together with one coloured passport size photograph of the applicant, names and full contact details of two referees and letters should state how the applicant knew about the vacancy.

The applicants should be willing to work in any of the regions in Tanzania Mainland and Zanzibar, as specified in the vacancy list. No change of work station is possible after being appointed.

The deadline for receiving applications is at 4 pm on September 27th, 2013. We are an equal opportunity employer. Interested applicants are invited to submit their applications through Email: