Job opportunities at Hope Enterprise’s University College, Ethiopia

• Terms of employment: Full time
• Accountable to: Vice President for Academic Affairs

Duties and Responsibility  

• Reviews the material and social conditions of students and develops ways by which their wellbeing can be addressed.
• Devises mechanisms that contribute to academic success and personal development of students.
• Oversees all activities of student development and shall serve as a member of the Senate.
• Mediates student counseling issues.
• Identifies and devises means of support to women students and students from disadvantaged communities.
• Identifies and devises means of support to students with disabilities.
• Attends to the special needs of female students.
• Helps students understand their rights and obligations.
• Registers and follows up student organizations.
• Addresses critical learning, living and interpersonal problems that emerge on time.
• In collaboration with the registrar contributes to the writing of the student handbook.
• In close contact with the student parliament, plans and programs student services.
• Facilitates the physical and psychological wellbeing of students through counseling.
• Arranges sports and recreational activities for students.
• Solicits funds for needy students.
• Serves as a source of information for students that need to rent rooms in the vicinity of the university college and monitor their life.
• Manages the cost sharing program of the university college as regards students in need, stipends and part‐time employment.
• Revises and gets printed student handbooks in collaboration with the various deans and the registrar.
• Hosts the student ethics panel and overseeing the normal operation of the same.
• Oversees and supports the student parliament.
• Appoints a judicial officer to the Student Ethics Panel
• Manages all services of students on campus and liaises with community facilities where students can get support during day, evening and summer programs of the university college.
• Manages the Office of Student Life as the highest ranking official on student affairs in the university college.
• Upholds to the values, vision and mission of Hope Enterprises and Hope University College and ensures the advancement of the same at the university college.
• Takes other assignments as given to him by the VPAA.

Qualification  

• MA in Psychology and related fields.
• 2 years of experience in student support services in higher education institutions.
• Progressive experience in university administration, student affairs, or counseling, with at least 2–3 years in a managerial or committee-head role.2.