Vacancy title:
11 ASSISTANT LECTURER (PUTS 2.1)

Jobs at:
Open University of Tanzania

Deadline of this Job:
10th October, 2018

Duty Station:
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Summary
Date Posted: 27th September 2018 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed , Employment Type: Full-Time

The Open University of Tanzania (OUT) 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 provide relevant, quality, flexible, accessible, and affordable open online education, research and services to the community for social economic development of Tanzania and the rest of the world.

JOB DETAILS:

The Open University of Tanzania operates through its temporary headquarters in Kinondoni, Dar es Salaam and its 30 regional centers in each region of Tanzania Mainland including Coordination Centers in Tanzania Islands – Unguja and Pemba in Zanzibar. The University hereby invites applications from competent and suitably qualified persons, to enhance its human resource capacity needed to fulfill its mission, as follows below:

ACADEMIC POSTS
OUT2018/07 Assistant Lecturer FBM Masters Finance and Banking Mtwara 1
OUT2018/08 Assistant Lecturer FASS Masters Public Administration/Political Science Kagera 1
OUT2018/09 Assistant Lecturer FASS Masters Tourism Geita 1
OUT/2018/10 Assistant Lecturer FASS Masters English Linguistics Lindi 1
OUT/2018/11 Assistant Lecturer FASS Masters Monitoring and evaluation Katavi 1
OUT/2018/12 Assistant Lecturer FSTES Masters Physical Sciences (Energy or Physics) Pwani 1
OUT/2018/13 Assistant Lecturer FSTES Masters Human Nutrition/ Food Science Geita 1
OUT/2018/14 Assistant Lecturer FLW Masters Law Manyara 1
OUT/2018/15 Assistant Lecturer FSTES Masters Physical Science (Maths) Tabora 1
OUT/2018/16 Assistant Lecturer FED Masters Education (Special Education Curriculum) Pemba 1
OUT/2018/17 Assistant Librarian FASS Masters Library and Information Studies Singida 1

KEY:
FBM – Faculty of Business Management
FASS – Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
FSTES – Faculty of Science Technology and Environmental Studies
FED – Faculty of Education
* – Preference given to Mwanza, Arusha, Dodoma, Zanzibar & Mbeya
The qualifications and duties for the positions above are described below:

ASSISTANT LECTURER (PUTS 2.1)
Qualifications:
Possession of a Master’s Degree in a relevant field with at least a GPA of 4.0 and a minimum GPA of 3.8 or equivalent in the first
degree with a minimum of B+ in the Relevant Subject or its equivalent.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Write new study materials, scripts for radio broadcast, video and audio cassettes, various reports and papers,
  
• Adopt and/or supplement existing materials,
  
• Liaise with course writers, editors, reviewers, producers, artists, coordinators and other members of the course team,
  
• Revise course materials and audio programmes,
  
• Give public lectures, tutor and lead academic discussions,
  
• Set and mark course assignments and/or tests, examinations supervision of field work, practical and all other related academic activities,
  
• Encourage and motivate students to improve academically,
  
• Help identify and set up local study groups,
  
• Conduct research work and disseminate research findings

NB. Age limit: Not above 35 years.