Key Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership aligned with the University’s vision, mission, and core values.
• Strengthen academic quality, teaching, research, innovation, and student outcomes.
• Enhance industry-driven programmes, employability initiatives, and curriculum development.
• Ensure financial sustainability through resource mobilization, risk management, and prudent utilization of University assets.
• Lead human resource development, talent management, and performance management.
• Promote a student-centered culture that enhances welfare, safety, and learning experience.
• Drive organizational transformation, digital capability, and service delivery.
• Build and maintain strategic partnerships with industry, government, donors, and international institutions.
• Uphold good governance, ethical leadership, and institutional accountability.
• Serve as Secretary to the University Council and its Committees, Chair the Management Board, Senate, and other University Committees as provided in the Statutes.

Qualifications and Experience

Applicants must possess:

• An earned PhD from a recognized University. (Professorship will be an added advantage.)
• At least 10 years of senior academic and administrative experience, with a proven track record in educational leadership, including experience at the level of Deputy Vice-Chancellor or equivalent. (Experience as a Dean or Principal of a college will be an added advantage.)
• Demonstrated strategic leadership with successful outcomes.
• Proven leadership in research, innovation, and academic governance.
• Distinguished academic and research record, including extensive publications in internationally recognized peer-reviewed journals and presentations at international conferences.
• Proven experience in resource mobilization, financial management, and institutional development.
• Demonstrated ability to network, fundraise, mobilize, and attract resources, including research grants.
• A track record of leading transformation and delivering measurable results.
• Strong ethical standards, integrity, and commitment to good governance in accordance with Chapter Six of the Constitution of Kenya, 2010.